Community Guidelines
Welcome to todays.design, the place where designers share and celebrate design, every day. We're thrilled to have you join our large and diverse global community of designers and tech enthusiasts. To ensure everyone has a fantastic experience, we've put together some friendly guidelines for you to keep in mind.
About the Community
Our definition of "designer-friendly content" is broad, and we let the community decide by voting on posts. todays.design values open participation and supports inclusion within the community.
Be Respectful and Act Professionally
- Critiques happen, but please avoid insulting anyone.
- Treat others the way you want to be treated.
- Make your comments or feedback thoughtful.
- Disagreements happen, but try not to take things personally.
- Show your support for a post or comment with an upvote.
Unacceptable Content
Before you post or provide feedback, ask yourself if you would say the same thing to the person's face. Content is prohibited and subject to moderation if it falls into any of the following categories:
- Illegal
- Racist, sexist, or discriminatory
- Harassment or unfair treatment of any sort
- Spam (defined as such per moderators' discretion)
- Pornographic, mature in nature, or overly obscene
- Content deliberately attempting to start a flame war
- Impersonates someone in a misleading or deceptive manner
- Inflammatory, offensive, or demeaning material that is NSFW
Unwelcome Posts
We realize there is a bit of gray area regarding both appropriate and beneficial content. The following types of posts are frowned upon and subject to moderation:
- Requests or offers for invites
- Anything overly advertorial in nature
- List-format articles, especially those intended for SEO purposes
- Excessive self-promotion, including posting to the same URL multiple times in a given timeframe or exclusively to the same domain
Inappropriate Activity
Certain activities are prohibited and subject to moderation if they fall into any of the following categories:
- Asking for upvotes
- Attempting to game the story rankings algorithm
- Registering multiple accounts or dummy accounts
- Using a URL shortener to hide the destination URL
- Posting a URL as part of your name or business title
- Voting rings, either among friends, within a company, or using dummy accounts
- Any attempt to break todays.design or anything that interferes with normal usage
- Bullying of any sort, including threats, harassment, or encouraging others to do so
- Attempting to use todays.design to publicly shame or embarrass users or otherwise
- Using inflammatory, misleading, or click-bait headlines on otherwise acceptable content
Moderation and Enforcement
We enforce the guidelines in a variety of ways, with different levels of moderation—some manual, some automated. If a post, comment, or user violates the letter or spirit of these guidelines, the following actions may occur:
- Sinking posts
- Editing content
- Removing content
- Banning accounts
- Removal of accounts
- Contacting users directly (via comments or email)
Designers
To maintain high-quality content, only designers are allowed to showcase their work. If you are not a designer, you can still participate in discussions, but you will not be able to post your work. Every designer starts with 3 invites, which they can use to invite other designers to the community.