Sample Guidelines - Comprehensive
We value the comments and contributions we receive on social media.
While we encourage people to join the conversation, we will not tolerate disrespectful, offensive, crude, hateful or irrelevant comments or comments that make another person feel unsafe.
Please keep all comments and discussion respectful and courteous. We may remove or report posts, comments, or links that we consider:
- discriminatory, potentially defamatory, false, or misleading, racist, off-topic, inflammatory, repetitive, offensive or otherwise inappropriate
- disrespectful toward another person
- to make another person feel unsafe
- commercial content, advertisements, or spam
- campaigning for a product, service, cause or initiative
- infringement of the privacy, intellectual property or legal rights of others
- any other material we consider to be inappropriate.
We retain the right to block a user whose posts or comments include any of the above.
The views, opinions, and information expressed in user-generated comments remain with the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the Victorian Government.
If you have any questions relating to these guidelines, please contact us.
Sample Guidelines – Condensed
With our social media channels, the Victorian Government will:
- endeavour to remove any inappropriate, offensive, or defamatory comments
- leave what you share that relates to the subjects covered on this page
- endeavour to respond to comments that ask questions in a timely manner.
Aside from our posts, comments posted to this page do not represent the opinions of the Victorian Government.
Responses may only be provided during business hours.
Sample Guidelines - Facebook group or general forum
<The primary purpose of this page/group is to <insert purpose>.
This Page/Group is not a promotional vehicle. Any blatant advertising (as deemed by the administrators) will be removed from the group and the member will be warned. If advertising from the member continues to occur, the member will be notified and removed from the group.
We encourage sharing useful information, but we ask that all members respect copyright and fair use principles. Always give people proper credit for their work and content.
Unacceptable behaviour is your responsibility.
Please be responsible for what you write.
We have the right to remove anyone who:
- Blatantly advertises within the group
- Spams the platform or its members
- Is obtrusive and/or disruptive
- Uses inappropriate language such as swearing
- Is derogatory or defamatory, discriminatory or makes socially unacceptable, inflammatory comments
- Attempts to engage in overt political or religious debates and arguments.
If a comment breaches the above guidelines, it will be removed, and the commenter will be sent a private message with a warning their comment is against the guidelines. If a breach occurs a second time (or is severe in nature) the commenter will be blocked/removed.
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