live.ethicalstl.org

live.ethicalstl.org is a community open to all interested in exploring ethical issues. Please note: The opinions you read on this site are those of the individual participants and not necessarily those of the Ethical Society of St. Louis.

We have just two rules: We embrace the spirit of civil discussion and we decline to publish unacceptable content. Specifically:

• live.ethicalstl.org embraces the spirit of civil discussion and debate.
  As a Web site devoted to creating an opportunity for individuals to learn, think about and discuss, we agree to agree and to disagree-as strongly as need be-without crossing the boundaries into unacceptable content (see below).
• live.ethicalstl.org declines to publish unacceptable content.
  Everything published on the live.ethicalstl.org is content. We embrace your diversity of opinions and values but we insist that your content may not include anything unacceptable.

  We define unacceptable content as anything included or linked that is:

  • Being used to abuse, harass, stalk or threaten a person or persons
  • Libelous, defamatory, knowingly false or misrepresents another person
  • Infringes upon any copyright, trademark, trade secret or patent of any third party. (If you quote or excerpt someone's content, it is your responsibility to provide proper attribution to the original author. For a clear definition of proper attribution and fair use, please see The Electronic Frontier Foundation's Legal Guide for Bloggers at this URL: http://www.eff.org/bloggers/lg/.)
  • Violates any obligation of confidentiality
  • Violates the privacy, publicity, moral or any other right of any third party
  • Contains editorial content that has been commissioned and paid for by a third party, (either cash or goods in barter), and/or contains paid advertising links and/or SPAM or "Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages." For live.ethicalstl.org's purposes, we define SPAM as anything that qualifies as nonsense unrelated to the discussion, either in comments on a blog or in our forums. This nonsense may take classic forms (e.g., simple links to unrelated content that are often advertising or e-commerce), or more insidious forms.
  • Promotes commercial entities or otherwise engage in commercial activity in our discussion forums. These discussion forums are to be used only for noncommercial purposes.

  live.ethicalstl.org's administrators define and determine what is "unacceptable content" on a case-by-case basis-and our definitions are not limited to this list. We reserve the right to change these standards at any time with no notice. We also reserve the right to remove links to any content at any time and, if necessary, remove an individual's account for violation of these standards.

We welcome your help upholding these community guidelines. If you are concerned about any content you see on this network, we urge you to contact us. Thank you for working with us to build the live.ethicalstl.org community.

Note: that these guidelines were adapted from those developed for blogher.