Trendzion is a community devoted to the spoken and written words of leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Discussion here should reflect that devotion — not as a loyalty test, but as an editorial frame that keeps the conversation grounded in reverence for the source material and for one another.
These standards are the basis on which every comment is reviewed. They are not rules of belief — you are not required to agree with the Church to post here. They are rules of tone, posture, and subject.
The nine pro-positions
We are, publicly and unapologetically:
- Pro Latter-day Saints — respectful of members, missionaries, leaders, and lay.
- Pro Zion — honoring the gathering, the covenant community, and the shared aim of a consecrated people.
- Pro life — affirming the sanctity of human life at every stage.
- Pro modesty — in dress, speech, and intent.
- Pro service — volunteer labor, ward and stake participation, quiet acts, the ministry.
- Pro charity — helping the poor and needy; the first and greatest public expression of our faith.
- Pro Jesus — Christ as the Redeemer and the Head of the Church.
- Pro God — Heavenly Father, the plan of salvation, and reverence for Deity.
- Pro celebration — joy in faith, joy in community, joy in the good news.
Anchored in the 13 Articles of Faith
These nine positions are not new. They are a restatement of what Joseph Smith wrote in the 13 Articles of Faith, canonized in the Pearl of Great Price. The Articles are the source; our standards are the application. The full text of the Articles is reproduced at the bottom of this page for reference.
What we do not allow
Posts that violate the community standards fall into these categories:
- Hostility toward the Church, its leaders, or its doctrine. Respectful disagreement is welcome. Sustained or vulgar attacks are not.
- Vulgarity, profanity, or crude language. Clean speech is a standard we hold to; coarse language moves a post toward moderation.
- Sexual content. None, ever, regardless of era or framing.
- Calls for violence or self-harm. None, ever.
- Doctrinal hostility — content whose purpose is to tear down faith rather than engage it. A question honestly asked is not hostility; a slogan deployed to mock is.
- Personal attacks and doxxing. Directed cruelty toward named members of the community or toward named Church figures.
- Spam, commercial links, and off-topic advertising. This is a discussion space, not a marketplace.
- Sustained hateful rhetoric — racial, ethnic, gender-based, or anti-religious (including rhetoric directed against faiths other than ours).
What happens when a post violates these standards
Trendzion uses two views: Liberty (the default) and Captivity (moderator-flagged).
- Clean posts appear in Liberty view, visible to everyone.
- Posts with narrow, surgically-masked issues (a single slur or crude word) appear in Liberty view with the offending span masked.
- Posts with more than one violation, or a whole-post violation, are moved to Captivity view.
- Deeply hostile or doctrinally-attacking posts are moved directly to Captivity view.
Captivity view exists because removing these comments entirely felt dishonest — they are part of the community conversation. Making them visible only behind a deliberate maturity gate felt like the right compromise. Trendzion does not host unsafe content in either view.
Appeal and edit
If your post is masked or moved to Captivity, you may edit it. The edit goes to a human moderator review queue. There is no SLA and no automated re-opening. A moderator reviews and either restores your comment to Liberty, keeps it masked, or deletes it. This is intentional: the editing path exists so you can make your argument again, better; it does not exist as a retry loop.
Banning
Repeated violations revoke posting privileges. A banned user can still read. Past comments remain where they are (masked stays masked, clean stays clean). We do not retroactively hide the history of a banned user — accountability matters.
Who enforces these standards
- The automated classifier (Moonshot Kimi-K2-Turbo in test mode; Anthropic Haiku 4.5 in production) reviews every new post and assigns a verdict.
- Human moderators review edits, appeals, and any post a user reports. Moderators can override the classifier in either direction.
- Administrators and the super admin can revoke moderator or admin status, create new accounts at any role, and edit this document.
Version and change history
This document is version-controlled in the Trendzion git repository at
docs/community-standards.md.
The live site renders the content here at /community-standards.html. Every change ships through code review.
Appendix: The 13 Articles of Faith
Canonical text from the Pearl of Great Price.
- We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.
- We believe that men will be punished for their own sins, and not for Adam's transgression.
- We believe that through the Atonement of Christ, all mankind may be saved, by obedience to the laws and ordinances of the Gospel.
- We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the Gospel are: first, Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ; second, Repentance; third, Baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; fourth, Laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost.
- We believe that a man must be called of God, by prophecy, and by the laying on of hands by those who are in authority, to preach the Gospel and administer in the ordinances thereof.
- We believe in the same organization that existed in the Primitive Church, namely, apostles, prophets, pastors, teachers, evangelists, and so forth.
- We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.
- We believe the Bible to be the word of God as far as it is translated correctly; we also believe the Book of Mormon to be the word of God.
- We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.
- We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and, that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.
- We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.
- We believe in being subject to kings, presidents, rulers, and magistrates, in obeying, honoring, and sustaining the law.
- We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul — We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.
— Joseph Smith, 1842