The Guidespot Community Guidelines

Your Guide, Your Rules

Guidespot is about self-expression, visual creation, and community/social interaction. Since you are the author of your guides, and the owner of your profile, you become a moderator for your territory. If you don’t like a comment or any other interaction on your guide or profile, feel free to moderate your guide by deleting or rearranging contributions from the community.

World Domination

Share your content on your blogs, on Facebook, Myspace, Twitter, via text, via IM, and I don’t know, email your guides to your Nana… Just feel free to get the word out about Guidespot. Sharing your guide with the world, ok, and your immediate network of friends and family, gets more views to your guides and allows you to be part of the revolution.

Creepy-Creeps

We encourage lurking, and even G-Crushes (hey boys!), but don’t be a creepy-creep. If you have to ask me if it is creepy or not, than it probably is! Ewww.

Smorgasbord of Users

Some users like to use Guidespot as an outlet for businesses advertising. Informing the community and the internets about your business will reap more benefits if you don’t just use a guide as a free advertising outlet. Business-only guides, that look like an advertisement or spam by or for the business, and that don’t act as a resource, might be removed from the homepage stream. We recommend making an informative guide, which helps promote your business by being a resource or fun and entertaining.  Here are some examples of Guidespot businesses guides that are on the right track to pull in readers, and potentially new clients: Orlando’s Best Hair Color: Before and After and How to Save and Make Money on Wedding Flowers.

I've Got This Funny Feeling

You will see a lot of different things on Guidespot, and some of which you may find disrespectful, inappropriate, or offensive. When this occurs, you have a some options, you can choose to look at a different guide altogether, or you can flag the guide. The flagging option is located in the bottom right column of a guide page. If you flag a guide, an email will be sent to Guidespot HQ, and we will check out the guide to make sure that the author is following all guidelines.

Guidespot Community Guidelines

• Creativity
• Your Guide, Your Rules
• Keepin’ it G
• World Domination
• Photo and Content Mafia
• Creepy-Creeps
• Pass the Aggression Please
• Smorgasbord of Users
• Spam-a-Lot
• I’ve Got this Funny Feeling

Creativity

There are no limitations on what you can create a guide about, or how you can participate. So, use Guidespot as a way to be yourself, hone your creativity, be part of a community, and have on online outlet. The more fun you have with your guides, the more fun you will have on Guidespot.

Keepin' it G

Keepin’ it G is another way of saying that we keep it real cool at Guidespot… G like gangster, and G like the Goods on Guidespot. Nudies are not keepin’ it G and are not tolerated. Yes, that means no nudity! Photographs, videos, or links to such media with nudity is not avveptable on Guidespot. Illegal mumbo jumbo is also not G, so stay away from content, photos, videos, or links to such media that privide illegal information of any nature.

Photo and Content Mafia

Remember that you are responsible for your guides, so you should only use your own photos and content. If you want to use the photos or content of others, make sure you are first granted permission from the original source, writer, or photographer. Linking to the original source is a recommended and polite gesture. Read more about this important issues of copyright and plagiarism here.

Pass the Aggression Please

We all have bad experiences, but the community will ignore you and your guide if you are only on the site to be passive aggressive. To make a bigger impact, become an active member of the community, and earn trust through guides and interaction. Then, when you want to vent, the community will most likely listen and respond. Inflammatory guides, content, comments, or shout outs are not tolerated.

Spam-a-Lot

Spam our community and their guides, and we will politely warn and/or delete your profile, and potentially track your IP address. And then, for fun, just like on “You Can’t Do That on Television,” we will slime you.