Make the signal stronger than the hype.

Three principles

What makes a useful user review

State the product or plan, approximate period of use, important setup details and the jobs you expected it to perform. Explain specific strengths and failures. Separate a product problem from delivery, seller or support issues where possible. A critical review is welcome when it is honest and relevant.

Do not present speculation as observed fact. Claims about security incidents, illegal conduct, health effects or another person require particular care and credible support. Correct a material mistake rather than silently repeating it.

Reviews may be labelled Verified interaction only where DopeTech has a defined verification signal. That label confirms the specified interaction—not identity, truthfulness or universal product quality.

Relationships and incentives

Add a clear disclosure if you:

• work for, advise, invest in or compete with the company;
• received the product, credit, discount, event access, entry in a draw or any reward connected to the review;
• are posting for an agency, client, family member or business partner;
• use an affiliate or referral link, or could benefit from leads generated by the post.

A disclosure must be understandable to an ordinary reader; a profile biography or vague tag is not always enough. Incentivised reviews may be allowed when disclosed and genuinely written, but an incentive contingent on positivity is not.

Rating and engagement integrity

Do not buy, sell, trade or coordinate reviews, votes, saves, follows or reports. One person or organisation must not use multiple accounts to amplify a position. Bot activity, review farms, undisclosed employee campaigns, selective rewards for positive ratings and threats tied to review removal are prohibited.

DopeTech may rate-limit activity, request contextual verification, exclude suspicious signals from aggregates, add an integrity label, lock a thread or remove content. Anti-abuse methods may not be fully described because doing so would make evasion easier.

Safety, respect and legality

Disagreement is part of credible review culture. Harassment is not. Do not post threats, targeted abuse, hateful or dehumanising content, sexual exploitation, instructions intended to cause imminent harm, fraud, malware, doxxing or unlawful material. Do not repeatedly contact someone who has clearly asked you to stop.

Safety warnings and responsible technical criticism are allowed. Vulnerability details that could place users at risk belong in the coordinated security process, not a public comment.

Copyright, privacy and generated content

Upload only media you can lawfully share. Quote the minimum needed, attribute sources and do not copy an entire review from another site. Remove serial numbers, addresses, faces, account screens and other personal or confidential information unless you have a lawful reason and permission to publish it.

AI tools can assist with spelling, translation or structure, but you remain responsible for the submission. Do not use generated content to fabricate product experience, evidence, people, quotations or volume. Material synthetic images, audio and passages must be disclosed when readers could mistake them for authentic first-hand evidence.

Companies, vendors and agencies

Company representatives are welcome to answer questions, correct verifiable facts and explain solutions using a clearly identified role. They may not impersonate customers, pressure reviewers, expose customer details, mass-message members or condition support on changing a genuine review.

A vendor can flag a policy breach or provide a public response. It cannot purchase removal of criticism. Legal demands and evidence-preservation requests should be sent to legal@dopetech.au, not used to intimidate community members.

How moderation works

Depending on severity, confidence, history and risk, moderation may include a prompt to edit, disclosure label, reduced distribution, aggregate exclusion, content removal, feature restriction, temporary suspension or account closure. Urgent safety, legal and security risks may be handled without advance notice.

Moderators consider content and context, not whether an opinion is popular or agrees with an editorial verdict. Automated tools may prioritise review but should not be treated as infallible. Some action details may be withheld to protect reporters, privacy, security or abuse detection.

Reports and appeals

Use an in-product report function when available, or email community@dopetech.au with the URL, rule involved and relevant context. Do not organise mass reports.

If your content or account is actioned, one good-faith appeal can explain the error, missing context or corrective change. Appeals are reviewed without promising reinstatement. Repeated appeals with no new information, retaliation against reporters and attempts to evade a restriction can lead to further action.