Comments, reposts, reporting, and what shows in your feed

This is the companion to The community feed: posting, reactions, and reposts. It covers everything you do with a post once it exists: commenting, the photo viewer, reporting, and the rules for what surfaces in your feed.

Comments

• Who can comment: any signed-in member can comment on a post.
• A flat list, not threads: comments are a single flat list. There is no nested-reply or thread view, so a comment is a reply to the post, not to another comment. (If you want to address a specific person, mention them.)
• What a comment can contain: text, @mentions of any user, organization, or animal, and attached files. The mentioned actor and the post's author both get a notification.
• Reactions on comments: comments can themselves be reacted to with emoji, and each comment has its own "who reacted" list.
• Deleting: you can delete a comment you wrote (only the author can).

Photo posts and the photo viewer

• What it is: when you open a photo from an animal's gallery or a multi-photo post, Creatures shows it in a full-screen viewer that carries that photo's own context, its caption and the comments attached to it.
• What it means for you: photos are not dead-ends. Each one can hold its own conversation, so a comment on a specific gallery photo stays attached to that photo, not the whole post.

Who is in the conversation

A post tracks the actors involved in it, the author plus everyone who has commented, surfaced as a "who's here" list. The implication is simple: you can see who is part of the conversation at a glance.

Reporting a post or a comment

If you see something that breaks the rules, you can report it for review.

• What it is: any signed-in member can report a post or a comment. A report requires a non-empty reason and is rate-limited.
• Where it goes: the report goes to Creatures for moderation. There is no public outcome, and reporting the same thing again appends to your existing report rather than spamming a new one.
• The full set of reportable things on Creatures is post, comment, profile, review, review comment, and memorial tribute. So the same report path covers reviews and memorial tributes too, not just feed posts.
• What it means for you: report with a clear reason and the team takes it from there; you do not see or manage the moderation outcome yourself.

What does NOT appear in your feed

Set your expectations honestly about what the feed includes:

• Public posts only. Non-public audiences (litter or group updates restricted to reservation holders or a team) never surface in the community feed.
• Nothing by or about a private animal. Posts tied to a private animal are excluded.
• Anything an admin has hidden. A post that Creatures moderation has hidden is removed from the feed. Note that "hide from feed" is a moderation action, not a per-member control: you cannot hide an individual post from your own feed. There is no personal "not interested" or dismiss control today, so do not expect to curate your feed by hiding posts.

Deleting your own post

You can delete a post you authored at any time. Deleting it removes it from the feed; any repost of it then shows "the quoted post has been deleted" in place of the quote.

Reviews and feed posts are different trust surfaces: a review is a structured rating of a transaction, while a feed post is an open update. See Leaving a review. Memorials also appear in the feed by way of the opt-in memorial post, covered in Tributes, visibility, and sharing a memorial.

Related information

• The community feed: posting, reactions, and reposts
• Tributes, visibility, and sharing a memorial

Updated on: 23/06/2026