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🤝 Community Guidelines

Building a Safe, Supportive Emotional Community

Welcome to MoodMap - the world's first Emotional GPS! Our community guidelines help create a space where everyone feels safe to share authentic emotions and connect meaningfully with others.

Last Updated: July 6, 2025

Effective Date: July 6, 2025

🌟Our Community Values

Authenticity First

  • • Share genuine emotions and experiences
  • • Be honest about your feelings without exaggeration
  • • Contribute to real emotional intelligence in your community

Respect & Empathy

  • • Treat every community member with kindness and understanding
  • • Remember that everyone's emotional journey is valid
  • • Celebrate emotional diversity and different coping strategies

Privacy & Safety

  • • Protect your own and others' anonymity
  • • Never attempt to identify anonymous users
  • • Respect boundaries and personal space

Supportive Environment

  • • Offer encouragement and understanding
  • • Share hope and positive coping strategies
  • • Help build a community where vulnerability is strength

✅What We Encourage

Authentic Emotional Sharing

  • • 🎯 Share real emotions you're experiencing
  • • 🎯 Describe activities that influence your mood
  • • 🎯 Use accurate intensity levels for your feelings
  • • 🎯 Share context that helps others understand community patterns

Positive Community Interactions

  • • 🤝 Share healthy coping strategies and resources
  • • 🤝 Celebrate others' emotional growth and insights
  • • 🤝 Ask thoughtful questions that show genuine interest

Constructive Community Building

  • • 🏗️ Contribute to local emotional intelligence
  • • 🏗️ Share mood patterns that help others feel less alone
  • • 🏗️ Participate in community challenges and wellness activities
  • • 🏗️ Help newcomers feel welcome and understood

Mental Wellness Advocacy

  • • 💚 Share mental health resources and professional help information
  • • 💚 Encourage others to seek professional support when appropriate
  • • 💚 Normalize conversations about emotional well-being
  • • 💚 Promote healthy lifestyle choices that support mental health

❌What's Not Allowed

Harmful Content

  • • 🚫 Self-harm content: Graphic descriptions, methods, or encouragement of self-injury
  • • 🚫 Suicide ideation: Detailed plans or methods (seek immediate professional help instead)
  • • 🚫 Dangerous behaviors: Promoting substance abuse, eating disorders, or risky activities
  • • 🚫 Crisis exploitation: Using others' vulnerable moments for personal gain

Harassment & Abuse

  • • 🚫 Bullying: Targeting, intimidating, or repeatedly bothering other users
  • • 🚫 Hate speech: Content based on race, religion, gender, sexuality, or other identity factors
  • • 🚫 Doxxing: Attempting to identify or share personal information of anonymous users
  • • 🚫 Sexual harassment: Unwanted sexual content, advances, or inappropriate requests

False Information

  • • 🚫 Fake emotions: Deliberately posting false mood data to manipulate community insights
  • • 🚫 Medical misinformation: Sharing unverified health advice or claiming medical expertise
  • • 🚫 Location spoofing: Using false location data to manipulate geographic mood patterns
  • • 🚫 Impersonation: Pretending to be someone else or creating multiple accounts

Spam & Exploitation

  • • 🚫 Commercial content: Advertisements, promotions, or selling products/services
  • • 🚫 Spam posting: Repetitive, irrelevant, or bot-generated content
  • • 🚫 Data harvesting: Attempting to collect user information for external purposes
  • • 🚫 Platform abuse: Using MoodMap for purposes other than authentic emotional sharing

🆘 Mental Health & Crisis Guidelines

When You're Struggling

  • • Seek professional help for serious mental health concerns
  • • Use crisis resources listed in the app for immediate support
  • • Connect with trusted friends/family outside the app when needed
  • • Remember: MoodMap community support complements but doesn't replace professional care

Crisis Resources Quick Access

  • • US: National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 988
  • • UK: Samaritans: 116 123
  • • Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
  • • Emergency: Call local emergency services immediately

💙 Remember: You're Not Alone

MoodMap exists because we believe that sharing authentic emotions and connecting with others creates stronger, more empathetic communities. Every time you share your genuine feelings, you're helping someone else feel less alone in their own emotional journey.

Together, we're building the world's first truly emotionally intelligent community.

Questions? Contact community@moodmap.app

These guidelines are a living document that evolves with our community.