PLEASE USE YOUR MANNERS - YOUR POST WON'T BE APPROVED unless it politely includes a please or thank you to the people you are turning to for help/advice.

PLEASE READ THE TEXT BELOW - INCLUDING OUR TERMS OF USE - BEFORE POSTING.

Terms of Use and FAQs are here ► https://bit.ly/3uJZZEf

This anonymous feature does not 'bypass' admins and post directly to the page. All posts are reviewed by admins for compliance with Facebook's own Standards and our page's House Rules as outlined below.

Your post is anonymous to us. Do not ask us to contact you. We don't know who you are.

Certain posts are not shared because they go against Facebook's Standards. Therefore, if your post is not shared to the page - the reason could be as simple as the fact that your post is about drugs, firearms, solicitation of sex, harassment, bullying or that it contains key words that could potentially trigger those Facebook filters.

We don't share :

• commercial posts
• requests for employment or requests for free stuff/services
• snarky responses to other anonymous posts
• "free to a good home" posts about pets
• name and shame posts. This includes number plates.
• requests for accommodation / break lease or any type of buy/sell /swap post. There are numerous other pages, groups, EBay and Gumtree for this.
• questions that a 1 minute Google search can answer
• political posts
• posts that we think are untrue
• looking for love posts - although we may publish a limited number at our discretion.
• posts with links to any site including other Facebook pages.
• posts with stories designed to generate charity. This is because a few scammers have ruined it for those in genuine need.
• anonymous "researchers" because they are often journalists looking for stories.
• looking for specific people posts.
• posts that are repetitive whereby a very similar one has only just recently been posted

We reserve the right to shorten / edit your post. If you are not okay with this - do not post.

In periods of high volume, not all posts are shared.

Once we share your anon post to the page WE DO NOT DELETE IT. So THINK before you use this feature.

Do not "out" yourself by responding to comments on your post. Outing yourself under posts could bring additional pain or embarrassment to yourself or people close to you and outing yourself under posts around the subject of DV for instance, could place you in danger.

Please think about how your post might be interpreted by others and word it accordingly. This will save you from having to do a follow up post (which we will not publish) to explain something that has been misinterpreted.

If your post is medical in nature you may receive recommendations for pseudoscientific remedies, treatments etc. We admins recommend your first port of call should always be your GP followed by any specialist they recommend. Should you choose the pseudoscientific path, we at Gold Coast Community Facebook page will not be held responsible for any adverse results.

Finally, if you upload any original image with your post, by clicking submit, you agree to relinquish ownership of the words and image to Gold Coast Community in perpetuity for the purposes of promoting the page or any other use as we see fit.

Please note that due to our collaboration with Hot Tomato your post may also be used in a broadcast on their radio station.

We hope you find the answers you need. All the best.

The Admins