Community Guidelines: What You Can Post on 6E Club
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These community guidelines are the rules every video, comment and channel on 6E Club has to follow. They are written in plain words on purpose: a creator should be able to tell before pressing Save whether a video will stay up, and a viewer should know what will happen after pressing Report.
The page lists the twelve categories with everyday examples, explains how reports are reviewed by people, what the three possible outcomes are, how strikes add up to an upload ban, how appeals work, and the extra rules for videos made for children and for AI-generated or sponsored content.
The Community Guidelines Apply to Everything You Post
Most people think of rules as being about the footage. On this platform the community guidelines apply to every piece of content a person can put in front of someone else, and a breach in any one of them is enough:
- The video itself, including the audio track and any text burned into the picture.
- The thumbnail, whether it is one of the automatic frames or a custom image.
- The title, description and hashtags.
- Comments and replies, including links pasted into them.
- The channel name, handle, tagline, description, avatar and banner.
- Playlist titles and descriptions.
- Subtitle files uploaded for a video.
The rules are the same for a channel with ten followers and one with a million, and for a comment left by a viewer who never uploads. Age matters too: accounts are for people aged 13 and over, and some categories only concern adults, which is why restricted content exists as a middle path between keep and remove.
The usual case is a mismatch: a harmless video with a sexual thumbnail, or a cooking clip titled to look like breaking news. Both are treated as misleading content even though the footage is fine, and both are easy to avoid by making the title and thumbnail say what the video actually shows. The guide to uploading videos covers the honest-thumbnail habit in more detail.
The Twelve Categories, with Plain Examples
The Report dialog lists twelve reasons, and the review team uses the same twelve community guidelines categories when it decides. The examples are ordinary situations rather than legal definitions; if something feels close to a line, treat it as over the line.
| Category | Not allowed | Still allowed |
|---|---|---|
| 1. Sexual or pornographic | Pornography, explicit nudity, sexual acts, content that sexualises anyone | Sex education, medical content and art with the sensitive restriction on |
| 2. Child safety | Any sexual content involving minors, abuse, grooming, exposing a child to danger | Family videos where children are safe and clothed; reporting on child safety |
| 3. Offensive or disturbing | Gore for its own sake, mutilation, cruelty to animals, mocking victims | News, documentary and medical footage with a warning and the restriction on |
| 4. Hateful | Attacking people for religion, caste, ethnicity, gender, disability or sexuality; slurs | Discussing discrimination, history and religion with respect |
| 5. Glorifies or denies a crime | Praising a crime or its perpetrator, denying documented atrocities, recruiting | Reporting, true-crime explainers, survivor accounts |
| 6. Misinformation | False medical cures, fake election or disaster claims, doctored footage shown as real | Opinion clearly labelled as opinion; satire that is obviously satire |
| 7. Terrorism | Propaganda, attack footage, instructions, support for banned groups | News coverage with context; academic analysis |
| 8. Violent or dangerous | Real fights filmed for fun, threats, challenges that injure, weapon-making | Sport, stunts by trained people with a warning, self-defence tuition |
| 9. Misleading or spam (incl. undisclosed AI or paid partnership) | Clickbait that lies, repeated uploads, fake giveaways, an AI or sponsorship label left off | Reuploading your own video once with a fix; honest ads with the label |
| 10. Copyright | Films, shows, songs, matches or other creators’ clips without permission | Your own work; short quotes for review or teaching where fair dealing applies |
| 11. Other rights (privacy, trademark, defamation, harassment) | Doxxing, impersonation, filming private people without consent, defamation, targeted abuse | Public figures in public; people who agreed to appear |
| 12. Other illegal content | Selling banned goods, scams, fraud, anything else against Indian law | Consumer warnings about scams; legal products |
Categories 1, 2 and 7 are handled first and most strictly; sexual content involving a child leads to immediate suspension and a report to the authorities, with no strike counting needed. Categories 10 and 11 open the copyright and rights form at /report/?type=copyright instead of the details box; the notice and counter-notice process is on the copyright page.
How Reports Work, and Who Reads Them
Every video, comment and channel has a Report button. Tap it and a short dialog opens: choose one of the twelve reasons, say whether the whole video or just a part is the problem (you can mark the timestamps), add a few words of detail, and optionally leave an email address to hear the result. For videos, no account is needed. Reports on comments and channels need a signed-in account, because they are rate-limited to stop groups from targeting one person.
Reports go into a queue that is read by people on the 6E Club review team. Software helps by sorting the queue, flagging titles and descriptions with certain words at upload, and blocking files that were already removed once, but a removal decision is made by a person who has looked at the content and the reporter’s note. There is no fully automatic takedown under the community guidelines.
Auto-hide at five open reports
One safety valve is automatic. When a single video has five reports that have not yet been reviewed, it is hidden from everyone except the owner, who is notified that it is under review. This is not a decision and not a strike; it simply stops a harmful clip from spreading during the hours before a reviewer reaches it. If the review finds nothing wrong, the video comes back and the reports are closed. People who repeatedly file reports that turn out to be baseless are deprioritised, so the valve cannot easily be weaponised.
After you press Report
You see a confirmation with a reference number. If you left an email, you receive one message when the review is finished, naming the outcome but not the uploader’s details. Your name is never shown to the uploader; they only learn which category applied. Sending the same report five times from one account does not speed anything up and counts as misuse of the report form.
The Three Outcomes
A reviewer can do one of three things with content reported under the community guidelines. Each outcome is written to the reporter if an email was left, and to the uploader in every case.
| Outcome | What happens to the content | What happens to the uploader | Typical reason |
|---|---|---|---|
| Remove | Taken down for everyone; the file is hashed so it cannot be re-uploaded | Notified with the category; a strike is added | Clear breach of any category |
| Restrict to adults | Stays up but hidden from under-18s and from anyone with Hide sensitive content on; out of recommendations | Notified; no strike unless the restriction was deliberately skipped | Legal but graphic, medical, strong language |
| Keep | Nothing changes; the auto-hide is lifted if it applied | Notified that the report was closed | Context made the content acceptable |
Comments have a simpler version: delete or keep. Channels can additionally have their name, handle, avatar or banner reset if those were the problem, and a channel whose entire purpose breaks a rule can be suspended as a whole rather than video by video. The uploader always learns which category was applied, so the fix is never a guess.
Strikes, the 90-Day Clock and Upload Bans
A removal adds one strike to the channel. Each strike is active for 90 days from the decision and then expires on its own; nothing you do shortens it except a successful appeal. The strikes page in the creator studio lists every active strike with the content, the category, the days remaining and the appeal link. The channel guide shows where that page sits.
| Active strikes | Effect | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Content removed; warning email | Strike expires after 90 days |
| 2 | Content removed; email notes that a third strike brings an upload ban | Each strike runs its own 90 days |
| 3 at once | Upload rights paused; watching, commenting, following and editing continue | 7 days |
| A strike during the pause | Account suspended pending review by a second person | Until that review ends |
| Severe categories (2, 7) | Immediate suspension regardless of count | Permanent unless an appeal succeeds |
Because strikes expire on their own, a channel that gets one strike a year never comes close to a ban. The ladder exists for the pattern of someone who ignores the first two warnings. Copyright strikes use their own counter, explained below, and are counted more strictly than content strikes.
During the 7-day pause you can still edit titles, change visibility, reply to comments and prepare the next video; the pause only stops new files. Deleting the removed video does not shorten the strike, and opening a second account to keep uploading is itself a breach that leads to both accounts being suspended.
Appeals: One per Decision, Within 6 Months
Every decision under the community guidelines can be appealed exactly once, and the appeal must be sent within 6 months of the decision date. The link is on the strike row in the studio and in the email. An appeal is a short form: what was decided, what you think the reviewer missed, and anything that gives context, such as a consent message from a person in the video, the source of a clip, or the fact that a title was satire.
A different reviewer reads the appeal. If it succeeds, the content is restored or the restriction lifted and the strike is removed from the count as if it had never been given. If it fails, the decision stands and there is no second appeal for that item. Appeals that are abusive or copy-pasted across many items are deprioritised. Reporters can also ask for a second look if their report was closed with Keep, under the same one-appeal rule.
Made-for-Kids Rules
The community guidelines add two rules for children’s videos. When a video is clearly aimed at children, the uploader must answer Yes to “Made for kids” in the details form. Nursery rhymes, cartoons, toy reviews and lessons for small children all count. The answer changes how the video behaves: comments are switched off and cannot be turned on, and the video is always served with the sensitive-content filter applied regardless of the viewer’s setting.
Marking adult content as made for kids, or filming children in ways that could attract the wrong attention, is category 2 and is treated as the most serious breach on the platform. Parents who see a child at risk in any video should report it with category 2 and, in India, can also contact Childline on 1098. Accounts themselves are for people aged 13 and over; a child under 13 found running a channel has the account closed, with no strike, and a parent can re-register the content under their own account.
AI-Generated and Paid-Partnership Labels
Two tick boxes in the details form add a small badge to the player. AI-generated is for videos where a meaningful part of the picture or the voice was produced by software, for example a cloned voice, a synthetic presenter or a scene that never happened. Paid partnership is for videos where a brand paid you, lent you the product, or otherwise gave something in return for the coverage.
Leaving either box unticked when it applies falls under category 9 of the community guidelines, misleading or spam. It is one of the most common strikes on new channels, and one of the easiest to avoid. The labels do not reduce reach or hide the video; they just tell the viewer what they are looking at. Fully synthetic videos of real people saying things they never said are a separate matter: that is category 11, other rights, and the label does not make it acceptable.
The sensitive-content restriction
A third switch is not a label but a filter. Turn it on for content that is legal but not for everyone, such as surgery, accident footage or strong language. Restricted videos are hidden from under-18s and from anyone who keeps the default “Hide sensitive content” setting. Setting it yourself avoids a reviewer setting it for you after a report.
Where Copyright Fits In
Category 10 is different from the other eleven because the complaint usually comes from a specific rights holder rather than from a viewer, and because Indian law sets its own timelines. A valid takedown notice is acted on within 36 hours, the uploader can send a counter-notice within 10 days, and confirmed claims are counted separately: two confirmed claims remove upload rights and a third ends the account.
The practical overlap with the community guidelines is simple. If you did not make it, and you do not have written permission, do not upload it. Background music is the trap most new creators fall into. The takedown and counter-notice guide has the full process, and the Copyright Office of India explains what the law protects.
Reporting Beyond the Platform
Some things are bigger than a content rule. If a video or message involves money lost to a scam, threats, blackmail with intimate images, or anything that needs the police, report it on the platform and also to the national cybercrime portal or by calling 1930. Keep screenshots and the video link; the review team can preserve content for a lawful request even after it is removed from public view.
Under the Information Technology Rules, 2021, published by the Ministry of Electronics and IT, a platform must acknowledge a complaint within 24 hours and resolve it within 15 days, and remove certain content within 36 hours of a lawful order. Complaints that go beyond a normal report can be sent to the 6E Club grievance team through the grievance contact route; the customer care guide explains which route fits which problem. Nothing on this page is legal advice.
Post With Confidence
Make it yourself, say what it is, answer the audience questions honestly, and the rules above will never get in your way. Your account takes a minute to create.
Rules Protect Viewers Too
The community guidelines are the floor, not the ceiling. A video can follow every rule and still be something you do not want a younger sibling to see, which is why the sensitive filter stays on by default and why history, autoplay and comments can each be switched off from Settings. Reporting is anonymous for videos, so there is no reason to hesitate.
Never reply to someone who threatens you in comments, and never pay anyone who claims they can remove a strike, restore a video or “clear your record” for a fee. Appeals are free and come only through the studio or the email we send. Block, report, keep screenshots, and if money or intimate images are involved, call 1930.
Accounts are for people aged 13 and over; mature-content settings need 18+. Every video, comment and channel has a Report button, and reports are reviewed by people. Never share your password or a one-time code with anyone who contacts you in the name of 6E Club. Read the full online safety guide.
Questions People Ask
What happens if I break the community guidelines once?
The video or comment is removed or restricted, you receive an email and a notification explaining which category applied, and a strike appears on the strikes page in your studio. One strike has no further effect on its own. It expires 90 days after the decision, and you can appeal it once within 6 months if you think the reviewer got it wrong.
Do I need an account to report a video under the community guidelines?
No. The Report button on a video works for anyone, signed in or not, and you can leave an email address if you want to hear the outcome. Reporting a comment or a channel does need an account, because those reports are rate-limited per person to stop pile-ons. Every report is read by a reviewer, not just counted.
Why was my video hidden before anyone reviewed it?
When a video collects 5 open reports, it is hidden automatically while the queue catches up, and the owner is told it is under review. This is a pause, not a decision. If the reviewer finds nothing wrong, the video returns with no strike and the reports are closed. Repeat false reports count against the people who sent them.
How long does a community guidelines strike last on 6E Club?
Each strike stays active for 90 days from the date of the decision and then expires by itself. Three active strikes at the same time pause your upload rights for 7 days; watching, commenting and following continue. A new strike received during that pause leads to suspension of the account pending a full review.
Can I appeal a removal more than once?
No. Each decision gets exactly one appeal, which you must send within 6 months of the decision date from the link on the strikes page or in the email. Write what the reviewer may have missed, such as context or consent. A different person reads the appeal. If it fails, the decision stands and the strike runs its 90 days.
Are the community guidelines different for comments?
The same twelve categories apply, but the practical outcomes differ. A comment that breaks a rule is deleted and, for serious categories such as threats or sexual content involving minors, the account is suspended straight away. The video owner can also delete or block without a report; those actions are moderation by the creator, not strikes.
The Short Version
The community guidelines fit on one line: do not post sexual, hateful, violent, dangerous, misleading or illegal content, do not put children at risk, and do not upload what belongs to someone else. They apply to the footage, the thumbnail, the title, the comments and the channel itself, and every report is read by a person who can remove, restrict or keep.
Strikes last 90 days, three at once pause uploads for a week, and every decision has one appeal within six months. Answer the made-for-kids question honestly, tick the AI and sponsorship labels when they apply, and keep the Report button in mind as a viewer: it is how the platform stays somewhere worth uploading to.