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Community Guidelines

Last updated: September 27, 2026

a one-line note: this is the friendly version of our rules. the actual legal terms are in terms-of-service.md — this page is what we actually mean.

1. be real

use your own photos, your own name, your own story. don't pretend to be someone else. don't post someone else's pics as your own. real is the whole point.

2. be kind

you're talking to an actual person having an actual day. disagree if you want, say no if you want, but don't be cruel about it. harassment, threats, and insults get you removed, not warned.

3. no pressure

no means no, the first time. that goes for a chat, a game, a meetup, a photo, anything. asking twice is pushing. pushing gets you reported.

4. no pics without asking

sending someone an unsolicited photo they didn't ask for is not okay, ever. wait for a yes. and remember: chat photos follow whatever disappearing-message setting is on for that conversation, so don't count on anything sticking around, but don't count on it vanishing everywhere either — the other person could always save or screenshot it first.

5. meet in public, first time

coffee shop, café, somewhere with people around. it's not paranoid, it's just smart. save the quiet spot for later, once you actually know each other. and remember: nobody on bored. has their identity checked by us — see the safety tips before you go.

6. disappear whenever you want

one tap, anywhere in the app, and you're off the map — until you turn yourself back on, whenever that is. no explanation needed. no one gets told why. use it whenever something feels off, or even when nothing's wrong and you just want quiet.

7. what gets you banned

  • being under 18 (we check at signup, and we remove these accounts on sight)
  • harassment, threats, hate speech
  • asking for money, or advertising sex work / escort services
  • posting someone else's photo without their ok
  • using bored. to sell something, promote something, or spam someone
  • pretending to be someone you're not
  • messing with poker/blackjack chips (they're not real money — see terms for the full rule)
  • taking screenshots of someone and using them against them

do these things and your account goes, no second warning required.

8. how words get filtered, and how reporting works

we run an automatic word filter on everything posted, at three levels: ordinary swearing is fine everywhere and never logged; sexual slang gets starred out anywhere other people can see it (live area chat, posts, comments, bios) and is logged — your account, the word, and where it was used, never your full message; slurs and threats get starred out everywhere, including DMs, and count as a strike on the account. a photo we remove from Moments for nudity counts as a strike too. three strikes in 30 days — or three reports in 30 days — auto-hides a profile from discovery while we look into it.

see something off? tap report on the profile or the chat, pick a reason, send it. a real person on our team looks at every report — banning or deleting an account is always a person's call, never just the filter. you can also just block — quiet, immediate, they'll never know.

reporting isn't snitching. it's how we keep this place good.

Moments and community posts are public — no nudity or sexual content there, ever. we scan photos automatically: a suggestive photo gets blurred until someone taps through, an explicit one gets removed before most people ever see it and counts as a strike.

never post or send an intimate photo of anyone without their consent, including a photo of yourself that someone else shared without asking you first. if someone has done this to you, report it in the app or write to hello@boredmap.com and we'll act on it.

questions? hello@boredmap.com

(an Arabic version of this page will follow — نسخة عربية قادمة قريبًا.)