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Eater Community Guidelines

Eater Community Guidelines

Welcome to Eater

Our goal is to foster conversations that are helpful, informative, and fun. Here are some guidelines for how to participate.

The short version

  • We hope you will help create great conversations in our community.
  • Don’t be a jerk, call people jerks, or react to jerks. We’ll remove bad stuff when we see it.
  • Respect and help the moderators.

How to interact with Eater

There are several ways to connect with us:

  • Follow us: We’re on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, and Threads. Subscribe to our newsletters (which you can reply to).
  • Participate at an event: On occasion, Eater hosts events, both editorially led and with our brand partners. We invite you to join us at those or visit us on site and social for highlights after.
  • Get in touch directly: Have a news tip? Want to contact the team? See a bug? You can do all of that right here or email [email protected].
  • Download our mobile app: Our iOS app brings all the restaurants from Eater maps into one place, where you can see them all on one map, save your favorite spots, and follow other people’s restaurant lists.

Rules of the road

Whether on social or our app or anywhere else, here are things that will get your comment removed and quite possibly get you banned or blocked. Note that this is not a comprehensive list. Our moderators reserve the right to remove anything we deem inappropriate.

  • Spam: We have a zero tolerance policy. Whether it comes from a human or a robot, spam will be deleted. This includes self-promotion. Generally speaking, promoting your projects here will be treated like any other spam.
  • Personal attacks: Don’t attack/insult another user or editor. It’s not helpful and it doesn’t make Eater a friendly place. This includes calling other members trolls.
  • Illegal activities: Posting links to illegal downloads, ways to steal service, and other nefarious activity is not okay here.
  • NSFW material: Not allowed. Even images or links that could be considered borderline are not acceptable. A good rule of thumb is that anything beyond PG-13 will get you in trouble, but we reserve the right to remove any post we deem offensive. This goes for pornographic material, vile language, gore, and generally gross stuff.
  • Racism, sexism, and other discrimination: Attacking entire classes of people is just like attacking a single person: we'll ban you for it.
  • Trolling: “Trolling” is a big, messy term, but we know what trolls are and we won't tolerate it. If you're abusing the good conversations here at Eater, we will take your comments and posts down. This includes taking a thread off-topic.
  • Multiple accounts and throwaway emails: We don't allow multiple accounts per user. Using a disposable email address signals to us that you might not be here for the right reasons. You also may not create accounts designed to impersonate another person.
  • First post ban rule: If your first post on Eater is in violation of our community guidelines, it is clear to us that you have no interest in following the rules. The team then reserves the right to ban new members who immediately violate our guidelines.
  • Promotional posts or comments: We don’t allow our commenters on any platform to promote deals or businesses.

Above all, our team works to keep conversation here friendly, engaging, helpful, and productive. If we feel a comment is harming that endeavor, we’ll take action.