Social Media Community Standards
Thank you for participating in Eastern Shore Rural Health’s (ESRH) social media communities. The organization has established these Social Media Community Standards to govern your posts.
Eastern Shore Rural Health’s official social media accounts (Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, and YouTube) are administered and moderated by ESRH Communications and Marketing. The administrators of any and all ESRH accounts reserve the right to delete comments, replies or other content and interactions that they deem to be in violation of ESRH’s Social Media Community Standards or in violation of the social media platforms’ community standards listed below. The administrators may also take action to report, block or ban users from social media platforms for violations.
Social media submissions that will be removed and reported may include, but are not limited to:
- Harassing, intimidating or threatening comments to another person
- Comments that incite violence or other action in violation of any federal or state anti-discrimination laws
- Sexually explicit and sexually vulgar language and profanity
- Comments that promote illegal activity
- Solicitations or promotions of products or services of any third party, unless approved in advance by Eastern Shore Rural Health’s Director of Communications and Development or designee
- Comments that include false or defamatory information
- Posts that misrepresent or hide the poster’s identity
- Comments that violate privacy or confidentiality
- Comments unrelated to the topic or to the ESRH community
- Repetitive comments and spam posts
All links posted as comments on the ESRH page or posts will be reviewed and may be subject to deletion.
ESRH reserves the right to block/ban those who post comments that violate our community guidelines.
Some social media platforms limit the ability to hide comments. If so, ESRH will still make sure the comment in question is reported or deleted.
ESRH understands that social media is a 24/7 medium; however, our moderation capabilities are not. We may not see every inappropriate comment right away; and we trust members of our community to be polite and refrain from personal attacks and negative speech.
Disabling Comments:
Any of the following circumstances may result in disabling the ability for users to comment on the ESRH social platforms:
- When ESRH moderation capabilities become too limited to monitor comments.
- When there is a constant and/or overwhelming amount of comments that violate the Community Guidelines for ESRH Social Media.
After a certain period, ESRH may consider re-enabling the ability for users to comment on ESRH social platforms.
Additional Community Standards for each social media platform are found here: