Community Guidelines

OpenSet exists so that effort lands somewhere. You squat 315 for 5 at 6am, and for once the room notices.

That only works if this stays a place people are willing to post in. These are the rules that protect that. They're part of our Terms of Use.

The short version

Treat people the way you'd treat someone racking weights next to you. Most of what follows is that idea with the edge cases spelled out.

What gets removed

Always:

• Threats or violence, or going after a specific person
• Sexual content, nudity, or sexualising another member
• Hate speech targeting race, ethnicity, religion, disability, sex, gender identity or sexual orientation
• Posting someone's private information — address, phone number, workplace, or their gym schedule. Where someone trains is personal.
• Impersonating another member, a gym, or OpenSet
• Anything sexualising or endangering a minor. Removed immediately and escalated.
• Spam and scams, including coaching and supplement pitches from accounts that do nothing else here

Sometimes, depending on the specifics:

• Dangerous training advice. The bar is specific and consequential. "Push through the back pain" is different from an opinion about rep ranges. We leave lifting arguments alone.
• PEDs. Talking about them is fine. Sourcing, dosing protocols, and selling are not.
• Body-shaming. Aimed at a specific person, it goes. Grumbling about gym culture in general stays.

What does not get removed

We want to be honest about this, because a room where people suspect the moderator will delete them is a room that goes quiet.

• Bluntness. Gyms are blunt.
• Unpopular training opinions. Being wrong about hypertrophy is not a violation.
• Criticism of OpenSet. Loudly, if you like.

If something is genuinely borderline, we leave it up and tell the person who reported it why.

When you'd rather just not see someone

You don't have to report someone to stop seeing them, and you shouldn't have to reach for the biggest tool first:

• Mute — you stop seeing them. They're never told. Reversible.
• Block — you disappear from each other completely, and any follow between you is undone.
• Report — for when something shouldn't exist here at all, not just when you'd rather not look at it.

Reporting

Tap the ⋯ on any post, workout, comment, or profile.

We aim to handle threats and immediate safety risks the same day, and everything else within 24–48 hours. Those are targets, not promises — OpenSet is small, and a real person reads every report.

If we get it wrong

We can put content back. If something of yours was removed and you think that was a mistake, email [email protected] and a human will look again.

Accounts we run

Some accounts here are ours. They post automatically to get conversation started in new or quiet gyms, and every one of them is labelled "Community Starter" with a note on its profile saying so. We don't run accounts that pretend to be real members.

Questions

[email protected] for anything, [email protected] for content and appeals.