Community Guidelines

Coffee is subjective. Your 94-point espresso is someone else’s grocery store drip — and that’s fine. Disagree about extraction, roast profiles, water chemistry, grinders. Just do it with the assumption that the person on the other side genuinely loves coffee too.

• Critique the brew, not the brewer
• No personal attacks, harassment, or targeted negativity
• No hate speech, slurs, or discriminatory language
• No sexual, violent, or deliberately offensive content

BrewMark is a resource people use to make real decisions — what beans to buy, what recipe to try, what roaster to trust. That only works if the information is genuine.

• Don’t post fake reviews or ratings
• Don’t impersonate a roaster, barista, or other community member
• Don’t manipulate brew data or ratings to game rankings
• Disclose if you have a commercial relationship with a roaster you’re reviewing

Sharing a recipe is sharing a piece of your practice. When you post one — or adapt someone else’s — a few things matter:

• Give credit. If your recipe is based on someone else’s, mention it. Attribution is how knowledge travels in specialty coffee.
• No plagiarism. Don’t copy a roaster’s published recipe and post it as your own original work.
• Be accurate. Grind settings, ratios, temps, and times should reflect what actually worked for you — not aspirational numbers.
• No spam. Don’t flood the platform with near-identical recipe variations to inflate your profile.

Comments and ratings are the most visible form of community interaction on BrewMark. A few ground rules:

• Stay on topic — keep comments related to the recipe, coffee, or brewing method
• No promotional links, referral codes, or commercial spam
• No coordinated brigading — don’t organize groups to downvote or attack a recipe or roaster
• Tasting notes are welcome; personal opinions about a roaster’s politics, location, or owners are not

If you see something that violates these guidelines, report it. Every comment and recipe has a report option — use it for content that is genuinely problematic, not just content you disagree with.

Our moderation process runs automatically for obvious violations (powered by a profanity filter with human review for edge cases) and manually for reported content. We review all reports and take action where warranted.

For urgent issues, reach us directly at community@brewmark.io.

We try to be proportionate. For most first-time violations, we’ll remove the content and send a notice. Repeated or severe violations escalate:

• Content removal — the specific post, comment, or review is taken down
• Temporary suspension — your account is paused while we review
• Permanent account termination — for serious or repeated violations

If you believe a moderation action was made in error, email community@brewmark.io with context and we’ll review it.

These rules exist to protect something worth protecting: a place where genuine coffee knowledge accumulates, where a first-time V60 user can trust the recipes they find, and where roasters can share their work without it being gamed or misrepresented.

If you’re acting in good faith and genuinely trying to contribute, you already get it. These guidelines are for the edge cases, not the majority.