Community Guidelines
Last updated: June 12, 2026
HookaDex brings together people who love hookah and differ in taste — and that is fine. These rules are about staying useful to each other.
In short: write honestly about your own experience, respect people, don't spam, don't sell anything — and remember that everyone here is 18 or older.
Honest reviews
A review is your own experience: you actually smoked that flavor or mix. Fabricated, paid, or favor-for-a-friend reviews hurt the whole community.
- Represent a brand, shop, or lounge? Don't rate your own products, and disclose your affiliation honestly.
- No coordinated campaigns — neither to inflate your own rating nor to drag down a competitor's.
- Retaliatory ratings — over a dispute with an author or a venue — are forbidden.
- AI may help with wording, but the impressions must be your real ones. Generated reviews of flavors you never tried get removed.
Taste is subjective
A low rating is not a violation. Honest product criticism is protected by these rules: a brand cannot get a review removed just because the score is bad. We only remove what breaks the rules — insults, false factual claims, manipulation.
Respect people
Criticize the flavor, not the person. We are all adults here, so strong language aimed at a bland tobacco hurts nobody. Insults, harassment, threats, hate speech, and publishing other people's personal data lead to a ban — regardless of seniority or rating.
No sales, no advertising
HookaDex is not a marketplace and not an ad platform. Offering to buy or sell tobacco products, posting shop or referral links, prices, or promo codes is forbidden — including in reviews, mixes, and comments.
Sharing your experience — yes. Urging people to buy — no.
No spam
Don't duplicate content, farm followers, or turn reviews into self-promotion. Brand and lounge representatives are welcome — openly and honestly, without ads disguised as reviews.
The catalog is a commons
The brand and flavor catalog is a shared resource. Don't submit deliberately wrong data; spotted an error or a duplicate — let us know. Publish real mixes: actual flavors and sensible proportions that others can reproduce.
Reports, moderation, and appeals
See a violation — hit "Report". Reports are reviewed by human moderators; not everything that gets reported gets removed.
Measures are proportionate to the violation: hiding or removing content, a warning, a temporary restriction, a permanent ban. We notify you of decisions via notifications. Think a decision is wrong — write to team@hookadex.com: humans make mistakes, and we will review it.
Evading a ban with new accounts turns a temporary restriction into a permanent one.
One last thing
These rules are a living document: the community grows and the rules get refined. Thank you for making HookaDex a place where reviews can be trusted.