Community Guidelines

Hook-a-Doodle turns your images into crochet patterns. Patterns you keep to yourself are your business. Patterns that are visible to other people are shared space, and these guidelines cover that shared space.

What gets reviewed

Public patterns are reviewed before they appear to other people. That review covers the source image, the generated chart, and the pattern name and notes. Private patterns are not reviewed and are not shown to anyone else.

What we don’t allow

• Sexual content. Nudity or sexually explicit imagery, in the source image or the finished chart.
• Hateful imagery or names. Content attacking people over race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, or sexual orientation, including hate symbols.
• Graphic violence. Gore or imagery that exists to shock.
• Content involving minors in any sexualised way. This is reported to the authorities, not just removed.
• Other people’s work. Uploading art, photographs, or characters you have no right to use and publishing the result.
• Harassment and spam. Patterns or names targeting a specific person, and bulk repetitive posting.

A note on copyright and fan art

Making a pattern from an image for your own use is generally fine. Publishing it, and especially selling what you make from it, is where copyright matters. If you don’t hold the rights to an image, keep the pattern private. A commercial licence from us covers our pattern output; it does not grant you rights to someone else’s artwork.

How moderation works

Uploads get an automated check, and public patterns are then looked at by a person. Anyone signed in can report a public pattern; several reports move it to the front of the queue.

If we remove a pattern from public view, we email you the reason. The pattern stays in your dashboard and you can still use it yourself. Repeated violations add strikes to your account, and enough strikes suspends it, which stops new patterns being created while it stands.

If you think we got it wrong

We’d rather fix a bad call than defend it. Reply to the email we sent you, or contact support, and a person will look at it again.