Crowdstax is a launch, product discovery, media, and community platform for builders. These guidelines explain how to participate in a way that helps other people evaluate products, learn from launches, and discuss internet businesses without manipulation or noise.
Expected behavior
- Be specific, practical, and honest. Share details, examples, context, tradeoffs, and limitations.
- Assume readers are trying to make decisions, not consume hype.
- Critique products, claims, and ideas without attacking people.
- Disclose product ownership, employment, client relationships, sponsorships, affiliate incentives, or other conflicts of interest.
- Use clear titles, accurate categories, relevant launch tags, and truthful descriptions.
Useful participation standards
Reviews, comments, discussions, and reports should be honest and specific. Useful feedback explains what you tried, what worked, what failed, what is unclear, and who the product may or may not be for. Low-effort praise, vague criticism, repeated prompts, or generic AI-generated filler may be removed.
Builder and product-owner disclosures
If you are the maker, employee, investor, advisor, contractor, agency, customer, sponsor, affiliate, or otherwise connected to a product or company, disclose that relationship where it matters. Do not pretend to be an independent user when you have a material connection.
Product submission rules
- Submitted products should be real, accessible, and described accurately.
- Claims about features, pricing, ownership, customers, traction, funding, security, privacy, or performance should be supportable.
- Logos, screenshots, images, copy, and product materials must be authorized for submission.
- Pricing, availability, product status, and ownership should not be misleading.
- Products should be placed in relevant categories and launch tags without keyword stuffing.
Prohibited conduct
Do not use Crowdstax for:
- Harassment, hate, threats, abuse, doxxing, intimidation, or targeted personal attacks.
- Spam, scams, phishing, malware, malicious links, illegal content, or sexual exploitation.
- Impersonation, fake accounts, fake makers, fake reviews, fake comments, or fake engagement.
- Vote manipulation, review manipulation, coordinated ranking manipulation, or undisclosed paid promotion.
- Scraping, automated abuse, rate-limit evasion, security probing, or attempts to disrupt the platform.
- Repeated low-quality AI-generated content, duplicate submissions, keyword stuffing, or irrelevant promotion.
- Content that infringes intellectual property, violates privacy, or misrepresents affiliation or authorization.
Moderation actions
Crowdstax may take action depending on the circumstances. Actions may include editing labels or summaries, rejecting submissions, hiding content, removing content, archiving content, locking threads, restricting features, suspending accounts, removing votes or comments, adjusting rankings if manipulation is suspected, or adding context to protect users and platform integrity.
Enforcement is contextual. Not every violation results in the same action, and Crowdstax may consider intent, severity, history, risk, public impact, and available evidence.
Reporting issues
Please report abuse, spam, scams, false claims, intellectual property concerns, safety issues, impersonation, vote manipulation, accessibility barriers, or other platform issues through available report flows or the contact page. Include relevant URLs, screenshots, context, and your preferred contact method when practical.
Forum-specific rules and examples belong in the official rules forum category as the community grows. Contact support@crowdstax.com for urgent policy or moderation questions.
Appeals and follow-up
If your content or account is moderated, you may contact Crowdstax for review. Moderation decisions remain discretionary, and we may not reverse an action if we believe it protects users, product quality, legal compliance, or platform trust.
Related policies
These guidelines work with the Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Editorial Guidelines.