Community guidelines

• Has a specific reason for reaching this receiver.
• Names what is being asked.
• Does not include explicit sexual solicitation or harassment.
• Is not a copy-pasted template sent to many receivers.

• Accept and reply: a substantive answer to what was asked.
• Decline politely: a short, human acknowledgement.
• Refund: chosen instead of an answer; the sender is made whole.
• Report: only for Oaths that violate these guidelines.

• Sexual solicitation, explicit requests for transactional intimacy.
• Threats, doxing, harassment.
• Spam, bulk-sent messages, scripts.
• Off-topic Oaths in categories the receiver doesn’t accept.
• False reports made to extract refunds.

Senders are refunded automatically when a deadline passes. Senders can be refunded for valid reports of receiver violations. Receivers who are repeatedly reported lose payout privileges and may be removed.

Your answer rate, response time, and report rate combine into a trust score that affects whether senders see you as a reliable inbox. Trust score is visible on your public page.

Oath does not read messages by default. Reported Oaths are reviewed by a small team for the limited purpose of resolving the report.