Community Guidelines
Wheel Names is often used in shared spaces: classrooms, meetings, events, livestreams, families, and teams. These Community Guidelines help organizers create wheels that are safe, respectful, inclusive, and appropriate for the people watching or participating.
Last updated: July 30, 2026
Respect people represented on a wheel
Use names or labels only for an announced, appropriate purpose. Do not use a wheel to shame, rank, humiliate, threaten, sexualize, stereotype, or pressure someone. Explain what selection means and allow a reasonable alternative when participation is optional.
Protect participant privacy
Prefer first names, initials, nicknames, badge numbers, or neutral labels when full identities are unnecessary. Never enter passwords, addresses, medical details, school records, government identifiers, payment information, or confidential employment data. Remember that projectors, screenshots, exports, and shared links can expose a list beyond the original audience.
Content and conduct that are not allowed
- Illegal activity, credible threats, or instructions intended to cause harm.
- Hate, harassment, bullying, exploitation, or non-consensual sexual content.
- Malware, phishing, credential theft, or attempts to disrupt the service.
- Copyright or privacy violations.
- Deceptive draws that conceal weights, duplicates, removals, or eligibility edits.
- Use designed to evade platform rules or applicable law.
Make participation inclusive
A visibly random turn can still create barriers. Consider accessibility, language, cultural context, anxiety, sensory needs, workload, and prior participation. Smart Fair Rotation may help balance repeated turns, but an organizer should still provide accommodations and explain that it is not independent randomness.
Classrooms and activities involving minors
An adult should supervise use, choose minimal labels, keep private records off the wheel, and avoid public sharing. Selection should not replace safeguarding, individual accommodations, or an educator’s professional judgment.
Public displays, recordings, and livestreams
Check every visible entry before screen sharing. Close unrelated tabs and panels, obtain permissions where needed, and avoid displaying private URLs or contact details. Record only what the audience was told would be recorded.
Report a concern
Use Contact Us to report a safety, privacy, accessibility, or rights concern. Include the page URL and enough detail to locate the issue, but do not reproduce harmful or sensitive content unnecessarily.
Online-safety reference: UNICEF guidance on cyberbullying.
