Community Guidelines

The short version of our Terms of Service, written like a person instead of a lawyer.

YOGOR only works if reports are true. One bad-faith report undermines every honest one on the site. Here's the standard.

What belongs in a report

• Something that actually happened to you, directly, in a professional transaction. Not something you heard about, not a rumor, not a guess.
• Specifics: dates, amounts, what was agreed, what happened instead. "Didn't pay" is weak. "Agreed to $2,400 for the deck, paid $800, stopped responding after the final walkthrough on 6/12" is a report.
• The facts, not your read on the person's character. Describe what they did, not what you've decided that makes them.

What doesn't

• Anything you're not sure is true. If you're guessing, don't post it.
• Reports filed because someone left you an honest bad review or exercised a legal right — that's retaliation, not reporting.
• Anything motivated by race, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, or gender identity. Doesn't matter how you'd justify it — it's not going up.
• Personal information that has nothing to do with the transaction. Keep it to the business.
• Venting. If you wouldn't say it to their face in a deposition, don't type it here.

The certification isn't a formality

Every report requires you to check a box certifying it's firsthand and true. That's not paperwork — it's the thing that makes this whole site legally defensible instead of a liability. Knowingly false statements about an identifiable person can be defamation, and that exposure is yours personally, not just the account's.

If you're on the other end of a report

You don't need an account to dispute something written about you. Use the dispute link on the report itself, or contact us directly — see the Privacy Policy for how. We review disputes and can remove or label anything that violates these guidelines.

What happens if you break these rules

A report that violates this policy gets removed. Repeated or serious violations get the account banned — verified status doesn't protect you here. We reserve the right to remove anything, for any reason, at our discretion.