Going Concern Community Guidelines <\/b><\/p>\n
By using Going Concern you are agreeing that you will abide by the terms of the following User Agreement, which you can find here, and the Community Guidelines below. This User Agreement is between you and Going Concern (\u201cThe Website\u201d) \u00a0which is operated by Sift Media, U.S. (collectively, \u201cWe\u201d \u201cUs\u201d or the \u201cCompany\u201d) and it governs your access to and use of the services, websites, and applications offered by Us. Your access to and use of the Website is conditioned on your acceptance of and compliance with this agreement. <\/span><\/p>\n Basic Guidelines<\/b><\/p>\n Moderation:<\/b><\/p>\n We will deem, at our sole discretion, if a comment or posting violates our community guidelines and therefore needs to be edited or removed from the site.<\/span><\/p>\n Sometimes it may be necessary to remove an entire thread or conversation. We will only do this in the most extreme cases in order to preserve the flow of conversation on the site.<\/span><\/p>\n Members who continue to violate community guidelines will incur a temporary ban on their ability to contribute or comment on Going Concern. Members who are welcomed back after a temporary ban will be expected to post within the guidelines as stated here. Failure to do so will result in a permanent ban.<\/span><\/p>\n We are willing, but under no obligation, to review permanent bans after six months. Each case will be assessed individually and no precedence will apply.<\/span><\/p>\n If you feel that a comment violates our Terms of Use or these Community Guidelines you can let us know at editor[at]goingconcern.com. We will review any offensive or inflammatory posts within two working days of a post being reported.<\/span><\/p>\n We promise to respond to member queries and requests reasonably and responsibly but ask that our members allow us reasonable time to deal with each request \u2013 some things may take us longer to investigate.<\/span><\/p>\n Open Items<\/b><\/p>\n Allowing our users to publish content, in addition to comments, is a great way for members of the community to showcase knowledge and experience. Open Items allows registered users to publish blog posts covering a wide variety of areas and for other members of the community to respond and comment. Here are a few guidelines to keep in mind if you want to participate as an contributor to Open Items:<\/span><\/p>\n Our commitment to users<\/b><\/p>\n We want to make Going Concern a safe, professional and interesting place for you to ask questions, engage in conversations, and make comments.Where possible, we promise to protect the anonymity of those members who prefer to remain anonymous on Going Concern. However, we reserve the right to reveal your identity (or whatever information we know about you) to the proper authorities or interested parties in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message or other content posted by you or where such information is otherwise relevant.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Going Concern Community Guidelines By using Going Concern you are agreeing that you will abide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1000000002,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1000001041","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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