ZipKarma Zipster Community Guidelines

[Tara Hunt]

[credit goes to BlogHer for drafting these, which I borrow from]

ZipKarma.com is a community for adults (ages 18 and older). Please note: ZipKarma does not provide professional advice, diagnosis or treatment of any kind -- medical, legal, professional, personal. The opinions you read on this site are those of members of the ZipKarma, not AT ALL connected to Zipcar Inc..

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

ZipKarma embraces the spirit of civil disagreement.

As a Web site devoted to creating an opportunity for all kinds of fans to seek greater connection and community, we agree to agree and to disagree-as strongly as need be-without crossing the boundaries into unacceptable content (see below).

ZipKarma declines to publish unacceptable content.

Everything published on ZipKarma is content: Your posts, comments, forum messages, audio, video, text, images, you name it. We embrace your diversity of opinions and values(see above) 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 ZipKarma'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.