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Blogging Rules
To become a PublicPost blogger, you need:
1) Register on our website.
2) If you have successfully completed registration, the “Leave a blog entry” field will open in your personal account, and you will also be able to create photo albums to illustrate your text. We recommend not to write too long texts exceeding 3500 characters.
3) In your text you can leave links to videos on YouTube or RuTube.
4) We carry out preliminary moderation of posts on our website. This means that the decision to publish your text on PublicPost is made by the editors. Regardless of whether it is positive or negative, we report it by letter to the author within 24 hours.
5) In order for your post to be published on the PublicPost website, you should adhere to the following recommendations:
- — It is important for us to hear the opinions of experts about what is happening in the field of your professional activity. We encourage doctors and health workers to write about the reform of the healthcare system in Russia, the state of the hospitals where you work, the initiatives of local and federal authorities, etc. Teachers can comment on reforms in the field of education, the Unified State Examination, seismologists - earthquakes in Russia and the world, etc., etc.
- — If you have witnessed a socially important event or incident: a plane crash, fire, flood, train collision, spontaneous rally — please write about it on our website.
- — We welcome reports from the field about the visit of your city by the President of Russia, the Prime Minister of Russia, federal ministers, foreign delegations, etc. Write and send photos about how the election campaign is going in your city, about the condition of federal highways, railways, etc.
- — You shouldn’t write about abstract topics about the fate of the world, philosophical reflections about the future of Russia, etc. For this purpose, the site provides a commenting system.
- — You should also not write on general high-profile topics (presidential address, Khodorkovsky, Magnitsky, etc.) if you are not directly involved in these processes, they do not relate to your specialty or you are not an eyewitness. As a rule, we reject such materials.
- — We kindly ask you to refrain from obscene language, both in the blogs themselves and in the comments.
- — You shouldn’t quote large chunks of text from publicly available sources; a short quote and a link to it will suffice.
- — It is prohibited to use extremist statements in the text. We understand that many people, including bloggers, find it difficult to figure out for themselves where the line between ordinary opinion and extremist opinion lies. And yet, in order to avoid unpleasant consequences, we advise you not to disseminate statements aimed at inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliating the dignity of a person or group of people on the basis of gender, race, nationality, language, origin, attitude to religion, as well as affiliation -or social group.
- — A blogger must remember that, by law, he cannot disseminate information that discredits the honor, dignity of citizens, the business reputation of citizens and legal entities, knowingly false information, offensive statements, as well as information that violates the privacy of other private individuals, including by disclosure of their personal data.
- — Bloggers are prohibited from posting objects of copyright and related rights (text, graphic, photo, video, audio materials, etc.) on the blog without the consent of the authors or other legal rights holders.
- — Bloggers are prohibited from disseminating information of an advertising nature, including links to sites unrelated to the topic of the blog, for the purpose of advertising them.
6) The editors do not enter into discussions about rejected posts, and decisions about publication are not discussed.
7) There are no fees for blogging. Everything happens on a voluntary basis. To write or not to write to us, even if we have sent a request to select material, is your personal decision; you always have the right to refuse.
8) The author of the blog is entirely responsible for the materials posted on his personal blog, with the exception of advertising and other materials posted by the site administration within the author’s personal page.