Site Rules
RateItAll is an online community designed to allow its visitors to find and share opinions on a broad variety of topics. In order to encourage an environment conducive to the good faith exchange of ideas and opinions, a number of common sense guidelines have been created. The following behaviors are off limits:
1) Posting content that is not your own.
2) Creating more than one account.
3) Attempting to artificially inflate the rating or ranking of any particular item by voting down other items within a topic.
4) Attempting to artificially inflate the number of "helpful" or "not helpful" associated with any account, including your own.
5) Harassing other users.
6) Flaming. Disagreement is to be expected, but personal attacks on other reviewers are off limits. (added 7/15/04) This includes attacks on the integrity of other RIA reviews (cheating accusations, vigilante justice type posts, etc.) (modified 12/15/04)
7) Posting comments that contain excessive profanity or hateful and/or threatening language.
8) Posting comments that have nothing to do with the item being rated. (added 10/20/04) This includes rating items with which you have no personal experience (e.g. "Who is this?") (Edited 4/11/06)
9) Using e-mail tools such as personal messaging to send spam.
10) Creating nicknames or personal profiles that are inflammatory or vulgar. (edited 7/15/04)
11) Posting the same post repeatedly for different items.
12) Posting blatant commercial pitches with no redeeming content (e.g. "visit my Pete Townshend site at www.mysite.com')
13) Calls to action (e.g. Requesting other users to vote down a certain item, boycott a store, etc.) (added 12/15/04)
14) Disparaging specific employees when reviewing companies, or disclosing personally identifying information such as email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, etc (added 9/23/05)(edited 9/27/05)
15) Discussing past, pending, or possible lawsuits against companies. (add 4/11/06)
Unfortunately, we don't have the resources to explain to everyone individually why a post was removed. We also can't promise that there will be warnings for loss of site privileges.
To summarize, use your common sense and try to make the RateItAll community a better place with your postings. Any behavior that is deceptive, obnoxious, or that threatens the spirit of community of RateItAll is likely off limits, and could result disciplinary action up to and including loss of posting privileges.
