Minti's Code of Honor - protecting the rights of members

Minti is aimed at being a friendly and safe place for ALL members and ALL members have the right to be treated with respect. To enable this we "encourage" members to speak from experiences using words like, 'for me', 'i believe', 'from my experiences',  and sentences like...'it may not be the same for others, but this is what I went through and my solutions', 'I don't agree but I can see from your point of view', 'good job, it's just not what I personally would do'.

Constructive very friendly feedback is best, think about the recipients feelings as if they were your own  (they may have had just had to deal with their kid's tantrum) so play nice....and we can keep the pages on Minti friendly and more importantly, a SAFE place to land. (figuratively and literally speaking)

It is extremely important for us as a community to have our rights as members protected.

Your rights as a member of Minti...

1. You have the right to vote on any areas within the site as you see fit without any fear of recourse by the author or other members on the content you are voting on.
2. You have the right not to respond to ANY contact/email/query by other members asking about your voting methods. As well as having the right to not respond, you have the right to forward a copies to Minti support and then delete those emails questioning your voting methods. Minti support wants to know immediately of ANY email queries questioning your voting methods and actions.
3. You have the right to foster goodwill within the community and that ranking content is only in place to help the intended reader not for personal popularity, but for the content to ring true to parents experiences being what becomes popular.
4. You have the right not to be coerced by a member or other members to vote in a certain way, this will result in immediate termination of that member/s.
5. You also have the right to not be bullied or attacked via email or bullied or attacked personally on the site. Bullying behavior is not acceptable in our children's playgrounds, it is not accepted here.
6. You have the right to report any member that breaches your rights as a member of Minti and this breach will be seriously investigated.

Report any breach or voting coercion to rachelcook

Any breach of these actions breaches the Minti Code of Honor below...

The Minti Code of Honor

1. Above all else, respect others. If you see disrespectful behavior, report it, rather than further inflaming the situation. Flaming is immediately in breach of the Code of Honor. You can still have a lively chat/debate but in a group specific to the topic, but getting personal and flaming a member, or having others flame the member is in breach and those members involved are also in breach. It's just not a nice thing to do and we all don't have the time nor the emotions to handle being flamed.
   
2. Before you write, rank, tag or comment, ask yourself if your contribution increases the strength and virtue of the community.
3. Minti is for collaborative advice and discussion of the parenting ideas, you cannot use blatant self-promotion. Posting full articles which also appear on your blog is acceptable but purely seeding your own links is not. What you can do is talk about your own parenting experiences or that of others, and provide a little bit of information on your site or product and have links to the site or product preferably in the "bookmark" section at the end of the article, and if within the article (in good taste, not a link every line of the sentence for example).
   
4. Keep your titles accurate and free of sensationalistic language, the community will appreciate it.
5. Although full internationalization is important to Minti, please keep all posts and comments in English until the website is launched in other languages.
6. Keep Minti tidy by tagging for accuracy rather than for readership, editing titles to be compact and descriptive, and referencing your contribution to the original source in a respectful and legal manner where applicable.
7. Make sure your content is your own and if you have used other content you must link back to the original source and email the site you have copied from for permission which usually you get within 48hours.
8. And above ALL else LOVE THY Minti Member, it will be easier to state your beliefs in a nicer way.

Minti is about providing ranked advice based on parents experiences in raising their children and not about being popular. Although, if you contribute honestly, respectfully you will become a much loved member on the Minti site, and thats what we and members care about the most. Other parents will see that there is honesty in providing comments and opinions regarding the content they read and more likely to refer back to that content time and time again.

Lets keep Minti the place it was intended for...parents sharing in a friendly supportive way.

For more information on what an Honor Code is, read the definition here in Wikipedia