Community policy

The short version

• Post your own work, describe it honestly and treat people decently.
• No one else's work as yours, no harassment, no spam and no scraping people's details.
• If we act against your work or your account, we tell you what we did and why, and you can answer. No silent refusals, ever.
• Steps fit the act: a word first for small things, stronger steps for serious or repeated ones.

What belongs here

• Your own art, honestly described, with a truthful AI declaration under our AI policy.
• Real organizations running real calls, with prospectuses that say what they mean.
• Messages you would sign your name to. On GallerySpark, you do.

What does not

• Someone else's work presented as yours. Real rights complaints run through our copyright page.
• Harassment, threats or hate aimed at a person or a group.
• Spam, scams and bulk messages nobody asked for.
• Collecting other people's contact details from the site, by hand at scale or by scraping.
• Pretending to be an artist, an organization or GallerySpark itself.
• Anything unlawful.

Jurors and organizations

• Jurors keep call material to themselves and step back from scoring work by people close to them.
• Organizations run the calls they post fairly. The prospectus is the promise, and results go out when the prospectus says they will.

How we enforce

• We look at what was reported or found, in context, with a person doing the looking.
• If we act, the person affected hears what we did, which rule it rests on and how to answer.
• Answers are read by a person. If we got it wrong, we put it right and we say so.
• The steps, mildest first: a note, hiding a work, pausing an account and closing an account. Serious harm can skip steps.

Reporting something

Use the feedback page. Reports are read by a person, and the person reported does not learn who reported them.

Last updated October 15, 2026.