Community guidelines

Ghostedcheck only works if reports are first-hand, specific, and about a process — not a person. These rules are enforced by automated screens before a report is filed, by a self-tuning recurrence hold before it is public, and by community flags after. They protect other people. They also protect you. Breaking them is how filers get sued.

Eligibility

You must be 18 or older. The ledger is about hiring processes. It is not for minors, not for gossip about a classmate, and not for a report you did not live through.

Write this

• The job title as posted, and whether the listing came back.
• What you were asked to do: screens, panels, take-homes, unpaid projects.
• What happened after: silence, a generic rejection, a re-post.
• Your own words. Be specific. Dates and process beats adjectives.

Do not write this

• Names of people. No first names, last names, or full names — not interviewers, recruiters, founders, or “the manager, Alex.” Name the company and the role. An automated screen rejects the filing if a person is named.
• Contact details. No emails, phones, handles, or profile URLs. Those filings are rejected automatically.
• Accusations of crime against a person. If you believe a crime occurred, that is for the police, not this ledger.
• False facts about a company you did not observe. A company can sue over a false statement of fact even when no person is named. Stick to the process you went through.
• Confidential material. No source code, customer lists, passwords, or home addresses.
• Someone else’s writing. Do not paste a copyrighted assignment, offer letter, or article. Flag copies you see.
• Experiences you did not have. No reviews of a friend, a rumor, or a company you only read about.
• Hate, threats, or spam.

Opinion, not a police report

A statement of opinion about a process (“the take-home was a full product spec”) is what this site is for. A statement of fact about a person (“X stole my work and is a fraud”) is how people get sued, and how reports get hidden. A statement of fact about a company that you cannot stand behind is also how you get sued. If a company challenges a report, courts look at whether a statement can be proven true or false. Write so that is not the fight. You are solely responsible for your text. Ghostedcheck does not adopt it as its own speech and does not indemnify you. See the terms.

Recurrence hold

A filing is held until independent first-hand accounts of the same pattern at the same company are received from distinct connections. The number required is computed from the ledger: it starts at three, can rise if that cluster, that pattern, or the ledger is being flagged or hidden, and can fall once the pattern is already public. This is automatic. It is not a fact-check, not a background check, and not a finding that anyone applied. A held filing is not listed on the public ledger and cannot be edited. See how the hold works.

Flagging

Anyone can flag a public report for a guideline reason, including naming a person, threats or hate, confidential data, spam, the wrong company, not a hiring process, or copied work. Repeat flags from the same connection are ignored. After several distinct flags, a report is taken off the public ledger. Flag pressure also feeds the self-tuning bar: a noisy cluster or a noisy ledger can require more independent accounts before anything in that pattern is listed. If a cluster then falls below the recurrence threshold, remaining reports in that cluster can be held again. Flagging to bury a lawful account of a hiring process is itself abuse.

Companies

Ghostedcheck does not currently offer a verified reply channel. If you represent a company, you may flag reports that name people, leak confidential data, copy someone else’s work, or are about the wrong entity. You may not flood the ledger with counter-reports. Formal court orders, copyright notices, and demands use the legal request package. Harsh opinions about a process that follow these guidelines stay up.