The Question and Answer Board

[IH Admin [Shelly]]

Ok, folks, here's a look at the proposed new handbook guidelines for the rules. Looking for constructive feedback and comments:

Handbook - Revised Rules - Draft 6/23

Deletions of Posts-Stock Specific Boards

• Duplicate
  This is an accidental duplicate post by a single Member. This does not mean a similar message posted previously or the same content posted by a different Member

• Personal Attack
  Posts that victimize, harass, degrade, or intimidate an individual or group of individuals on the basis of:
  
  • Religion
    
  • Gender
    
  • Sexual orientation
    
  • Race
    
  • Ethnicity
    
  • Age
    
  • Disability
  
  
• Spam
  
  • Excessively posting the same or similar content to multiple boards within a calendar day;
    
  • Tagging a message or link that has little or nothing to do with the stock.
    
  • Links to promotion content must include free, informative and actionable content i.e. not behind a paywall or requires registration
    
  • Posts containing content promoting other sites i.e. “Go to xxxx.com to discuss further”

• Off-Topic
  
  • Posts about Moderators and/or deletions. Issues of this nature need to be discussed with a Site Admin
    
  • Posts about minors
    
  • Egregious religious or political statements should be removed because they derail the conversation.
    
    • Examples of benign religious statements that generally do not incite an all out religious discussion include: “Bless you all”, “Namaste” or “Merry Christmas!”, etc.
      
    • “The right wing Christian conservative zealots need to shut up” or “Those woke lib shitheads will get their own in the end” should be removed.
      
    • “The Senate votes on that bill today”, “Likely that the Pres will veto that”, “Since Rep have the House, I’m sure that will pass. Getting through the Dem Senate will be another story” - are examples of benign political statements.

• Vulgarity (The "PG13" standard is loosely used as a guideline to what is/isn't acceptable when determining whether a comment is vulgar. If society has deemed it appropriate for a 13 year old to hear, it is unlikely that it will be offensive to the majority of Users.)
  
  • Vulgarity or slurs targeting other Users who are not-self-disclosed public figures.
    
  • No full nudity or scantily clad photos

• Author Asked to Remove
  
  
  • When a Member has specifically asked that a post be removed and has cited a valid reason for removal, such as accidentally revealing personal information. This is an occasional accommodation and is not to be used to "mask" the removal of bona fide TOS violations. If you are asked as a Moderator to remove more than 2 messages as Author Request, please send the User to discuss with Admin. As well, Moderators should not be removing their own posts en masse This is considered an abuse of the Moderator privilege and could result in Moderator removal.
    
  • Messages over 48 hours old are not removed, even when requested by the Author, unless there are extreme circumstances (i.e. accidentally revealing an account number).

• Violation of Privacy
  
  • Posting of what the Member believes to be any personally identifiable information (“PII”) (email, real name, phone, address, etc.) about another User is a privacy violation. For example, if a Member posts that "XYZDownDaDrain is actually Bob Smith", whether the information is accurate is irrelevant. The Member was trying to disclose PII. This is a serious violation and can get you suspended or terminated from the site.
    
  • Posting or referring to the contents of private messages without the author's prior consent is considered a violation of privacy and can get the User suspended or terminated from the site.

• Threats
  Threats or insinuations of violence or physical harm against anyone is a serious infraction and can get you suspended or terminated from the site.

As always: iHub reserves the right to remove or restore posts at its sole discretion. It is members' responsibility to bring violations of the Terms by other members to iHub's attention via the Report TOS violation feature, although iHub does not guarantee any action based on such information.