AVOID.NET is a platform for sharing and verifying warnings and advice that help people make informed decisions about products, services, and practices. The platform combines Wikipedia-style content organization with blockchain-based economic verification to create censorship-resistant consumer protection infrastructure.
What is AVOID.NET?
AVOID.NET is a platform for sharing and verifying warnings and advice. This critical information often gets buried, glossed over or dismissed by those with financial interests in hiding it.
Our platform addresses this through community verification: information only gets published after community members put money behind it, creating accountability that traditional systems lack. Here, bad information is expensive to promote because sponsors lose money when content gets rejected. Quality information rises because sponsors get rewarded.
Published warnings live at simple, memorable URLs:
- avoid.net/microplastics
- avoid.net/fast-fashion
- avoid.net/ultra-processed-foods
Once verified and published, the information cannot be removed by corporate pressure or advertising dollars.
History and Purpose
The first version of AVOID.NET launched in 2007 as a wiki where people could share warnings about products, companies, and practices worth avoiding. It attracted a dedicated community, but without a strong verification system, the platform was overwhelmed by spam attacks and taken offline.
The problem it tried to solve remains urgent. Critical consumer information is scattered, unreliable, or hidden by commercial interests. Product reviews are manipulated. Whistleblowers face retaliation. Important warnings never reach the people who need them.
This iteration builds on that original vision with a more robust foundation: economic verification that aligns incentives toward quality, and infrastructure that makes censorship prohibitively difficult.
How It Works
AVOID.NET combines three key components to ensure information quality: open submission, economic verification, and human review.
Submitting Content
Anyone can submit warnings about crypto projects, products, services, corporate practices, or behavioral patterns. Submissions need:
- Clear, actionable advice
- Credible sources (research, documentation, investigations)
- Context that helps people understand why it matters
- Alignment with content guidelines
Suggesting content to be reviewed and published requires only an email address. No cryptocurrency experience or technical knowledge is necessary, just helpful, verifiable information.
Community Verification
Submitted content enters a review queue. Before publication, community members sponsor content by backing it with SOL. This creates real accountability: if the content turns out to be false or spam, sponsors lose their deposit. If it's approved, they get their money back plus a portion of tips and prediction markets, future elements of the platform.
This economic mechanism serves several purposes:
- Spam becomes expensive rather than free
- People only vouch for information they trust
- Quality and accurate information are incentivised
Think of this as putting your money where your mouth is. Anyone can claim something is true, but staking real value behind that claim changes the calculation entirely.
Human Review
When content reaches its sponsorship threshold, human reviewers verify:
- Sources are credible and properly cited
- Information follows community guidelines
- Content provides genuine value (not just technically accurate while unhelpful)
Reviewers will be community members with proven track records. Their decisions are publicly visible and can be audited. Consistently poor decisions result in losing reviewer status and banishment.
The platform is moving toward more decentralized governance where the community participates in policy decisions, reviewer selection, and dispute resolution.
Current Status
The platform is currently running on Solana's devnet, which is a testing environment (not the live production network). This means:
- ✅ The submission system works and you can create content
- ✅ Account creation and browsing function normally
- ⚠️ The sponsorship mechanism uses test tokens, not real money
- ⚠️ The content library is limited while we validate the system
Think of this as a public beta. We're proving the concept works before launching with real economic stakes.
See Also
- Submit Warning - Contribute to the platform
- Sponsor Content - Back submissions with SOL
- How It Works - Detailed technical overview
- Recent Warnings - Browse latest submissions
- Main Page - Return to homepage