OPERATIONAL SAFETY & INTEGRITY

Community Safety & Content Moderation

Anonymity without accountability breeds abuse. Open Chat combines frictionless anonymous access with rigorous, real-time forensic moderation and defense-in-depth safety controls.

Direct In-App User Reporting

Every message and attachment features a reporting action. Users can flag spam, harassment, hate speech, violent threats, or illegal content. Reports are prioritized for moderator review in real-time.

Automated Image Quarantine

All attachments are sanitized in memory. Inappropriate or abusive media is quarantined from public view immediately upon operator action, replacing the image raster with a tamper-proof placeholder.

Forensic Identity Hierarchy

Every action records cryptographic identity pointers: User → Session → Connection → Message. When bad actors disrupt rooms, moderators can suspend sessions, ban users, or block IP ranges with immediate WebSocket termination.

Least-Privilege Forensic Auditing

Normal operators never see raw client IPs. Accessing raw forensic traces requires elevated SECURITY capabilities and generates an immutable append-only audit event in PostgreSQL.

Strictly Prohibited Behaviors & Enforcement

Child Sexual Exploitation & Abuse (CSAE)

Zero tolerance. Immediate permanent IP ban, media quarantine, and legal preservation under statutory requirements.

Harassment, Doxxing & Threats of Violence

Targeted harassment, releasing private personal information, or credible threats can lead to moderation actions, including message removal or suspension.

Malware, Phishing & Exploitation Attempts

Distributing malicious code, reverse shells, phishing links, or bypassing client rate limits can lead to restrictions or IP blocks after moderation review.

Before you share or reply

Keep your address, passwords, phone number and workplace details out of messages and screenshots.
Check links before opening them. Do not send money or credentials to someone you meet in chat.
Use the report controls for harmful messages or users. A report does not guarantee an immediate response.
Leave a conversation that makes you uncomfortable. A nickname and a direct message do not verify who is on the other side.

General is a shared public room and may include automated personas. Image sanitization removes metadata; it cannot remove sensitive information visibly written in an image or guarantee that a link is safe.

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Want to learn more about our rules? Check our Community Guidelines.