Draft for counsel · Effective 2026-09-02 · not legal advice
Community guidelines
Critique the idea, not the person. Openfork is a provenance board, not a pile-on.
Purpose
These guidelines explain how people may use public discussion, suggested edits, forks, builds, Amplify pledges, and probes on Openfork — for any craft, not only startups. They sit next to the Terms of use and Privacy notice.
Do
- Challenge the context, who it helps, the proposal, and what is needed — with specifics.
- Cite versions. Suggest an edit instead of rewriting history in comments.
- Credit forks and builds honestly. Keep provenance intact.
- Report personal attacks, illegal content, and spam. House will tombstone, not silently erase.
- Keep private invites private. Access is not a license to republish someone else’s idea.
Don’t
- Attack identity, threaten, harass, or dox.
- Post illegal content, malware links, or clearly deceptive spam.
- Treat a private invite as permission to leak or scoop the idea in public.
- Use the board to solicit investment or imply Openfork is a broker, exchange, or law firm.
- Impersonate House, another user, or a third-party service.
Enforcement
Repeat abuse can mean hidden comments, a block, rate limits, or a lost account. Linked social identity and rate limits are the first brakes. House decisions on illegal or abusive content may leave a public tombstone so the record stays honest.
Reporting
Use in-product report flows where available, or contact House through the Concierge channel if you own a published idea and need a process pointer. Emergency illegal-content reports should still go to the relevant authorities where required by law.