Vibe is a campus app. Everyone who posts here verified a school email address. These guidelines sit alongside the Terms of Service. The Terms are the contract. This page is the plain-English version of what we expect.
What Vibe is for
Finding your people on campus. Clubs and orgs posting what they're doing and who they're looking for. Events worth showing up to. Talking to the people in your major, your dorm, your team. Posting the stuff you actually care about, to people who are actually near you.
Counts are public. The Privacy Policy says who can see who did what.
What isn't allowed
None of this belongs on Vibe, in a post, a comment, a club page, an event, a message or a profile:
- Harassment. Going after someone, piling on, or coming back at a person who has asked you to stop.
- Hate. Attacking people for who they are — race, ethnicity, religion, national origin, disability, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation.
- Threats and violence. Threatening anyone, on campus or off, seriously or “as a joke.”
- Sexual content involving minors. Zero tolerance, full stop. There is a separate page for this: Child Safety.
- Intimate images shared without consent. A nude or sexual photo or video of someone who didn't agree to it being shared, including one that's edited or fake. How to get one taken down is below.
- Spam. Bulk posting, engagement farming, bots, scams, phishing links, or dragging people off Vibe to something sketchy.
- Impersonation. Pretending to be another student, a professor, a club you have nothing to do with, or Vibe itself.
- Doxxing. Posting someone's address, phone number, schedule, class location, or anything else meant to help people find them.
- Illegal sales. Drugs, alcohol to minors, weapons, fake IDs, stolen goods, coursework for sale.
A small set of words is blocked before anything is posted. If you see “That includes words that aren't allowed on Vibe. Edit it and try again,” that's the filter, not a person. Edit and post.
How to report
Open the ⋯ menu on the thing you want to report and choose Report. On a club page it's at the bottom of the About panel instead — on a phone, under the About tab. Pick the reason that fits — spam, harassment, sexual content, an intimate image shared without consent, child sexual abuse or exploitation, hate, self-harm, or something else — and add a sentence in your own words if there's context we'd miss. You can report a post, a comment, a message, a chat, a club or a person, and you can block or mute anyone from their profile at the same time.
Reports are not public. The person you report is never told who reported them.
What happens after a report
We aim to review reports within 24 hours; reports of child exploitation or self-harm go first. A report goes straight to the Vibe team and lands in a queue, where a person reads it against these guidelines and the Terms and decides what happens. We look at the reported thing and the account behind it, not just the words in the report. An intimate image shared without consent has its own process and a 48-hour promise: see below.
Depending on what we find, one of these happens:
- Nothing. The report doesn't hold up, and the content stays.
- The content is removed. It comes down: nobody else sees it, and it stops counting toward likes, comments and views. A single photo can also be taken down on its own: a profile photo or cover, the small logos on a profile's experience and working-on entries, a club's logo or banner, or a group chat's photo. The account or club can set a new one.
- The account is suspended. For a set number of days, the only things it can open are the notice explaining the suspension and these legal pages — every other page on Vibe sends it back to that notice, so there's no posting, commenting, messaging or reacting, and no scrolling campus either. Its profile, posts and comments aren't visible to anyone else until the pause ends. Nothing is deleted.
- The account is banned. The same doors close, for good. If a school email was verified on it, that email can't be verified on another account either.
We don't send you a play-by-play of what happened to someone else's account — that's their business, not ours to hand out.
Intimate images shared without consent
If a nude or sexual photo or video of you is on Vibe and you didn't agree to it being shared, including one that's edited or fake, you can ask us to take it down. You don't need a Vibe account to ask, and you can ask for someone else if they've asked you to act for them.
We remove it within 48 hours of a valid request, along with any identical copies of it we find on Vibe. These requests go to the front of the queue.
There are two ways to ask:
- In the app. Open the ⋯ menu on the post, message or profile, choose Report and pick An intimate image shared without consent. If you don't see that choice, pick Sexual content and say in the box that it's an intimate image shared without consent.
- By email, no account needed. Write to help@connectvibe.app with the subject “Intimate image removal.”
A valid request includes four things:
- Your signature, on paper or electronic. Typing your full name at the end of an email counts. If you're asking for someone else, sign with your own name and say who you're acting for.
- Where the image is on Vibe. A link, the handle of the account that posted it, or a description that lets us find it.
- A good-faith statement that the image was shared without the consent of the person in it. For example: “I believe in good faith that this image of me was shared without my consent.”
- How to reach you. An email address works.
A report in the app already tells us where the image is and how to reach you. Put your name and the good-faith statement in the box.
Please don't send us the image itself. A link or a description is enough. If we can't find it from what you sent, we'll write back to ask. If the person in the image is under 18, follow our Child Safety Standards as well. If someone is in immediate danger, call 911 or campus police first.
If we act on your account
If we suspend or ban your account, you'll see a notice when you open Vibe that says what happened, why, and — for a suspension — when it ends. That notice and these legal pages are what you can still reach; every other page sends you back to the notice. You keep the right to read it and the Terms, to sign out, and to delete your account.
Appeals. If you think we got it wrong, email help@connectvibe.app from the address on your account and tell us what we missed. A person reads it. If we made a mistake, we undo it.
Questions
Anything about these guidelines, a report you filed, or a decision we made: help@connectvibe.app.