CareerSwerve is a place to learn, ask questions, and help other learners. These guidelines apply everywhere learners interact — course discussion threads, ratings and reviews, learner profiles, and direct messages to instructors.
Posting on the platform means you agree to these rules. We moderate against them consistently — see “Enforcement” below.
What we welcome
- Study questions — including the messy ones. “I tried this query and it returned the wrong rows” is exactly the right kind of post.
- Code feedback on someone else's submission, framed as suggestions rather than corrections.
- Sharing your wins — the moment you got a query right, a project working, or a job offer.
- Tactful disagreement. The instructor's answer is not always the only correct answer; constructive challenge improves the course for everyone.
- Pointing other learners at resources — official docs, blog posts, free tools. Be specific about why it's useful.
What's not allowed
- Harassment, hate speech, or personal attacks against other learners, the instructor, or any individual or group.
- Asking other learners to do your work for you. Asking “help me debug this” is fine; asking “please write this submission for me” is not.
- Plagiarism — submitting another learner's code, AI-generated answers without disclosure, or content from other paid courses as your own. The Advanced Certificate assessment specifically tests for this.
- Spam, off-topic promotion, or referral-link drops. Mentioning a tool you found useful is fine; pasting affiliate links into every thread is not.
- Sharing copyrighted course material outside the platform — uploading lesson PDFs to public repos, posting dataset extracts to forums, recording lessons for resale.
- Sharing login credentials or sandbox database connectionswith anyone outside your own household. Each enrolment is a single-user licence.
- Posting personal data about other learners — full names, email addresses, employer details — without their explicit permission.
- Doxxing, threats, or content that breaks UK law. We report such content to the relevant authorities.
Privacy and your posts
- Public discussion posts are visible to other enrolled learners on the same course (and to instructors and admins). They are not visible to anonymous visitors.
- The display name shown next to your post is controlled by your profile privacy setting (public, discoverable, or hidden). You can change this any time; existing posts will start showing the new name on next render.
- You can soft-delete your own posts at any time using the “Delete” link on the post. Soft-deleted posts hide their body but keep the thread structure intact so replies still make sense.
- You can request hard deletion (permanent removal) by emailing us. We honour reasonable requests within 30 days.
- See our privacy policy for the full picture.
Reporting a violation
Email training.enquiries@careerswerve.io with:
- A link to the post or profile in question.
- A short description of which guideline was breached.
- Any screenshots if relevant.
We aim to acknowledge within one working day and to take action (or explain why no action is needed) within five working days. Reports stay confidential — the reported user is told what was flagged but not who reported it.
Enforcement
We use a graduated response. The first response to a borderline post is usually a private note from an instructor or admin. The first response to a clear-cut violation is removal of the post. Repeated or serious breaches escalate.
- Warning — a private message asking you to revise or remove the post.
- Soft delete — the post is hidden from other learners but remains in your account history.
- Hard delete — the post is permanently removed.
- Posting suspension — you keep course access (you paid for it) but can't post in discussions for a set period.
- Account closure — for severe or repeated violations. Closure is rare and decided by a senior team member, not the first responder. Course access ends; refunds are handled per the refund policy.
Appeals
If a moderation decision affected you and you believe it was wrong, reply to the moderation email with your reasons. Appeals are reviewed by someone other than the original moderator within ten working days.
Changes to these guidelines
We may update this page as the community grows and we learn what works. Material changes will be announced in the discussion of every active course. The current version is always the one published here.
Last updated: 4 May 2026.