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Bottl.Service is a 21+ space built around drinks and nightlife. These are the rules we actually enforce — on posts, photos, videos, profiles and private messages.

This is a 21+ room, and we treat it like one

Everyone here is an adult. Swearing is fine, at any strength. So are hot takes, blunt opinions, jokes, flirting, and photos of people drinking and partying — bars, clubs, crowds and nightlife are the point of the platform, not an exception we tolerate.

If something is only edgy because it is nightlife, it stays up.

What is never allowed, anywhere

These apply to every surface — a post, a caption, a photo, a video, a profile, a voice note, a private message:

  • Anything sexual involving a minor, or where someone reads as underage. Zero tolerance, no benefit of the doubt.
  • Slurs and hate speech targeting a protected group. A slur is not the same as ordinary cussing.
  • Threats of violence, or incitement of it.
  • Harassment — targeted abuse of a person or a group.
  • Doxxing — passing on someone else's address, workplace, number or routine.
  • Scams and fraud — advance-fee (“send $500 and I'll double it”), crypto pitches, phishing for passwords or card details, fake giveaways.
  • Drugs and weapons — offering to sell or supply them, including the coded way it gets said.
  • Serving minors, drunk driving, or pushing dangerous drinking.
  • Graphic violence, gore or self-harm.

In public — posts, photos, videos and profiles

Anything you post to the feed is public, so a few things that are fine in a private message are not fine here: spam, and selling or soliciting off the platform. Sexual content and nudity are not allowed in public either.

Your bio can say where you work and who you work with — naming or tagging a brand is fine. What is not fine is presenting your account as a company: “Official support”, “verified admin”, “message here for refunds”. Real affiliations get a verified badge from our own records; the badge is the claim that counts.

Photos and videos get looked at, and video gets listened to — both the words and the sound. Grey-area nightlife content stays up while a human takes a second look; it is not removed for being borderline.

In private — direct messages

We do not screen your private messages. A DM is a conversation between two adults who chose to talk, and reading it before it is delivered would not make it safer — it would only make it read. There is exactly one thing we check for, and it is sexual content involving a minor. That we will never carry.

Everything else reaches the person you sent it to. That includes things that would be removed from the public feed in a heartbeat — hostility, insults, sexual conversation between adults, and yes, things that are against the rules or against the law.

That is deliberate, and it is not indifference. Blocking a message does not protect the person it was sent to — they never see it, so they cannot block or report whoever sent it, and the sender just rewords it and sends it again. Delivery is what makes a message reportable.

So your inbox is yours to run. Block stops someone reaching you at all. Report hands the conversation to our team, who can remove the message, block the account for you, or take it further. Neither tells the other person you did it. If someone sends you something ugly, that is the lever — and it works better than a filter would have.

How this is enforced

Most checks are automatic and run before anything is stored. If something is refused, you will be told at the moment you try to send it.

Automated review is not perfect, and we would rather occasionally let something through and look at it than block ordinary conversation. When we cannot check something — a service is down, audio will not transcribe — it goes through and a person reviews it, rather than being blocked on a maybe.

If we got it wrong, tell us. Open Report an issue from the menu and include what you were trying to send. A refusal is not a strike against your account.

See also Terms of Service, Privacy Policy, and Responsible Drinking.