Safety & Reporting.

1. Purpose of this Safety & Reporting page

SleepSpill is built for sharing dreams, memories, thoughts, and reactions in a community setting. Some dreams may be strange, emotional, dark, confusing, frightening, or personal. That does not automatically make them a rule violation. However, content or behavior may cross a line when it becomes abusive, exploitative, threatening, targeted, unsafe, illegal, spammy, or disruptive.

This page explains when to report content, what information helps SleepSpill review a report, what SleepSpill may do after a report, and what users can do to protect themselves.

2. SleepSpill is not an emergency service

SleepSpill cannot provide emergency help, crisis response, mental-health treatment, law enforcement response, medical care, legal advice, or real-time intervention. Reports may not be reviewed immediately.

If someone may be in immediate danger, contact emergency services, local authorities, a trusted person nearby, or a crisis resource in your area. Do not wait for a SleepSpill report review if there is an urgent safety risk.

3. Minimum age and youth safety

SleepSpill accounts are intended for users who are at least 16 years old. Date of birth may be collected during registration for age eligibility and is not meant to be publicly displayed. Locked birthday information helps reduce age-related abuse and helps SleepSpill enforce eligibility rules.

Users may not lie about age, pressure younger users to join, help users evade age rules, or use SleepSpill to contact, groom, exploit, sexualize, or manipulate minors. Sexual content involving minors, real or fictional, is not allowed under any circumstance.

4. When to report something

You should report dreams, comments, profiles, usernames, display names, avatars, links, or behavior if it appears to involve:

• Harassment, threats, stalking, intimidation, bullying, or targeted abuse.
• Repeated unwanted contact through comments, follows, profile activity, or other site behavior.
• Self-harm encouragement, suicide encouragement, dangerous instructions, or content that appears to create immediate safety risk.
• Threats of violence, threats against a person, or content encouraging violence.
• Sexual exploitation, grooming, sexual solicitation, or sexual content involving minors.
• Explicit sexual content, adult roleplay, sexual solicitation, or pornographic material.
• Doxxing or private personal information shared without permission.
• Impersonation of another user, staff member, organization, public figure, or brand.
• Scams, phishing, malware, fake login pages, suspicious links, or attempts to steal account information.
• Hate, slurs, dehumanizing attacks, or targeted hostility toward protected or personal characteristics.
• Spam, bot activity, fake engagement, fake reports, or attempts to manipulate likes, follows, comments, or recommendations.
• Attempts to evade moderation, suspensions, bans, rate limits, or safety restrictions.
• Content that appears illegal, exploitative, abusive, or dangerous.

5. What may not require a report

SleepSpill allows users to share unusual, scary, emotional, symbolic, unsettling, or intense dreams. A dream may be disturbing without violating the rules.

Examples that may not require moderation by themselves include:

• A nightmare that is frightening but not targeted at a real person.
• A user asking what a strange dream might mean.
• A dream involving fictional fear, sadness, confusion, or symbolic imagery.
• A respectful disagreement about dream interpretation.
• A user posting frequently, as long as they are not spamming or abusing features.

If the content becomes graphic, targeted, threatening, exploitative, sexualized, hateful, or unsafe, report it.

6. Where reports can come from

Safety concerns may involve many areas of SleepSpill, including:

• Dream posts.
• Comments and replies.
• User profiles, profile bios, avatars, usernames, or display names.
• Follower and following behavior.
• Repeated likes, follows, unfollows, comments, or attempts to get attention.
• Notifications created by another user’s activity.
• Links shared in posts, comments, profiles, or other user-controlled areas.
• Attempts to impersonate staff or mislead users about official SleepSpill actions.

7. How to report content

SleepSpill may include built-in report buttons on dreams, comments, or other areas. Use those tools when available because they can include helpful context such as the post or comment being reported.

8. What makes a helpful report

A helpful report usually includes:

• The link to the dream, comment, profile, or page involved.
• The username and display name of the user involved.
• What happened and why it is concerning.
• Whether the issue is ongoing, repeated, or immediate.
• Screenshots, timestamps, copied text, or other context if available.
• Whether the user has contacted you repeatedly or moved across posts/profiles to keep interacting.
• Whether the content involves self-harm, threats, minors, private information, scams, or illegal activity.

Do not include passwords, private security codes, payment information, or unnecessary sensitive information in a report.

9. What happens after a report

SleepSpill may review the reported content, surrounding context, account history, related comments, related reports, profile details, follow activity, public posts, moderation history, and available technical signals.

Depending on the situation, SleepSpill may take no action, remove content, hide content temporarily, limit visibility, restrict features, issue warnings, suspend accounts, delete accounts, preserve records, or take other moderation action.

Reports do not guarantee a specific result. Some content may be unpleasant or upsetting without violating rules. Other content may require immediate restriction even before a full review is complete.

10. Temporary hiding or limiting during review

SleepSpill may temporarily hide, limit, or restrict content or accounts during review if something appears unsafe, exploitative, harassing, spammy, illegal, or likely to escalate. Temporary action does not always mean a final decision has been made.

11. Self-harm, suicide, and crisis-related content

SleepSpill may remove or restrict content that encourages self-harm, suicide, eating-disorder behavior, abuse, violence, or dangerous conduct. SleepSpill may also restrict content that gives instructions for harm or pressures another user toward harm.

If a post or comment makes you believe someone is in immediate danger, contact emergency services or a local crisis resource. SleepSpill reports are not a substitute for emergency help.

12. Harassment and repeated contact

Harassment can involve one serious action or a repeated pattern of smaller actions. If someone repeatedly comments, follows, unfollows, likes, references your dreams, targets your profile, creates new accounts, or contacts you after being told to stop, include that pattern in your report.

SleepSpill may consider repeated behavior, account history, context, intent, impact, and attempts to evade restrictions when reviewing harassment reports.

13. Sexual content, exploitation, and minors

Sexual exploitation, grooming, sexual solicitation, adult sexual roleplay, pornography, and sexual content involving minors are not allowed on SleepSpill. This includes attempts to move users off-platform for sexual conversations, pressure users into sharing sexual content, or exploit vulnerable users.

SleepSpill may remove content, restrict accounts, suspend users, preserve records, and report information when required or appropriate.

14. Privacy, doxxing, and personal information

Report posts, comments, profiles, images, or links that share private personal information without permission. This can include addresses, phone numbers, private emails, legal names, workplace details, school details, private accounts, financial information, medical information, government IDs, or identifying information used to target someone.

Users should be careful when posting dreams involving real people. Avoid sharing details that could identify someone without their consent.

15. Impersonation, scams, phishing, and suspicious links

SleepSpill users may not impersonate staff, pretend to be official support, trick users into sharing passwords, link to fake login pages, or send suspicious files or links. If something claims to be official SleepSpill support but does not come through SleepSpill’s official channels, treat it carefully and report it.

SleepSpill will never ask for your password by comment, public post, or unofficial message.

16. Spam, bots, rate limits, and abuse prevention

SleepSpill may use rate limits and other abuse-prevention controls to reduce spam, automated activity, brute-force login attempts, fake engagement, report abuse, and repeated unwanted actions.

Actions such as registration, login, password reset, verification email resend, dream posting, dream editing, dream deleting, commenting, comment editing, liking, following, reporting, and profile updates may be limited or temporarily blocked if activity appears excessive or abusive.

Trying to bypass rate limits, security checks, moderation actions, or account restrictions may result in account suspension, deletion, or access blocks.

17. False, abusive, or retaliatory reports

Reports should be made in good faith. Repeated false reports, retaliatory reports, spam reports, misleading reports, or reports used to harass another user may lead to moderation action against the reporter.

Disagreeing with someone, disliking a dream, or being annoyed by normal community activity is not enough by itself to abuse the report system.

18. Appeals

If your content or account was moderated and you believe it was a mistake, contact support with your username, the action taken, the content involved, and a clear explanation. Appeals should be respectful, specific, and honest.

Threats, abuse, spam, evasion, or repeated duplicate appeals may be ignored or restricted. SleepSpill is not required to reverse a decision simply because an appeal was submitted.

19. What SleepSpill may do for safety

SleepSpill may take actions such as:

• Remove or hide dreams, comments, profile bios, avatars, display names, usernames, or links.
• Limit commenting, posting, editing, deleting, likes, follows, reports, profile updates, or notifications.
• Temporarily hide content while it is reviewed.
• Issue warnings or ask users to change behavior.
• Restrict, suspend, disable, or delete accounts.
• Block or limit access from abusive traffic patterns.
• Preserve records for safety, moderation, legal, or abuse-prevention purposes.
• Report serious threats, exploitation, illegal content, or urgent safety issues when required or appropriate.

20. What SleepSpill may not do

SleepSpill may not be able to investigate every report fully, identify anonymous users outside the platform, recover deleted information, stop someone from taking screenshots, remove copies posted elsewhere, provide emergency intervention, or guarantee a specific moderation outcome.

SleepSpill can review and act within the tools and information reasonably available to the platform.

21. Safety tips for users

• Do not post your address, phone number, private email, school, workplace, schedule, or financial information.
• Be careful posting dreams that identify real people without consent.
• Do not share passwords, verification codes, reset links, or private account details.
• Do not click suspicious links or download files from users you do not trust.
• Use report tools or contact support if someone is targeting you.
• Keep screenshots and links if you need to report repeated behavior.
• Trust your gut if an interaction feels manipulative, sexualized, threatening, or unsafe.
• Step away from upsetting content when needed. SleepSpill should not replace real-world support.

22. Contact for safety concerns

Safety concerns can be sent to support@sleepspill.com.

For urgent danger, contact emergency services or a local crisis resource first.