Community rules
Say what you think. Keep it about the news.
Comments and discussions are for readers to talk about the news. These rules apply everywhere you can post in The Clearcut News app.
Welcome
- Disagreeing with a story, a party, a leader or the government, including sharp criticism.
- Sharing your own experience of an issue in your village, town or district.
- Writing in Telugu, Tenglish or English.
Not allowed
- Abuse and threats
- Insults, slurs or threats against anyone, including public figures.
- Hate
- Attacks on people for their caste, religion, gender, region or community.
- Sexual content
- Anything sexual or obscene, and anything involving children.
- Private information
- Phone numbers, addresses, or photos of private people without their consent.
- False claims
- Rumours or fake news presented as fact, especially about health, violence or elections.
- Spam and links
- Advertising, repeated posts, and links to other sites.
- Illegal content
- Anything that breaks Indian law, or that a court or authority has ordered removed.
How we check posts
Every comment and post is checked automatically before it appears, which takes a few seconds. Posts with links or phone numbers are refused straight away.
If a post might break these rules, it is held for our moderators and marked Under review. Only you can see it until they decide. Posts that follow the rules are then published; the rest are removed.
Anyone can report a comment or post from the app. Accounts that repeatedly break these rules may lose the ability to post.
Think we got a decision wrong, or want something removed? File a complaint.