Rules for Commenting on the Blog

1. The subject area of this website is issues related to Philadelphia and Philadelphia’s elections with the goal of informing voters on city issues and the position of candidates for city office.

2. This website and its blog are for informational use only. You may not use this website to sell a product or service, or to increase traffic to your Web site for commercial reasons, such as advertising sales.

3. The sites linked to within any posted comments are developed by people over whom the Crosstown Coalition exercises no control. While our moderators will attempt to confirm the appropriateness of such links, neither the moderator nor this website of liable for the content on such links. Please report any objectionable links to the moderator via the site email address.

4. The Crosstown Coalition neither endorses the contents of any Member communications nor assumes responsibility for any threatening, libelous, obscene, harassing or offensive material contained therein, any infringement of third party intellectual property rights arising there from or any crime facilitated thereby.

5. No foul or inappropriate language will be permitted, regardless of the context. Posted comments containing any material that is obscene, defamatory, profane, libelous, threatening, harassing, abusive, or embarrassing to another person or entity will not be permitted. The moderators of this website reserve the right to delete any posted comments – partially or in their entirety – if they find language within the posted comments offensive or find the content not relevant to the discussion of city issues and city leadership.

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7. All posted comments are the property of the person posting the material.

8. Any posts containing any material or links that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots or any other program routines that would damage or interfere with systems, data or information will be removed.