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Our goal is to foster conversations that are helpful, informative, and fun. 

The short version

• We hope you will help create great conversations in our community. 
• Don’t be a jerk, call people jerk, or react to jerks. We’ll remove bad stuff when we see it. 
• Respect and help the moderators. 

How to interact with eschoolofthought.com

There are several ways to connect with us: 

• Follow us: Follow us on Twitter, DM us on Instagram, “like” us on Facebook, and subscribe to our newsletters (which you can reply to). 
• Get in touch directly: Have a resource tip? Want to contact eschoolofthought.com? See a bug (typo)? You can do all of that right here or email jonibivens@eschoolofthought.com.
• Post a comment on the site: Some of eschoolofthought.com pages on social media, Kiddo Stream and Hack-A-Demics on Facebook only have comments. Comments are organized into collapsible threads to make it easy to follow a conversation. 

Rules of the road

Whether it’s at the bottom of an article or in the chat at a Zoom event, here are things that will get your comment removed. Note that this is not a comprehensive list. Our moderators reserve the right to remove anything we deem inappropriate.

• Spam: We have a zero-tolerance policy. Whether it comes from a human or a robot, spam will be deleted. This includes self-promotion. Generally speaking, promoting your projects here will be treated like any other spam. 
• Personal attacks: Don't attack/insult another user or editor. It's not helpful and it doesn't make eschoolofthought.com a friendly place. This includes calling other members trolls. 
• Illegal activities: Posting links to illegal downloads, ways to steal service, and other nefarious activity is not okay here. 
• NSFW material: Not allowed. Even images or links that could be considered borderline are not acceptable. A good rule of thumb is that anything beyond PG-13 will get you in trouble, but we reserve the right to remove any post we deem offensive. This goes for pornographic material, vile language, gore, and generally gross stuff. 
• Racism, sexism, and other discrimination: Attacking entire classes of people is just like attacking a single person: we'll ban you for it. 
• Trolling: "Trolling" is a big, messy term, but we know what trolls are and we won't tolerate it. If you're abusing the good conversations here at eschoolofhought.com, we will take your comments and posts down. This includes taking a thread off-topic. 
• Multiple accounts and throwaway emails: We don't allow multiple accounts per user. Using a disposable email address signals to us that you might not be here for the right reasons. You also may not create accounts designed to impersonate another person.
• First post ban rule: If your first post on eschoolofthought.com is in violation of our community guidelines, it is clear to us that you have no interest in following the rules. The moderator team then reserves the right to ban new members who immediately violate our guidelines.
• Promotional posts or comments: We don’t allow our commenters on any platform to promote deals or businesses.

Above all, our team of moderators works to keep conversation here friendly, engaging, helpful, and productive. If we feel a comment is harming that endeavor, we’ll take action. See any of the above? Help us out by flagging (more on that below). Any comments that are a reply to spammy / inappropriate / trolling comments will be deleted with the original comment, so don't reply — just flag.

How to register 

You can register by clicking “Create Account” at the top right-hand side of the page at eschoolofthought.com.   

You may be interested in checking out our privacy policy and cookies if you’re the legalese type. 

 We’re trying to foster great conversation and we will remove comments that harm that endeavor. Editors have the final say on whether something fits within our community guidelines.