A Good Example of Online Community Guidelines

Our local Half Moon Bay and Coastside community site, Coastsider.com, puts up its community guidelines.  I loved this one in particular:

6. Please use your real name. We don’t require this but we’d like to know who you are. If you sign your name Bill Clinton or Frank Zappa, we’ll in all likelihood delete it, unless we’re certain you’re the former president or the reincarnated Mother of Invention.

Related:  Backfence closes its doors, with commentary from Terry Heaton and Jeff Jarvis. And a spot-on review of a Backfence meeting from last year from Adina Levin.

image: Barry Parr