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Re: Your feedback needed: Updating our Community Guidelines
  • Author : NatureLover
  • Support : 5
  • Topic : Events and updates
20 Apr 2024 11:03 PM
Community Elder
@Dimity wrote:

"Fair discussion" and "No Self-Promotion". You ban identifying other services.

@Dimity , thank you - you picked up on something I missed - the little word "services" under "Fair Discussion: Avoid saying things that name or identify other people, practitioners, services, or refer to breaking the law."

I think possibly the new guidelines might mean "Don't identify a particular local service like a real life group meeting in a particular street and suburb of Melbourne, due to possibly loss of anonymity of members"? I'm not sure.

 

But I do agree with @Dimity  that the mentioning of other services in general is very helpful and vital, such as mentioning Blue Knot for domestic violence, or the Calm app, or MensLine Australia, or the BeyondBlue Webchat Service, etc.

 

So this little word "services" here needs to be clarified, I think...

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