Community guidelines

The rules

1. Be 18 or older. Kahoo is an adults-only platform, with no exceptions.
2. Keep your clothes on. Nudity and sexual behaviour on camera are not allowed.
3. No harassment. Including persistent unwanted contact after someone leaves.
4. No hate. Attacks based on race, religion, nationality, gender, sexuality or disability end an account.
5. No threats. Of violence, of exposure, of anything.
6. No spam or advertising. Including driving people to other platforms.
7. No scams. Financial, romantic, or otherwise.
8. Be a real person, live. No pre-recorded video, no loops, no impersonation.
9. Do not record others without consent. Kahoo does not record; neither should you.

How reports are judged

Kahoo does not simply count reports. A raw count is trivially abusable: one determined person with several browsers could remove anyone. Instead each report is weighed, and the weights are added up into a credibility score.

• A report must be tied to a session the two of you genuinely shared. Reports that cannot be tied to a real interaction count for nothing.
• One reporter counts once per day against the same person, and can never contribute more than one and a half points in total, no matter how many times they press the button.
• A report from a signed-in account weighs more than one from a guest.
• Severe categories — nudity, hate, threats, underage concerns — weigh more, but never enough to ban someone on their own.
• Someone whose reports are routinely dismissed by moderators stops counting.
• A burst of reports that appears coordinated is capped as a single group.

What happens, and when

Credibility score	Outcome
1 or more	A formal warning, and a moderation case is opened.
3 or more	The case is escalated for review by a person.
4 or more	A six-month restriction from video chat.
5 or more	A six-month restriction, always.
2 further, after a served restriction	A permanent ban.

An automatic decision can never jump straight to a permanent ban for a first offence. Only a moderator, having reviewed the evidence and confirmed a severe violation, can act outside the normal thresholds.

After a restriction

A six-month restriction ends on its own. You can come back. If you then collect two further credible reports, or a moderator confirms another severe violation, the ban becomes permanent.

Appeals

Every restriction can be appealed once, from your account page. A person reads it. If we got it wrong, the restriction is lifted and the reports behind it are marked dismissed — which also reduces the weight of everything that reporter files in future.

What we will not do

• We will not watch your calls. No administrator has the ability to observe a live conversation.
• We will not tell someone who reported or blocked them.
• We will not ban someone because one person pressed a button repeatedly.
• We will not keep a transcript of your conversation to use against you later. There is no transcript.