✕  Not allowed

• Bullying
• General threats of violence or calling for others to self-harm.
• Threats to expose personal details (Note: Severe cases may be categorized as doxxing, sextortion, non-consensual image abuse or endangerment of minors).
• Degrading content
• Personal attacks based on appearance, intellectual or mental traits.
• Comparing others to subjects that invoke disgust/ contempt.
• Edited media meant to shame or falsely portray someone.
• Baseless allegations that may harm a person’s reputation.
• Silencing or Exclusion: Calls to exclude or suppress someone’s voice
• Harassment
• Any form of unwanted and/or repetitive contact with the intent to annoy or provoke a target (e.g., spam commenting or trolling).
• Sexual/Personal harassment
• Sexualizing or mocking someone’s sexual life or identity.
• Using gendered slurs or derogatory terms outside of accepted contexts (e.g., lyrics or self-reference).
• Speculative claims about someone's gender identity, sexual orientation, or personal life.
• Platform abuse
• Abusing BandLab’s reporting tools to harass or silence others.

✓  Allowed

• Casual slangs used in acceptable context without making any personal attack or targeting others, e.g. “This music is sick”.
• Context-dependent responses — Limited and proportionate responses to personal attacks may be allowed on a case-by-case basis, where the intent is to defend oneself or disengage, rather than escalate the situation (e.g., replying “Yo shut up” to someone saying “Why don’t you kill yourself”).