Community Guidelines

You give us one true word. We don’t ask who you are. We don’t track you across the internet. We don’t turn your answer into an identity. In exchange, please be kind to the room.

• A single word in any language — English, Russian, Arabic, Japanese, Hindi, Yorùbá, Welsh, anything.
• Words that are honest, even when they’re hard: “tired”, “lost”, “afraid”.
• Words that surprise you when you read them back.
• Short comments that are kind, curious, or quietly funny.

• Slurs targeting race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, disability, or any other group.
• Sexual content involving anyone under 18, in any form, ever. We report this to law enforcement.
• Threats, harassment, doxing, or anything that names or targets a real person.
• Political agitation — names of leaders, slogans, party labels. There are louder places for that.
• Spam, link-stuffing, advertising, scams, “follow me on X” bait.
• Personal information — phone numbers, addresses, emails (yours or anyone else’s).
• Words submitted by bots, scripts, or automated tools.

The form accepts a single word: letters only, 2–30 characters, no spaces, no numbers, no punctuation. That’s the whole game. A long sentence isn’t braver than one word — usually the opposite.

Comments are capped at 120 characters and one per answer. Use them to add a little context or quiet agreement: “same”, “felt this”, “reminded me of grandmother”. Not a place to argue, not a place to perform.

Every submission passes through an automated filter that checks word lists in 12 languages and a second AI safety layer. Blocked submissions return a gentle “this word isn’t allowed” message; the word never appears on the site. Repeated blocked attempts (3 in a row) trigger a temporary cooldown.

For anything that slips through, use the report button or email hellooneword.online@gmail.com. Three independent reports on the same comment will hide it automatically pending review.

We escalate gently and only as far as needed:

• First trip-up: the submission is blocked silently. You can try again.
• Three blocks in a row: a 24-hour cooldown on that browser/IP.
• Deliberate abuse: a longer ban tied to your hashed fingerprint and IP.
• Illegal content: referred to the appropriate authorities. CSAM is reported to NCMEC.

Bans are not punishments. They’re fences. We don’t announce them and we don’t debate them publicly.

If you believe a ban or removal was a mistake, email hellooneword.online@gmail.com with a brief description of what happened. We’ll look at the logs and respond within 7 days.

A word that is everyday in one language can land hard in another. We do our best to filter known cases, but context is hard. If you submit a word from a smaller language and it gets blocked unfairly, write to us — we expand the allow-list constantly.

We update this page when the room changes. The “Last updated” date at the top of the page reflects the most recent revision.