Community Rules

amplifriends works when people can trust who they’re talking to. These rules apply everywhere on the site: profiles, samples, photos, handles, and messages.

1. No spam. No ads, repeated messages, or links unrelated to music. Offering lessons, session work, or gigs on your profile is fine. Sending the same pitch to lots of people who didn’t ask isn’t.
2. No scams. Don’t ask for money, deposits, gift cards, payment details, or passwords. No fake gigs, tours, contests, or auditions.
3. No impersonation. Don’t pretend to be another musician or band, and don’t use someone else’s photo or recordings as your own. Your profile is you.
4. No harassment. No threats, no slurs, and no contact after someone asks you to stop. Don’t make another account to reach someone who blocked you.
5. No hate. No attacks on people for their race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or age. That goes for handles, photos, and lyrics in your bio too.
6. No sexual content, and keep minors safe. amplifriends is for making music, not dating. No sexual photos, samples, or messages. Members can be as young as 13: an adult who pursues a minor romantically or sexually is removed for good, and anything that sexualizes a minor is reported to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.
7. Respect privacy. Don’t share anyone’s address, phone number, email, or other private details, or their messages to you, without their permission.
8. Only share music you have the rights to. Your own work, or work you have permission to share.
9. Nothing illegal or violent. No threats of violence, no selling drugs or weapons, and nothing that encourages someone to hurt themselves or others.
10. No getting around a suspension. If we suspend an account, don’t make another one or use someone else’s to carry on. We refuse sign-ups with a suspended account’s email, and an account used from the same internet connection as a recently suspended one waits for a moderator to check it. Accounts used to get around a suspension are suspended too.

What Happens When Someone Breaks Them

• Use Report on their profile or in your conversation with them. A person reviews every report within 24 hours, and you hear the outcome. The person you reported isn’t told who reported them. Without an account, email [email protected].
• A moderator removes the content that broke the rule, or for serious or repeated breaks, suspends the account. Threats of violence and anything that puts a minor at risk mean suspension straight away, and we may contact the police.
• If we act on your account, we email you what we did, which rule it broke, and why. If you think we got it wrong, reply to that email within 6 months and a person will look at it again. The same goes if you reported something and disagree with what we decided.
• You can block anyone, any time, without a reason. See Safety and reporting.