Chicago Music Community Guidelines: 1. No profanity
(including masked profanity, where letters of swear words are
replaced with other characters) or inappropriate content. Why: We
want to keep the community a friendly, yet professional place. We
welcome your opinions, as long as you refrain from using profanity.
2. No personal attacks or insults Why: We want to make the
community a safe place where people can learn from each other
without fear of being insulted or attacked. 3. No Spam,
off-topic commercial postings, or blatantly self-promotional posts
are allowed. Why: For the same reason you don’t want Spam in your
email. Posts that are merely advertisements waste time and make it
harder for people to find what they are looking for. 4. Keep
email addresses out of your posts. Why: We want to keep emails out
of posts for two reasons: to reduce spam harvesting of emails; to
encourage conversations to stay in the forum so that everyone can
benefit from them. Make sure that discussions stay on topic and
don’t devolve into spam or flame fests. 5. No links or
contact information in the body of post (unless the link is on
topic for the discussion). Why: Your profile is the best place for
contact information. If someone wants to contact you, they can find
that information there. You can link to other pages if those links
are relevant to the question being asked only. Again, this makes
sure that discussions are on topic and reduces spamming. Don’t
forget we also offer public chat and private chat capabilities to
take extended conversations. 6. Acceptable usernames: use
your REAL name, not the URL to your website, business name, dog, or
anything else. 7. Chicago reserves the right to make
judgment calls on all situations. Why: There are always cases where
there is no clear cut right answer. In those cases, we will make a
judgment call on whether to edit or remove a post or ban a member
from the network. 8. Limit your posts to a reasonable
amount. We don’t want to set a limit, but leave some breathing room
for others. 9. No Inappropriate posts of an intimate nature
or “stalker” type behavior. 10. Keep this site classy and
PG-13! The topic is music! 11. Don't use email system to
send commercial messages promoting events we are not connected with
OR for other outbound spam messaging. 12. Chicago reserves
the exclusive right to post, or remove, any artistic
interpretations of its music, in any form, and/or, any digital
media uploaded by any user on this site without obligation,
compensation or further license requirement. Any user
uploading any photo or other media to this site are automatically
subject to all terms of service and conduct guidelines. Any
user uploading content hereby automatically hold Chicago harmless
for use of such content, expressly authorizing such use, without
compensation. A Photographer/Videographer release is
automatically in effect by uploading any photograph or video.
Terms: You hereby forever grant Chicago Music, Inc. unlimited and
unrestricted commercial and non commercial license to use uploaded
content without compensation of any kind. If you don't agree to
this, PLEASE DO NOT UPLOAD CONTENT.
Policies specific to
Videographers/musicians/artists/comedians/film-makers with original
material to promote or share, including raw concert footage:
Naturally all the above applies to musicians as well. Chicago
does NOT accept unsolicited material. NO MYSPACE,FACEBOOK. or
YOUTUBE LINKS w/o prior approval! Do not take it personally if you
do not hear back - no need to assume anything negative. There is
simply a large volume of communication. Keep in mind; this site is
dedicated to the pursuit of Chicago's activities. We have chosen
NOT to allow our site to be used for the promotion of material not
directly affiliated with Chicago as the complexities and potential
conflicts that can occur over the web service, with our partners,
and our business plan are significant. Rest assured, our intent is
to be “as inclusive as we can be”, in terms of community, etc but
we don’t want to find ourselves in the position of saying yes to
some, and no to others, regarding the upload of your material(s) to
our servers for self promotion, or for non-profit. It is not our
core business. It is a complex equation having NOTHING to do with
our interest in discovering great content, but doing so could have
significant legal implications as well. Your personal profile on
the Chicago Music community could certainly say more about you
(even an outside link ok) and we encourage that as members of the
community get to know each other. What we will NOT allow is using
our site to send self-promotion spam/email,etc. We will have a
hard-line policy on this and doing so will get you banned from the
network quickly. Chicago must remain a “good internet citizen” and
we will not allow anyone to get us blacklisted with ISP’s due to
members ignoring basic service guidelines…thank you for
understanding! Please be so kind as to ADD A PROFILE PHOTO that
is really you (required) - it brings much to our community!
