ProudToBe — Community Rules

The idea in one paragraph

ProudToBe is one page per real person and one honest ranking. The whole thing works only if a vote means a person chose to give it, a visit means a person really came, a referral means a person really joined, and a page shows who someone actually is. Everything below follows from that.

1. Be one real person

One human, one account, one page. If you run a brand, a shop or a project, the page belongs to the person who stands behind it.

Use a name and an address that are yours or that you have the right to use. Do not take the name of a known person, brand or organisation to collect their attention. Names that belong to widely known people or brands may be reserved.

Do not pretend to be someone else, and do not let someone else run your account under your name.

2. Votes and points are honest

You get one free vote a day. It always goes to someone else — never to your own page.

Do not manufacture votes or points: no bots, no scripts, no vote exchanges run by software, no networks of accounts you control, no "click farms". Asking friends to vote for you is fine; paying strangers to create accounts and vote in a pattern is not.

Daily points are for taking part yourself. Do not automate signing in, voting or opening links.

Link-in-bio points are for real visitors. Do not send automated, paid-for or incentivised traffic to your page to collect them.

Do not sell, trade or lend votes or accounts outside the Service.

3. Referrals are real people who stayed

Your invite is for inviting people. A referral counts only after the new person confirms an e-mail address and takes part in their first week — that is deliberate.

Do not refer yourself, your own extra accounts, or people who exist only on paper. Do not run signup farms. These are the fastest way to lose a page.

4. Your page is about you

Publish what you want people to know: your accounts, your videos and posts, your work, your shop. Some things are not allowed anywhere on the Service:

• illegal content, or content that facilitates something illegal;
• threats, harassment, bullying, or content that targets a person or group with hatred or contempt on the basis of who they are;
• sexually explicit content and links to adult platforms, and any sexual content involving minors in any form (this is reported to the authorities);
• content that incites or glorifies violence or self-harm;
• impersonation, fake credentials, fake endorsements, and misleading claims designed to deceive;
• other people's private information (addresses, phone numbers, documents) published without their consent;
• images, videos, music or texts you do not have the right to use — when you upload an image you confirm that you hold the rights to it;
• malware, phishing, scams, "get rich quick" schemes, and links that lead to any of these;
• link shorteners and disguised links: a link must show where it leads;
• spam: mass-produced pages and keyword stuffing.

Ordinary commercial content is welcome: a photographer selling prints, a developer offering services, a creator with a shop, a page that is only a shop. That is what the page is for.

5. What happens when rules are broken

We keep two things apart, because they deserve different answers:

Content and conduct. A page that breaks section 4 may be hidden, suspended, removed from the ranking or closed, and links and images may be taken down. Honest votes that person gave to others in the past stay where they are — a rude page does not make an earlier honest vote false.

Fraud and system integrity. Fake accounts, referral farms, scripted voting, fake visits and similar manipulation lead to the removal of everything the fraud produced: fake referrals and the points they generated, votes given by fake accounts, points from fake visits. Where honest and fraudulent activity can be told apart, we reverse only the fraudulent part. An account that exists only as a tool of fraud is closed and its outgoing votes may be invalidated. Every reversal is recorded and can be audited.

We aim to be proportionate: a first small mistake usually gets a message, not a ban. Deliberate manipulation does not.

6. Reporting

If you see a page, link or image that breaks these rules, use Report on the page or write to hello@proudtobe.online with the address of the page and what you saw. We look at every report. We do not publish who reported.

7. Appeals

If your page was actioned and you think we got it wrong, write to hello@proudtobe.online from the e-mail address of your account. Tell us what happened. A person will look at it and answer.

Last updated: 6 October 2026.