Content standards

The rules

Who this is for

Two kinds of people read this page. Members, who may write to talent whose pages are claimed. And the talent themselves, whose answers are published under their own name and are held to the same rules. Everything below applies in both directions.

Every question and every answer is read by a person before anybody else sees it. That is not a filter you are trying to beat — it is the deal. It also means a reply may take a few days. We are one small operation and one human reviews everything.

Write to a person, not at them

Write the way you would if the two of you were in a room and somebody else was listening — because somebody else is; answered questions are published.

Rejected on sight: insults, abuse, threats of any kind, sexual commentary about someone's body or private life, and anything that reads as a pile-on when a dozen of them arrive in a morning. Criticism of the work is fine and always will be. Contempt for the person is not.

Talent: this rule is yours too. A reply written at 1am to somebody who annoyed you will not be published, and we would rather reject it than let you wake up to it on your own page.

Nothing that locates a person

This is the most serious rule on the page and the one broken most often by people with no bad intent.

Do not ask for, and do not publish: home or work addresses, neighbourhoods, gyms, schools, regular haunts, personal phone numbers, personal email addresses, travel plans, or where somebody will be at a particular time. Not for talent, not for their family, not for a crew member somebody mentioned in passing.

The test we apply is not "is this rude". It is: could a stranger use this to stand in front of this person? If the answer is maybe, it does not go out.

Talent: this one applies to your own answers about yourself. "Come find me at the Sunday market" feels warm and generous and is a map. We will hold it back.

Nothing aimed at children

Claimed pages belong to adults. Asking a minor to contact you, here or anywhere else, ends an account immediately and we do not litigate it by email. Sexualised comment about a minor — including a young performer credited in a film — is treated the same way, and worse where the law requires it.

Be who you say you are

Don't write as somebody else, don't claim a relationship with the talent you don't have, and don't imply you speak for a production, a studio or an employer unless you do.

The mirror of this rule is what makes the whole thing worth anything: a page marked as claimed is claimed by the actual person, and we would rather leave a page unclaimed for a year than hand it to the wrong one.

Only put up what is yours to put up

Anything you upload — a photo, a clip, a video answer — you own or have cleared. Music is the one that catches everybody: a popular song under a clip is not cleared by crediting the artist, by keeping it short, or by not making money from it. Film footage usually belongs to the producer, and a headshot usually belongs to the photographer.

If you are unsure, ask us before you upload. That question is much cheaper for both of us than a takedown.

No links, no contact details in questions and answers

Questions and answers are plain text and always will be — no links, no email addresses, no phone numbers, no handles. Not because we mind you existing elsewhere, but because a link inside a message from a stranger is the oldest scam on the internet wearing a trusted face.

Talent, your links belong on your page, where they are reviewed and where they stay: your website and your own social accounts sit in your profile, and we are glad to have them there. Point your audience anywhere you like from your own page — that is what it is for.

Not that kind of platform

No sexual propositions, no requests for personal or private content, no negotiating for anything "just for you". There is no paid-request mechanism here, no tipping and no private channel, and that is deliberate rather than a feature we haven't got round to. Asking a person to route around it is a fast way to lose your account.

One voice, one question

No advertising, no promoting your own project through somebody else's page, and no writing to yourself through a second account to make a page look busy. It is transparent from the queue, and it is a waste of a letter you could have spent on a real question.

What happens when a rule is broken

Most rejections are ordinary and undramatic. A question that doesn't pass gets declined with a reason that points back at the rule it hit, and the person it was addressed to never sees it — that last part matters more than anything else on this page. Talent never read the things we reject on their behalf.

Repeated breaches cost the account. The serious rules — minors, threats, locating — do not get three chances.

If you think we got it wrong, reply to the email. A person reads that too.

Reporting something

Anything published here can be reported, by anybody, including things we approved and shouldn't have. Use the report link on the answer or write to us. We would rather look at ten things that turn out to be fine than miss the one that isn't.

Airflix — the aviation section

Everything above applies. Two more, because this audience knows exactly which questions to ask.

Rosters, routes, bases and layovers are off limits

Do not ask which base somebody flies from, what they are operating next week, where they are night-stopping, when they are back, or what their staff-travel plans are. Do not ask it as a friendly aside at the end of a good question, and do not assemble it out of three separate questions — we read them as a set.

We are stricter about this than a general site would be, on purpose. A crew schedule is not trivia. Put a base, a date and a route together and you have told a stranger where a specific person will physically be, and this audience is unusually good at that kind of inference. That is the whole reason this rule exists.

Ask about the flying instead. What a crosswind landing actually feels like, how a type rating works, what the cruise is really like at 3am, why the aircraft does the thing it does. Those are the questions that get answered, and they are the ones still worth reading in five years.

Crew: the rule holds for your own answers. You know your operator's policy on what you can say publicly better than we do — this page is not a substitute for reading it, and we will never contact your employer about anything you post here.

Don't invent a career

Don't claim ranks, ratings, types or hours you don't hold, and don't imply an operator employs you when it doesn't. In this niche that is not a harmless exaggeration; it is the one lie the audience will actually catch, and it lands on the platform that published it.