yap room

Community Guidelines

Effective May 12, 2026

On YapRoom, two speakers connect in a shared room to record a conversation together. These guidelines keep the experience safe for everyone and help us deliver clean, usable datasets to the third-party partners whose licensing fees ultimately compensate you. Breaking these rules can result in suspension or account termination.

What we expect

  • Be respectful. Treat your conversation partner the way you would want to be treated.
  • Stay yourself.Use your real first name and accurate demographic information at signup. Don’t pretend to be someone else.
  • Stay in the conversation. No background broadcasts, podcasts, TV audio, or AI voices on your side of the call.
  • Only record yourself.Don’t put third parties on speakerphone or record people who haven’t given consent to YapRoom.

Not allowed

  • Harassment, threats, slurs, hate speech, or content that targets people based on race, religion, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, or nationality.
  • Sexually explicit content. Mild profanity in normal conversation is fine; explicit sexual content is not, and any sexual content involving minors will be reported to law enforcement.
  • Doxxing — sharing your partner’s personal information, phone number, address, or social handles.
  • Inciting violence, self-harm, or illegal activity.
  • Spam, advertising, attempts to take the conversation off-platform, or attempts to solicit money from your partner.
  • Recording or sharing the audio of your session outside of YapRoom.

If something goes wrong

After every session — and any time, from your list of known yappers — you can tap Report to flag the conversation for moderator review, and Block to prevent that person from joining your sessions again. Blocking also removes them from your in-app lists immediately and notifies our moderation team.

Reports go to a moderation queue and are reviewed and acted on within 24 hours. You don’t need to provide your real name in the report — we already have the session metadata.

For urgent safety issues, email safety@yap-room.com. If you or someone else is in immediate danger, contact local emergency services first.

How we enforce

For first-time minor violations we typically warn. For severe violations (threats, doxxing, content involving minors) we suspend immediately. Repeated violations lead to account termination and forfeiture of any pending compensation. Where appropriate we cooperate with law enforcement.

Appeals

If you believe a suspension was a mistake, reply to the notification email or write to safety@yap-room.com. We respond within 14 days.