Community Guidelines

Stranger Talk works when people can talk without being threatened, harassed, deceived or exposed. These guidelines apply across conversations and community spaces.

1. Treat People Like People

You can disagree, joke and have different opinions. Keep your communication respectful. Do not deliberately humiliate, intimidate or repeatedly target another person.

2. No Harassment

Do not send repeated unwanted messages, sexual pressure, insults intended to degrade someone, stalking-like behaviour or coordinated attacks. If someone asks you to stop, respect that boundary.

3. No Threats or Violence

Threats of physical harm, blackmail, extortion or encouragement of violence are not acceptable. Do not use Stranger Talk to plan or facilitate harm.

4. No Hate or Dehumanising Abuse

Do not target people with hateful or degrading conduct based on protected or personal characteristics. Criticism of an idea is different from attacking a person or group with abusive slurs or calls for violence.

5. Protect Minors

Stranger Talk is 18+ only. Sexual content involving minors, grooming, exploitation or attempts to bypass the age requirement are prohibited. If you believe a minor is at risk, report it promptly and contact appropriate authorities when necessary.

6. No Sexual Exploitation

Do not coerce, exploit or pressure another user for sexual images, sexual acts or intimate information. Do not threaten to publish private images or use them for leverage.

7. No Scams or Fraud

Do not ask users for money through deceptive stories, impersonation, fake investments, fake emergencies, fake giveaways or other fraud. Do not request passwords, OTPs, payment credentials or recovery codes.

8. No Spam or Manipulation

Do not flood chats, groups, polls or community spaces with repetitive promotional messages, fake engagement or abusive automation. Product rate limits are not permission to work around them.

9. No Impersonation

Do not pretend to be another user, public figure, organisation, official or employee. A profile name, ST Code or social handle is not proof of identity.

10. No Doxxing

Do not publish another person's address, phone number, workplace, private documents, live location or other sensitive personal information without an appropriate lawful reason and permission where required.

11. Do Not Facilitate Illegal or Dangerous Activity

Do not use Stranger Talk to plan crimes, distribute stolen credentials, facilitate violence or encourage dangerous acts. Do not treat the service as a secure channel for illegal activity.

12. Random Chat

Random Chat is for spontaneous conversations between adults. Keep first conversations comfortable and avoid demanding personal information. Use Next or Leave when you want to move on.

13. Private Chat

Private Chat is restricted by a temporary six-digit code, but “private” does not mean end-to-end encrypted or immune from service-side processing. Share the code carefully and do not use the room to pressure another person.

14. Area Chat

Area Chat uses country, state and city selections. Do not use it to locate, stalk or target someone. Do not ask for an exact home, workplace or live location.

15. Travel Chat

Travel Chat connects people using a selected train. Do not demand another person's seat, coach, ticket, boarding point or live location. Never use travel information to follow or confront another person.

16. Community and Advice Posts

Questions, advice posts, discussions and replies should help rather than harm. Do not publish private information, targeted abuse, threats or deliberately misleading claims designed to cause harm.

17. Groups

Group owners can establish group rules, but group rules cannot override Stranger Talk's safety requirements. Owners and members should remove harmful conduct through the available moderation and reporting process.

18. Polls

Polls should be genuine community questions. Do not use polls to target an individual, encourage harassment, spread dangerous instructions or manipulate participation through abusive automation.

19. Games

Games are for entertainment. Do not turn a game into gambling, payment fraud, harassment or a reason to pressure another user into sharing personal information.

20. User-Generated Content

You are responsible for what you submit. Do not upload or publish content that violates another person's privacy, intellectual-property rights or applicable law. Remember that anything visible to another user can be copied outside Stranger Talk.

21. Reporting

Report content or behaviour that breaks these guidelines. Use a clear reason and do not submit reports simply to retaliate against someone for disagreeing with you. Conversation and public-content reports are stored for moderation.

22. Blocking

Block people who make you uncomfortable or whom you no longer want to interact with. Blocking is a practical safety tool, not a guarantee that a person can never appear anywhere on the internet or in every future product surface.

23. Moderation

Stranger Talk may review reports and relevant service information and may restrict content or access when these guidelines are violated or a safety/security risk exists. Some protections are technical, such as rate limits and server-side checks. The product does not promise that every harmful act will be detected immediately.

24. Consequences

Depending on the circumstances, consequences can include content restriction, temporary suspension, permanent termination or other safety measures. Serious conduct may be escalated where appropriate or legally required.

25. Appeals and Review

The current product does not provide a dedicated appeals dashboard. If you believe a moderation action was wrong, use the Contact page and explain the issue. The operator should establish any formal appeal rights required by applicable law before launch.

26. When Safety Comes First

If a conversation creates an immediate physical danger, do not wait for an online moderation response. Leave the situation if possible, contact someone you trust and use local emergency services when appropriate.

27. The Standard We Want

Ask yourself three questions before sending something: Would I be comfortable receiving it? Could it put another person at risk? Am I sharing something that is not mine to share? If the answer raises concern, do not post it.

28. Give People Room to Leave

A conversation does not create an obligation to keep talking. Do not repeatedly contact someone after they have made it clear that they want to stop. In group and community spaces, do not follow a person from one thread into another simply to continue an argument.

29. Do Not Weaponise Personal Information

If another person accidentally shares a phone number, address, workplace detail or other identifying information, do not repost it, use it to contact them elsewhere or encourage others to use it. The fact that information appears in a conversation does not make it yours to distribute.

30. Avoid Coordinated Abuse

Do not organise friends or outside communities to mass-report, attack or intimidate a Stranger Talk user. Genuine reporting is welcome; coordinated retaliation is not. If you believe content is harmful, report the specific behaviour and allow the moderation process to review it.

31. Keep Advice Responsible

Advice posts can involve sensitive subjects. Offer practical, respectful suggestions without pretending to be a professional you are not. Do not encourage self-harm, violence, dangerous challenges, illegal activity or retaliation against another person. When a situation involves immediate danger, encourage the person to seek appropriate local help.

32. Respect Group Owners and Members

Group owners may set reasonable topic and participation rules. Members should follow them while they are using the group, provided those rules do not conflict with Stranger Talk's platform rules. Owners should not use group controls to facilitate harassment, discrimination, scams or privacy violations.

33. What Good Participation Looks Like

Good participation is simple: introduce yourself without oversharing, listen, disagree without attacking, do not pressure people for personal information, and leave conversations that are no longer useful. If you make a mistake, correct it rather than escalating it.

For practical protection tips, read Safety Center. For data practices, read Privacy Policy. For the service-wide rules, read Terms & Conditions.