Community Guidelines
Last updated July 14, 2026
Obillerate lets signed-in members rate and comment on elected officials. Holding representatives accountable means you can be blunt — but it's not a license to abuse people. These guidelines keep the conversation about the public record.
This is welcome
- Sharp criticism of a legislator's votes, bills, positions, and public record.
- Strong opinions — that they're wrong, out of touch, hypocritical, or bought by donors.
- Disagreement, debate, sarcasm, and calls to vote someone out.
- Facts, sources, and receipts.
This gets removed
- Profanity and vulgar language — including disguised or oddly-spelled attempts to sneak it past.
- Slurs and hate targeting race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.
- Harassment and personal attacks about someone's appearance, family, or private life — as opposed to their record.
- Threats or calls for violence against anyone.
- Sexual content or sexualizing a person.
- Doxxing — posting private personal information (home address, phone, etc.).
- Spam, ads, scams, and off-topic links.
How moderation works
Profanity is blocked instantly. If your comment contains profanity — however you spell it — it won't post, and you'll be asked to rephrase.
Every other comment is reviewed before it appears. An automated moderator reads each comment — usually within a few seconds — and it only becomes visible to others once it passes. You can see your own comment the whole time (marked "checking"); if it doesn't pass, only you see it, with the reason.
Members can report comments. Enough reports hide a comment pending review. You can delete your own comments at any time.
A note on responsibility
Ratings and comments are the opinions of individual members, not of Obillerate. You are responsible for what you post. We may remove content or suspend accounts that break these guidelines or our Terms of Use. Moderation is best-effort and imperfect; content being live does not mean we endorse it.