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There are a few things you should know before you start posting and commenting!
Here at Wedding Find It Buy It, our mission is to create a friendly, supportive place where brides and grooms can ask questions, share resources, and make friends during their wedding planning process and beyond. We value robust discussion and encourage support between our community members who come from many backgrounds and have many different viewpoints. It is inevitable that from time to time members may have differences of opinion. It is easy for those differences to dissolve into petty arguments, name-calling and judgment, instead of supportive and respectful dialogue. While we value the differences that make us individuals, we also cherish the sense of Community that the page represents.We prefer a hands-off approach to moderation, and give great consideration to the moderation decisions we have to make. In order to facilitate our moderation philosophy we encourage members of the Wedding Find It Buy It Community to self-moderate and to help keep this a civil, supportive, and positive site!Comments that clearly violate the terms of this commenting policy may be edited or removed by the admin team as necessary.
Commenting Guidelines for All Members
- We don’t allow posts that are intended to be rude, sarcastic, insulting, berating, argumentative, condescending, personally attacking, or that otherwise harass users of the Wedding Find It Buy It page. Please do not post threads or comments for the sole purpose of criticizing, mocking, or otherwise disparaging others’ wedding, waiting, or nesting choices. Wedding Find It Buy It is a diverse community with members across the globe. No single culture is better than any other, and we value every member’s perspective. We reserve the right to remove such posts as necessary.
- While individuals sometimes disagree, we expect such disagreements to be handled in a mature manner. Please refrain from leaving comments that exhibit intolerance for individuals or groups of people including excessive rudeness, defamatory remarks, racist remarks, threats, or profanity directed at other members.
- While Wedding Find It Buy It is an adult site and we do allow the use of profanity in an expressionistic way, please refrain from swearing at other members or using unnecessary profanity in thread titles, as many of our members use the site in a professional setting.
- Please refrain from name calling. Whether it’s directed toward another community member with whom you’re having a disagreement, or toward someone you suspect is only here to cause trouble (a.k.a. a “troll”), it’s never acceptable to call another member names on Wedding Find It Buy It.
- Please refrain from baiting. Baiting is the act of encouraging responses or replies in order to cause dissent or discord; to instigate participation in a negative way. Anytime you call attention to drama you’re amplifying it and actively participating in it, which is a violation of these policies. This includes “last wording” or refusing to let an argument go.
- Anyone “trolling” or posting solely to create drama or conflict for Wedding Find It Buy It, our members, hostesses, or our admins will be immediately banned.
- We do not allow members to self promote on the boards. This includes links to your personal blog or website , contests that you, your friends, or family are a part of, your Etsy shop or other business ventures, your classified ads or other sale items, invite codes for sale sites, and other links that may afford you tangible gain. We also request that members not use the site to conduct market research, school research, or other information gathering for personal gain. Signature lines are not permitted.
- Please use photos with discretion. This means you should avoid using photos of individuals who are not aware that you are posting their image. Stock photos, advertisements, and inspiration photos are acceptable. It is often helpful to post a link for attribution. If you are unsure whether it is okay to use a certain photo, please ask the photographer or publisher prior to using it.
- Please avoid threadjacking on Wedding Find It Buy It. Be courteous of threads that others have started, and focus on the original question or discussion. If you would like to start a discussion about a subject tangential to a thread, please start a new thread to pursue it.
- Members come and go, but we discourage “flounce” posts (hasty goodbyes criticizing Wedding Find It Buy It or its users that are written to stir up drama). We reserve the right to delete or close these posts if they are particularly disruptive to the community.
- Please do not link to or reference other discussion boards with the intent to disparage their members, content, or staff.
- Private Messages (PMs) are private. Please do not repost PMs you receive on the boards and do not share PMs with other members without permission from the original sender.
- There are times when a member remains unresponsive to our requests to abide by the commenting policy. When this occurs it may become necessary for a member to be banned. Members will be made aware that this is a possibility and given an opportunity to abide by the commenting policy. If they are unable to do so, then the ban will go into effect.
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