Content Policy | The Blog Story

This policy sets out what may be published on The Blog Story. It applies to posts, comments, images and other media, profiles, handles, display names, publication pages, and the metadata around them — titles, subtitles, excerpts, tags, categories and SEO descriptions.

It sits alongside our Community Guidelines, which describe expected behaviour, and our Acceptable Use Policy, which covers use of the platform itself.

1. Content that is not allowed

Illegal content — anything unlawful, or that facilitates unlawful activity.
Child sexual exploitation — zero tolerance. Accounts are removed immediately and reported to the appropriate authorities.
Threats and incitement — threatening violence, inciting it, or glorifying it against a person or group.
Hate — attacking or dehumanising people on the basis of a protected characteristic.
Harassment — targeted abuse, stalking, sexual harassment, or organising a pile-on.
Private information — publishing someone's personal details without consent, including addresses, phone numbers, identity documents and private correspondence.
Non-consensual and sexualised imagery — including intimate images shared without consent, and sexual content involving anyone who is or appears to be a minor.
Self-harm promotion — encouraging suicide, self-injury or disordered eating. Writing about your own experience is allowed and often valuable; instruction and encouragement are not.
Harmful misinformation — false claims presented as fact that risk serious harm to health, safety or civic processes.
Infringement — content you do not have the rights to, including text, photographs, illustrations, audio and video.
Impersonation and deception — passing yourself off as another person, publication, or as staff of this site; fabricated quotes attributed to real people.
Malware and fraud — links to malicious downloads, phishing, scams, or deceptive monetisation schemes.
Spam — bulk, repetitive or purely promotional publishing, link stuffing, and content produced to game search or recommendations rather than to be read.

2. Content that needs care

Difficult subjects belong on a writing platform. Some need context or a warning rather than removal.

Mark posts as sensitive when they contain disturbing or adult material. Readers then get notice before the content is shown.
Violence, abuse, addiction and illness — write about them thoughtfully. Do not include gratuitous detail that serves no purpose but shock.
Medical, legal and financial subjects — be clear that you are sharing your view or experience, not professional advice. See our Disclaimer.
Quoting others — quote what you need, attribute it clearly, and link to the source rather than reproducing it wholesale.

3. Content produced with automated tools

This platform does not provide any writing-assistance or content-generation feature — everything published here is written and submitted by its author. If you drafted your post with the help of an external tool, you remain fully responsible for it: it must be accurate, it must not infringe anyone's rights, and it must meet every rule on this page. Bulk-generated filler published to farm traffic is spam and is removed under section 1.

4. Metadata and presentation

Titles, excerpts, SEO metadata, featured images, tags and categories must honestly reflect the post. Misleading headlines, bait images, and tags chosen only to reach unrelated audiences are treated as spam. Every uploaded image should carry meaningful alternative text.

5. How content is reviewed

Author control. You write, save drafts, schedule and publish from the Writer Studio, and can unpublish or trash your own work at any time.
Editorial review. A post can be submitted for review before publication, and editors or administrators can send a published post back for review through the Blog Review queue.
Comment moderation. Comments from people without accounts, where enabled, are held until a moderator approves them. Other comments may be hidden, marked as spam or deleted after review.
Reports. Anyone can report a post or comment. Reports go into a moderation queue and are reviewed by a person.
Advertising review. A post only carries network advertising after an administrator has approved it; a rejection comes with a reason you can act on, and you can resubmit after editing.
Accountability. Moderation and administrative actions are written to an append-only audit log, and aggregate figures are published in our transparency report.

6. What we may do

Depending on the severity and history, we may hide a comment, mark it as spam, delete it, unpublish or trash a post, remove advertising from a post, warn an account, or suspend or ban it. We aim to explain the reason for any action against your content.

7. Appeals

If you believe a decision was wrong, appeal from your appeals page. A person reviews appeals and records the outcome. People who report content also receive feedback on what happened to their report.

8. Copyright

Contact us

Unsure whether your post fits this policy? Ask before publishing:

Contact form: send us a message — you will get a reference number to quote in any follow-up.

1. Content that is not allowed

Illegal content — anything unlawful, or that facilitates unlawful activity.

Child sexual exploitation — zero tolerance. Accounts are removed immediately and reported to the appropriate authorities.

Threats and incitement — threatening violence, inciting it, or glorifying it against a person or group.

Hate — attacking or dehumanising people on the basis of a protected characteristic.

Harassment — targeted abuse, stalking, sexual harassment, or organising a pile-on.

Private information — publishing someone's personal details without consent, including addresses, phone numbers, identity documents and private correspondence.

Non-consensual and sexualised imagery — including intimate images shared without consent, and sexual content involving anyone who is or appears to be a minor.

Self-harm promotion — encouraging suicide, self-injury or disordered eating. Writing about your own experience is allowed and often valuable; instruction and encouragement are not.

Harmful misinformation — false claims presented as fact that risk serious harm to health, safety or civic processes.

Infringement — content you do not have the rights to, including text, photographs, illustrations, audio and video.

Impersonation and deception — passing yourself off as another person, publication, or as staff of this site; fabricated quotes attributed to real people.

Malware and fraud — links to malicious downloads, phishing, scams, or deceptive monetisation schemes.

Spam — bulk, repetitive or purely promotional publishing, link stuffing, and content produced to game search or recommendations rather than to be read.

2. Content that needs care

Difficult subjects belong on a writing platform. Some need context or a warning rather than removal.

Mark posts as sensitive when they contain disturbing or adult material. Readers then get notice before the content is shown.

Violence, abuse, addiction and illness — write about them thoughtfully. Do not include gratuitous detail that serves no purpose but shock.

Medical, legal and financial subjects — be clear that you are sharing your view or experience, not professional advice. See our Disclaimer.

Quoting others — quote what you need, attribute it clearly, and link to the source rather than reproducing it wholesale.

3. Content produced with automated tools

5. How content is reviewed

Author control. You write, save drafts, schedule and publish from the Writer Studio, and can unpublish or trash your own work at any time.

Editorial review. A post can be submitted for review before publication, and editors or administrators can send a published post back for review through the Blog Review queue.

Comment moderation. Comments from people without accounts, where enabled, are held until a moderator approves them. Other comments may be hidden, marked as spam or deleted after review.

Reports. Anyone can report a post or comment. Reports go into a moderation queue and are reviewed by a person.

Advertising review. A post only carries network advertising after an administrator has approved it; a rejection comes with a reason you can act on, and you can resubmit after editing.

Accountability. Moderation and administrative actions are written to an append-only audit log, and aggregate figures are published in our transparency report.