Community guidelines

What's welcome

• Original poems — yours, or composed with Melos's AI assistance.
• Honest, varied voices, including difficult and dark themes handled with care.
• Generous reading: grade thoughtfully, duet kindly.

Not allowed in published or shared content

• Harassment, bullying, or threats toward any person or group.
• Hate speech that attacks or demeans people based on race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability, or similar.
• Sexual content involving minors — never, under any circumstances.
• Pornographic or gratuitously explicit sexual content.
• Incitement to violence or promotion of self-harm.
• Verbatim copyrighted text you don't have the right to publish, or passing another poet's work off as your own.
• Impersonation of a real person, or claiming AI output imitates a named living artist's style.
• Spam, scams, or off-topic promotion.

Private drafts are yours. These rules apply to what you publish or share with others (gallery, leaderboard, duets, poem cards).

AI-assisted writing

Melos helps you compose. Generated poems are AI-assisted and must not claim to reproduce or imitate a specific named artist. You're responsible for what you choose to publish.

Reporting and blocking

• Report any published poem that breaks these guidelines — it goes to moderation triage.
• Block any poet — you won't see each other's poems or profiles, and you can't be drawn into a duet together.
• Upheld reports result in the content being removed from the gallery.

Enforcement

Published content passes a safety check before it reaches anyone — the gate fails closed, so if safety can't run, the poem isn't published. Violations may lead to content removal and, for repeat or severe abuse, account action. Crisis-related content is handled with care, not punishment: your words are kept and support resources are surfaced.

Eligibility

Melos is for people 13 and older.