Nobody gets picked on here.

Bullying on WobbleFly is not limited to the obvious. It tends to arrive as one of these:

• repeated insults aimed at the same person over days or weeks
• humiliation — putting someone on display so others can laugh
• targeting one individual while pretending it is a general point
• dogpiling: a group arriving at once to overwhelm a reply
• coordinated harassment — people agreeing elsewhere to target someone here
• threats, or things said in a way that is clearly meant to frighten
• repeated unwanted contact after you have asked them to stop
• mocking someone's appearance, their name, their identity, or who they are
• encouraging other people to attack someone, or piling on in the replies
• sharing someone's private information, messages, or photographs
• creating new accounts to continue it after being blocked
• sexual harassment, in any form, including unsolicited and repeated
• photos or video altered to humiliate someone, or to imply something that never happened
• a group of accounts that only ever speak in unison, and only ever at someone

This matters, because a rule that treats all friction as abuse stops being useful to anyone.

• Sharp criticism of an idea, a post or a piece of work is allowed, and we will not step in for it.
• Disagreeing with someone, and saying so bluntly, is allowed.
• Blocking, unfollowing or leaving a conversation is allowed, and nobody is required to justify it.
• Disagreeing with someone about a community rule, a moderator, or a WobbleFly decision is allowed.

The line is about how a person is treated, not whether they were right. If the argument would still be worth having if it were about a stranger's post rather than yours, it is probably not bullying. If it only works because it is aimed at you, it is.

We also do not treat criticism of WobbleFly itself as bullying. You should be able to say the product is bad.

You do not have to escalate to us to make a problem stop. Most of this is in your hands, and all of it is worth doing before or alongside a report.

1. 01Block them. A block stops their content reaching you and yours reaching them, with no notification to them and no trace that it happened. This is the single most effective thing you can do.
2. 02Leave the conversation. Mute or leave a community, a group, or a reply chain. You are not required to keep reading something that is hurting you, and leaving is not a concession.
3. 03Say once, clearly, that it stops — and then do not keep engaging. A single unambiguous line, followed by silence and a block, is more effective than a long reply.
4. 04Make your account private. WobbleFly is designed to provide public and private accounts; on a private account, you approve who follows you, and approval comes before a follower relationship exists.
5. 05Limit who can see a Glimpse or a Spark. You can narrow the audience for a single piece of content, including to yourself alone, without changing your whole account.
6. 06Turn on two-step sign-in. Worth doing regardless, and especially worth doing if someone has threatened to take your account.
7. 07Review who can message you, and tighten it. Being messaged by someone you did not choose is not something you have to accept.
8. 08Report it. Use the report option on the post, reply, message, profile or account, and say that it is a safety concern.

None of this is your fault, and you do not have to have earned it. A person being cruel is a decision they made, and it says nothing about your worth, your appearance, or whether you deserved it.

1. 01Block first. It is immediate, it is free, and it takes the audience away. You can read this page again afterwards.
2. 02Screenshot what you want to keep before you block. Once blocked, their content is gone from your view and you will not be able to screenshot it later.
3. 03Do not reply. The reply is usually the point — it keeps the exchange going and gives the rest of them something to look at. Silence plus a block ends more of these than any response does.
4. 04Save what matters somewhere outside WobbleFly — your own device, your email, or the cloud. Do not rely on WobbleFly as your only copy of a conversation that matters.
5. 05Report it, and mark it as a safety concern. Say whether it is one person or many, whether it is happening repeatedly, and roughly since when.
6. 06If it is happening anywhere else as well, tell us that too. We cannot see other platforms, but we can act on your WobbleFly account, and knowing the wider pattern changes how we handle it.
7. 07Tell someone you trust in your actual life. This holds up under pressure much better than trying to manage it alone.
8. 08If it includes a threat of physical harm, or anything involving a weapon, contact local emergency services. Do not wait for us. We are not emergency services and we are not a substitute for them.

You are a bystander, and that is a more useful position than it feels like. Most of what stops is the person seeing it say or do something.

• Do not add to it. No laughing, no reacting, no quote-posting it onwards, no 'I'm just joking' in the replies. Reactions and stitches count as joining in, even a single one.
• Do not ask them to defend themselves in public. That puts them on trial in front of the group that is attacking them.
• Say something. A short comment — 'this is aimed at someone, back off' — changes the room more than a direct message does. It is visible, it signals that someone noticed, and it makes the pile-on less attractive.
• Do it for the person, not for the drama, and do not make them the subject of your intervention either. 'Back off him' is better than a speech about how brave they are.
• Support them afterwards, privately. Ask whether they want help reporting it. Do not report it over their head without asking — being reported on can feel like being controlled.
• Report it yourself. You do not have to be the target to report harassment.
• If someone is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first.

When we act on a bullying report, we choose the lightest action that actually stops it. In practice that can mean:

• removing the content, or stopping it reaching the people it targeted
• removing a message, reply or follower relationship
• removing content from search and from suggestions so it stops reaching new people
• reducing who can see a profile or a post
• disabling commenting, community posting, or messaging for an account
• suspending an account for a period of time
• permanently disabling an account, particularly for minors, threats, non-consensual intimate content, or repeated targeting
• removing an entire group of coordinated accounts together, rather than one at a time
• reporting unlawful activity to the appropriate authority where we are required to

We do not tell the person you reported that you reported them, unless there is a serious and immediate reason to do so for safety.

We aim to be consistent about this and we aim to be fast enough to matter. We would rather remove something and restore it later than leave it up while we deliberate. [Target response window for reports]

If you disagree with what we did, you can ask us to look again. [Grievance and appeal process]