Social Media Moderation Guidelines

Solstice Media has a responsibility to ensure that discussion on its social media pages are on-topic and free from harassment, discrimination, and defamatory statements.

The following types of communication are encouraged:

• opinions on public figures, ideologies, policies, concepts, and events
• your personal experience with the current topic
• opinions about the quality of the article
• opinions about InDaily in general

The following types of communication are subject to moderation:

• attacks on other commenters
• attacks based on race, gender, sexuality, disability, and other vulnerable groups
• defamatory statements
• threats of violence
• off-topic arguments with other commenters
• complaints about moderation decisions made in other threads
• misinformation and disinformation
• spam, scams, and self-promotion
• comments with links are automatically hidden by Facebook’s moderation tools

Restricting comments:

• in an effort to reduce spam, commenting is restricted to accounts who have followed InDaily for at least 24 hours
• comment threads may be closed if reasonable moderation methods have been exhausted
• comment threads may be closed if there are too many off-topic arguments
• comment threads may be pre-emptively closed if there is a strong risk of defamation or harassment of vulnerable groups
• you will be banned if you complain about moderation in other comment threads

Helpful tips

• try to be interesting. We have to read the same jokes that you repeat in every thread.