Back to the Policies
Overview
Blogit members hail from all over the world, and are here for many reasons,
including opinions, entertainment, information, analysis, and friendly advice.
These guidelines are intended to help all members understand what is and is not
considered acceptable conduct on Blogit.
Every member deserves an equal opportunity to participate. Please approach
other members with the same courtesy and respect that would be expected in any
real-life group of people of mixed ages, races, cultures, genders and beliefs.
When communicating with other members, please consider their feelings. You
are interacting with a real person, not with a computer. Please think before
you speak or act.
Speak up for your views, but do not attack other members. Harassment,
defamation, abuse, or threats directed at other members through words, pictures
or actions are not allowed and could result in temporary or permanent account
suspension.
The following rules provide additional guidance and examples:
- Agree to disagree respectfully. Opposing opinions can
generate a lively discussion, but if you cannot persuade someone with your
presentation of the facts or argument, move on instead of resorting to
personal attacks. If you are upset about something or someone, consider taking
a break to calm down before you respond.
- As in real life, activities such as verbal assault, name-calling, and
harassment -- including racial, religious and sexual harassment -- carry
penalties. For example, it is not acceptable to use profanity, vulgarity or
hate speech against another member. Penalties may include account suspension or
termination, and a report to the proper authorities if warranted. To learn more
about verbal abuse and its impact on others, please see the Verbal/Emotional
Abuse page on Suite 101
and the psychological abuse directory on Google.
- Respect the rights of others to enjoy Blogit. Please do
not participate in antisocial, disruptive, or destructive acts. This includes
but is not limited to, "flaming" (making insulting criticisms or remarks to
incite anger), "spamming" (posting numerous and/or unwanted and disruptive
items), and "trolling" (intentionally inciting negative disruption, such as
posting to make purely negative or disruptive comments).
- Respect other members’ requests to refrain from
conduct they or others may find offensive, and be forgiving of others'
mistakes. If someone asks you to stop a certain line of communication with
them or conduct towards them, and you do not, your actions may constitute
harassment. Please choose whom you continue to interact with.
- Feel free to express strong opinions about any group,
but please do not use slurs to disparage a group of individuals based on their
ethnicity, gender, national origin or sexual orientation.
- Respect the privacy rights of others. Please do not
post private email or the private contact information and identity of another
individual.
- Respect the rights of others to enjoy safe and
unimpeded access to Blogit. Please do not use automated or other actions to
interfere with site operations and use.
- Threats of bodily harm against a Blogit member may be
actionable under criminal law and should be reported immediately to local law
enforcement authorities. In addition, you may consider contacting your local
phone company if the threat was made over the telephone or contacting the
sender's Internet Service Provider (ISP) if the threat was made through email.
- Respect others’ copyright. It is a violation of the Terms
of Use, United States law, and international law to repost any work
from copyrighted sources without permission. Copyrighted sources include
everything from printed newspapers to another member’s blogs; all members retain
their copyright when posting on Blogit. You may provide a brief synopsis of
an article or other writing and/or provide relevant commentary while quoting a
few sentences but please do not post a written work in its entirety or
substantially in its entirety. To learn more about copyright, please see 10 Big Myths About
Copyright.
- Be yourself! Please do not impersonate another Blogit
member, Blogit staff members, or other people with official roles through the use
of similar nicknames or any other method or device that misleads members.
- List your professional information on your About Me
page. Please do not use Blogit to post advertising, promotional materials, chain
letters, or pyramid schemes.
- Post adult-only content in the Mature
Audiences
category. Laws on this issue vary greatly by location, and rather than simply
prohibit such content, the Mature Audiences category has been created.
- Suspended members may not register new accounts or
participate in Blogit using associated registrations. Please do not post on behalf
of suspended members, discuss suspended members in order to disrupt Blogit, or
allow a suspended member to use your account.
- You are responsible for all activity on your account.
The use of false registration information, the creation of multiple accounts
for the purpose of disruption and/or to avoid detection, or violation of the
Blogit Terms and Conditions of Use will result in the permanent suspension of all
associated memberships.
- Respect the rules, other community members, and the staff members who work
hard to provide and improve this service. Please do not report false bugs,
repost items removed or re-categorized by Blogit staff members, post incorrect
information, or make inaccurate statements about Blogit policies or actions.
Adherence to Blogit policies will allow everyone to participate in the Blogit
community.