Please read the guidelines below prior to commenting on our blog.

The ONA/AURN blog is intended to be a space where members of our bargaining unit can have productive and respectful conversations with one another and with union leadership. We want the blog to be a place where you can find important information related to your union, bargaining unit and profession.  

Housekeeping:

• To hold everyone accountable, anonymous posting is not available. You must log in to comment and your name (from employee records) will be posted with your comment.  
• Please read the previous comments before submitting a question. It is likely that your question was already answered. Reducing the number of repeat questions in the comments allows our moderator to respond to new questions quickly and keeps the comments section from becoming difficult for readers to navigate. For the same reasons, we ask that you try to avoid making nearly identical comments multiple times on a single post.  
  
• Constructive criticism is welcome; hostility and lashing out is not. In addition, please assume benign intent on the part of our moderator and other commenters.
  
• Moderators reserve the right to remove a post for further review if they view it as potentially violating the standards and guidelines.  

Community Standards:

1. We welcome debate and dissent, but personal attacks (against authors or other users), persistent trolling and mindless abuse will not be tolerated. The key to maintaining a blog as an inviting space is to focus on intelligent discussion of relevant topics.
2. We acknowledge criticism of the content we publish but will not allow misrepresentation of Oregon Nurses Association and our staff or elected leaders to be published on our blogs. For the sake of robust debate, we will actively distinguish between constructive discussion and smear tactics.
3. We understand that people often feel strongly about issues, but we will consider removing any content that others might find extremely offensive or threatening. Please respect other people’s views and beliefs and consider your impact on others when making your contribution.
4. We reserve the right to redirect or curtail conversations which descend into “flame-wars” based on ingrained partisanship or generalizations. We don’t want to stop people discussing topics they are enthusiastic about, but we do ask users to find ways of sharing their views that do not feel divisive, threatening, or toxic to others.
   
5. Keep it relevant.We know that some conversations can be wide-ranging, but if you post something which is unrelated to the original topic (“off-topic”) then it may be removed, to keep the thread on track. This also applies to queries or comments about moderation, which should not be posted as comments.
   
6. Be aware that you may be misunderstood, so try to be clear about what you are saying and expect that people may understand your contribution differently than you intended. Remember that text isn’t always a great medium for conversation: tone of voice (sarcasm, humor and so on) doesn’t always come across when using words on a screen. You can help to keep your blog open to all viewpoints by maintaining a reasonable tone, even in unreasonable circumstances.

Comments that clearly violate guidelines will be removed. The AURN Executive Team will have a designated group of people to review those posts at a later date. Examples of unsuitable content includes:

• posting or transmitting any unlawful, threatening, abusive, libelous, defamatory, racial, obscene, vulgar, pornographic, profane or indecent information of any kind, including without limitation any transmissions constituting or encouraging conduct that would constitute a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability or otherwise violate any local, state, national or international law;  
  
• comments including racism, sexism, homophobia or other forms of hate-speech, or contributions that could be interpreted as such. We recognize the difference between criticizing a particular government, organization, community or belief and attacking people on the basis of their race, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age;
  
• posting or transmitting any information, software or other material which contains a virus, worm, Trojan horse or other code that has contaminating or destructive properties;  
  
• posting or transmitting, software, or other material for commercial purposes;  
  
• soliciting other users to join or contribute money to any online service or other organization, advocate or attempt to get users to join in legal or illegal schemes;  
  
• impersonating any person or entity or falsely represent your professional or other affiliation with any person or entity;  
  
• posting or transmitting any information that might potentially violate HIPAA regulations; and
  
•  posting content that is obviously commercial or otherwise spam-like.
  

Adhering to these guidelines will help keep our commenting section productive and respectful. If you spot something problematic in community interaction areas, please report it. When we all take responsibility for maintaining an appropriate and constructive environment, the debate itself is improved and everyone benefits. Thank you.

We appreciate your understanding and cooperation.