Prohibited Items

We prohibit publishing stories about products or services that are illegal, heavily regulated, or potentially dangerous for users, as well as offers that do not belong to the publisher.

1. Any item claiming to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent an illness or condition (whether via a device, app, book, nutritional supplement, or other means).
2. Contests, gambling, and raffles.
3. Energy food and drinks.
4. Offensive material (e.g., hate speech, encouraging violence against others, etc).
5. Offering a genetically modified organism as a reward.
6. Live animals. Live animals are prohibited as a reward or an offer.
7. Offering alcohol as a product or a reward.
8. Offering financial, money-processing, or credit services; financial intermediaries or cash-equivalent instruments; travel services (e.g., vacation packages); phone services (e.g., prepaid phone services, 900 numbers); and business marketing services.
9. Political topics and fundraising.
10. Pornographic material.
11. Stories that promote discrimination, bigotry, or intolerance towards marginalized groups.
12. Stories that share things that already exist, or repackage a previously-created product, without adding anything new or aiming to iterate on the idea in any way.
13. Resale. All products must have been produced or designed by the publishers or latter must have exclusive right to sell the product or service  — no reselling things from elsewhere.
14. Drugs, nicotine, tobacco, vaporizers and related paraphernalia.
15. Weapons, replicas of weapons, and weapon accessories.

If your story involves something illegal, heavily regulated, or potentially dangerous for users and it is not on this list, please contact us before publishing your story.