Community Guidelines

Effective 1 September 2026

Glasnik exists so people can be honest about work without risking their job. That only holds if two things stay true at once: members feel safe enough to speak, and what gets said stays within the bounds of honest criticism rather than abuse.

These guidelines are part of our Terms of Service. They apply to posts, comments, reviews, guild activity and profiles.

The line we draw

Criticism is welcome. Attacks are not.

"The workload here is unsustainable and management knows it" is exactly what this platform is for. "[Named manager] is a liar who cheats on his wife" is not — it targets an individual, and it has nothing to do with the working conditions others need to know about.

Talk about the organisation, the role, the conditions, the culture. Not the individual.

What isn't allowed

Naming individuals. Do not identify colleagues, managers or executives by name, photograph, or a description specific enough to identify them. Talk about behaviour and roles, not people.

Stating false things as fact. You can share your opinion freely. If you present something as fact — "they didn't pay overtime in March" — it must be true. Presenting a false statement as fact about a person or a company can be unlawful, and anonymity does not protect you from that.

Harassment and threats. No targeting, pile-ons, threats, or content designed to intimidate.

Personal information. Do not post anyone's contact details, home address, identification numbers, or any personal data — including your own. Our system will warn you if it detects this in your draft; the warning exists for your protection.

Confidential information. Do not post trade secrets, unreleased financials, customer data, source code, or anything you are contractually or legally obliged to keep confidential. We cannot protect you from the consequences of breaching your own confidentiality obligations.

Discrimination and hate. No content attacking people on the basis of race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, disability, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, or age.

Manipulation. No fake reviews, no reviews written in exchange for anything, no coordinated campaigns to raise or lower an organisation's rating, no multiple accounts.

Impersonation. Do not claim to be someone you are not, or to work somewhere you do not.

Illegal content. Anything unlawful under Bulgarian or EU law.

Reviews specifically

Reviews carry more weight than posts, because they're permanent, structured, and attributed to a verified employee. So they carry more responsibility:

• Write from your own direct experience of working there. Not what a colleague told you, not what you heard second hand — things you saw or lived through.
• Rate honestly across the categories, including the ones where the employer does well.
• Do not name individuals, or describe one person so specifically that colleagues would know exactly who you mean.
• If you have left, say so — there's a setting for it. Context matters to readers.

Separating what you know from what you believe

This is the single most important habit, and the one that most often goes wrong. State as fact only things you could stand behind if asked. Everything else is your impression, and saying so costs you nothing:

The phrases that do this work are ordinary ones: "in my experience", "my impression was", "in my case", "while I was there".

Be especially careful with allegations of crime — theft, fraud, assault, harassment. If something serious happened to you, it deserves to be reported to the police or the Labour Inspectorate, not only to a review site. Writing it here as established fact, when it has not been established anywhere, exposes both you and us — and Bulgarian law treats defamation seriously, including as a criminal matter.

This applies more to you than to a user of any other review site. Your review carries a verified-employee badge. That makes it more credible, which is the whole point — and it also makes an unfounded accusation more damaging, and more actionable. The badge raises the standard.

Before you publish, check

• Is every factual claim something I personally saw or experienced?
• Have I marked my opinions as opinions?
• Could a colleague work out who I am from what I've written?
• Have I named or clearly identified any individual?
• Does it contain personal data — names, phone numbers, addresses, private messages?
• Have I included anything confidential — internal documents, client data, trade secrets?
• Would this genuinely help someone deciding whether to work here?

Protecting your own anonymity

We hide your name. We cannot hide the shape of what you write.

• A very specific role at a very small employer can identify you even without a name.
• Distinctive details — a project, a date, an incident only a few people witnessed — can identify you to colleagues.
• Consider posting with less detail, or choosing a lower disclosure level, when the subject is sensitive.

Our system warns you when a draft contains something that looks like personal information. Take the warning seriously; you can still post, but do it deliberately.

If you see something

Report it. Every post, comment and review has a report option. Reports go to our moderation team and we aim to review them within 24 hours.

Block them. You can block another member. Their content disappears from your experience and yours from theirs, immediately, without waiting for us.

What happens when a rule is broken

Depending on severity and history, we may:

• remove the content;
• warn the member;
• restrict posting for a period;
• suspend or permanently ban the account.

Where we can, we tell you what was removed and why, and give you a way to contest it. Serious cases — threats, doxxing, illegal content — result in immediate removal and may be reported to the authorities.

For organisations

If you represent an organisation and believe content about you is false or unlawful, use our Notice and Action process. We take these seriously, and we also protect legitimate criticism — we will not remove a review simply because an employer dislikes it.

Questions: support@glasnik.bg