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Grapevine community guidelines

At Grapevine, we strive to build a helpful, constructive, respectful and safe community enabling informed conversations that result in positive outcomes for our users and industries.

Grapevine’s moderating team & automatic moderation systems work round the clock to ensure safety on our platform and as a member, we request you to please help us foster the same by following these guidelines.

Violence, harassment, and other forms of harmful behaviour can create an environment where people feel unsafe and unwelcome, discouraging people from expressing themselves and diminishing the value of the Grapevine Community. Therefore, our moderation team works around the clock to ensure safety on our platform.

To ensure that Grapevine is a positive, productive, and vibrant community where everyone can share their thoughts, we are sharing our community guidelines. These guidelines are designed to help us create a space where everyone feels safe, welcome, and respected. We believe that by working together, we can create a community where everyone can be heard and contribute to meaningful conversations.

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We update our guidelines regularly to help make sure every user in the Grapevine community continues to feel safe and welcome. Please check this document regularly to stay up-to date with our Policies.

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Good practices that we encourage

The below guidelines will help the community create constructive and helpful conversations above and beyond already mentioned rules.

Practice accountability with anonymity

Anonymity empowers open discussion in online environments. However, this freedom can also be abused, leading to real negative consequences. Please be aware of your intent and behaviour on Grapevine.

We are a growing anonymous platform and encounter new challenges each day. Our moderation team has the final say on any content that comes up on Grapevine.

To maintain a positive and helpful environment

No Bullying or Harassment

Bullying and harassment are not tolerated on Grapevine. This includes, but is not limited to, any behaviour that is intended to intimidate, shame, or disparage other people, such as the following:

Follow the law

Users must stay compliant with the applicable local, national and international law. Illegal content is liable to be removed. There is zero tolerance for sexual content, especially relating to children or minors. Moreover, the following content is specifically not tolerated on Grapevine:

No Misinformation

Users may not post any content that amounts to misinformation. While there is no defined manner of defining misinformation due to the constantly changing nature of information, misinformation that is likely to contribute to risk of physical harm is strictly forbidden. Moreover, misinformation likely to cause serious harm and damage to reputation and character, with malicious intent, is strictly forbidden. Grapevine has the sole authority to decide what is considered misinformation on the platform.

No NSFW (Not Safe for Work) content

To protect privacy

No revealing personal or sensitive information

Do not disclose or share personally identifiable information linked to yourself or other Grapevine community members.

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Examples:
✅ Talking about news on Satya Nadella or Shah Rukh Khan
✅ Talking about Sundar Pichai’s management style
❌ Naming your manager
❌ Rumours about a CEO’s romantic affair

No company Secrets

Grapevine prohibits the sharing of any secret or non-public information that users may be privy to about companies, employers, or organisations which may grant these entities a competitive advantage. While Grapevine encourages open and meaningful conversations and discussions, these conversations should not come at the expense of the legitimate business of these entities. The right to determine what constitutes as a violation lies solely with Grapevine.

No impersonation

Impersonation of other employees, employers or users through any means to mislead others with regard to your identity.

No non-consensual content

We do not tolerate any photos, videos, or manipulated content of persons that are produced or distributed without such persons’ consent.

Reporting content

If you see any behaviour that is against these rules or something that makes you feel unsafe you can report it by

Content moderation

If any content or behavior of users of Grapevine is flagged, the following actions can be taken against them:


Contact us
For any queries related to the application and your privacy please contact
support@gvine.app

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