What if someone posts something illegal or harmful?
DareBay isn't your stage for illegal, violent, or hateful content. Reports are taken seriously and acted on fast.
What counts
Zero-tolerance categories include:
- Illegal content under the reporting user's jurisdiction and/or DareBay's operating jurisdictions — CSAM, non-consensual intimate imagery, incitement of specific violence, clear fraud, etc.
- Violent threats directed at real people or groups.
- Hate speech targeting protected categories.
- Harassment of specific participants, organizers, or viewers.
- Doxxing — publishing private personal info without consent.
How to report
- On any submission or comment: the ⋯ menu has a Report option.
- On an account: the Report link on the profile.
- For urgent / illegal-category content that needs to be pulled now, email trust@darebay.com with the link and a short description. Trusted reporters get priority routing.
What happens after
- Automated triage runs immediately on the reported content.
- A human reviewer looks at anything that passes triage. Review target times are measured in hours, not days; zero-tolerance categories are faster.
- Confirmed violations → content removed, account banned (no three strikes for zero-tolerance categories). Associated contest money is returned to organizers or held if the violator is an organizer.
- Unconfirmed reports → reporter is notified with a short reason. If someone is repeatedly filing bad-faith reports, they get rate-limited or restricted.
Legal
DareBay cooperates with law enforcement under the applicable process in each jurisdiction where we operate. We publish a transparency report summarizing what kinds of requests we get and how we respond.
→ See also: the manifesto for the broader "what we won't tolerate" position.