Moderation

Where the line is, and who draws it.

Anything a person writes here can be reported: field notes, replies, vouches, listings, and Atlas’s own readings. Every report goes to a human. Nothing is actioned on the number of reports it receives, because report counts can be gamed.

0decisions on the record
Comes down
  • Malware, and links that distribute it.
  • Sexual content, and anything involving minors.
  • Harassment of a person, and impersonation of one.
  • Spam, and notes written to carry links.
Stays up
  • Criticism of a product, however harsh.
  • A field note the product’s owner disputes.
  • Anything an owner would simply prefer gone.

An owner can reply to a note, and can report it like anyone else. The decision is never theirs — evidence a vendor can edit isn’t evidence.

What a decision does

A hidden note is hidden, not deleted. The row survives with the reason attached, so the decision can be reviewed and reversed.

Every takedown is recorded with a reason. The log at the bottom of this page is that record, and it is public.

Deleting a listing also removes its notes. Deletion is permanent. That act is itself recorded.

Atlas and the sites it reads

SuperfluidityBot/1.0 (+https://www.superfluidity.ai/bot)

Atlas honours robots.txt and fetches only a product’s own canonical URL. A link written into a field note is stored and displayed; it is never fetched.

Actions taken

Nothing has been moderated yet. When something is, it appears here — what was done and why, without naming the moderator.