Social Media Information for Membership Requests
Membership Requirements and Social Media Information
Social Media Groups that are administered by Kentucky History and Genealogy Network have group rules.
- These rules must be agreed to and followed for further consideration to join a group.
- You must also answer all three (3) membership questions to be considered for membership.
- Failure to answer membership questions and agree to group rules will result in a decline.
- A decline will be with a notification stating the reason for declining is an issue with questions.
- The group rules are consistent across all the groups.
- A few groups will have slight variations because of their make up subjects (Sales Groups, DNA group etc.)
- If you are admitted to the group the group rules below will apply and are listed below.
- You must also answer all three (3) membership questions to be considered for membership.
Copyrights and Postings
- Nothing copyrighted posted without the proper permission from the proper owner.
- Sanction; (Post Removal, Member removal on repeat);
- Any item protested as being copied illegally will be removed from the group as soon as notification is known.
- We have no way of properly or feasible method of verifying whether a post is copyrighted or not.
- The item is removed and the poster and the protester must work the complaint out between themselves.
- Sanction; (Post Removal, Member removal on repeat);
Facebook Guidelines
- Facebook has standards stated in their policies and are first and foremost in relevance.
- Sanction; (Enforced by Facebook)
Selling/Spamming
- No spamming, selling or soliciting of funds.
- Sanction; (Removal of post 1st Time, Member Removal on 2nd Time)
- We do have individual group set up for Genealogical based books.
- A separate group for other historical and genealogical items is also available.
- No sales of any kind are allowed on the research groups except for the two groups listed above.
- Sanction; (Removal of post 1st Time, Member Removal on 2nd Time)
Offensive/Hate Language
- Nothing offensive to any individual or groups.
- Sanction; (Warning 1st time with post removal, Member Removal 2nd time)
Political and Religious Posts and Debates
- No political or religious debates or posts.
- (Sanction; Member Removal)
- Kentucky History and Genealogy Network is a registered Nonprofit and is bound under standards set by the Internal Revenue Service.
- These standards require the organization to completely abstain from endorsing, supporting or opposing any political candidate.
- Failure to abide by this standard will result in a loss of the the Nonprofit status for the organization.
- Religious debates become very inflammatory and are not permitted.
- (Sanction; Member Removal)
Blocking Administrators
- Blocking any Administrator or Moderator
- Sanction (Member Blocked and Removed).
- A tactic that spammers use and is strictly forbidden.
- Please bring issues with an Administrator or a Moderator to our attention so it can be discussed and resolved.
- Sanction (Member Blocked and Removed).
Subject Matter and Posting
- All conversations must be on topic to our group discussion matter.
- Sanction (Post Removal 1st time, Muted 2nd offense, Member removal 3rd Time)
Inviting Members
- Member invites are held 1 hour to wait on questions answered and rules agreed to.
- After 1 hour they are automatically declined and a notification sent to the invited member to request to be added.
- Invited members often get added to other groups without their knowledge through well meaning friends.
- To verify someone actually wants to be added they must answer the questions and agree to the rules.
- This lets us know they are aware that they are admitted as a member.
- If the rules and questions are not addressed the invite is declined with a feedback message.
- After 1 hour they are automatically declined and a notification sent to the invited member to request to be added.
Profanity
- No profanity is tolerated.
- Sanction; (Member Removal and Post Removal)
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