Guidelines for Participation in the Rockridge Nation Community
The Rockridge Nation community is designed to enable progressives to discuss our values, deepen our understanding of framing, and promote our vision of a better America. To make this possible, it is important that we accept some common understandings as we participate in discussions here.
Guidelines for Posting on Rockridge Nation
- Focus on the use of language to explore values, concepts, and strategic initiatives for the progressive movement.
- Build upon things that can be done to improve the political environment of public discourse.
- Be part of the community. We are all here to help each other learn how to affect progressive change in the communities we return to upon leaving the Rockridge Nation website.
- Look for new ways to express your values while sharing insights with your partners in this community.
As you participate, please keep in mind that the Rockridge Nation community exists for us to discuss and advance our progressive values and vision. While we often discuss topics in the news, we are interested in the language used to communicate them and the ideas that the language connects to. We welcome questions and discussions on the site that focus on framing, progressive values, and strategic initiatives. We do not expect you to be an expert on framing. At the same time, to create a healthy and productive community, we must recognize that we are here to find solutions together, not for each of us to insist that he or she has all the answers.
Please do not post content that is not appropriate to the purpose of the Rockridge Nation. Inappropriate content includes, but is not limited to:
- advocacy for or against specific political parties or candidates
- general discussions of topics in the news without an interest in language and related concepts, values, or strategic initiatives
- self-promotion or the promotion of websites, companies, services, products, religions, etc.
- disparagement of other members
- denial of the possibility for progressive change
- repeated posting of the same content
- posting of content in violation of copyright or other laws
If you are not sure whether something is appropriate, please email info@rockridgeinstitute.org before posting.