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How Community Notes work on X
Community Notes are crowdsourced context that can appear under a post. How agreement across rating histories works, and what to do if your own post gets a note.
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Community Notes are crowdsourced context that can appear under a post when contributors with different rating histories agree a note is helpful. A note is not an official X ruling, and X does not publish a simple vote threshold you can game. If your shipping post gets one, read it and decide whether the post itself needs a correction.
| Claim | What official docs support | What is not claimed here |
|---|---|---|
| A Community Note | Crowdsourced context that can appear under a post | An official X ruling |
| When it becomes visible | Helpfulness across contributors with different rating histories | A vote threshold you can game |
| If your post receives one | Read it and decide whether to correct, follow up, or leave it | An impressions penalty, or that you can simply delete the note |
| X Communities | A different product | That Notes are a Community you join |
This table follows the official contributor docs re-read on 10 November 2026. It is not a second manual.
What is a Community Note?
Community Notes are crowdsourced context that can appear under a post when contributors with different rating histories agree a note is helpful. A note is not an official X ruling. The official contributor docs describe notes as added context that other contributors rate, not as a staff verdict stamped on your shipping post.
Notes shown on X, fetched 10 November 2026, opens with this goal: "Community Notes' goal is to show helpful context to people when they come across potentially misleading information on X." The Writing notes page, fetched the same day, says anyone can read and rate notes, but only contributors who have unlocked writing can add a new note to a post.
When does a note become visible on a post?
A note becomes visible when the scoring system treats it as helpful across contributors with different rating histories. X does not publish a simple vote threshold you can game. Official docs say a note starts as Needs More Ratings, then shows on the post if it earns Helpful status from people who have disagreed before.
Notes shown on X, fetched 10 November 2026, says:
If enough contributors from different points of view rate a note as helpful, it earns a status of "Helpful", and starts showing on X.
The same page says statuses update as new ratings come in, "so notes may show on X and then disappear," and that "Statuses are locked after 2 weeks."
Diversity of perspectives, fetched the same day, says Community Notes looks at "not only how many contributors rated a note as helpful or unhelpful, but also whether people who rated it seem to come from different perspectives," judged from past ratings rather than demographics.
The Community Notes account stated the visibility rule in public:
Multiple big quality updates launching this week. As always, code is open source in GitHub. First up: We’re improving note quality while simultaneously increasing the number of notes shown on X by about 10%. Today’s update works by identifying notes that contributors from a wide range of viewpoints agree are particularly low quality, and reduces the Contributor Helpfulness Scores for raters that rate those notes as helpful. As a result, it gives more weight to contributors who consistently help identify notes that people find helpful. As many of you know, Community Notes uses a bridging algorithm to identify notes that people from different points of view find helpful. To be shown on a post, a note must be found helpful by people who have historically disagreed in their ratings. Today’s change uses the same approach to identify notes that people from a wide range of viewpoints tag with certain rating tags. Details and code: https://t.co/9z4wBZBNA3
Community Notes (@CommunityNotes), November 13, 2023, 9:37 PM PT (America/Los_Angeles). View on X. Checked 2026-11-10.
The visibility rule in that post matches the official docs: a note shows when people who have historically disagreed in their ratings find it helpful. The t.co link is kept as posted. The note ranking algorithm page, fetched 10 November 2026, publishes the scoring details, including a Helpfulness Score used to assign Helpful status. Those figures are not a raw vote total you can game, and this guide does not treat them as a visibility number to chase.
Who can write or rate notes?
Writing and rating notes is limited to contributors who meet the program's published requirements. Official docs say anyone who joins can rate, and writing unlocks after a published Rating Impact threshold. This guide does not invent a public signup shortcut or restate an onboarding course.
Locking and unlocking the ability to write notes, fetched 10 November 2026, says: "Everyone who joins Community Notes can rate notes." It also says new contributors "need to earn a Rating Impact of at least 5" before they can write. Point at that page for the current rules rather than copying the whole unlocking path here.
The same page says note statuses "aren't achieved by popularity or majority rules" and "require agreement between contributors who have sometimes disagreed in their past ratings."
Is a Community Note an official X decision?
No. A Community Note is not an official X ruling and is not the same as staff taking an enforcement action. It is context written and rated by contributors. Do not describe a note as a shadowban, or as proof that X agrees with the note.
The person who wrote a note can delete that note. Writing notes, fetched 10 November 2026, says: "You can delete your notes at any time by clicking or tapping the ••• icon on a note." That control belongs to the contributor who wrote it, not to the author of the post underneath.
Nearby questions about automated accounts live on Does X allow AI agents to post?. X Communities, the topic groups you join, are a different product.
What should you do if your post receives a note?
If your shipping post receives a note, read it and decide whether the post needs a correction, a follow-up, or no change. You usually cannot delete the note yourself. No official impressions penalty is assumed. If the note is right, fix the post. If it is not, leave the original standing and add context only if that helps a reader.
Official docs do not give the post author a delete button for other people's notes. Notes shown on X also says a note can appear and later disappear as ratings change, until status locks after two weeks. This page found no official published rule that a note automatically cuts impressions. Do not treat a note as proof you were shadowbanned.
Evenpost is an app for X (Twitter) for solo founders. You and your agent draft, you approve each post in the Evenpost app, and it posts with natural spacing, or right away if you choose Post now. Updates: @evenpost.
If you wanted to join a topic group, that is an X Community. A note under a post is a different product.
FAQ
Can I remove a Community Note from my post?
Usually no. Official docs let the contributor who wrote a note delete that note. They do not give the post author a simple delete control for other people's notes.
Do notes hurt impressions?
This page found no official published rule that a Community Note automatically cuts impressions. No such penalty is assumed. Read the note and decide whether the post itself needs a correction.
How do I become a contributor?
Official docs say anyone who joins Community Notes can rate notes, and writing unlocks after a published Rating Impact threshold. Read the current unlocking page rather than treating this FAQ as an onboarding course.
Are Community Notes the same as X Communities?
No. A Community Note is context that can appear under a post. An X Community is a topic group you join. They are different products.
Does X staff write the notes?
No. Contributors write and rate notes. A note that becomes visible is not an official X ruling, and it is not the same as staff enforcement.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · By Evenpost