Acceptable Use Policy

This policy applies to everyone who uses Inventtive — visitors, members, makers, community moderators and advertisers — and to everything you do here: posts, product launches, comments, votes, messages, mentions, collections, community settings, profile details and sponsored posts. It also applies to anyone acting for you, including tools and scripts you run.

Product launches are the heart of Inventtive. When you launch a product:

• •It must be something you built, work on, or have permission to post on behalf of its makers. Hunting someone else's product is fine if you say you're not the maker.
• •Describe it accurately. No fake features, invented user numbers, false awards or misleading screenshots, and no AI-generated images presented as the real product.
• •Links must go to the product itself. No hidden redirects, link shorteners that hide the destination, or pages that differ from what you describe.
• •Launch the same product once. Relaunch only for a major new version, and say what changed.
• •Don't launch products that are illegal, unsafe or prohibited under section 8.
• •Discounts, giveaways and free trials are welcome; clearly state any conditions.

Votes decide what reaches the home feed, Popular, Product Launch, Featured and the Leaderboard. They only mean something if they're honest. You may not:

• •Buy, sell or trade votes, or join “upvote for upvote” groups or vote rings
• •Use more than one account to vote, or ask friends and colleagues to create accounts to vote for you
• •Use bots, scripts or paid services to vote, follow, comment or view
• •Ask people to upvote on social media, by email or in messages (sharing your launch is fine; asking for votes isn't)
• •Downvote content in bulk to bury a competitor
• •Inflate karma, achievements or maker badges by any of the above

We remove manipulated votes, may reset rankings and karma, and may remove the content or account that benefited.

• •Post in communities where your content fits, and follow each community's own rules and flairs.
• •Self-promotion is welcome in moderation. Most of your activity should be genuine participation, not links to your own work. Disclose your connection when you promote something.
• •Don't post the same content across many communities, or bump posts with repetitive comments.
• •Respect others' work: don't pass off someone else's writing, images, video or code as your own.
• •Keep discussions civil. Criticise ideas and products, not people.
• •Mark spoilers, graphic content and sensitive topics where a community requires it.

Community creators and moderators have extra tools, and extra responsibility:

• •Moderate fairly and according to your published rules. Don't use bans, removals or pins to punish personal opponents or to favour your own products.
• •Don't sell, rent or transfer moderator access, or use a community to collect members' personal data.
• •What's posted in a private community stays there. Don't copy, screenshot or share it outside without the author's permission.
• •Invites and join approvals are for real members; don't use them to harvest accounts or to spam.
• •Moderators must still follow this policy and the Community Rules, and Inventtive may step in when a community doesn't.

• •Don't send unsolicited sales pitches, bulk messages or chain messages.
• •Respect people's privacy settings. If someone has turned off messages, mentions or follows, don't try to get around it with new accounts or other channels.
• •Don't mass-follow and unfollow accounts to gain followers.
• •Don't use mentions to pester people or drag them into arguments.

You may not use Inventtive to:

• •Harass, bully, threaten or intimidate anyone, or encourage others to
• •Attack people for their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, caste, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, disability or serious illness
• •Share someone's private information (address, phone number, ID documents, private messages) without their consent
• •Impersonate a person, brand or Inventtive staff, or misrepresent who you are or who you work for
• •Encourage self-harm, violence or terrorism, or glorify those who commit it
• •Post sexual content involving minors, or non-consensual intimate images, in any form

If someone is in immediate danger, contact your local emergency services first, then report it to us.

• •Anything illegal where you or we operate, or content that helps others break the law
• •Scams, phishing, pyramid or get-rich-quick schemes, fake giveaways and investment “opportunities” promising guaranteed returns
• •Malware, spyware, cracked software, stolen accounts, leaked data or tools designed to harm others
• •Content that infringes copyright, trademarks or other rights (we respond to valid takedown notices)
• •Sale of weapons, drugs, counterfeit goods, fake documents or other regulated goods
• •Health, financial or legal claims that are false or dangerous, such as fake cures
• •Deliberately false information intended to deceive, including manipulated media presented as real

Sponsored posts are reviewed before they go live and again after every edit. Advertisers must also follow these rules:

• •The name shown on the ad must be you, your company or a brand you're authorised to represent.
• •The ad must match its landing page: same product, same offer, same price.
• •No ads for anything prohibited in section 8, and no adult content, gambling, tobacco or vaping, unlicensed financial products, crypto schemes, or weight-loss and miracle-cure claims.
• •Don't make claims you can't back up, use fake urgency (“only 2 left!” when that isn't true), or imitate Inventtive's own interface.
• •Respect the rights of others in your text, images and video.
• •Ordinary posts that are really paid promotion must say so.

We may reject, pause or end an ad that breaks these rules. Refunds follow the advertising terms shown when you buy the ad. See Ad Choices for how ads are shown.

• •Don't scrape, crawl or bulk-download content, profiles or emails except as allowed by robots.txt, or with our written permission.
• •Don't use automated accounts, or automate posting, voting, following, messaging or sign-ups.
• •Don't overload, disrupt or slow down the service, or get around rate limits, bot checks or bans (including by creating new accounts).
• •Don't probe, scan or test our systems for vulnerabilities, or access accounts, private communities or data that aren't yours.
• •Don't upload files designed to harm devices or hide content from moderation.

Found a security problem? Tell us privately through the contact form and give us reasonable time to fix it before telling anyone else. We won't take action against good-faith research that follows this approach and doesn't access other people's data.

• •One person, one personal account. Separate accounts for a company or a bot need our permission.
• •You must be at least 13 (or the minimum age where you live).
• •Keep your login, passkeys and one-time codes private; you're responsible for what happens on your account.
• •Don't sell, rent or transfer accounts, usernames or communities, or register usernames just to resell or block others.

Use Report in a post's menu, or tell a community's moderators. For a comment, user, message or sponsored post, contact us with a link to it. Depending on how serious a breach is, and whether it has happened before, we may:

• •Remove or hide content, or limit its reach
• •Remove votes, reset rankings, karma or badges
• •Reject, pause or end sponsored posts
• •Issue a warning, or suspend or permanently ban an account (including related accounts)
• •Report illegal content to the authorities where the law requires it

If you think we got it wrong, follow the appeals process in the Community Rules or contact us. We review appeals in good faith.

We may update this policy as Inventtive grows. We'll post changes here with a new “Last updated” date and give notice on the platform for significant changes. Continuing to use Inventtive after a change means you accept it.