Guide · checked against TikTok's published pages on November 9, 2026
How we research these guides
Where the numbers in our TikTok Shop guides come from, how we check them against TikTok's own pages, and what our data can't tell you.
On this page
Every guide on this site rests on two kinds of material, and we keep them apart on purpose.
TikTok's own pages
The rules come from TikTok Shop's published pages, mostly Seller University articles, plus the Community Guidelines and their enforcement page. We save the text of each page we rely on with the date we read it, because TikTok edits these pages often and sometimes contradicts itself between them. When two official pages disagree, the guide says so and tells you which one we follow and why, usually the newer one.
When a guide quotes TikTok, the quote is word for word from a page we saved. Many Seller University pages need a seller login to open, so a link may ask you to sign in.
What creators and sellers report
The second kind is field data. We've analyzed thousands of creator and seller conversations about violations and appeals. As of November 9, 2026 we've coded 224 appeal outcomes from them, noting the violation type and the result, plus the route taken, whether that was an in-app appeal or something later like a support ticket. We strip names and handles before anything is stored, and we never quote or identify the people involved.
This data is useful and limited. You should know both. People post wins in some places and losses in others. The same story can show up twice. Most posts never name the exact violation. So when a guide says "8 wins out of 20," read it as a direction, not as your odds. It's the best public picture we know of, and it's still small.
Anything we've only heard from the field is labeled that way. A rule TikTok hasn't published, like the reported crackdown on near-identical videos, is called reported until we can point to an official page.
How a guide gets written
Our AI case team, the same one behind the free diagnosis in our Discord, helps us sort the case data and draft. A person then checks every number against the case records and every rule against the saved TikTok page, rewrites what needs rewriting, and decides what goes up. Each guide shows the date it was last checked.
We update guides when TikTok changes a page we cite, or when our case data changes the picture. If you spot something wrong, tell us at heyviolatte@gmail.com and we'll fix it.
What we won't do
We don't write guides that promise outcomes, because nobody outside TikTok can promise one. We don't publish ways to get around enforcement, like new accounts after a ban. And you'll never be asked for your login. Violatte is independent and isn't affiliated with TikTok.
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