July 19, 2021

Tesla's new policies for Say Q&A

Say Q&A is used by public companies to gather questions from shareholders ahead of events like earnings calls, shareholder meetings, investor days, product launches, and more. Companies use this opportunity to engage with their investors on the topics that are most important to them, and they rely on investors to upvote the questions that they most want to hear management address. 

Question upvoting is thus an important pillar of the product, efficiently sorting questions and topics to make the system valuable for the companies and shareholders that use it.


Question Promotion Policy

In order to ensure that upvoting is driven by the content of questions and the corresponding level of shareholder interest, and not by external factors, Tesla is enacting a new policy that will restrict participants from promoting questions to audiences off-platform (for example, by soliciting support on social media). Going forth, all Q&A participants must abide by the following rules.

Rule

While question submission and upvoting are open and enabled in a Say Q&A for a Tesla event, participants who have submitted a question should refrain from promoting their question for the purpose of gathering support.

Any link, screenshot, or reference to a specific question that is promoted off-platform by the participant who submitted the question (including through social media, blogs, videos, and other forms of distributed content) will be in violation of this policy.

Enforcement

Questions promoted in violation of this policy are subject to removal from Tesla’s Say Q&A site. Questions may be removed without prior notice.

Anonymous Author Policy

To further ensure that question upvoting is driven solely by question content and shareholder interest, Tesla is requiring that authors of questions submitted in their Q&As remain anonymous until the event begins, at which point authors’ names will become visible.