Community Guidelines

What This Page Is

TickerPosts is a community for stock discussion. These guidelines describe how to participate, what kinds of posts are not allowed, and how moderation handles violations. They sit alongside our disclaimer, which explains that nothing on the site is investment advice, and our FAQ, which gives shorter plain-English answers to common questions about how the site works and how to report a bad post.

The goal is simple: a calmer, more useful place to talk about tickers than the average stock forum. That requires honest sourcing, plain language, and consistent rules against the kinds of manipulation that public investor-protection agencies have warned about for years.

Post Honestly. Cite Sources When You Make Claims.

If you say a company is being investigated, has new earnings, has been sued, has an FDA decision pending, is being bought out, or has unusual short interest, link the source. Press releases, SEC filings, regulator statements, and reputable news outlets are good sources. Screenshots of unknown chat groups are not.

Opinions and trade ideas do not need a source, but please label them as such. Phrases like “I think”, “my read is”, or “in my opinion” keep the line between speculation and fact clear for other readers.

No Pump-and-Dump or Coordinated Promotion

Do not post to hype a stock you are quietly trying to sell into. Do not coordinate with other accounts to push a ticker. Do not flood a thread to make a stock look more popular or more bullish than it is. This applies whether you are paid, part of a private group, or doing it on your own.

Promotional posts about low-volume, micro-cap, penny, and recently reverse-split stocks are reviewed more strictly because regulators have flagged these as the most common pump-and-dump targets. Expect tighter rules on those tickers.

No Fake Screenshots, Forged Documents, or Impersonation

Do not post edited brokerage screenshots, fabricated profit-and-loss images, doctored charts, or fake news articles. Do not impersonate companies, executives, analysts, regulators, journalists, or other TickerPosts users. If you share a screenshot, it should be unedited and you should be ready to explain what it shows.

No Misleading Price Claims or Guaranteed-Return Language

Do not promise specific returns, guaranteed gains, “risk-free” trades, insider knowledge, or 100x moves. Do not claim a stock will hit a specific price by a specific date as if it were a known outcome. These phrases are classic markers of the manipulative posts that hurt retail investors most, and they are not welcome here even when phrased as “just a prediction”.

No Spam, Off-Topic, or Repetitive Posting

Stay on topic for the ticker or thread you are posting in. Do not repost the same content across many tickers. Do not paste affiliate links, referral codes, paid signal-group invitations, or generic crypto promotions into stock discussions. Self-promotion of newsletters, YouTube channels, or paid services is restricted and may be removed.

Treat Other Users Like People

Disagreement is welcome. Personal attacks, slurs, harassment, doxxing, and threats are not. Mocking users for losses, celebrating someone losing money, or piling on a single user is not the tone we want. You can be sharp without being cruel.

Account Integrity

One person, one main account. Do not run multiple accounts to upvote your own posts, simulate a crowd, evade a moderation action, or pretend to be a different reader agreeing with you. Buying or trading TickerPosts accounts is not allowed.

Special Care With High-Risk Tickers

For penny stocks, micro-caps, recently reverse-split tickers, OTC names, very low-float stocks, and stocks under known dilution risk, hold posts to a higher standard. Sourced news is welcome. Hype, vague price targets, and unverified screenshots about these names are removed faster than for large, liquid companies.

For background on how these stocks are commonly manipulated, see public guidance from FINRA at finra.org and from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission at investor.gov.

Reporting Posts

If you see a post that looks like coordinated promotion, a fake screenshot, an impersonation attempt, a guaranteed-return claim, or harassment, report it from the post. Reports go to the moderation queue. Reporting in good faith is welcome even when you turn out to be wrong; abusing the report button to silence opinions you disagree with is not.

How Moderation Works

Posts that break these rules can be hidden, removed, or labeled (for example, as an unverified rumor or an unsourced screenshot). Repeated or serious violations can lead to rate limits, temporary suspension, or a permanent ban. For obvious spam, coordinated manipulation, or impersonation, moderation can act without warning.

If you think a moderation action was wrong, you can appeal it from the post or from your account settings once an appeal flow is available. We will publish a moderation log over time so the community can see what is being removed and why.

Changes To These Guidelines

We may update these guidelines as the community grows and as moderation tools improve. Material changes will be noted in the changelog.