Public content policy

This is the house rule set for It’s So Wrong. It is not a Terms of Service written by a lawyer, and it is not legal advice. It is what the desk will and will not put on a page.

What a story is

A story is a staff-edited piece about a claim, object, or company practice. Every story in the river has a title, a category, a short “what looks wrong,” a “what’s actually going on,” a vote widget, and a source link when the claim is about a real public practice. If we cannot source it, we label it a composite or example on the page.

Hard no

No real death, accident, war, crime-scene, or gore footage.
No votes on people for who they are. No group-targeting questions.
No slurs in site copy, category names, or vote labels.
No photographing strangers for mockery.
No home addresses, workplaces, school names, license plates, or “find this person.”
No kids as subjects. No accounts aimed at children under 13.
No raw, unreviewed user posts next to any future ad code.

Submissions, when they exist

Tips go to the desk. They do not auto-publish. We will not run a photo we do not have rights to. The person who pressed the shutter owns the photo. A valid DMCA notice will be honored. We will not name a private customer to make a company look bad when a public filing will do.

Comments and votes

Version 1 has no public comments. A vote is stored in this browser only, under a key that starts with isw-vote:. One vote per story per browser. We do not collect it, we do not send it, and we do not show a tally. Clear site data in the browser to wipe it. If comments ever ship, they will sit in a queue and will not carry ad code until they are reviewed. Google treats user comments on an ad page as the publisher’s content.

Corrections

We quote the public record. If a line is wrong, email desk@itsowrong.com with the page and the source. We will correct the page. A settlement is not always an admission of wrongdoing.

Defamation and opinion

If staff write “X is a scam” as fact about a named person, that is our speech. We stick to documented company practices, public filings, and labeled opinion. A settlement is not always an admission of wrongdoing. We say that on the story.

Report

Every story has a report link. Use it for a factual error, a rights problem, or a page that wandered into the hard-no list. Email desk@itsowrong.com.

There is no ad code on this build. If ads ever exist, they will not run on After Dark, on an unreviewed queue, or on a page that cannot be defended as brand-safe.