Acceptable use policy

Updated 15 October 2026

Spread the Word exists to help people take part in communities honestly. You must not use it to:

• Pretend to be someone you are not, run sock-puppet accounts, or have several of your personas take part in the same conversation to create a false impression of support.
• Hide a material connection to a product you promote where a platform, community or the law requires disclosure (for example the UK Consumer Protection from Unfair Trading Regulations and the CMA’s guidance on online endorsements).
• Buy, sell, trade or coordinate votes, likes, reviews or other engagement.
• Post spam, the same message in many places, or content that ignores a community’s rules on self-promotion.
• Make false or misleading claims about your product or anyone else’s.
• Harass, threaten or target anyone, or post hateful, sexual or illegal content.
• Evade a ban, suspension or rate limit imposed by a platform or community.
• Scrape or collect personal data beyond what the service fetches to provide its features.
• Try to get around the service’s pacing limits, guardrails or credit limits, or access other users’ data.

Enforcement

We may remove content, pause publishing, or suspend accounts that break this policy. Report misuse to hello@steadycircuit.com.