This is a draft, written to be consistent with Ripple's locked product rules. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer and should not be treated as final until it has.

Community Guidelines

Ripple exists for one simple thing: one prayer, one stranger, every day. These guidelines exist to protect that — to keep Ripple a safe, honest, genuinely prayerful space for everyone who submits a request or prays for one.

What We're Asking For

If you're submitting a prayer request:

• Share something real. Ripple is for genuine prayer needs — big or small, ordinary or difficult. It's not a place for jokes, tests, spam, or fictional scenarios written as if they were real.
• Write about yourself, not to target, harass, or expose someone else without their knowledge or consent.
• Understand that whoever prays for you will be a real fellow believer, and that what you share will be read and prayed over by a real person.

If you're recording a prayer for someone:

• Pray for the actual request in front of you, in good faith.
• Keep your prayer focused on encouragement and intercession — not judgment, correction, preaching at, or lecturing the person who asked.
• Remember that the person receiving your prayer may be going through something difficult. Kindness and care matter as much as the words themselves.

What's Not Allowed

Regardless of which side of a prayer exchange you're on, the following are never acceptable on Ripple:

• Hate speech, harassment, or abuse directed at any person or group.
• Sexually explicit content.
• Threats of violence or self-harm content presented without care (see "If You're in Crisis" below).
• Content designed to deceive, troll, or test the system rather than reflect a genuine prayer need.
• Sharing someone else's private information without their consent.
• Impersonating another person, or submitting a request or prayer that isn't genuinely your own.
• Anything illegal.

How This Is Enforced

Every prayer request and every recorded prayer passes through an automated, AI-assisted screening step before it's ever added to the matching queue or delivered to anyone. This step is built to catch content that's obviously fake, abusive, or clearly outside these guidelines.

This screening is not a substitute for a human reading every word — it's built to catch genuinely harmful content, not to filter out every difficult or uncomfortable topic. Real prayer requests often touch on real pain: grief, addiction, broken relationships, doubt. That's not a guidelines violation; it's what Ripple is for.

If you submitted a request, you won't be told whether it passed screening, or shown any detail about what happened to it after you submitted it. This is intentional — it protects the privacy of the review process for everyone. If we ever need to communicate with you directly about something you submitted (for example, if it was rejected), that's a decision our admin team makes and acts on manually — it's never automatic.

Reporting Something

If you receive a prayer, or come across a request, that you believe crosses a line, you can flag it directly — both in the app and on our public prayer-listening pages, wherever content is shown to you. Every single flag is reviewed by a real person on our team; none are automatically dismissed. Depending on what we find, we may remove content, warn an account, or suspend it.

If You're in Crisis

Ripple is a place for prayer, not a crisis response service. If you or someone you know is in immediate danger, or is considering self-harm, please contact local emergency services or a crisis line in your area right away. We do not monitor prayer requests in real time, and a request submitted here is not a substitute for reaching out for real, immediate help.

Consequences

Violating these guidelines may result in content being removed, a warning, or suspension or termination of your account — consistent with our Terms of Service. We aim to be fair and to give people the benefit of the doubt, but the safety of everyone using Ripple comes first.