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These Guidelines and Policy apply to mutual aid requests and other community submissions made through the mutualaidspace.org amplification system. They combine practical guidance for preparing a useful submission with the rules governing publication, federation, administrator handling, removal, and resubmission.
Submit a request at https://mutualaidspace.org/submit. Information about how community submissions work is available at https://mutualaidspace.org/184446-2/. By submitting material, you agree to these Guidelines & Policy, the Privacy Policy, and the Terms of Use.
1. What the submission system is for
The submission system exists to amplify mutual aid requests and related organising needs. This may include requests for money, food, housing, healthcare, medication, transport, equipment, volunteers, organisers, participants, practical assistance, or other forms of mutual aid.
The purpose is amplification, not gatekeeping. mutualaidspace.org does not require people to prove that they are sufficiently poor, desperate, respectable, or deserving before they can ask for support. Readers do, however, need enough information to understand what is being requested and how they can respond.
2. Help readers understand the ask
Please give readers enough information to understand the request and act on it. A useful submission should make clear what you need, what you are asking people to support or do, and any information they need in order to respond.
If you are recruiting volunteers, organisers, facilitators, participants, or other people, explain what you are recruiting them for, what participation involves where relevant, and what interested people should do next. Do not rely on an image, title, unexplained link, external context, or automated form instructions to communicate the purpose of the submission. Readers should not have to work backwards to determine what they are being asked to amplify.
A submission does not need to be polished, professionally written, or excessively detailed. It does need to function as an understandable appeal.
3. Images, privacy, and consent
Please think carefully about the privacy of everyone shown or identified in material submitted for public amplification. Do not publish another person’s sensitive private information without their permission, and avoid including information that is not necessary for readers to understand or respond to the request.
Please do not submit identifiable images of anyone under the age of 18, even if you are their parent or guardian. Indonesian child-protection law defines a child as anyone under 18, and Indonesian personal-data protection law requires special protection for children’s personal data. As an additional privacy safeguard, mutualaidspace.org does not accept identifiable images of children for public amplification. If including a photograph of a child is important to the appeal, please cover, blur, crop, or otherwise obscure their face before submitting it.
Images may also contain embedded metadata, including location information such as EXIF GPS data. If you do not want that information made public, remove it before uploading the file. The Privacy Policy at https://mutualaidspace.org/privacy/ contains more information about uploaded media and the handling of personal information.
4. What happens when you submit
By submitting material, you are asking mutualaidspace.org to publish and amplify the information you provide. This may include your chosen name or alias, description of the request, crowdfunding links, payment handles, images, deadlines, organising information, original social-media links, and other information included in the form.
Submitted material may become a public page on mutualaidspace.org and may be federated through ActivityPub, circulated through project or community accounts, associated with hashtags, indexed by search engines, included in feeds, newsletters or roundups, and redistributed by other people. Only submit information you are comfortable making public.
Submitting material gives mutualaidspace.org permission to reproduce, format, display, federate, index, excerpt, link to, and redistribute that material for the purpose of amplification. Ownership of the submitted material remains with its owner.
5. @comrade@mutualaidspace.org and attribution
Community submissions may be published and federated through @comrade@mutualaidspace.org. This is a community submissions co-account used to circulate mutual aid requests under Comrades & Community and related categories.
The submitted request belongs to the submitter. Replies, arguments, moderation decisions, commentary, blocks, account administration, and other activity independently made through @comrade@mutualaidspace.org come from the account administrator, not from unrelated people whose requests happen to be published through that account. Publishing somebody’s submission through @comrade@mutualaidspace.org does not make that person responsible for, or imply that they endorse, everything else the account says or does.
6. Administrator formatting and functionality edits
The administrator may make limited changes where necessary to make information already supplied by the submitter display clearly or function correctly, provided those changes do not materially alter the meaning, message, purpose, or substance of the request.
This may include correcting or formatting crowdfunding links, making payment handles readable or clickable, fixing malformed URLs where the intended destination is clear, removing accidental form instructions or placeholder text, correcting display problems, arranging information already supplied by the submitter, or adding categorisation and hashtags used by the amplification system.
The administrator will not invent a missing ask, add factual claims on the submitter’s behalf, materially rewrite the request, or change what the submitter is asking people to support. These administrator-side corrections do not create an edit-request service for submitters.
7. Seven-day publication period
Community submissions remain published for seven days (one week) from the date of publication. After seven days, the submission is automatically removed from mutualaidspace.org.
If you still need amplification after the seven-day period ends, submit a new request through https://mutualaidspace.org/submit. There is no edit-request process after publication, so if information needs to be materially changed, you may request manual removal of the existing submission and submit a new request containing the updated information.
8. Manual removal by the administrator
A submission may be manually removed before the seven-day automatic removal period ends when the submitted post does not adequately function as an appeal, is inconsistent with the intended use of the amplification system, creates a serious privacy, safety, or technical problem, or otherwise does not meet these Guidelines & Policy.
This may include submissions that:
- are substantially incomplete;
- contain too little information for readers to understand the ask;
- consist mainly of an image, title, or link without sufficient explanation;
- do not identify what readers are being asked to do or support;
- leave form instructions, example text, or placeholders in the published submission;
- make the purpose of the request unreasonably difficult to determine;
- repeatedly use the submission system without producing meaningful, understandable appeals;
- impersonate another person;
- contain malicious, deceptive, phishing, or malware links;
- publish another person’s sensitive private information without consent;
- include identifiable images of anyone under 18 without obscuring their face;
- contain harassment, threats, or material creating a serious technical or security risk; or
- use the amplification system for a purpose materially different from or inconsistent with the request presented to readers.
Manual removal does not necessarily mean that the underlying cause, organiser, campaign, or request is ineligible for mutual aid amplification. It means the submitted post itself did not meet the requirements for continued publication through this system.
9. Requesting removal
If you want your own submission removed before the seven-day publication period ends, you may request manual removal by the administrator. There is no corresponding process for requesting edits, additions, or revisions to a published submission, so material changes should be made through a new submission instead.
When requesting removal, include the URL of the relevant mutualaidspace.org page wherever possible. The administrative contact route is intended for matters that cannot already be resolved through the submission form, these Policy & Guidelines, or the information provided on the website.
10. Resubmission
If a submission is automatically removed after seven days and you still need amplification, submit it again through https://mutualaidspace.org/submit. A new submission starts a new seven-day publication period.
If a submission was manually removed because it was unclear, incomplete, or otherwise did not meet these Policy & Guidelines, you may submit a clearer and more complete request through the same form. A resubmission is a new submission and does not restore or edit the previous post.
11. Administrative email
The email address requested by the submission form may be used for administrative communications related to the submitted post, including automatic or manual removal notifications. It is not intended to become part of the public request unless you separately choose to publish it.
Providing an administrative email address does not give mutualaidspace.org permission to add it to unrelated mailing lists or use it as general promotional consent. More information about how administrative and public information are handled is available in the Privacy Policy at https://mutualaidspace.org/privacy/.
12. Questions about a submission or removal
Before contacting the administrator, please review the submission form at https://mutualaidspace.org/submit, the information about how community submissions work at https://mutualaidspace.org/184446-2/, these Guidelines & Policy, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Use.
If your submission was removed because the ask was unclear or incomplete, submit a clearer version through https://mutualaidspace.org/submit. If the policy, submission form, and information above do not address your queries, you can email admin@mutualaidspace.org about them.
13. Changes to these Guidelines & Policy
These Guidelines & Policy may be updated when the submission, publication, federation, moderation, privacy, removal, resubmission, or administrator-handling process materially changes. The date at the top of this page identifies the current version.
