Community Guidelines

6rat.com is built on honest, real-experience reviews on a 1–6 scale. These guidelines explain what we allow, what we don’t, and how moderation works. Reviews that break these rules can be rejected or removed.

1. Real experiences only

• Write about something you actually used, visited, watched, read, or otherwise experienced first-hand.
• For public figures, creators, or media: review their public work, not their private life.
• No second-hand reviews based on what a friend told you.

2. No fake or AI-generated reviews

• Don’t paste AI-generated text as your review. AI-shaped content is auto-flagged.
• Don’t copy reviews from other platforms.
• Don’t run review trades, swap groups, or pay/incentivise others to leave reviews.

3. Disclose your relationship

Every review asks: Do you own, work for, or have a commercial relationship with this listing?

• Independent — you have no connection to the listing.
• Owner or employee — you work for or run the listing. These are sent to moderation and labelled publicly.
• Commercial relationship or affiliate — you’re paid, sponsored, affiliated, or have a financial interest. Same: moderated and labelled.
• Prefer not to say — treated cautiously.

Missing or false disclosure is one of the fastest ways for a review to be rejected.

4. The 1–6 scale

6rat uses 1–6 on purpose: there’s no neutral “3 out of 5” bucket. Pick the number that actually reflects your experience.

• 1 – terrible
• 2 – poor
• 3 – below average
• 4 – above average
• 5 – very good
• 6 – excellent

5. No private personal data

• Don’t include real names, phone numbers, addresses, emails, or other identifying information of staff or customers.
• Don’t post screenshots of private chats, invoices, or receipts that contain personal details.

6. No threats, abuse, or hate

• No insults aimed at people personally (vs. discussing the product/service).
• No threats, harassment, doxxing, or calls for harm.
• No slurs or attacks based on protected characteristics.

7. Stay on topic

• Review the listing in front of you. Don’t use a review to advertise a competitor, your own business, or unrelated content.
• Duplicate reviews of the same listing get removed.

8. How moderation works

• Reviews are screened automatically and by humans. Some are approved instantly; others are held for review.
• When a review is rejected, you get a notification with a public-safe reason code (no internal notes are exposed).
• If you think the rejection was wrong, you can submit a re-review request from your dashboard. Each rejected review can be appealed once.
• Some categories (spam, personal attacks) are not appealable.

9. Business owners

• Claim your listing to respond to reviews publicly. Owner responses are labelled clearly.
• Don’t ask only happy customers for reviews. Don’t pre-promise a rating in your request copy. Don’t offer discounts or gifts in exchange for positive reviews.
• Use the official Review Request link or QR code — never paste a pre-filled positive rating.

10. Reporting and appeals

If a review breaks these guidelines, use the Report button on that review. Reports go to moderation. You can also appeal your own rejected reviews from your dashboard.

These guidelines are part of the platform’s Terms of Service.