By design, Docent Wisdom solicits, accepts, and presents content submitted by external individuals and organizations. This is an essential component of our mission to create a centralized destination for shared guidance and ideas. We value truth, integrity, and thought-provoking conversations; we reject lies, conspiracies, and incoherent gibberish. We take pride in the quality of our content and consider our sources worthy of admirable respect. Consequently, these Community Guidelines outline our current positions on interactions with us, with our content, with contributors, and with contributor’s content.
The integrity of our community is paramount. We do not permit any attempts to manipulate any community content or community conversations, including contributing false, misleading, or inauthentic content. If you violate our Community Guidelines, then we may restrict your ability to use website features. Any serious misconduct that violates state and/or federal laws, including the Federal Trade Commission Act, and can lead to legal action and civil and criminal penalties.
These stipulations apply to any content (including audio, images, links, text, and video) that you submit to our site or interactions that you have on the site. These guidelines also apply to any interactions with any other users of the site.
If you choose to interact with our site then read, and adhere to, the following:
- Do not post content that is libelous, defamatory, harassing, threatening, or inflammatory (e.g., obscenities or profanity; aggressive language based on hate or intolerance for people on the basis of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender or gender identity, religion, sexual orientation, age, or disability, including by promoting organizations with such views).
- Do not post content that is obscene, pornographic, or lewd, or that contains nudity or sexually explicit images.
- Do not post content that invades others’ privacy (e.g., other people’s phone numbers, email addresses, mailing addresses, personal information).
- Do not post links to phishing or other malware sites.
- Do not impersonate other people or organizations or pretend to be someone or something that you are not.
- Do not repeatedly send messages or requests to other people.
- Do not attempt to control conversations by dismissing or minimizing other people’s opinions, including by posting from multiple accounts or coordinating with others.
- Do not attack any other people because you do not agree with them.
- Do not infringe the intellectual property or other proprietary rights of others. Only post your own content or content that you have permission to use.
- Do not encourage or support illegal behavior, including violence, fraud, illegal drug use, underage drinking, or child or animal abuse (e.g. advocating, threatening, or joking about physical or financial harm to yourself or others, including terrorism; offering fraudulent goods, services, schemes, or promotions; intentional sarcasm as it relates to self-harm or harm to others).