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Guidelines

Last updated: July 1, 2026  ·  Effective: July 1, 2026
// Our Terms of Service and the in-product Account Suspended screen refer to "Community Guidelines". This is that document. It explains what you can post, what happens if you do not, and what our moderation actions actually mean and do today, plainly and without overstating them.

Contents

1. What This Document Covers

2. Prohibited Content and Conduct

3. What Happens When You Post, List, or Review Something

4. What a Warning Means

5. What a "Remove Content" Action Means Today

6. What a Suspension Means

7. "Private" Groups: What "Private" Actually Means Today

8. The "Moderator" Role: What It Does and Does Not Do Today

9. Marketplace Listings and Reviews

10. Reporting Something

11. Appeals

12. Changes to These Guidelines

13. Contact

1. What This Document Covers

These Community Guidelines apply to VLStudio Web at vlstudio.live, operated by Vladyslav Zhminko, trading as VLStudio ("VLStudio", "we", "us", "our"), Carrer de Valencia 191, 6.1, 08011, Barcelona, Spain. They apply to community posts and comments, marketplace listings and reviews, and job postings and applications.

These Guidelines incorporate our Acceptable Use Policy by reference. The AUP is the single list of what is and is not allowed anywhere on VLStudio. This document explains, in plain language, how that list is applied at the point you post, list, or review something on the platform, and what our moderation actions concretely mean and do today.

2. Prohibited Content and Conduct

Everything listed in our Acceptable Use Policy is prohibited here: unlawful content, infringing content, malware, harassment and discriminatory content, spam, impersonation, sexually explicit content involving minors (zero tolerance, see AUP Section 8), fraud and deceptive conduct, circumventing platform security, and misusing AI features to produce content that would violate the policy. This applies at the point you submit a community post or comment, list a marketplace product, post or apply to a job, or leave a review.

3. What Happens When You Post, List, or Review Something

Posting, listing, or reviewing on VLStudio does not currently go through a pre-publication content review: your post, listing, or review is published immediately and can be seen by other users right away. Enforcement happens after the fact, through user reports and our own review, described in the sections below. If we later determine that something you posted, listed, or reviewed violates the AUP or these Guidelines, we take one of the actions described in Sections 4 to 6.

4. What a Warning Means

A "WARN" is a notice to you that specific content or conduct violated the AUP or these Guidelines, and that a further violation may lead to content removal or a suspension. A warning does not, by itself, remove your content or restrict your account; it is a record and a notice. The basis for a warning is always a specific post, listing, review, or piece of conduct we can point to, not a general impression.

5. What a "Remove Content" Action Means Today

Honest gap: when a report against your content is actioned as "REMOVE CONTENT" today, that action updates the internal status of the report. It is not, in every case, guaranteed to have already fully taken the underlying content itself down from every place it is visible on the platform at the moment the status changes. We are closing this gap so that a "REMOVE CONTENT" decision and the actual, immediate takedown of the content are the same event, and we treat this as a priority fix. Until that fix ships, do not assume that a "REMOVE CONTENT" status on a report means the content has already disappeared from view; if you continue to see content that was reported and marked removed, please report it again using the contact details in Section 13 so we can take it down directly.

The basis for a content-removal decision is a violation of the AUP or these Guidelines, established either from a user report we have reviewed or from our own review.

6. What a Suspension Means

A suspension restricts your account's ability to use the Service following a violation of the AUP, these Guidelines, or the Terms of Service. The basis for a suspension is always tied to a specific, identified violation, a pattern of warnings, or conduct serious enough (such as AUP Section 8 material) to warrant immediate suspension without a prior warning.

Honest gap: account suspension is currently enforced on the client side of the application, meaning the app's own interface stops showing you the ability to post or interact once your account is suspended. It does not yet fully and independently block every path to the platform's backend: a suspended user who accesses the platform through a direct API call rather than through the ordinary application interface may currently still be able to write to the platform. We are working on a server-side enforcement fix so that a suspension is effective regardless of how the platform is accessed, and we treat this as a priority fix, not a completed one.

7. "Private" Groups: What "Private" Actually Means Today

Honest gap: a group marked "private" in the product today restricts who sees it inside the ordinary application interface, but at the database level, posts inside a group marked "private" are, in the current system, readable by more than the group's members. In practical terms, "private" today is a UI label, not yet a technical guarantee that only members can see what is posted inside. We are correcting this so that "private" reflects an enforced restriction rather than a label. Until that correction ships, do not treat a "private" group as a place to post anything you would not want visible beyond the group's membership, and treat this section as the accurate, current state rather than the "Private" label shown in the interface.

8. The "Moderator" Role: What It Does and Does Not Do Today

Honest gap: VLStudio's product interface has a "moderator" concept and label. Today, that label is not backed by enforced, server-side permissions that grant a community moderator special access to take moderation actions (such as removing another user's content or issuing a warning) beyond what any other account can do. In practical terms, moderation actions described in Sections 4 to 6 are currently performed by VLStudio directly, reviewing reports and content ourselves, rather than by community members holding a technically enforced moderator role with elevated access. If the product displays a "moderator" badge or label to you or to another user today, it should not be read as a grant of enforced special access; we are evaluating whether and how to build real server-side moderator permissions, and will update this section if and when that ships.

9. Marketplace Listings and Reviews

Marketplace product listings and marketplace reviews are bound by these same Guidelines and by the Acceptable Use Policy. A listing must accurately describe what is actually being offered, and a review must reflect the reviewer's own genuine experience. Fake listings, misleading product descriptions, and incentivized or fabricated reviews are prohibited under AUP Section 9 (fraud and deceptive conduct) and are handled under the same warning, removal, and suspension framework described in Sections 4 to 6.

10. Reporting Something

As of this document's effective date, an in-product report control exists for community posts. A report control specific to marketplace listings and job postings does not exist yet; this is a product gap we are working to close. Until it ships, you can report a marketplace listing, a job posting, or anything else using the contact details in Section 13.

11. Appeals

If you believe a warning, content removal, or suspension was made in error, you can contact us using the details in Section 13 to ask for it to be reviewed. Web users in the EU or UK also have the rights described in our DSA & OSA Notice-and-Action Policy, including a statement of reasons for a restriction and access to an internal complaint-handling process.

12. Changes to These Guidelines

We may update these Guidelines from time to time, including as the honest gaps described above are fixed. When we make a material change, we update the "Last updated" date above. Continued use of the community, marketplace, or jobs board after a change takes effect is acceptance of the updated Guidelines.

13. Contact

To report content, appeal a moderation decision, or ask a question about these Guidelines: