In this article:
Overview
Skillshare is first and foremost an educational community centered on skill-building. Our spirit is educational, instructional, engaging, and demonstrative. We aim to create a space where students and teachers can flex their creative muscles, engage genuinely with others, and share their work safely. These Community Guidelines outline the activities and behaviors we encourage, as well as what we don’t allow.
Keep in mind:
- Our Community Guidelines apply to all parts of our site (including but not limited to classes, class discussions, projects, project comments, reviews, groups, workshops, or the Creative Feed) and all users of our site (users on a free trial, students/members, and teachers). By agreeing to our Terms of Use, you also agree to these guidelines.
- Teachers should also be aware of our Skillshare Content Guidelines and Additional Rules on Teaching in terms of what we don’t allow.
- There's a real person behind each Skillshare profile and support email. Skillshare does not tolerate harassment, abuse, bullying, or intimidation of any kind. Likewise, community spaces are not the place to dispute transactions, provide site-related feedback, or report technical issues. Instead, contact our Support team at help@skillshare.com or teach@skillshare.com for assistance, and we’ll help you out right away.
- Failure to follow these Guidelines may result in strikes recorded to your Skillshare account, removal of content, or account deletion. Moderators may remove content that violates these Guidelines.
- This is a non-exhaustive list. Content not explicitly mentioned in our Guidelines does not indicate that it is allowed on the platform, nor does reporting a violation guarantee its removal, only that it will be reviewed for policy violations by our team.
What We Encourage as a Community
Our teachers and students — the community — are the pulse of Skillshare. When interacting on the platform, whether with another student, a teacher, or a member of our team, we encourage you to:
- Share meaningful, non-repetitive content.
- Keep criticism constructive and respectful.
- Stay on topic in discussions.
- Direct questions about payments, feedback, or technical issues to our support teams at help@skillshare.com or teach@skillshare.com.
- Focus on engaging with others’ work rather than promoting your own classes.
Prohibited Content and Activities
We don’t allow any of the following on Skillshare:
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Harassment, hate speech, and explicit or illegal content, which includes:
- Content that is inappropriate, offensive, hateful, contains objectionable language, or that promotes stereotypes of individuals or groups based on race, gender, religion, age, nationality, political affiliation or sexual orientation.
- Explicit or violent content.
- Content that makes reference to weapons, as well as activities that can be considered dangerous or that have the potential to lead to physical harm.
- Content that promotes an illegal activity.
- Posting disrespectfully or repetitively.
- Uploading content or communicating with our teams in a manner that promotes, threatens, or glorifies suicide, self-harm, or self-injury. When we receive reports that someone is threatening suicide or self-harm, we may take a number of steps to help, including providing the at-risk person with contact information for trained crisis counselors. We will contact emergency services if we identify someone is at immediate risk of harming themselves.
- Activities that reveal personal or identifying information about another user.
- Downloading classes from Skillshare and posting them elsewhere.
- Uploading content that you did not create, including Master Resale Rights and purchased content.
- Uploading content that promotes dubious business schemes or promises a specific outcome to students.
- Impersonating a teacher on Skillshare or from another platform.
- Engaging in fraudulent or misleading referral or class review activity, including but not limited to using multiple identities, email addresses or Skillshare accounts; providing false or misleading information; or attempting to "game" the trending algorithm.
- Manipulating metrics surrounding engagement (manipulating or faking referrals or minutes watched).
- Content that is untargeted, unwanted, repetitive, or overly self-promotional.
- Using your profile or any community space primarily as a proxy to other websites, services, or competitors.
- Posting content that is off-topic or non-constructive, including external links or self-promotion unrelated to classes, learning, or constructive discussion
Any violations to our Community Guidelines can be reported here: Reporting a Violation.