What belongs here

What is normal here

Training, shirtless or otherwise. Sweat, strain, a red face, exhaustion. Bare chests, backs and legs. Sports bras, vests, shorts, swimwear. An ice bath. A split lip. Praying, cooking, reading, working, your child in shot beside you.

That is said first, and in that much detail, because it is the part an automatic check gets wrong. Those checks are built for the open internet, where somebody shirtless close to a camera usually means something else. Here it means Tuesday, and a product that forgot it would refuse its best members’ best clips.

What does not belong

• Nudity, or anything sexual. Exposed genitals, anus or female nipples. Sexual activity, or a pose whose evident purpose is sexual.
• Graphic violence. A real injury in gory detail, a weapon used on a person, or self-harm. A split lip from a hard session is not this.
• Somebody who did not agree to be in it. The rules for that are on the post screen itself, where they can still change what you film.
• Somebody else’s work posted as your own. Sharing a video you admire is encouraged and has its own button. Uploading it as yours is a different act.

How we actually check

When you post, your own phone builds a sheet of still frames from the clip. That sheet already exists: it is what makes dragging through a clip instant for whoever watches it. Before anything is uploaded, that one image is checked.

The check happens before the upload, not after it. If a clip is refused, nothing of it was ever stored. The video never leaves your phone.

The check is done by a vision model rather than a person. One image goes to it, and it is the sheet of stills. Not the video, not your caption, not your name, and no identifier that would say the clip was yours. It is not kept and nothing is trained on it, which is the same promise made everywhere else in this product.

It errs toward letting things through. If it cannot tell, if the frames are too dark, or if the check cannot be reached at all, the clip posts. A check that failed the other way would mean an outage telling people their own training footage is obscene, and that is a worse morning than one bad clip being up for an hour.

If a clip is refused and you think that is wrong, say so and a person will look at it. That is not a formality. The machine is wrong sometimes and we would rather hear about it than not.

Sharing somebody else’s video

You can post a YouTube or Vimeo link, and we encourage it. It plays from there, so the view counts for whoever made it and nothing of theirs is copied here. We ask the provider about a link before it can be posted, and anything they have age-restricted, or rated for nudity, drugs or violence, is refused.

What is not checked, as of today

Written down because a page that only describes the working half is not worth reading.

• There is no age gate. We do not ask how old anybody is, and every signed-in member can see every published clip.
• We do not match against known illegal material. The databases for that exist and we are not using one yet.
• Nothing re-checks a clip once it is up. The check happens once, at post.
• A reported clip is read by one person. That works at this size and will not at a thousand members.

What is planned

In the order we intend to do them. None is finished, and the list is here so it can be held against us.

• An age gate at sign-up, and a stated minimum age in the Terms. It is the prerequisite for most of the rest of this list.
• Matching against known illegal material. Unlike everything else here this is not a judgement call. It is also the one item that needs a lawyer rather than an engineer, because what must happen when something matches is set by law and not by us.
• A written standard for whoever reads the queue, before that is anybody other than the founder, so two people reading the same clip reach the same answer.
• Re-checking a clip when it is reported, so a report arrives with a second opinion attached rather than as a bare accusation.
• Telling you what happened to something you reported. Today you press the button and hear nothing back.

Reporting something

Every clip has a way to report it. One report per person per clip, and the author is never told who reported them.

If something here is yours and should not be, that has its own page. For anything else, info@mylifespotter.com.

This page describes what the product does today. It has not been reviewed by a lawyer. When the practice changes, this page changes with it.