Community guidelines

Work you made that others can learn from: essays, poetry, articles, research summaries, illustrations, designs, photography, scientific explanations, infographics, and educational video and audio.

Disagreement is welcome. Challenge ideas hard; be generous to the person holding them.

• Adult or sexual content of any kind, including links to it.
• Bullying and harassment — insults, pile-ons, mockery of a person, or targeting someone repeatedly.
• Hate speech — attacks on people for their race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender, disability, nationality or similar characteristics.
• Violence and threats, and content that glorifies or encourages them.
• Self-harm — content that encourages, instructs or makes light of suicide, self-injury or eating disorders.
• Illegal or dangerous activity — drugs, weapons, hacking for harm, or instructions for dangerous acts without proper safety context.
• Sharing private information — anyone’s address, phone number, school timetable, private photos or documents, including your own.
• Moving conversations off-platform — asking members for phone numbers or social handles, or to meet in person.
• Spam, scams and impersonation of a person, school or Zelo staff.

• Publish your own work. Quote and cite what you borrow — text, images, data and ideas.
• Do not share or request leaked exam material, or offer or pay for someone to complete assessed work.
• Using Zilly to learn is encouraged. Passing off AI-written work as your own is not.
• Do not make up facts, sources or quotations. If you are unsure, say so.

• Argue the motion, not the person. Moderators score conduct, and personal attacks lose debates.
• Do not collude on results, vote for a friend regardless of quality, or create extra accounts to vote.
• Challenges are meant to be answered: declining costs 25 points, ignoring one costs 30, and avoiding 3 within 30 days adds a further 50-point penalty for each one after.
• Do not use challenges to harass. Limits on how often you can challenge the same person are enforced automatically.

Only verified schools may sell. Listings must describe the product accurately, be educational or school-related, and must not include counterfeit, pirated or age-restricted goods.

Content is screened automatically before it is published. Some content is blocked immediately; some is held until a moderator has looked at it. Anything can be reported by any member.

Depending on how serious a breach is, moderators may remove content (which costs 40 rank points), issue a warning, suspend an account for a period, or ban it. You are always told the reason.

You can appeal any removal, warning, suspension or ban once, from your decisions and appeals page. A moderator who did not make the original decision reviews it. If your appeal succeeds the decision is reversed and any points lost are returned.

Report it using the Report control on the item or profile. If you or someone else is in danger, tell a trusted adult and contact your local emergency services. See our safety page for more.