Community guidelines

The baseline: review the academic experience, not the person

A useful review describes what happened in the lecture, the classroom and the exam. The person is not the subject of the review, and attacks on them will not be published.

• Write about the explanation, the examples, the readings, the assignments, how papers were marked, what exams looked like, and how reachable the lecturer was outside class.
• Describe what you observed in your own dealings with the course, not the motives you assume behind it.
• Leave appearance, accent, health, family life and tribal or regional background out of it.
• Disliking a course is a legitimate opinion: explain why in detail instead of settling for a general verdict.

Write from your own experience

Nothing you heard about a lecturer from a friend, and nothing you copied from a group or another page, is published here. A review is first-hand: you took the course, or studied with the lecturer, and then you write.

• One review per course or professor. If your view changed after another semester, edit that review rather than posting a second one.
• Do not write on behalf of a classmate, a study group or a whole cohort.
• Name the semester where you can; both a course and a lecturer change from one term to the next.
• Do not copy text from elsewhere, and do not paste machine translation from a language you do not read.

No private information

Students and teaching staff are protected to the same degree. Any detail that identifies a person without bearing on teaching is removed.

• No phone numbers, home addresses, email addresses or social media handles.
• No student ID numbers, no personal timetables, no photographs of people.
• Do not name other students, and do not discuss their academic, financial or medical situation.
• Do not expose private details about a lecturer that have nothing to do with their teaching.

No abusive or discriminatory content

The platform is for every student, and nothing that diminishes a person because of their origin, religion, ethnicity, tribe, gender, language, disability or region will be published.

• No insults, no mockery of a person, no threatening or inflammatory language.
• No sexual content, and no personal overtures of any kind.
• If a course itself contained material you object to, describe it factually: what was required and what was said, without attacking the person who said it.

No unsubstantiated allegations

You may describe a bad experience in full. You may not attribute to a person an act that carries legal consequences without evidence. Allegations such as cheating, bribery, harassment or theft are not material for a review platform.

This also protects the writer: an unsubstantiated allegation can expose you to legal liability, not just to moderation.

• If something serious happened, its place is the university's official channel or the competent authority, not a public review page.
• If you are not certain what happened, write only what you observed: "papers took two months to come back", not "the lecturer takes money for a pass".
• Do not publish private correspondence, recordings, or unpublished course material.

No advertising or spam

A review is not a place to promote anything. Advertising is not published anywhere in review text.

• No links to private tutoring, no selling of notes or textbooks, no invitations to groups or channels.
• No referral codes, no offers, no promotion of a personal account, a university or a project.
• No pasting the same text in several places, and no burst of near-identical reviews.

Arabic and English are both welcome

Write in the language in which you can be precise. Arabic is the platform's primary language; English is equally accepted and equally searchable.

• University, professor and course names are searchable in both Arabic and English, so there is no need to repeat a name in every possible form.
• Writing in capitals in English does not strengthen a review, it makes it harder to read.
• Brevity helps: three specific paragraphs beat a general page.

How moderation works

Every review enters a queue before publication, where a moderator reads it against these guidelines. The text is judged, not the rating: a low rating written respectfully stays published.

• Pending: not yet published, visible only to its author and to moderators.
• Published: live on the page, which is the state of most reviews.
• Rejected: not published, with the reason recorded.
• Removed: taken down after publication, following a report or a later review.
• Moderators do not rewrite your text. If it needs a substantive change it will be rejected with the reason so that you can make it yourself.
• Every decision is written to an audit log, so who decided what, when and why can be traced.

How to report content

Every review carries a report action that reaches moderators directly, with a reason (spam, harassment, personal information, discrimination, unsubstantiated allegation, off topic, or other) and an optional field for anything else we should know.

• One report is enough; repeating it does not raise its priority.
• Do not report a review merely because you disagree with the rating. Write your own review and state your case.
• Your identity as a reporter is not shown to the author of the review, and is visible to moderators alone, so that repeated or frivolous reports can be checked.

What happens after a report or a rejection

A moderator reads the report and compares the text with these guidelines, then leaves the content as it is, hides it while the matter is decided, or removes it.

• If content is removed, the reason is recorded and the author is told where that is possible.
• Repeated violations lead to later reviews being rejected, and then to writing being suspended on the account.
• Repeated frivolous reporting is recorded too, and the right to report may be withdrawn with it.

Appealing a decision

If you believe a decision against your content was wrong, email the platform with the page link and an explanation of how the decision departs from these guidelines. The appeal is read by a moderator who did not make the first decision, and their decision is recorded as well.

Do not repost the same content from another account; that forfeits the appeal and counts as circumventing moderation.

Changes to these guidelines

These guidelines are updated when needed, and the date at the top of the page shows the last revision. Continuing to write reviews after an update means you accept the version in force at that time; carrying on after a substantive change is announced means you accept it.