Voci exists to help people get heard by the officials and institutions that serve them. That only works if what moves through Voci is honest, lawful, and aimed at public decisions — not at hurting people. These guidelines apply to every project: the issues you create, the letters and scripts you send, the petitions you publish, and the pages you share.
What Voci is for
Real civic problems and real asks: a dangerous crossing, a school budget cut, a zoning fight, a law you want changed. Strong feelings are welcome — anger at injustice, sharp criticism of an official's public record or votes, blunt language about policy failures. Passion is not a violation. The lines below are.
The rules
- No violence or threats. Nothing that threatens, incites, or celebrates violence or property destruction — toward anyone, including officials.
- No harassment or hate. No demeaning people for who they are — race, religion, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, disability, immigration status, or anything else. Criticize conduct and decisions, not identities.
- Leave private individuals alone. Civic pressure aims at officials, institutions, companies, and policies. Projects that target a neighbor, an ex, a coworker, or any private person are not civic action.
- No doxxing. Never publish or seek someone's home address, phone number, or other personal details.
- Tell the truth. Don't present invented facts, statistics, or quotes as real. You can be persuasive without fabricating.
- Stay lawful. Peaceful protest, petitions, letters, and showing up are the point. Planning or facilitating anything illegal is not.
- No spam. Don't use Voci to bulk-message people, flood an inbox, or inflate petition numbers with fake signatures.
Public pages and petitions
When you make a project public, its page speaks for you to strangers — the same rules apply to everything on it, including your note and the petition text. Signatures must come from real people signing for themselves.
How this is enforced
Voci's assistant will decline to build plans or draft content that breaks these rules, and will say so plainly so you can rephrase. Projects that violate the guidelines can be unpublished or removed, and accounts that repeatedly or seriously violate them can be suspended. You remain responsible for everything you send — see the Terms.
Reporting
If you find a public Voci page that breaks these guidelines, email us at hello@voci.me.