RideLink Community Guidelines

Stuff We Love to See

This is the easy part. RideLink runs on riders showing up and sharing the good stuff. If your post does any of this, you're already doing it right.

Your rides and your bikes

Photos from the last rideout, your build, the sunglamorous roadside flat fix, the sunset you actually stopped for. Real rides from real riders are the entire point of the feed.

Rideouts people can actually join

Post a clear meetup, a time, a pace, and where you're headed. A good rideout pin turns a stranger scrolling the map into someone standing next to you at the start line. That's the whole magic trick.

Helpful, honest map reports

A real police heads-up, a real rideout, a real note that helps the riders nearby make a decision. Accurate and current beats dramatic every single time.

Actually being a person

Hype someone's build, answer the new rider's question, welcome the person who just showed up. A community is a crowd that remembers your name, and you build that one decent comment at a time.

Stuff That Gets the Boot

Here's the line. Cross it and your post gets removed, and if it's a pattern, your account goes with it. None of this should be a surprise, but "I didn't know" is a lot less convincing when it's written down, so here it is written down.

• Harassment and bullying. Targeting, pile-ons, slurs, threats, or generally making someone dread opening the app. Disagreeing about tire pressure is fine. Making it personal is not.
• Hate. Attacking people over race, religion, gender, sexuality, disability, or where they're from. There is no "just joking" exception, because it was never funny.
• Violence and threats. Threatening anyone, glorifying violence, or trying to organize it. Instantly and permanently not welcome.
• Sexual or explicit content. Nudity, porn, or sexual content has no home here. This is a bikes app, not that.
• Someone else's private info. No posting anyone's address, phone, plates, or location to expose or target them. Do not doxx people. Ever.
• Genuinely dangerous nonsense. Encouraging riders to blow reds, weave through traffic, or treat a public road like a stunt reel. Ride fast, sure. Don't recruit people into the ER.
• Illegal stuff. Selling drugs, weapons, stolen bikes, or anything else the law frowns on. RideLink is not your marketplace for that.
• Spam and scams. Mass promo, sketchy links, crypto miracles, fake giveaways, engagement bait. If it feels like a spam folder escaped, it goes back in the spam folder.
• Impersonation. Pretending to be another rider, a brand, or RideLink itself. Be you. You're enough.
• Fake or junk map reports. A police pin where there's no police, a rideout that isn't real, spammed markers for the bit. Fake reports are the fastest way to make the map worthless, so we treat them seriously.

The Map Deserves Extra Respect

The feed is opinions. The map is something riders make decisions on, so the standard is higher. A pin is a promise that something is actually there.

Report what's real, right now

Drop a marker for something happening, not something you heard about last Tuesday. Old and fake pins both do the same damage: they teach riders to stop trusting the map, and a map nobody trusts is just a wallpaper.

Use private rideouts for private plans

Friends-only meetup or a sensitive spot? Keep it private. Public pins are for open rides where new riders are genuinely welcome to roll up.

See something fake? Report it

The report tools exist so the community can clean its own map. If a marker's bogus, flag it instead of adding a fake one back. Two wrongs make a worse map.

Comments, DMs, and Communities

The rules don't stop at posts. Chats and communities are held to the same line, and honestly a slightly friendlier one, because it's a smaller room.

Don't slide into DMs to harass, spam, or send anyone the stuff from the "gets the boot" list. Community chats have owners and moderators who can remove messages and remove you, and they'd rather not, so don't make it their whole afternoon. Treat someone's community like their living room: you're a guest, act like it, and you'll get invited back.

What Happens If You Cross the Line

RideLink uses a mix of automatic checks and real human moderators. Depending on what happened, a post can be removed, and repeat or serious stuff can pause or end your account. You'll get a notification telling you what came down and why, so nothing happens in the dark.

Think we got it wrong? Appeal it

Moderation isn't perfect, and we know it. Every removal notice comes with an appeal button. Tap it, tell us the context, and a moderator takes a fresh look. You'll get a second notification with the outcome either way, whether it's reinstated or upheld. No shouting into the void.

Reporting is a good deed, not a snitch move

If something breaks these guidelines, report it. You're not tattling, you're keeping the map and the feed good for the next rider. That's the whole job, and it's a team sport.