Community Guidelines

What this platform is forrealfarmtalk exists for farmers to talk farming. Field notes, market reads, the honest stuff. Sell direct from the farm. Open the gate to visitors. Build genuine peer connections with other operators around the world. We're not a debating society and we're not a culture-war battleground.

Who is welcome

Anyone who farms, anyone who works on a farm, anyone interested in being in conversation with farmers on equal terms. That includes vegetable growers, graziers, dairy farmers, orchardists, beekeepers, fishers, foresters, agritech operators, ag students, agronomists, vets, support workers, whoever's doing the work or wants to learn from people doing it.

Dietary or lifestyle choices are not a basis for exclusion or report. A vegan farmer growing vegetables is welcome. A meat farmer breeding cattle is welcome. A reader who eats neither is welcome. The line is behaviour, not identity.

What we expect

• Talk about farming.Field experience, what you tried, what worked, what didn't, what you're paying, what you're selling for, what you're watching.
• Be honest in listings. Real photos, real descriptions, real quantities. The marketplace works because sellers stand behind what they post.
• Disagree well. Other farmers do things differently. Different country, different soil, different generation. Argue with the method, not the person.
• Disclose conflicts.If you're an industry rep, an agritech vendor, a consultant, say so when you're posting. The community values transparency.

What we don't allow

These behaviours get content removed and, repeated, get accounts suspended. They apply regardless of the political, dietary, or ideological angle they come from:

• Harassment of farmers. Personal attacks on operators or their families, threats of violence, doxxing, sustained abuse of an individual or a farm, including coordinated campaigns from outside groups. This is the most common form of attack on agriculture community platforms and we treat it with the most weight.
• Off-topic activism.The platform is not a venue for any movement's recruitment, fundraising, or coordinated brigading. Constructive conversation about a topic, including disagreement with a farming practice, is fine. Coordinated targeting of farmers from any side is not.
• Spam. Repeated promotional posts unrelated to constructive conversation, scraped or AI-generated content posted as your own, off-topic links, sales bait dressed as posts.
• Impersonation. Pretending to be another farmer, farm, organisation, or industry body. This includes catfish accounts created to bait farmers into responses.
• Material misinformation. False claims about a specific operation, market figures, animal-welfare practices, or food-safety status that could harm a farmer or a buyer.
• Prohibited content. Anything illegal where you are or where the recipient is, controlled substances, undeclared restricted veterinary products, stolen items, content sexualising minors, weapon sales not permitted under local law.
• Marketplace abuse. Listings that misrepresent stock, condition, species, or compliance status, covered in detail in the Marketplace Policy.

How reports work

Every post, listing, profile, and farm experience has a Reportbutton. Pick the category that fits, leave a short note if useful. Reports are reviewed by a moderator, not actioned automatically, and we'll take the category mix and the reporter's history into account.

We do not act on reports that are themselves harassment (e.g. flooding a specific farmer's profile with bad-faith reports because you disagree with them). Patterns of bad-faith reporting are themselves grounds for account action.

If you are the subject of off-platform coordinated harassment that's spilling in, for example a brigade following a viral post on another platform, you can contact safety@realfarmtalk.com directly. We can temporarily lock comments on a profile or content while we look at it.

Appeals

If your content is removed or your account is restricted and you think the moderator got it wrong, reply to the notification or email safety@realfarmtalk.com. A different moderator will review.

Why we framed it this way

Some platforms in agriculture have set up identity-targeting buttons, “report a vegan”, “report an activist”. We don't, because (1) they catch the wrong people (a vegetable farmer is not the problem; a brigading account is), (2) they miss the real attackers from other angles, and (3) they make the platform's story about an outgroup instead of about farming. Reporting behaviour rather than identity catches more of what hurts farmers and less of what doesn't.

Questions about these guidelines: safety@realfarmtalk.com. The shorter legal documents are linked from the footer.