Posting, commenting and voting on ideas at Ideascale now requires users to log in. This change was made in response to concerns that settings that allowed anonymous posting may also have allowed users to vote more than once on the same idea.
Ideascale Policy
Moderation Policy
This online dialogue allows you the opportunity to fill out custom text fields, which are publicly visible. The site therefore operates a moderation policy to ensure that your comments are appropriate and not harmful to others. Comments which include any of the following may be deleted:
- Threats or incitements to violence
- Obscenity
- Duplicate posts
- Posts revealing your own or others’ sensitive/personal information (e.g., Social Security numbers)
- Information posted in violation of law, including libel, condoning or encouraging illegal activity, revealing classified information, or comments which might affect the outcome of ongoing legal proceedings
Moreover, while we invite open participation and diverse viewpoints to be shared, the main goal of this dialogue is to promote discussion on the most important issues in the development of the National Broadband Plan. Moderators therefore reserve the right to move posts which are not “on topic” or do not address some aspect of that question to the Off Topic Comments page. Our desire is to remove as few posts as possible while ensuring that a focused, constructive discussion takes place.
If you have a complaint about an item of user-generated content on this site, please contact us newmedia@fcc.gov.
Privacy Policy
We are committed to ensuring the privacy of our users. This dialogue does require you to submit an e-mail address when posting, responding to or ranking a comment, but we will not display this e-mail address on the site or share it with anyone else. The information gathered when creating your profile is not validated, so you can enter whatever you like. This information is made visible to other visitors to the site as part of your profile. Text entered in these publicly visible fields may be subject to post-moderation (see moderation policy).
Additional data, such as what pages on the site you’ve visited and the length of time you visited them, is collected anonymously for the purposes of analyzing visitor traffic; none of this data can be associated with your individual user identity within the dialogue. This data may be made available to visitors of the website, developers, and dialogue sponsor organizations including but not limited to those within the federal government.
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