Colophon — Fellowship Community Rules

Last updated: 2026-11-05 (version 1.5)

Fellowship is an optional place inside Colophon where Christians pray with and for one another: the Prayer Wall, the Fellowship room, and private messages between people who meet there. These rules keep it safe and kind. They apply everywhere in Fellowship — prayer requests, comments, messages and profiles — and you agree to them when you join.

Zero tolerance. There is no place in Fellowship for objectionable content or abusive users. What breaks these rules is removed, and whoever posts it can be removed from Fellowship without warning. We act on reports within 24 hours (how moderation works).

Your Bible reading and notes are not part of Fellowship: they stay on your device and need no account. What Fellowship keeps, and for how long, is in the privacy policy. Your account and the Chat+ subscription are covered by the terms of use.

Who Fellowship is for

Fellowship is for adults: you must be 18 or older (19 or older in Korea). When you join, it asks for your birth year. No one else sees it, and it can’t be changed later. Because only the year is asked, Fellowship opens on 1 January of the year you turn 19, so everyone in it is at least 18. If the year you give is too recent, Fellowship stays closed to that Apple ID or Google account, and deleting the account does not reopen it.

Only Colophon readers can join, and a Fellowship account is separate from any chat account in Erek Studio’s games. If you think someone in Fellowship is under 18, report them with “May be a minor”; the account can be suspended while the report is checked.

Kindness across traditions

Fellowship welcomes Christians of every tradition — Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant and others. Pray and speak in the words of your own tradition, and respect everyone else’s.

• Don’t attack, mock or run down other churches, denominations or faiths, or anyone’s beliefs.
• Disagree gently, or let it go. Fellowship is a place to pray for one another, not to win arguments.
• Comments on a prayer request are for encouragement and prayer, not for debate or advice.

On the Prayer Wall

Everyone in Fellowship can read the Prayer Wall, comment and tap “I prayed”. Posting a request is part of Chat+, up to 10 a week. Prayer requests and their comments are deleted from the server 30 days after the request was posted, and you can delete your own at any time.

• Share what you’re comfortable sharing. Everyone in Fellowship can read your request, and what you write can say something about your faith or your health.
• “Unspoken request” asks for prayer without the details. “Hide my name” shows your request as coming from “Someone”; we still know it’s you, to keep Fellowship safe.
• Protect everyone’s privacy, yours included. Don’t write anyone’s full name, address or medical details. Write “my sister” or “a friend”, and keep health matters general: “please pray for my mother’s health” is enough.
• If a full name or a specific place does slip in, the automatic check may replace it with a general word before it is shown, and you’ll see a note saying so.
• Tap “I prayed” when you have prayed.

Private messages

You can send a private message only to someone who has also written in the Fellowship room, and only once you have written there too. A first message arrives as a request: you can’t write again until the other person accepts or replies. You can decline a request, or block or report the sender without answering. In Fellowship’s settings, “Who can message me” lets you choose everyone, only people of your gender, or nobody.

Everything on this page applies in private messages too, the rule on contact details included.

No contact details, anywhere

Don’t share contact details anywhere in Fellowship — not in prayer requests, comments, the room, private messages or your profile. This applies to everyone, Chat+ subscribers included. Contact details means:

• phone numbers, also when written out in words or split across several messages;
• email addresses, also when spelled out (“name at example dot com”);
• web links and web addresses;
• usernames, handles and “find me on …” for any other app or site — Instagram, WhatsApp, Telegram, Facebook, TikTok, Snapchat, Discord, X or any other.

Fellowship’s filters refuse these, but no filter catches everything. If someone asks you to move to another app, or for your number, don’t: report it.

No money requests, no advertising

• Don’t ask for money, gifts, gift cards, donations or investments — for yourself, a church, a ministry or any cause — and don’t offer them.
• Don’t advertise, sell or promote anything: products, services, businesses, channels or fundraisers.

If anyone in Fellowship asks you for money, don’t send it. Report them.

Keep it safe and honest

• No sexual content, dating or flirting. Fellowship is not a place to look for a partner: no sexual talk, romantic advances or flirting.
• No harassment, hate or threats. No bullying, insults, slurs, threats or hate against anyone for who they are, and no encouraging anyone to hurt themselves or others.
• No impersonation. Don’t pretend to be another member, a public figure, a member of the clergy, or a church, denomination or ministry, and don’t use a nickname that claims a title or an office you don’t hold.
• No spam or scams. Don’t flood the room, repeat the same message or try to trick anyone.
• Your nickname is what others see, so don’t use your real full name, and keep it within these rules.

Child safety

There is zero tolerance for anything that sexualizes a child. Such content is removed at once and the account is banned for good. We keep the evidence the law requires, report it to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) or the competent national authority, and cooperate with law enforcement. Anyone, member or not, can raise a concern at the address below. Child safety contact: Mustafa Salim Erek (Erek Studio), mustafasalimerek@gmail.com.

If you or someone else is in crisis

Fellowship is not a crisis line or a counseling service. Members can pray with you, but they are not trained counselors, and no one is guaranteed to answer, or to answer quickly.

If you are thinking about suicide or about hurting yourself, please reach out to someone now:

• US and Canada: call or text 988.
• UK and Ireland: Samaritans, call 116 123.
• Anywhere else: find a helpline near you at findahelpline.com.
• If you are in danger right now, call your local emergency number.

If a prayer request, comment or room message you write sounds like a crisis, Fellowship shows you these resources first — before any limit or paywall. If you see someone else in crisis, pray for them, point them to these resources, and report the post with “Self-harm or suicide” so that it is looked at.

How moderation works

Automatic checks. Every prayer request and comment is checked before anyone else sees it: first by automatic filters (contact details, links, slurs), then by AI — Claude, from Anthropic. What clearly breaks these rules isn’t posted, and you’re told why. If the check is unsure, or can’t run at that moment, your words wait “in review”, visible only to you, until they are checked again or a person decides. Room messages and private messages pass the same automatic filters before they are sent, and the AI reads each one as it is posted: a message it judges clearly harmful is taken down at once, and one it is unsure about goes to review.

Reports. We act on reports within 24 hours. Reports go to Erek Studio’s review queue, where a person looks at them. So that reports don’t wait, any report still open after about 20 hours is reviewed by AI: when what was reported breaks these rules, it is removed and the person who posted it is removed from Fellowship. When the AI sees signs that someone is in crisis, or can’t decide, the report waits for a person — and if a reported prayer request, comment or message is still waiting 22 hours after the report, it is taken out of view until a person decides. A post or message that three different people report is taken down automatically.

What can happen. Depending on what was written, and how often:

• the prayer request, comment or message is removed;
• the account is suspended — Fellowship is paused for it, usually for 24 hours, or for 72 hours while a report that someone may be a minor is checked;
• the account is removed from Fellowship — what happens when a report is upheld: the account can no longer use Fellowship, though it can still be deleted;
• the account is banned — Fellowship closes to that Apple ID or Google account for good, and deleting the account and signing in again doesn’t bring it back.

A report that is upheld removes the content, and the person who posted it, from Fellowship. A person decides on a ban, for serious or repeated breaks. Suspensions come from the automatic checks (several messages taken down within a week) and from many reports about one person within a day, while those are looked at. We can act without warning, and on behaviour these rules don’t spell out when it puts people at risk. If you think we got something wrong, write to the address below.

Report and block

Every prayer request, comment, message and profile can be reported. What you report is hidden from you at once, and reporting a message or a person in the room or in private messages also blocks them for you. Blocking someone hides you from each other in Fellowship — prayer requests and comments included — and closes any private conversation between you; you can unblock in Fellowship’s settings. Reporting and blocking are always free.

Contact

To report inappropriate activity, use Report in the app, or write to us. Questions, appeals and safety concerns: mustafasalimerek@gmail.com (Erek Studio). In the app, the address is in Fellowship’s settings, under Contact support, and on the community rules screen.