Blog Code of Conduct
In order to benefit from these Rasmussen College Sponsored Blogs, we ask for all of our readers including Rasmussen College employees abide by our code on conduct.
The purpose of this blog is to encourage participation. Your feedback will be vital to the success of ongoing and/or future marketing initiatives.
Lastly, when you post a comment, it will be reviewed and/or monitored by the BlogMaster first prior to posting. We do so because:
(1) This blog is public. Given this, it will then be accessible to the evil SPAM community and those comments are obviously irrelevant.
(2) Should we receive any comments that do not abide by the below Code of Conduct, we will not post it. Management will contact that User directly to address any and all issues raised in the post.
Now for the "small" print:
We do not wish to censor any comments being posted here. But in order to prevent abuses by a few people and to keep this Blog comfortable and appropriate for the general audience, which includes people of all ages, races, religions, and nationalities, we reserve the right to remove any notices in violation of our code of conduct that are brought to our attention. Therefore, all comments that are in violation of our guidelines are subject to being removed immediately and without prior notice.
By posting here, you agree to the following statement:
I agree that I will be solely responsible for the use and content of all blog comments that I post under this program and that I will indemnify Rasmussen College and hold it harmless for any losses or damages to myself or to others that may result directly or indirectly from any notices that I post here.
Because of the size of our community we cannot monitor all posts and/or comments on the site. If you see a message you believe violates our guidelines please contact us.
We hope that these guidelines will make the Rasmussen Sponsored Blogs both successful and enjoyable for everyone.
To participate in posting comments, you agree NOT to:
Post anything obscene, vulgar, sexually explicit, illegal, harmful, insulting, threatening, abusive, harassing, humiliating, embarrassing, defamatory, libelous, untrue, invasive of someone else's privacy, or objectionable (in our sole discretion).
Post anything hateful — including targeting race, class, gender, age, sexual orientation, religion, national origin, weight, or disability.
Post with the intent to disrupt or disturb the community or to interfere with other User's use and enjoyment of our community.
Attack character or damage the reputation of other Users, name-call, insult, ridicule, harass, mock, or otherwise verbally assault other members of this community.
Insult, attack, belittle, or ridicule the beliefs and life choices of other Users, or tell others what they should believe or how they should live.
Create a screen name to hide your identity and violate our guidelines.
Post or link to inappropriate content. Inappropriate content is anything Rasmussen College deems obscene or vulgar — including graphic images or stories.
Post anything you don't have the right to publish or violate any copyright or other proprietary rights in your posts. That includes excerpting published articles without the author or owner's permission.
Transfer issues or posts from blog to another with the intention of drawing negative attention to the post. Don't quote someone else's comment from another blog without that person's permission. Please don't direct people to controversial or problematic comments on other blogs.
"Hit and run." Please don't comment to a posting where you wouldn't ordinarily, simply to point out the wrongness of another poster or group's actions, beliefs, or comments.
Use all capital letters in your comments.
Flood. This includes repeatedly "bumping" a comment, disrupting an discussion via comments by entering the same phrase over and over again, or otherwise using up bandwidth.
Post on behalf of a banned User, or you may also be banned without notice or warning.
Violations of these Guidelines
If you violate the Code of Conduct, you will be contacted individually by Rasmussen College Management. Your actions may result in either a warning, suspension, or permanent banning from participation in any Rasmussen College online community. We do not publicly discuss or announce warnings, suspensions, or bannings.
Banning is done at the Management's discretion and is the result of our sole judgment of a User's demonstrated inability or disinclination to follow our guidelines. We reserve the right to ban any User at any time for any reason, with or without warning.
If the comment with a violation of these guidelines contains information that is useful to the original poster or other members of the site, it may be edited or locked. However, if in our sole judgment a comment was created for the purpose of violating the guidelines, violates enough guidelines to be irredeemable, or contains no otherwise useful information, it may be removed.