Social Media Community Guidelines
The following community guidelines apply to authors and users of UW-Stevens Point social media accounts. UW-Stevens Point-affiliated accounts may include a link to this webpage under the heading "Community Guidelines" in the about or biography section.
We welcome your questions, comments and concerns. Our goal is to provide a community where friends of the university can share content, ideas and experiences and find helpful information. To keep the site fun and lively, we ask that you respect the rules of this social media site as well as our rules below. We reserve the right to remove posts or comments that don’t comply.
Be respectful. It’s OK to voice a complaint or disagree with another post, but please do so in a polite and constructive manner. Obscenities, personal attacks, defamatory and off-topic comments about any person, group, organization or belief will be removed.
Be accurate. Please know your facts before you post. We will correct or remove factual errors.
Focus on UW-Stevens Point and don’t spam. Please keep your posts relevant to UW-Stevens Point and its students, faculty, staff and alumni. Don’t use our website or social media to promote businesses, causes or political candidates.
If you are part of the UW-Stevens Point community, it’s OK to post a link to your UW-Stevens Point-based group, or to invite community members to vote for you in an online contest—as long as you don’t do it every week. Excessive posts will be removed.
Posts by non-UW-Stevens Point organizations should be deleted. This includes, but is not limited to:
Discounts offered to UW-Stevens Point students, alumni or employees (see next section)
Promotions for non-UW-Stevens Point events
Rental housing ads
Promotions by non-UW-Stevens Point organizations, including political, religious and activist groups
Post in the right spot. UW-Stevens Point sponsors many social media sites. To make sure your post is a good fit, contact the correct department before doing so. For example:
- Posts about job openings or by recruiters in general are best for the Alumni Affairs or Career Services communities
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To promote commencement and graduation activities, post on the commencement Facebook group
Protect your privacy. Your comments are visible to all. Never include your phone number, email address or other personal information in a post. If you want individual follow-up, send a message through the site to a page administrator.
UW-Stevens Point is not responsible for the content of any website outside of the uwsp.edu domain. The inclusion of any non-UW-Stevens Point link, whether by a UW-Stevens Point employee or anyone posting on the site, does not imply endorsement by UW-Stevens Point of that website.
Posts by page administrators will appear next to the official page icon. Any other comments on the site do not necessarily reflect the opinions and positions of UW-Stevens Point. You are legally responsible for the comments you post.
Your commitment. By posting any comments, links or other material on UW-Stevens Point-sponsored websites, you give UW-Stevens Point (“UWSP”) the irrevocable right to reproduce, distribute, publish, display, edit, modify, create derivative works from, and otherwise use your submission for any purpose in any form and on any media. You also agree that you will not:
- Post material that infringes on the rights of any third party, including intellectual property, privacy or publicity rights.
- Post material that is unlawful, obscene,
defamatory, threatening, harassing, abusive, slanderous, hateful, or
embarrassing to any other person or entity as determined by UW-Stevens
Point in its sole discretion.
- Post ads or solicitations of business.
- Post the same note more than once ("spam").
- Post chain letters or pyramid schemes.
- Impersonate another person.
- Allow any other person or entity to use your identification for posting or viewing comments.
If you have any questions about this site, please send a message to the site administrators.
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