Viral Vitalism

Policies & legal

Community Guidelines

Plain-language terms and policies for using Viral Vitalism.

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Viral Vitalism is built for curiosity, skepticism, humor, and useful health discussion.

If we enable comments, forums, groups, submissions, or community features, these guidelines apply.

Be useful

Add signal.

Ask good questions.

Share context.

Challenge claims.

Bring receipts.

Humor is welcome, but low-effort noise, spam, and bad-faith posting may be removed.

No medical instructions for strangers

Do not tell other users to start, stop, dose, inject, combine, or avoid medications, supplements, peptides, hormones, research chemicals, or treatments.

General discussion is allowed.

Personalized medical instructions are not.

No dangerous health claims or scams

Do not promote:

  • Miracle cures
  • Fake treatments
  • Unverified medical products
  • Counterfeit drugs
  • Illegal sources
  • Unsafe protocols
  • Deceptive health claims
  • Guaranteed results
  • Medical claims without meaningful support

No harassment or hate

Do not post threats, harassment, stalking, doxxing, hate speech, targeted abuse, or dehumanizing attacks.

Criticize ideas, claims, products, and arguments.

Do not attack people in ways that make the community worse.

No private medical data

Do not post private medical records, lab reports, prescriptions, genetic files, personally identifiable health information, or another person’s private information.

If you want to discuss a general health topic, keep it general and remove identifying details.

Disclose conflicts

If you are connected to a product, clinic, company, sponsor, service, study, or topic being discussed, disclose the relationship.

That includes employment, consulting, ownership, referral fees, affiliate relationships, free products, sponsorships, or other compensation.

No spam

Do not use Viral Vitalism community features to spam links, promote low-quality offers, farm traffic, impersonate others, or repeatedly post the same content.

Moderation

We may remove content, restrict users, close threads, or ban accounts at our discretion.

We may preserve records where needed for safety, legal, moderation, or operational reasons.

Contact

Questions about community moderation can be sent through our Contact page.