Rules for using Forums
Usage and content policies:
Be Real
Forums profiles are intended to represent real people in a local area. Forums member profiles must be honest and authentic.
Be Honest: Intentions, Affiliations, Transparency
All members should be open about who they are, their intentions, and their affiliations. All Forums group and event descriptions should be accurate, to allow members to make informed decisions about their participation.
Be Yourself: Fake Accounts & Impersonation
Creating fake accounts, malicious accounts, or accounts meant to impersonate another person, is prohibited on Forums.
Be Respectful
Respecting people's time, attention, personal choices, and personal boundaries is essential to creating safe and trusting communities. Be respectful in interactions with people and in content posted on the platform. Forums monitors and restricts behaviors that are dishonest, undermine the integrity of the platform, violate personal boundaries, or serve to intentionally upset people.
Message Respectfully: Don't Spam
Content sent to a member that is irrelevant, impersonal, unsolicited, promotional, or repetitive is spam.
Set Appropriate Expectations and Honor Them: Don't Tamper with Forums
Converting or changing events in a Forums or a Forums group so that they no longer align with the expectations and purpose set by the organizer and leadership team is misleading and not allowed. The intentions of the Forums group should remain consistent with member expectations as set in the Forums group description.
Converting
Stepping up as organizer to a Forums in order to change the focus of the Forums, to close the Forums, to send or post promotional content, or to send or post content not aligned with the original description of the Forums, is prohibited. If it is your intention to change the meaning or purpose of a Forums, we advise that you start a new Forums instead. If a Forums group gets a new organizer, the mission of that Forums group should stay the same. Events in a Forums group should reflect intentions expressed in the Forums group description.
Tampering
Altering the content or settings of a Forums group without permission from the main organizer, or in a way that is not aligned with the purpose of that Forums group, is prohibited. Any use of Forums tools or features to disrupt the Forums or destroy content for the purpose of undermining or undercutting the established community is a violation of our policies.
Honor Requests for Distance: About Block and Ban Decisions
If you are blocked, you’re blocked. Members must accept and respect any organizer’s decision to ban a member from a group, or a member's decision to block a member from contacting them. Creating new accounts to circumvent block or ban decisions is prohibited.
Sexual Content and Nudity
Pornography is not allowed on Forums. Publicly shared photos must be appropriate for general audiences. Nude or sexual photos are not allowed.
Sex Solicitation and Prostitution
Forums prohibits groups that, or individuals who, use Forums to proposition for sex, or to promote or engage in prostitution. For policies on Forums groups that may contain such content, please see Sexual Interests and Adult Interests and Identities in Forums Group Policies.
Shocking, Disturbing, and Violent Content
Gratuitously graphic, disgusting, obscene, or violent content is prohibited. We don't allow content posted to upset, shock, or disturb a
Forums community or its members.
Respect Privacy: Don't Post Other People's Private Information
Posting other people's private information without their explicit consent is prohibited. …
Members and organizers should always be mindful of privacy and use discretion when sharing any private content that belongs to themselves or to other members. For example, phone numbers, social security numbers, addresses, financial information, passwords, and government identification are considered private information.
Be Kind
Bullying, harassment, exploitation, and acts of hate undermine community building in safe spaces where people can trust one another. Building real relationships requires us to be more compassionate and kinder towards one another. Forums enforces against behaviors that are threatening, intentionally malicious, or personally harmful--physically, emotionally, or mentally.
Be Compassionate: Don't Harass, Bully or Shame
Harassment and bullying are not allowed on Forums.
Act with Integrity: Do Not Manipulate or Exploit
Any attempt to use someone's insecurities or vulnerabilities for personal gain is considered manipulation or exploitation and is prohibited.
Hate and Supremacy
Hate speech, supremacy, or behavior that incites hate or violence against individuals or groups of people based on who they are or their beliefs, is prohibited.
Be Safe
All organizers and members should take ownership over their personal safety and should never put themselves or others in danger. We expect all organizers and members to be mindful of Delaware laws when engaging with their Forums. Where appropriate, organizers should also set guidelines for their Forums to ensure their members are participating safely.
No Threats, Violence, or Personal Endangerment
Using Forums to promote, facilitate, or organize violent, criminal, or non-consensual actions that endanger anyone, physically, mentally or emotionally, is prohibited.
Credible threats of violence or aggression will be removed and are grounds for removal.
Self-Injury Forums does not allow any content that encourages or glorifies self-injury or encourages others to harm themselves.
Copyright and IP
Intellectual Property
We respect the intellectual property rights of others. Posting content that violates another party's intellectual property rights is prohibited.
When provided with the requisite information, Forums will remove or disable access to material that infringes on the intellectual property rights of others or remove accounts of those who may be repeat infringers. Please note that simply holding a Forums around a similar topic in a shared location is generally not considered a violation of our policies.
