Community Guidelines

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  • Don’t post anything illegal:
    Seriously, don’t do it. If we find you doing anything illegal, we won’t think it’s funny. Because, well, it’s not. We won’t try to understand. If you’re one of our bloggers, we’ll just remove your site. If you’re a user of the site, we’ll ban you. No questions asked.
  • Please behave yourselves:
    Do we even need to say that? Blogs draw in diverse crowds, especially around polar topics and hot-button issues. Avoid name-calling, libelous comments, personal threats/attacks, which may be viewed by PLoS management or users as site abuse, and may result in suspension of your account.
  • Don’t plagiarize:
    The content that you upload should be yours. If it’s not your content, or your content cross-posted from somewhere else, you should properly cite the source and observe fair use.
  • If you leave a comment, you’ll have to supply a username and a valid email address:
    No long registration process required. Fill out two simple lines, and your comment will be registered.
  • About reader re-use of blog content:  While all content from the seven PLOS open access online journals (and their community blogs Speaking of Medicine, PLOS Biologue and everyONE) is freely available to anyone under an unrestricted CC-BY Creative Commons License requiring only attribution, material posted to one of our independent blogs on the PLOS Blog Network may have restrictions attached. Please check at the bottom of each PLOS Network blog for the correct content license governing its content and abide by its limitations.  The links provided below will take you to detailed explanations of each license with important copyright do’s and don’ts.

    1. With a CC:BY Creative Commons License the blogger keeps copyright but allows anyone to copy and distribute the work provided the individual blogger is given credit.  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0  
    2. With a CC:BY:NC Creative Commons License the blogger keeps copyright and allows anyone to copy and distribute the work provided the reuse is for noncommercial purposes only and the blogger is given credit.  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0  
    • Have fun: Yes, it’s a rule. There will be a quiz on this.

Creative Commons License
The Community Guidelines by PLOS Blogs Network, unless otherwise expressly stated, is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License.

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