🤝 Respect Everyone
Every person on dots is here to connect and vibe. Treat people the way you'd want to be treated at a real-world meetup.
NOT OK
Harassment or bullying — targeting, intimidating, or repeatedly bothering someone who doesn't want to engage with you.
NOT OK
Hate speech — language or content that attacks someone based on their race, religion, gender, caste, sexuality, disability, or nationality.
NOT OK
Threats or intimidation — threatening violence, harm, or making someone fear for their safety in any way.
NOT OK
Discrimination — excluding or demeaning others based on who they are.
OK
Disagreeing respectfully, declining a vibe politely, or simply not engaging with someone you don't click with.
💬 Keep Chats Clean
Chats and vibe conversations should feel like real conversations — not a place people dread opening.
NOT OK
Unsolicited explicit content — sending sexual messages, images, or videos to someone without their clear consent.
NOT OK
Spam — sending repeated, irrelevant, or promotional messages to people or inside vibes.
NOT OK
Scamming or misleading people — using chats to deceive, manipulate, or extract money or personal information from others.
NOT OK
Impersonation — pretending to be someone else or creating a fake identity to mislead others.
OK
Planning meetups, sharing locations, sending photos from vibes, and having normal friendly conversations.
📍 Vibes Are Real — Keep Them Honest
Vibes are the core of dots. They work because people trust them to be genuine.
NOT OK
Fake vibes — creating vibes you have no intention of showing up to, or using vibes to lure people under false pretenses.
NOT OK
Commercial or promotional vibes — using vibes to sell products, promote services, or run advertising without authorisation from dots.
NOT OK
Misrepresenting a vibe — describing a vibe as something it isn't to get people to show up.
OK
Creating spontaneous, genuine vibes — even casual, small, or last-minute ones. That's exactly what dots is for.
🔒 Protect Privacy
What happens in a vibe stays in a vibe. People share things in real-time with the expectation of trust.
NOT OK
Sharing someone's personal information — posting or forwarding someone's location, phone number, address, or private details without their consent.
NOT OK
Screenshots of private chats — sharing private conversations outside the app without permission from everyone involved.
NOT OK
Stalking or tracking — using location or vibe information to follow, monitor, or show up uninvited to someone's location.
OK
Sharing your own location and profile information as part of normal vibe participation.
🚫 Zero Tolerance
Some things result in an immediate, permanent ban with no appeal. There are no second chances for these.
- Child sexual abuse material (CSAM) — any sexual content involving minors will be reported to authorities immediately.
- Violence or threats of physical harm — coordinating, inciting, or threatening real-world violence against any person or group.
- Non-consensual intimate imagery — sharing or threatening to share intimate images of someone without their consent.
- Trafficking or exploitation — using dots to facilitate human trafficking, exploitation, or coercion of any kind.
- Terrorism or extremism — promoting, glorifying, or facilitating terrorist organisations or acts of mass violence.
🛡️ Your Safety at Vibes
dots facilitates real-world meetups. Here's how to keep yourself safe and what we expect from everyone.
- Meet in public places for your first vibe with new people.
- Tell someone you trust where you're going.
- Never pressure someone to share their precise location before they're comfortable.
- If something feels off at a vibe — leave. Your safety comes first.
- Report any behaviour at a vibe that made you feel unsafe, even after the fact.
dots is not responsible for what happens at in-person meetups, but we take reports of unsafe behaviour very seriously and will act accordingly.
⚖️ Enforcement
We review reports and take action based on severity and context. Actions we may take include:
⚠️ Warning — for first-time or minor violations.
🔇 Temporary suspension — restricted access to chats or vibe creation.
🚷 Permanent ban — for serious, repeated, or zero-tolerance violations.
🚔 Legal reporting — for content that requires us to involve law enforcement.
We may act on violations we discover ourselves, not only those that are reported. Context always matters — we don't remove content just because it's reported.
🚩 How to Report
If you see something that violates these guidelines — inside a chat, a vibe, or on someone's profile — report it directly in the app. Every report is reviewed by a real person.
You can also reach us directly at:
🔄 Updates to These Guidelines
As dots grows, these guidelines will evolve. We'll update the effective date when changes are made. Continued use of dots means you agree to the current version of these guidelines.