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Submission Rules and Guidelines - admin - 01-23-2022
Read ALL Rules before making a Article Submission, Failure to do so may cause deletion of your Article.
1. Do not submit an article that only serves to slander, discriminate, attack, etc, another person or entity, if you have a legitimate concern about someone or something, write it up properly and cite the issues in a professional manner with good grammar, ZERO profanity, and in a clear and concise manner, not just a jumbled rant.
2. Please use spell check, Articles with blatantly bad grammar or spelling issues will be kicked back for you to correct your work, articles that do not receive proper corrections in a timely manner may be deleted. Submit it properly.
3. If your article has attachments which are too large or are of an un-supported format for the site, contact staff and we will assist you.
4. Racism, or any form of discrimination against someones ethnicity or religion will not be tolerated.
5. If you wish for your article to be published anonymously, DO NOT submit it via this section, instead contact staff and we will assist you.
6. Once an article is Published to either the first page or second page news sections, we may lock the post from being edited to preserve it, and to prevent people from replacing one article with another to circumvent the review process, if your article is locked but there is new information that must be added, such as new evidence, or recent developments, etc, contact staff and explain the developments and we can give you access to update the article as is needed to reflect the new information. Alternatively, you can write a new supplemental article and cite/reference the previous article, and use the new article to cover the new information, or recent development.
7. Editing and Review decisions made by moderators can be appealed to site management, we will review the decision of our moderators, take input from you, and then decide if their decision stands or not.
These rules are subject to addition, alteration, or change at any time as deemed by the staff.