Community Guidelines

• Be honest. Rate based on your actual experience.
• Be respectful. Critique the work, not the person.
• Don't try to game the system. We notice, and the system notices.

• Harassment & threats — targeted abuse, doxxing, threats of violence.
• Hate speech — content that dehumanizes people based on identity.
• Fake reviews — rating things you have no experience with to push an agenda.
• Review bombing & brigading — coordinated attempts to crash or inflate a score.
• Manipulation — sockpuppets, vote rings, paid review services, fake credibility.
• Spam — repetitive low-value content, promo dumps, link farms.
• Impersonation — pretending to be a developer, publisher, journalist, or another user.
• Undisclosed paid promotion — sponsorships or affiliate relationships you don't disclose.
• Bot activity — automated rating, scraping, or content posting.
• Coordinated abuse — organized campaigns aimed at users, creators, or the platform.
• Platform exploitation — abusing bugs, rate-limit holes, or moderation gaps.

Every rater has a credibility profile. It builds over time as you participate honestly: rating things you've actually experienced, leaving thoughtful granular reviews, and being consistent.

Higher credibility means your signals carry more weight in OmniScore. Suspicious patterns — sudden bursts, near-identical reviews across many accounts, brigade-shaped activity — reduce weight or get flagged for review.

Manipulation resistance is a core design goal of OmniRate. The trust system is intentionally opaque in some places to make it harder to game. Scores may also evolve over time as new signals arrive and as bad actors are corrected for.

• Reduce the weight of suspect ratings.
• Hide or remove violating content.
• Restrict features (rating limits, follow limits, posting).
• Suspend or terminate accounts for serious or repeated abuse.
• Re-compute affected OmniScores after large-scale manipulation events.

Where possible we'll tell you what happened and why. We may act without prior notice when the platform or other users are at risk.

As OmniRate grows, active raters may be invited into beta keys, early access, giveaways, sponsored challenges, and partner rewards. A few rules keep this clean:

• Rewards are for participation, activity, and community engagement — not for positive ratings.
• Sponsored opportunities must be clearly labeled wherever they appear.
• Partners can invite feedback. They cannot buy OmniScore outcomes.
• Cred and rewards do not equal score influence. Trust does.
• Future reward programs aren't guaranteed and will be announced as they launch.

See something that violates these guidelines? Report it from the item or profile, or email omniratehq@gmail.com. Good-faith reports help the trust system improve.

A bad review isn't a violation. A controversial opinion isn't a violation. The bar is behavior, not verdict. OmniScore is meant to capture honest disagreement — including the loud kind.