Values & Mission

Sharesome was created to provide a safe place to share adult content and one where everyone is free to explore their sexuality positively and mindfully. We have robust protections and controls that ensure that Sharesome remains open, consensual, and safe, so adult users, content partners, and content creators can have a good time on Sharesome and find a secure and trustworthy environment.

We allocate significant time and resources to combat prohibited and illegal content, including non-consensual explicit content and child sexual abuse materials (CSAM). Over time, we proactively improve our defenses against illegal and prohibited content, including CSAM.

Acknowledging that improvement is an ongoing process, we continuously seek innovative solutions to stay ahead in our mission of fighting illegal and prohibited content.

These principles are integral to our corporate culture and part of our core values as a company.

Transparency Reports (from 2020 until current)

Our Transparency Reports show our ongoing and proactive efforts to create the safest

sex-positive social media platform in the world and provide insights and metrics about content

moderation efforts by our moderators and admins, including content proactively removed as a

result of automated content identification.

https://sharesome.com/transparency/

Online Documents

Several policies and binding documents are published on Sharesome, outlining our zero-tolerance policy towards illegal and prohibited content:

Only Verified Users and Content Partners can upload content to Sharesome

We’ve established a solid verification process for users who wish to become content uploaders, based on a manual review, supported by automated tools and third-party software.

Our Platform verifies that all uploaders

• Are over eighteen (18) years old, if the uploader is a natural person, or
• Have a good standing and are active, during the time of the registration, if the uploader is a legal entity.

Verified uploaders must maintain written release documents for all persons depicted in their content, confirming age, identity, and consent to being depicted and distributed, and to use the content for commercial reasons (if applicable).

The verification and onboarding process for uploaders involves collaboration across multiple teams, including the Moderation Team, Support Team, and Management. Users that are willing to become verified uploaders need to complete the following steps:

Content Moderation

A moderation system can not only rely on one method, it needs several lines of defense.

Sharesome chose a mix of technology (automation), data collection (tagging), crowd wisdom (community efforts), and human moderation (manual).

Content Moderation on Sharesome consists of two phases, as indicated below:

Technical and Organizational Safeguards

To support our zero-tolerance policy towards any kind of illegal content, we have implemented various technical and organizational measures:

• Partnerships with organizations combating child exploitation, human trafficking, slavery, and providing general support to adult industry performers. For example, ASACP (Association of Sites Advocating Child Protection) NCMEC (National Center for Missing & Exploited Children), or EOKM (Online Child Abuse Assessment Bureau).
• Advanced Age Verification Software: Sharesome has developed proprietary technology for age validation since 2018. Our Age Validation App gives a score (Min age) on the potential age of the persons in the scanned content. Results( for Min age <24) are displayed and manually reviewed by our Moderation Team.
• Advanced system analyzing text for blacklisted terms: Sharesome has developed a system to analyze text in chats, posts, and comments in search of prohibited and illegal terms added to a keyword list. If found, such terms are flagged by the system and displayed to the Moderation Team in the administration panel.
• Collaboration with third-party software providers to detect harmful content. Before the moderation process (during the upload), all content is scanned using third-party technology and services to identify anything that may potentially violate the Content Guidelines. The software utilizes a shared database with our in-house tools (Hash App, Age Validation App, and Fingerprinting App) of digital hashes (fingerprints) and is also able to detect inappropriate content based on ML and AI tech. For example the Hash Check Service from EOKM, or NCMEC CyberTipline (Beta).
• Use of digital fingerprinting technology to prevent re-upload of inappropriate content. Specialized software (Content-ID Hash App) protects Sharesome against inappropriate content that has already been removed from the Platform before. Digital fingerprinting technology compares the hashes (fingerprints) of newly uploaded content with a database of hashes (fingerprints) of previously removed content.

Staff responsible for the moderation processes

All our Admis are full-time employees of Sharesome. We do not outsource moderation.

Since 2020, we have been tracking “TPP (Time per Post)” as an internal benchmark to check if we have enough admins on board. The New York University’s Stern Center for Business and Human Rights says that moderators should have at least 300 seconds per decision to be effective.

Our TPP in Q2-2024 was at 260 seconds. (Compared to 150 seconds that a moderator at Facebook has.) We started at 240 seconds in 2020 and could improve the TPP, although Sharesome has been growing ever since.

Commitment to improve

We regularly invest in perfecting safety measures, employee training, and technology improvements to enhance our moderation tools and maintain a safe and enjoyable platform for all users. Our commitment to improve is ongoing.