App Community Guidelines
Version 1.1 · 15 September 2026
What this place is for
Storyteller exists so that people who make things can find work, show work, and find each other.
Youthteller exists so that young people get paid for what they think, and get taken seriously while doing it.
Both only work if people are honest and reasonably decent to each other. That is really the whole rulebook. What follows is the specific version, because "be decent" is not enough to act on when someone is not.
Some members here are 13. That fact shapes several of these rules and it is not negotiable.
What we expect
Be who you say you are. Real name, your own photo, your own work. No alts, no borrowed portfolios, no pretending to be older or younger than you are.
Credit people. If you did not shoot it, edit it, write it or design it, say who did. Posting someone else's work as your own is the fastest way out of here, and in a network built on portfolios it is the thing members care most about.
Disagree properly. Argue about the work. Do not go after the person.
Keep it work shaped. This is a professional network and a research panel, not a general social app. Post the kind of thing you would be happy for a producer to see.
Assume a 13 year old is reading. Because one is.
What gets a post removed
Harassment. Going after a specific member, piling on, repeated unwanted contact, mocking someone's work in a way that is about them rather than it.
Hate. Attacking people for their race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin or age. Slurs, whatever you claim you meant by them.
Sexual content. Nudity, sexual imagery, sexual propositions. There is no version of this that is fine here.
Anything that sexualises a minor. Immediate removal, immediate ban, and reported to the authorities. There is no appeal and no context that changes it.
Violence and threats. Threatening someone, encouraging violence, glorifying it.
Self harm and eating disorder content. Encouraging it, instructing in it, or presenting it as a goal. Talking about your own experience is different and is not what this rule is for. If you are struggling, tell us and we will point you somewhere useful.
Illegal stuff. Drugs, weapons, stolen goods, fraud, and anything else that would be a crime.
Other people's work. Plagiarism, reposting without credit, portfolios that are not yours.
Doxxing. Posting someone's address, phone number, workplace, school or anything else private. Including your own, honestly. Do not post your address in a public feed.
Spam. Repetitive posting, unrelated promotion, engagement bait, mass tagging.
Scams. Fake opportunities, advance fee requests, crypto, anything that ends with a member being asked to send money. Adolescent will never ask you to pay to apply for work or to be paid. If someone here asks you for money for an opportunity, report it immediately.
Recruiting for something else. Do not use the membership list as a mailing list for your own venture.
What gets an account suspended
Removal is about a post. Suspension is about a pattern or a severity.
You will probably be suspended for:
Doing any of the above repeatedly after being told
Harassing a specific member
Any sexual content involving a minor, which is immediate and permanent
Threatening someone
Running a scam, or soliciting money from members
Passing off someone else's work in a paid application
Deliberately giving a false date of birth to get round an age rule
Getting around a previous suspension with a new account
On age, one thing worth saying plainly. Correcting your date of birth is not lying about it, and nothing bad happens when you do. Our older records came from a system that never verified dates of birth, so people do turn out to be younger than the file said. When that happens the account simply re gates: a few questions stop appearing and paid work needs a guardian. That is a correction, not an accusation. What this rule is about is someone deliberately claiming to be older to reach something they should not.
What suspension actually means. You still sign in, but you land on a single screen instead of the app. That screen tells you the account is suspended, which category of rule it concerned, how to appeal, and how to delete your account if you would rather just leave.
Your profile and posts are hidden, not destroyed. If the suspension is lifted, all of it comes back exactly as it was. Your XP, tier and project history are not touched either way.
We do that because suspensions are sometimes wrong, and something reversible is easier to be honest about than something permanent.
Because minors are here
These apply to everyone, regardless of your own age.
No adult member should be contacting a minor member privately. There are no direct messages in this app, which removes most of the problem, but do not route around it by pulling a young member onto another platform.
No sexual or romantic approaches to anyone. This is a work network. It is not the place, and with 13 year olds present it is a bright line rather than a matter of taste.
Do not ask a member how old they are in order to work out whether a rule applies to you. The answer is that it applies.
If something worries you, report it rather than handling it yourself. Especially if it concerns a young member.
Reporting and blocking
Every post, comment and profile has a Report option. Use it. It is the main way anything reaches us.
You can block another member. Their posts and comments disappear for you, everywhere in the app. They are not told. Blocking hides them from you rather than punishing them, so if they are actually breaking a rule, report them as well.
Blocking and reporting are different. Blocking fixes it for you. Reporting fixes it for everyone. If someone is breaking the rules, report as well as block.
Do not report things you simply disagree with. False reports at volume are themselves a problem and we can see who sends them.
What happens after you report
It reaches the community manager quickly, by notification, not on a weekly sweep.
A human reads it. Not an algorithm, and not a queue that nobody opens.
A decision gets made: nothing, remove the post, or suspend the account.
You get told the outcome, because a reporting system that swallows reports stops being used.
The member actioned gets told too, including which category of rule it concerned. They are never told who reported them.
Posts are not reviewed before they appear. A word filter blocks clearly prohibited terms at the moment of posting, and that is all that happens automatically. Everything else depends on people reporting. So report.
Appealing
If we got it wrong, tell us.
If you were suspended, there is an appeal form linked from the suspension screen. It is a form rather than an email because a form creates a record and does not get buried in an inbox.
If a post was removed but you were not suspended, email community@adolescentcontent.com. Same if the form is down.
Say what happened and why you think the decision was wrong. A real person reads it.
Some things cannot be appealed. Anything sexualising a minor is one of them.
Who runs this
Adolescent staff moderate both networks. They can remove posts, suspend accounts and, rarely, delete content permanently.
Staff are also in the Spaces as members. If you have a question about a brief, a rate or how any of this works, ask in Ask Us on Storyteller or Support on Youthteller. Other members usually answer faster than we do.
For anything private, a payment problem, an account problem, or a problem with another member, email community@adolescentcontent.com rather than posting it.
In short
Be honest about who you are and whose work it is. Argue about the work, not the person. Remember that some of the people reading are 13. Report what you see. Appeal if we got it wrong.
Anything not covered here, ask.
community@adolescentcontent.com
This document covers the Storyteller and Youthteller mobile app. The adolescentcontent.com website has its own terms.
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