Community Guidelines

Daily Endeavor is a collective effort to create a place for people — you and others — to help each other answer the question "what's that type of job like?"

To fulfill our mission of helping millions pursue a work life worth living requires not only helpful information but also creating a helpful culture -- both the what and the how matter. By participating, for example as a reader, contributor or voter, you are a part of creating the culture.

These guidelines help set the baseline for participation in Daily Endeavor community. They're a cliff's notes version of the Terms of Use, so make sure you're comfortable with both.

With an open thank you to Flickr (we have a lot of respect for those gals and guys), we've organized the guidelines into a few do's and don'ts.

What you need to know to get started

• Your account is for personal use as an individual, i.e. you're not here conducting business for a company. And you're not a robot or piece of code.
• Be you. You're responsible for your contributions and all account activity, including keeping your login information private. If you're impersonating someone else, then you're not being you.
• Multiple points of view. Daily Endeavor is a community of diverse opinions from many people, which sometimes means agreeing to disagree with others. It's possible you may run across information that you find objectionable. Practice being open minded and respectful. If you find something truly inappropriate, flag it and let us know.
• No a**hole rule (inspired by Bob Sutton at Stanford). Don't post anything to the site that is illegal, defamatory, threatening or otherwise prohibited. If the material isn't yours, don't post it. No spam will be tolerated.
• Focus on the type of job. There is a huge information need for describing what it's like to do event marketing, or work at a human rights advocacy firm, or both. We encourage you to help fill that need. Our mission is not to describe what it's like to work at a specific company, or work for a specific manager. There's value in that level of detail too, but it's beyond the scope of this project. If you want to do that, you're best bet is to pick another place to do it.

Bottom line: Have fun. Be respectful. Explore the universe of potential work lives and help others do the same.

You're a rockstar when you

• Participate. When you read and vote on the sections you find helpful and/or well-written, you help make the good stuff easier to find for everyone.
• Contribute. When you review a type of job that you've had, you're sharing knowledge that you uniquely possess and helping to build a larger resource for the greater good.
• Paint a personal picture. When you fill out your personal profile, you let people know who you are and what you're into. You also deepen your credibility for the reviews you create.
• Share. When you pass along a summary job profile to a friend who might have an interest, you could be opening up a whole new line of thinking for them, and maybe the world. (Remember, Julia Child started cooking at 37).
• Get others involved. When you write a review you're proud of, tell some friends about it so they can vote on it show you the love you deserve.
• Act as a guide. Provide advice as if you were helping out a friend, especially one who has expertise that's different from yours. If an important detail requires an industry term, define it.
• Speak up. If there's something new you'd like to see, or inappropriate you'd prefer not to see, please let us know.
• Speak from experience. Review jobs you've worked in.

How not to have your account suspended and shut down

Be considerate of others. Don't:

• Use your account for commercial use. No one likes spam. We have a zero tolerance policy.
• Post blatantly unrelated or off-topic submissions, or engage in long rants. It's unhelpful noise that crowds out conversation. Again, no one likes spam.
• Post anything sexually explicit.
• Harass other users, use hate language, promote violence, intimidate, abuse or otherwise be stalker-ish.
• Do anything illegal, which includes uploading content that does not belong to you.
• Post personally-identifying information, including email addresses and other contact information, either for you or others.
• Violate any of the Terms of Use .

If you make an honest mistake, then we'll probably be able to figure it out together. To ensure that Daily Endeavor is a safe, helpful place to be on the web, we reserve the right to suspend or terminate your account at any time with or without notice.