Content Rules

The short version

Versus is for strong opinions: clashes, dark humour, rivalries, takes that sting. We are not here to babysit anyone. We only remove what is illegal or what targets a specific person to hurt them. When in doubt, the poll stays up. You must be 16 or older.

1. What is allowed (a lot)

• Criticising, even very harshly, what a public figure does or says in public: an album, a match, an outfit, a look, a statement, on-screen behaviour.
• Comparing and ranking stars, athletes, creators, reality-TV contestants and brands, including their style, looks and appeal.
• Dark humour, irony, mockery, roasting public figures.
• Community humour: when people are openly out (an openly gay group, a Drag Race cast), joking about it ("who is the gayest in the group?") is allowed, it is not outing.
• Celebrity stories and rumours phrased as a question: couples, breakups, controversies, pregnancies, supposed orientation ("Is Madonna pregnant?", "Is this star gay?", "Taylor and Travis, engaged?", "will it last?"). If the person concerned asks us to remove a poll that touches their intimate life, we remove it.
• Divisive topics and social debates.

2. What is not allowed

2.1 Serious accusations stated as facts

About a real person, do not state as true: an illness, a crime or an investigation, or their sexual orientation if they have not spoken about it publicly. Being gay is nothing to be ashamed of, and this rule does not say otherwise: it protects each person's right to choose when to talk about it, because for some people being outed has real consequences (family, work, country). Giving an opinion, joking, criticising or asking a gossip question about a public figure (couple, pregnancy, breakup, supposed orientation) is allowed. Stating an unproven serious fact is not: that is defamation. Removal on request: if the person concerned asks us to remove a poll that speculates about their intimate life, we remove it.

2.2 Minors and private people

• Nothing about minors, including celebrities' children.
• Nothing about someone who is not in the public eye: classmates, colleagues, exes, neighbours.
• People in the public eye (stars, athletes, creators with an audience, reality-TV contestants) are a legitimate subject for what they do in public.

2.3 Explicit sexual content

No nudity or explicit sexual content. Never content that sexualises a minor. Saying an adult public figure is hot or not is fine.

2.4 Harassment

Do not target a person to intimidate them or rally people against them, do not share their private information (address, phone number, school, workplace), no threats. Mocking a public figure is fine. Hounding someone is not.

2.5 Hate

No attacks on people because of their origin, skin colour, nationality, religion, gender, sexual orientation or disability. Debating ideas, even divisive ones, is fine.

2.6 Voting intentions and personal beliefs

For now, no voting-intention polls or "best party or candidate" polls, and no polls asking people to state their religion or sexual orientation. This is the only limit on politics: your votes are linked to your account, and the law protects this information. Social and current-affairs debates are open. This limit may be relaxed later.

2.7 Images you do not have the rights to

Only upload images you made or have the right to use (agency photos, paparazzi shots, show screenshots and album covers usually belong to someone else). No photo of an identifiable person without their consent, never a photo of a child. Everything works without an image: text only.

2.8 Impersonation

Do not pretend to be someone else, a brand, a media outlet or Versus. A fan account must say it is a fan account.

2.9 The rest of what is illegal

Spam, scams, illegal content, encouraging self-harm, graphic violence.

3. Reporting

Every poll has a Report button. Choose the closest reason. You can report a poll or a user account. Reports are reviewed by people, not only by software. We can't promise a specific response time.

If you are the person shown or named, or you hold the rights to an image, say so in the "details" field of the report or write to hello@joinversus.co.

Copyright complaints (images, texts) follow a separate procedure: see our copyright / DMCA page.

4. What happens after a report

A report is reviewed by a person. Grey area: the poll stays up. We do not remove content because it is shocking or harsh. After review:

• Nothing, in the great majority of cases.
• Hiding or removal of the poll or image, if it breaks section 2.
• A warning to the author.
• Suspension or deletion of the account, only for serious or repeated violations (harassment, hate, sexual content involving minors, repeated copyright infringement).

We may act without prior warning only for serious violations. If we remove your content, we will try to tell you why. You can write to hello@joinversus.co to ask for a new review.

If a report is clearly in bad faith (false reports, mass reports to silence someone), the reporting account may also be sanctioned.

Serious cases (threats, content involving minors) may be passed to the competent authorities when the law requires or allows it.

5. Your responsibility

You are responsible for the polls and images you publish. Versus is not responsible for what users post, but we may remove content that breaks these rules or the law. Results on Versus come from volunteers who chose to vote: they are not a representative survey.