TalkSibi only works because people are willing to sound clumsy in front of strangers. That takes nerve, and it is fragile — one sarcastic reply can put someone off speaking for months. These rules exist to protect that, and they apply everywhere: profiles, chat, voice and video calls, live parties and games.
Every conversation on TalkSibi is practice for somebody. It is not a dating app, and anyone here for that will be asked to leave.
Different countries, accents, religions and ages, all mid-sentence in a language that is not theirs. Curiosity is welcome here; contempt is not.
An exchange means both people get their turn. Help with the language you grew up in, and nobody has to sell anything to anyone.
The same rules apply out loud. Camera is always optional — never pressure anyone to turn one on, and end a call the moment you are uncomfortable. In a live party, the host manages the mic; heckling a speaker who is struggling to finish a sentence is the fastest way to lose your own place in the room. Calls are not recorded and parties are not monitored, which is exactly why reporting matters.
Report and Block are on every profile, chat, call and party screen — the ⋯ menu in a conversation, and the button on a profile. A report sent that way arrives with the context attached, so you do not have to explain what happened from memory. For anything urgent, email safety@talksibi.com.
Reports are confidential. The person you reported is never told who reported them, and never shown what you wrote to us. Blocking is separate and instant: it takes effect the moment you tap it, whatever we later decide about the report.
Every report is read by a person within 24 hours, and you get an email when it has been. An AI reads the conversation first and writes up what it sees, so the person deciding starts from the facts and not from a summary of them — but the decision is always a human one.
Three small rules keep the first week calm for everybody, and they are the same ones the largest exchange apps use. Every new profile is checked before it goes on the wall — that it is a real photo, an adult, and kind words — usually in seconds, sometimes by a person within a day. A first message to somebody you do not know arrives as a request: you can write once, and again once they reply or follow you. And a new account can start ten new conversations a day (thirty once you have been here a fortnight or passed the selfie check), which is plenty for a real exchange and very little for a spammer. None of this ever asks you for an ID document.
What happens depends on what was done and on whether it has happened before. In order of severity:
Whatever the step, you are told which rule was broken — an account should never just stop working with no explanation.
You can always appeal, and a person will read it — appeals@talksibi.com. No permanent ban is decided by an automated system on its own. This matters to us more than most: TalkSibi was built by someone permanently banned from another language app with no reason given and nobody to ask. We are not going to do that to our own members.
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Depending on what happened, we warn, mute, restrict or remove the account. Anything involving a minor, a threat or sexual content sent without consent goes straight to removal. You are always told which rule was broken.
Yes. Reply to the email you were sent, or write to appeals@talksibi.com, and a human reads it. No permanent decision is made by an automated system alone.
Yes. The person you report is never shown who reported them, and never shown your message to us.
No. Voice and video calls are not recorded, and live parties are not listened to. Moderation acts on what members report, plus signals such as repeated reports against one account.
Ask first — a lot of people want every mistake caught, and a lot only want to be stopped when meaning breaks. Then correct the thing that would confuse a stranger, not every article and preposition.