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Community Guidelines

Welcome to the Aristotle Circle Parents Forum Guidelines. We created the Parents Forum to provide families with a positive and interesting environment where they can connect with others, share stories, vent, ask questions and give advice.

These guidelines are intended to help the Forum be a great place for as many families as possible. Aristotle Circle promotes safe and supportive communities, where individuals can feel welcome and safe, and not be subjected to personal attacks or disrespectful behavior.

As the moderator of these discussions, the Aristotle Circle Team will do our best to enforce the guidelines and assist members with any questions.

Rules of Conduct

1. Be respectful of others. It's simple—be nice to others. Give each other the benefit of the doubt—often things online can be more easily misunderstood. Just because someone has a different opinion than you doesn't make someone wrong. We are particularly sensitive to members criticizing or attacking the parenting styles or parenting decisions of other members. Use sensitivity when expressing your opinion about the way another member is raising his or her children.
2. Don't harass, personally attack, or gang up on others. You can be opinionated and say that your opinion is better or different than another opinion. But don't be nasty about it. Disagree with the opinion, not the person. Don't name-call or try to rally support for your "side".
3. Slurs, stereotyping, and hate speech are not tolerated. Do not threaten or verbally abuse other Members, use defamatory language, or deliberately disrupt discussions with repetitive messages, meaningless messages or "spam." Slurs, hate speech and attacks aimed at any race, color, religion, national origin, disability or sexual orientation are not tolerated at all on AristotleCircle.com. Don't stereotype people. It isn't funny and it isn't acceptable.
4. Controversial topics and debate are great, but they should be done constructively. Be prepared for others to agree AND disagree with you and your ideas. When you post something, especially about a controversial topic, expect that your viewpoints and opinions may be vigorously questioned, challenged, and held up to scrutiny. If having your opinions challenged and being expected to defend your position will make you uncomfortable, please don't post about that topic. Discussion and debate are not only allowed, they are encouraged. But, if a healthy discussion breaks down into an exchange of attacks and insults or becomes too heated, we will take measures to end the discussion. Don't post something just to inflame or annoy others.
5. Don't ask other members for help in the form of money, gifts or donations. It is not acceptable at this cafe to ask another member for money, goods or services.
6. Advertising and promotions are not allowed. If you are interested in a professional partnership with Aristotle Circle, use the Contact Us form on our main corporate Web site. Examples of advertising include: Work-at-home businesses; Products that you are selling (personal or professional); Job opportunities; Charities and charitable causes; Promoting another website, or promoting your entry in a contest (e.g,. "vote for my baby in the cutest baby contest on xyz.com!")
7. Be respectful of others when posting any content that is adult in nature. Content that is adult in nature will be flagged and may not be approved for publication on the site at the discretion of Aristotle Circle moderators. Nude photographs or images are not allowed. Neither are any libelous, defamatory, obscene, pornographic, abusive, or otherwise illegal material.
8. Don't share your personal information or anyone else's information on the open pages of our site. Aristotle Circle is not responsible for protecting personal identifiable information that is posted in our public forums.
9. Help us keep the forum orderly by reporting any problems you see on the site including posts that break these rules and anyone you suspect doesn't belong on Aristotle Circle. If you see something, say something to us. We rely on our visitors to help us identify when there is a violation of these Guidelines. When you report something to us, we will do our best to investigate it. You don't need to report things multiple times or have your friends also report the same issue. We try to review everything sent to us and sending it multiple times just slows things down for everyone.
10. Don't do anything criminal or illegal on Aristotle Circle or encourage anyone else to do so. Any postings that we reasonably believe or suspect are criminal or illegal in nature will not be approved for publication. We will cooperate with authorities to prosecute anyone who breaks the law while using our site. Do not link to sites containing criminal or illegal activity.
11. Any submissions you make may be edited, removed, modified, published, transmitted, and displayed by Aristotle Circle and you waive any rights you may have in having the material altered or changed in a manner not agreeable to you. Submissions made may also be included in our RSS feeds, APIs and made available for republishing through other formats.
12. You grant Aristotle Circle a perpetual, nonexclusive, world-wide, royalty free, sub-licensable license to the Submissions, which includes without limitation the right for Aristotle Circle or any third party Aristotle Circle designates, to use, copy, transmit, excerpt, publish, distribute, publicly display, publicly perform, create derivative works of, host, index, cache, tag, encode, modify and adapt (including without limitation the right to adapt to streaming, downloading, broadcast, mobile, digital, thumbnail, scanning or other technologies) in any form or media now known or hereinafter developed, any Submission posted by you on or to AristotleCircle.com or any other Web site owned by Aristotle Circle, including any Submission posted on AristotleCircle.com through a third party.

 

Aristotle Circle’s Responsibilities

The Aristotle Circle Team vets every post, photo or comment made on the forum and the blog for appropriateness. We will not publish profane, slanderous or explicit content submitted by visitors. However, we cannot guarantee the integrity of every member on the site. If we catch something that we believe violates our Community Guidelines or the Aristotle Circle Terms of Service—because we noticed it or you reported it—we will review the situation and take appropriate action if necessary.
We always have the right to remove postings, lock postings, warn members, suspend accounts, and/or cancel accounts to enforce these Guidelines or the Aristotle Circle Terms of Service or as we deem necessary to maintain the integrity of the site or our business. Whatever action we choose to take, our decision is final. We will not always explain our actions, but rest assured we do not take these decisions lightly.
You may not always think our decisions are fair and you may not always agree with us. Arguing with us or harassing us will not change our minds. Let's all treat each other with respect and work together to make this a great place for all moms.

 

Your Responsibilities

By following these Community Guidelines, you will be doing your part to make AristotleCircle’s parent forum a great place for all families to be. We want everyone posting to be comfortable and feel safe.