Community Guidelines

Last updated: 12 November 2026

Nakupu is a comedy competition. Arenas, roast battles, Roast Me posts and Tambayan chats only work when everyone is in on the joke. These rules apply everywhere in the app.

The golden rule: roast the words, not the person

Go after someone's comeback, their post, their karaoke song choice. Don't go after who they are.

Not allowed

• Hate and slurs. Nothing that attacks people for their race, ethnicity, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, age, or medical condition.
• Threats and violence. No threats, wishes of harm, or encouraging self-harm, even "as a joke."
• Harassment. No following someone from battle to battle, ganging up on a person, or continuing after someone asks you to stop. Gender-based online harassment is also against Philippine law (Safe Spaces Act, RA 11313).
• Personal information. Never share anyone's real name, phone number, address, school, workplace, photos, or social media accounts, including your own. The app hides phone numbers and emails it detects, but you are responsible for what you post.
• Sexual content. No sexual content, and nothing sexual involving minors, ever. Nakupu is for adults 18 and over.
• Real-world accusations. Don't accuse real people of crimes or spread false claims about them. Online libel is a crime in the Philippines (Cybercrime Prevention Act, RA 10175).
• Spam and cheating. No flooding, advertising, scams, vote trading, or using more than one account to win battles or earn points.
• Impersonation. Don't pretend to be another person, a moderator, or Nakupu staff.
• Illegal activity. Nothing that promotes drugs, gambling, weapons, or anything else illegal.

Being roasted is opt-in

Nobody gets roasted without agreeing to it. You choose to take the hot seat, post on Roast Me, queue for a battle or accept a challenge, and you can leave a battle at any time. Leaving counts as a forfeit, nothing more.

Arena topics are for things, not people: "Manila traffic", "your ex's texts", "jeepney drivers". A topic can't name or point at a real person who isn't in the hot seat. Moderators remove arenas and lines that do.

Posting anonymously

You can post on Roast Me or chat in Tambayan anonymously: other people see "Anonymous" instead of your username. It's not a way around the rules. Anonymous isn't untraceable: moderators can always see who posted, we share who posted with the authorities when the law requires it, and everything here applies to anonymous posts in the same way. Anonymous posts don't earn points.

Reporting and blocking

• Long-press any message, roast or arena line, tap ⋯ on a post, comment, room or arena, or open a profile, to report it or block the person. Reports about threats or sexual exploitation reach the moderators straight away.
• Blocking a username hides what they post under it and stops them from matching with you. It doesn't hide anonymous posts, because that would reveal who wrote them.
• You can also block someone from an anonymous post or message. That hides all their anonymous posts and messages, but not what they post under their username, so it never tells you who they are. Your block list shows these blocks as "Anonymous". To block both, block each one.
• Moderators review reports within 24 hours.

What happens when rules are broken

Depending on how serious it is, a moderator may remove content, warn you, mute you (you can read but not post), suspend your account for a while, or ban it permanently. Serious threats or illegal content may be reported to the authorities.

If you think a moderator got it wrong, contact us at support@nakupu.com.