Community Guidelines

Effective Date: Jul 15, 2020

Last Updated: October 05, 2023

We created PaidTabs to be a platform that brings musicians together over shared experiences and gives everyone a place to belong. Our Community Guidelines ensure everyone can express themselves and find community, but not at the expense of anyone else.

These guidelines explain what isn’t allowed on PaidTabs. Everyone on PaidTabs must follow these rules, and they apply to all parts of our platform, including your content and behaviors.

Our Trust & Safety team reviews reports by users, moderators, or trusted reporters. When someone violates these guidelines, we may take a number of enforcement steps against them, including issuing warnings, removing content, suspending or removing the accounts and/or servers responsible, and potentially reporting them to law enforcement.

If you come across a user, message, or server that appears to break these guidelines, please report it to us.

1. Respect & Dignity

• Do not promote, coordinate, or engage in harassment.
  • PaidTabs is a platform where everyone can find a place to belong, and harassment prevents users from building healthy communities. We do not allow harassing behavior.
• Do not use hate speech or engage in other hateful conduct.
  • This includes the use of hate symbols and claims that deny the history of mass human atrocities.
  • We consider hate speech to be any form of expression that either attacks other people or promotes hatred or violence against them based on their protected characteristics.
  • We consider the following to be protected characteristics: age; caste; color; disability; ethnicity; family responsibilities; gender; gender identity; housing status; national origin; race; refugee or immigration status; religious affiliation; serious illness; sex; sexual orientation; socioeconomic class and status; source of income; status as a victim of domestic violence, sexual violence, or stalking; and weight and size.
• Do not threaten to harm another individual or group of people.
  • This includes direct, indirect, and suggestive threats.
• Do not organize, promote, or support violent extremism.
  • This also includes glorifying violent events or the perpetrators of violent acts, as well as promoting conspiracy theories that could encourage or incite violence against others.
• Do not solicit, share, or make attempts to distribute content that depicts, promotes, or attempts to normalize child sexual abuse.
  • Also, do not post content that in any way sexualizes children. This includes real as well as manipulated media, animation (such as lolicon), and any type of digital creation.
  • We report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and grooming to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
• Do not share content that glorifies, promotes, or normalizes suicide or other acts of physical self-harm.
  • This includes content that encourages others to cut, burn, or starve themselves, as well as content that normalizes eating disorders, such as anorexia and bulimia. Self-harm acts or threats used as a form of emotional manipulation or coercion are also prohibited.
• Do not share real media depicting gore, excessive violence, or animal harm, especially with the intention to harass or shock others.

2. Be Honest

• Do not misrepresent your identity on PaidTabs in a deceptive or harmful way.This includes creating fake profiles and attempts to impersonate our users.
• Do not engage in activities that could damage or compromise the security of an account, network, or system.This includes using deceptive techniques to trick others into revealing sensitive information (phishing), using malicious software (malware), and flooding a target with traffic in order to make a resource unavailable (denial-of-service attacks).
• Do not engage in activities that could damage or compromise the security of an account, network, or system.This includes using deceptive techniques to trick others into revealing sensitive information (phishing), using malicious software (malware), and flooding a target with traffic in order to make a resource unavailable (denial-of-service attacks).

3. Respect PaidTabs

• Do not pay or accept payments outside PaidTabs.Discusses your obligation to make and receive payments through PaidTabs only. If you decide pay or accept payments outside PaidTabs, your Account will be suspended immediately.
• Do not sharing contact details.You are not allowed to communicate with a client outside of PaidTabs as per the Terms of Service, so there is absolutely no need to get your client's email address. It can lead to a warning or a suspension.

If you see any activity that violates these guidelines, our Terms of Service, or our other policies, please report it to us. However, please note that we strongly discourage and may take action against vigilantism, as this behavior can put individuals in harm’s way and can also interfere with our investigations and ability to report to law enforcement.

These guidelines will continue to evolve over time. This means we may take action against a user or content that violates the spirit of these guidelines when we encounter a new threat or harm that is not explicitly covered in the current version.

We will always make our best effort to notify you when we update these guidelines, but it is up to you to follow the spirit of them: keep PaidTabs safe and a place for everyone to belong. Thanks for doing your part.