Strength Almanac Community Content Policy

Why this exists

Most training information in Strength Almanac is private by default. Certain community features allow selected information to be shared with other users or publicly displayed, as described below.

Five parts of the app are not private, because you choose to share them or because they are public by design:

1. Community programs. A program you publish, with its name, description, days and exercises, and your display name attached.
2. Coaching. Comments and program suggestions between a coach and the lifter they coach.
3. Your profile. Your display name, bio and gym name, which other lifters see when you publish a program, coach, or share on Following.
4. Following. If you turn on sharing, the lifters who follow you can see the finished workouts, personal records and achievements you choose to share, under your public name.
5. The achievements leaderboard. Lifters on the Silver and Gold tiers appear on it under a generated leaderboard name, with their achievement points and achievement count, unless they hide themselves. Anyone can read it.

This policy covers all five. Breaking it can cost you your publishing access or your account.

1. The rules

Do not publish, send, or put in your profile:

• Harassment, bullying, or threats aimed at anyone, whether a specific person, a group, or another lifter in the app.
• Hate speech: content that attacks or demeans people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, or veteran status.
• Sexual content or sexually explicit language. Content that sexualises a minor is never allowed. Content involving sexual exploitation or abuse of minors is strictly prohibited. We will promptly remove or disable access to such content and may immediately terminate the responsible account. Where required by law, we will report apparent violations to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or other appropriate authorities and preserve relevant evidence as legally required.
• Graphic violence or gore.
• Content promoting self-harm, suicide, or disordered eating, including extreme calorie restriction, purging, or unsafe weight-cutting protocols.
• Performance-enhancing drug protocols: dosing schedules, sourcing, or cycle instructions.
• Dangerous training instructions presented as safe.
• Impersonation of a real person, a coach, a brand, a gym, or Strength Almanac itself, including a display name designed to make people think you are someone you are not.
• Content you do not have the right to share, such as someone else's copyrighted program or writing, or a real person's name or likeness used to imply an endorsement you do not have.
• Spam: advertising, referral links, affiliate schemes, off-platform solicitation, or bulk-published filler programs.
• Illegal content, or content that helps with something illegal.
• Deceptive content, such as a program whose description misrepresents what it is, or a profile that falsifies credentials.

Also:

• Do not manipulate the community. No vote rings, no sockpuppet accounts, no coordinated upvoting, no gaming of rankings or of the leaderboard.
• Do not present yourself as a licensed professional if you are not. Coaching in Strength Almanac is peer guidance. If you are a doctor, physiotherapist or dietitian, say so accurately, and remember that what you say is your responsibility, not ours.
• Use a display name you would be comfortable defending. It travels with every program you publish and every program someone clones from you.

If you would not say it to a lifter's face in a busy gym, do not publish it here.

2. What you agree to before you publish

Every time you publish a program, the app asks you to tick a box confirming that the content is yours, that you have the right to share it, and that you understand Strength Almanac has zero tolerance for objectionable content or abuse, and that violating content can be removed and your publishing access revoked. You cannot publish without ticking it. We ask every time, not once at sign-up.

Coaches and coached lifters go through a separate consent screen the first time they use Coach Mode. We record which version of it they accepted, and when.

3. How we filter content

We use several layers, and we describe them as they are.

a) Word filter. Program names and descriptions, display names, bios, gym names and leaderboard names are checked against a profanity and slur list. The check runs in the app, and the same list is enforced on our servers when the text is saved, so a request that skips the app is checked too. Text that trips the filter is rejected and you can edit it and try again.

b) Reporting by lifters. Any lifter can report a community program, a lifter on Following, a leaderboard name, or their coach. See section 5.

c) Automatic hiding. When enough separate accounts report the same community program, it is hidden from other lifters before a person has looked at it. It is hidden, not deleted: its author still sees it, and an administrator can restore it or remove it. In the same way, when enough lifters connected to a lifter on Following report that lifter, the lifter is taken off the feed until an administrator reviews it. Reports from accounts that are not yet established, or that the reported person has blocked, do not count toward an automatic hide, but they are still recorded and still reviewed by a person.

d) Human review. An administrator reviews reports and either dismisses them (anything hidden automatically comes back) or acts on them. Moderator actions are recorded in a moderation log.

e) Publishing access. We can switch off the ability to publish programs for an account. Everything else in the app keeps working. See section 6.

What we do not do: we do not read your private workout logs, notes, measurements or private program library to moderate. Moderation applies to what you have made visible to other people, and to what is reported.

4. Leaderboard names

On the achievements leaderboard you appear under a leaderboard name that the app generates for you. It is not your display name, and you cannot type your own. You can ask for a new generated one.

Leaderboard names are generated and pass the same language filter as display names.

Any lifter can report a leaderboard name. An administrator can replace a reported name with a fresh generated one, and the lifter is told in the app that their leaderboard name was changed. You can hide yourself from the leaderboard at any time in your Profile.

5. How to report something

You do not need to explain yourself, and the person you report is never told who reported them.

A community program. Tap "Programs", then "Browse Templates", then "Community". Open a program and tap "Report". Choose a reason: "Inappropriate name", "Spam / Low quality", "Offensive description" or "Other". You can add details if you want, then tap "Submit Report".

A lifter on Following. From the Home screen, tap "Following" or "See all", then tap "Report" on a lifter's card. The same button is on each row of your "Followers" list. Choose a reason: "Inappropriate name", "Harassment", "Impersonation", "Spam" or "Something else", then tap "Send report".

A leaderboard name. From the Home screen tap "Achievements", then "Leaderboard". Tap "Report" beside the name and confirm by tapping "Report". No reason is needed.

A coach. Open the "Coach" tab and tap "Report this coach", under your coach's card. Choose a reason: "Inappropriate behavior", "Spam", "Harassment", "Impersonation" or "Other", then tap "Submit Report". Reporting a coach pauses the coaching connection immediately, until an administrator has looked at it.

Anything else, or if you cannot reach the app. Email [email protected] and tell us what you saw and where. You do not need an account to email us.

To stop the reporting tool itself being abused, there is a daily limit on how many program reports and leaderboard name reports one account can send. One credible report is enough for us to act.

6. What we do about a report, and how fast

We aim to review community-program, Following, and leaderboard reports within 24 hours of receipt. This is an operational target, not a guaranteed response deadline. Reports involving credible threats, exploitation, or immediate safety risks may receive priority. Automated alerts help identify overdue reports but do not replace human review.

This is what is in place behind that target. Each such report is added to a moderation queue and every administrator gets an in-app notice. We are also sent an email, though the email can be limited when many reports arrive at once; the queue and the in-app notice record every report. A scheduled check runs about every four hours. If any report in the queue has gone more than 24 hours without being reviewed, it sends an alarm email to us. The check tells us that a report is late. It does not review the report for us.

Reports about coaches are handled separately. They are not part of that queue, but the same scheduled check also alerts us when a coach report has been waiting for review for more than 24 hours. Reporting immediately pauses the coaching relationship while an administrator reviews the matter. We aim to complete the initial review promptly, prioritizing reports involving safety or abuse.

What can happen:

• No violation: the report is dismissed. Anything that was hidden automatically comes back, and so does a feed removal that the reports caused.
• A violation in a community program: the program is removed. We keep a record of what was removed.
• An inappropriate display name: it is replaced with a neutral name, and the lifter is told in the app.
• An offensive leaderboard name: it is replaced with a new generated name, and the lifter is told in the app.
• A lifter on Following who is breaking the rules: they can be suspended from the feed. Nothing of theirs is shown to anyone there and nothing new is shared.
• A coach: an administrator can resume the connection or end it.
• Repeated violations: we can switch off the account's ability to publish. Repeated or serious violations may lead to warnings, removal of content, temporary suspension, permanent loss of publishing privileges, or account termination. We consider the severity, frequency, circumstances, and previous enforcement history of violations. Serious violations may result in immediate termination without a prior warning.
• A serious violation, or something illegal: we may close the account and, where the law requires or someone is in danger, report it to the appropriate authorities.

We maintain and reasonably implement a policy to terminate, in appropriate circumstances, accounts of users who repeatedly infringe copyright. We review qualifying copyright notices and counter-notices under applicable law and may remove infringing content or terminate repeat infringers.

We retain reports and moderation records for the periods and purposes described in our Privacy Policy. Information may be removed or deidentified following account deletion, subject to applicable retention obligations.

7. Blocking and muting

Blocking is private and reversible. The person you block is not told.

A community author. Open one of their programs and tap "Block author", then confirm with "Block". Their programs no longer appear in your community library.

A lifter on Following. Tap "Block" on their card, or on their row in your "Followers" list. You will not see each other on Following, they cannot send you follow requests, and their programs are hidden from your community library.

To see who you have blocked, or to undo it, open "Profile", then "Blocked lifters", and tap "Unblock".

A coach. Open the "Coach" tab, tap the three-dot "Coach actions" menu on your coach's card and choose "Revoke coach access", then confirm with "Revoke". Access ends immediately, and their comments are no longer visible to either of you. The same menu has "Mute notifications from this coach", which keeps the connection but silences it.

Blocking changes what you see. It does not report anyone. If someone is breaking the rules, please also report them: blocking hides them from you, reporting asks us to act for everyone.

8. If we get it wrong

Appeals. If your content is removed, your publishing access is restricted, or your account is suspended, you may request reconsideration within 30 calendar days after receiving notice of the decision.

Send your appeal to [email protected], identifying the affected content or account and why you believe the decision should be reconsidered.

An administrator will review the appeal, considering the original decision and any additional information. Where reasonably available, a different administrator will perform the review. We aim to respond within 14 calendar days, although complex cases may take longer.

A successful appeal may result in reinstatement of content or access. Submitting an appeal does not automatically suspend enforcement of the original decision.

9. Your training data

If we remove something you published, take you off the Following feed, change your name, or switch off your ability to publish, your own training history is not touched. Your logged workouts, records and programs stay yours, and you can still export them. Ordinary moderation does not delete your private workout data. Closing your account can, however, result in your account data being deleted, as set out in the Terms of Service and the Privacy Policy.

10. Contact

Report content, ask about a removal, or anything urgent: [email protected]
Copyright complaints and legal notices: [email protected]

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