content policy

What we allow, what we don't, and what happens when something crosses the line.

Plain rules, plainly enforced. We won't pretend the system is perfect. We will tell you exactly what happens when you trip a rule.

The verified-maker contract

You can post freely on products you've verified ownership of — through GitHub repo admin, DNS TXT, or package provenance. There are no anti-promo restrictions, no 60-day cooldowns, no karma gates. Verification is the gate.

In exchange: every post you make is a structured ask with required fields. Vague promotional posts get blocked at compose time. The composer pushes back on hype words. The mechanic is structural, not editorial.

The two structural rules

  1. Review-to-Post. To publish a new ask, you must have completed at least one substantive review since your last post. Substantive means the recipient marked it Helpful or Completed. Drive-by "great work!" reviews are logged but don't credit your next post.
  2. Daily-Review → Auto-Distribution. Each day you complete a substantive review, your own currently-active asks get a visibility boost. Contribution buys distribution. Quietly, without virtue signaling.

First-ask exception: your very first ask after verification doesn't require a prior review. Every subsequent ask does.

Same-pair limit.Each pair of makers can credit at most one review per 30 days. If maker A has already used maker B as a credit source in the past month, A's next Helpful from B still stands as honest feedback but won't unlock A's next post. Help someone new — broaden the graph. This prevents two accounts from reciprocally credit-laundering each other.

Daily credit cap.Each recipient can issue at most 2 credit-eligible Helpful or Completed verdicts in any rolling 24-hour window. Beyond that, the verdict still stands as honest feedback — the recipient's assessment isn't erased — but it can't unlock the reviewer's next post. This prevents one popular maker from rubber-stamping a friend ring in an hour.

Review immutability.Reviews cannot be deleted or edited within 30 days of submission. After 30 days, deletion is permitted (e.g. for an accidental PII paste) — but the Helpful/Completed verdict the review earned stays on record. This prevents the attack of "submit review, consume the credit, delete the review to re-use the slot." If you submitted something you genuinely need scrubbed before the window closes, email hello@icantmarket.comand we'll handle it manually.

Banned at submission

The classifier blocks these at the product-submission gate, before your page goes live:

  • crypto Consumer cryptocurrency, token launches, ICOs
  • nft NFT collections, marketplaces, mints
  • defi DEXes, yield protocols, liquidity-mining apps
  • web3-social Lens / Farcaster wrappers
  • dao-tooling Governance + treasury management for token DAOs
  • scam-adjacent Get-rich-quick, MLM, paid-traffic schemes, dropshipping playbooks
  • malware Anything advertising bypass / scrape / spam at scale
  • adult Adult content, gambling, weapons

Developer libraries that integrate with blockchains for non-token purposes are fine. The line is consumer-facing crypto/tokens — not the underlying tech.

Banned in posts

  • Fake testimonials, fabricated metrics, made-up customer logos
  • Hype words detected by the composer (revolutionary, game-changing, 10x, transform, unleash, skyrocket, unlock, disrupt, synergy, leverage, etc.) — flagged at compose time with an override checkbox if you really mean them
  • Posts that don't fill the structured ask fields honestly
  • Copy-pasting the same review across multiple asks
  • Reviewing your own ask, or asking a friend to vote-trade

What happens when you cross a line

We don't shadowban. We don't silently flag-kill. If we take action, you get told what and why.

  • Strike 1. Email with the specific rule + the specific post. No standing change. You can edit, delete, or appeal.
  • Strike 2. 7-day account suspension. Verified products stay visible; new posts blocked.
  • Strike 3. Permanent account ban. Verified products archived. Public log entry.

The famous-name gate

If you claim ownership of a product whose name matches a famous library or service — react, next, lodash, typescript, stripe, supabase, etc. — your verification holds in human review even if the technical check passes. We'd rather make you wait 48 hours than let someone impersonate the upstream.

How to report

Every post and comment has a Report button. We aim for a 24-hour first response during the charter phase. The moderation log is public. We will tell you what was reported, what we found, and what we did.

This policy will change as we learn what abuse actually looks like at scale. Material changes get announced in the weekly digest with 14-day notice. The plain rules above are the spine; the enforcement is the judgment.