The Poetry Network

• Always treat others with kindness and respect, even if you don’t agree with them.
• Stay on topic, don’t intentionally derail discussions, don’t troll, don’t spam.
• Use appropriate language.
• Do not intentionally insult or offend others.
• We don’t tolerate hate speech, intimidation, harassment, sexual, racial, or ethnic slurs, and discrimination.

We will not tolerate :

• Abuse or encouraging abuse of the bot and the “report to admin” mechanism
• Posting your own as well as other people’s personally identifiable information (i.e. name, address, email, phone number, place of work, etc.).
• Posting links to phishing sites, malware, spyware or groups not belonging to pickmeuppoetry.org
• Impersonating group moderators, administrators, Pick Me Up Poetry staff or other users.
• Spamming, bashing, flaming, trolling, or abusing other users
• Posting something that is knowingly false.
• Hijacking or posting messages that are unrelated to the original topic and make it difficult for others to follow the discussion.
• Posting pornography, inappropriate or offensive content, and things that are generally considered not suitable for work.
• Threats of violence, harassment or privacy breach – even as a joke.
• Using a third party’s intellectual property (full or partial scans of articles, books, full transcriptions of articles, etc.) unless you have permission to do so.
• Selling, advertising, referrals, auctioning unless it is in a group specifically for this purpose
• Use of language that is abusive, vulgar, hateful, defamatory, obscene, profane, threatening, privacy-invasive, or law-violating.
• Encouraging anyone else to break these rules.
• Taking any other actions that are deemed inappropriate by the admins (at our sole discretion).