Community Discussion Guidelines for our Digital Branch

Community Discussion Guidelines:

Here are some guidelines to posting comments and content at Topeka & Shawnee County Public Library’s digital branch. The goal? To help you have fun!

We encourage comments:

• We want to hear from you! Please post comments, questions, and other thoughts … as you think them. That’s what we’re here for.
• Stay on Topic – stick to the subject and issues raised by the post, not the person who made it or others that commented on it
• Think before you press the publish button. Remember that this is a public forum, and your words will be archived on this site and available for anyone to find for a long time – the web has a very long memory.
• If you can’t be polite, don’t say it. Respect is the name of the game.  You must respect your fellow commenters.

Some Don’ts:

• Don’t post copyrighted materials (articles, videos, audio, etc) that you do not have permission to reproduce or distribute.
• Don’t post content that installs viruses, worms, malware, trojans, etc.
• Don’t post content that is obscene, libelous, defamatory or hateful
• Don’t post spam
• Don’t post personal, real-life information such as home addresses and home phone numbers.

What will we do?

• We’ll respond to comments, answer questions, and provide suggestions as appropriate.
• Sometimes we’ll join a comment thread to help focus (or refocus) the discussion, or to get people talking.
• If you break one of the guidelines above (or come close to it), we’ll email you and ask you to stop. We might also post a reminder to the discussion. If it continues, we will delete your comments and block you from posting.
• We will remove any posts that are obviously commercial or otherwise spam-like.
• We will remove content that puts us in legal jeopardy, such as potentially libelous or defamatory postings, or material posted in potential breach of copyright.