Google Play Community Post: Posting policy

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Posts are meant to be helpful and trustworthy. Posts about content on Google Play is a great way to share helpful feedback and assist other Google Play users with their gameplay.

• Make your post useful and informative. Posts that are questions should be answerable or non-rhetorical.
• Keep it readable.
  • Check the grammar and spelling.
  • Don’t use excessive capitalization and punctuation.
• Be nice to others.

Posting policies of Google Play are below. Posts that are offensive or violate these policies will be removed through a combination of automated and human review. Anyone who repeatedly or egregiously violates the policies may lose the ability to post on Google Play.

Your posts should reflect the experience you've had with the content or service.

• No fake or inaccurate posts.
• Do not post the same content multiple times.
• Do not post the same content from multiple accounts.
• Do not post to mislead or manipulate other users.
• Do not post on behalf of others.
• Do not misrepresent your identity or your connection to the content you're posting about.

Keep posts on-topic and relevant to the content, service, or experience you're posting about.

Do not post:

• Solicitations
• Political or social commentary
• Posts intended for Google Support, such as billing issues, account recovery, app installation problems and other related topics.
• Anything else that’s irrelevant to the content, service, or core of the user experience

We do not allow content that supports, promotes, allows, solicits, or provides instructions on:

• Cheating
• Hacking
• Exploiting bugs and glitches
• Using hacks that weren’t intended by the developers
• Bypassing security protections

To comply with the policies:

• Do not promote or distribute cheats or hacks.
• Do not encourage or glorify cheating.
• Do not post about third-party sites that facilitate cheating.
• Do not report or discuss game bugs that exploit game mechanics.
• Do not post anything that facilitates or provides instructions on how to hack services, software or hardware, or bypass security protections.
• Do not post about game spoilers without warnings.

We want posts to be useful. They aren't useful if they promote something other than the content or service you're posting about.

• Do not post promotional or commercial content for any products or services, which include affiliate or referral-based promotions.
• Do not post phone numbers, email addresses, or links to other websites.

Posts are most valuable when they're genuine and unbiased. They should be written by people who aren't motivated by financial gain.

Do not offer or accept money, products, or services in exchange for posts.

Posts should be your own and reflect your personal opinions.

Do not post anything that infringe on the intellectual property rights of others, including copyright.

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Posts are meant to share experiences. You can express the way you feel about something without revealing sensitive personal information.

• Do not post personal or confidential information, such as physical address or driver's license number.
• Do not post, share, or trade game account credentials.

Your posts must comply with the law and any terms or legal agreements you agreed to.

Your posts must not contain or link to illegal content.

Google Play is intended for a broad audience. Posts should reflect that and must not:

• Contain, promote, or solicit sexually explicit content.
• Depict children in sexual situations or address them in a sexual manner.

Google Play is intended for all people. Your posts should reflect that.

• Do not promote violence, condone violence, incite hatred toward an individual or group based on:
  • Race
  • Nationality
  • Ethnic origin
  • Religion
  • Gender
  • Gender identity
  • Sexual orientation
  • Age
  • Disability
  • Veteran status
  • Any other characteristic that’s associated with systemic discrimination or marginalization

Google Play is meant to entertain and inform, not attack and offend.

• Do not post obscene, profane, or offensive language.
• Do not post to harass, bully, or attack others.