Community Guidelines

Effective 23 September 2026

nuze exists so that anyone with something true and important to say can say it, and readers can hear from the whole spectrum — not one side of it. These guidelines are how we keep that possible. They apply to stories, comments, replies and profiles.

What we're for

  • Reporting. Full-length stories about things that happened, by people who were there or did the work to find out.
  • The whole spectrum. Left, right, centre, local, global. Disagreement is the point. Declare your perspective if you have one; readers can handle it.
  • Corrections. Getting things wrong is human; hiding it isn't. Every edit is public. Use the correction note.

What gets removed

These are the reasons a reader can report something, and what each means to us:

  • Spam or scam — content whose purpose is to sell, redirect or defraud rather than inform; undisclosed paid promotion; bulk or repeated posting.
  • Harassment or bullying — targeting a person to intimidate, humiliate or drive them away. Criticising a public figure's conduct is fine; pile-ons and threats are not.
  • False or misleading information — claims presented as fact that the author knows, or clearly should know, are untrue; fabricated quotes, doctored images, invented sources. Honest mistakes should be corrected, not removed; deliberate deception is removed.
  • Hate speech — attacking people for who they are (race, religion, nationality, sex, sexuality, gender identity, disability). Reporting on hateful groups or events is allowed; promoting them is not.
  • Illegal content — anything unlawful to publish where nuze operates, including content that incites violence, terrorism, child sexual abuse material, or breaches a court order.
  • Copyright — publishing others' text or images without permission. Quote and credit; don't copy. See Copyright & Takedown.
  • Impersonation — pretending to be another person, outlet or organisation. Parody must be obvious.
  • Private information — home addresses, phone numbers, private documents or images of private individuals without consent. Public-interest reporting about public figures is different from exposing private people.

Grey areas

Journalism about war, crime, extremism and abuse involves distressing material. That's allowed when it informs. What we look at is purpose and framing: does the content report on the thing, or celebrate, instruct or incite it? When in doubt, add context and warn readers at the top of the story.

How moderation works

  1. Anyone signed in can report a story, comment or user, with a reason.
  2. nuze staff review reports, oldest first. We look at the content, not who reported it.
  3. Outcomes: no action; content removed; account suspended (signed out, content hidden, until lifted); or account closed for repeated or severe breaches.
  4. You'll be able to see if your content was removed. To appeal, email info [at] nuze [dot] com with a link and we'll re-review it.

Journalists moderate the comments on their own stories and may delete any of them. Any user may block another; blocking hides that person's stories and comments from you and stops them commenting on yours.

Reader ratings and perspectives

The “how one-sided was this?” rating and the declared-perspective labels are transparency tools, not verdicts. Using them to brigade a journalist you dislike, rather than to describe the story, is treated as harassment.