Content policy
PALMA recognises achievement. It hosts no creator work, and brokers nothing.
PALMA is a record of professional achievement. Its public pages are suitable for every audience, and stay that way by design: there is no upload path for creator work, no feed, and no commentary.
Evidence is ours to gather
PALMA does not ask the audience to prove anything. A nomination is a name, a category and a sentence. If a creator’s candidacy needs evidencing, PALMA gathers it, from the creator, from the public record, and from the platforms where the work already lives.
Evidence is a private reference for authorised judges. PALMA does not copy, mirror or display a creator’s work, and evidence never appears on the public site. This is partly a legal position and mostly an editorial one: an institution that recognises work does not need to republish it, and the moment it does, it takes on the obligations of a platform and loses the detachment that makes its judgement worth anything.
Age and eligibility
Every PALMA creator must be 18 or over. Age and identity assurance is carried out by a specialist third-party provider. PALMA stores only the verification status, the provider’s reference and the date, never an identity document, and never anything that is shown publicly.
Prohibited
- Pornographic uploads
- Explicit sexual images or video
- Sexual services advertising
- Escort or brokerage transactions
- Child sexual abuse material
- Non-consensual intimate imagery
- Threats, blackmail or extortion
- Doxxing or stalking
- Impersonation
- Fraud
- Hate-based abuse
- Otherwise illegal content
Integrity
Nominations are rate-limited, screened for automation, and reviewed by a person before they reach a judge. Fabricated achievements, impersonation and coordinated nomination campaigns end a nomination and may end a creator’s eligibility. Popularity is not judging, and PALMA will not let it become judging by the back door.
Revocation
PALMA can revoke an honour. When it does, nothing is deleted: the honour, its record and its verification page all remain and read revoked. An institution that quietly erases its mistakes cannot be trusted about its successes.
Reporting a concern
If you believe someone is presenting a PALMA they do not hold, or that content on PALMA breaches this policy, tell us.