Trulia Voices Community Guidelines

Trulia Voices is an online community in which members can ask and answer questions on a wide range of topics about real estate and the home buying and selling process. People can also create profiles and share facts, opinions and personal experiences to help others. Trulia is not a publisher of content supplied by third parties and users of the Site. Accordingly, Trulia has no more editorial control over such content than does a public library, bookstore, or newsstand. Any opinions, advice, statements, services, offers, or other information or content expressed or made available by third parties, including information providers and users, are those of the respective author(s) or distributor(s) and not Trulia. In many instances, the content available through this Site represents the opinions and judgments of the respective information providers or users. Trulia does not endorse, and is not responsible for the accuracy or reliability of any opinion, advice or statement made on the site by any third party. These guidelines are to help in making the community a safe and useful place for local real estate information. Your use of Trulia Voices is subject to these Community Guidelines and the Trulia Terms of Service.

What to do

1. FILL OUT A COMPLETE TRULIA VOICES PROFILE
Let the community know who you are (buyer, seller, agent or just looking) and what you are interested in. Upload a photo and link to your blog or other sites that you find interesting. A full and rich profile will lend more credibilty to your questions and answers and it's just fun to do.


2. BE CONSIDERATE
The community is made up of many types of people, with different backgrounds, knowledge and beliefs; please be considerate of others and do not attack other community members. Be respectful at all times.


3. USE THE CORRECT FORMAT
This is a Question and Answer Community, so please keep postings to this format. Post questions in the form of a question, and do not post answers unless you are attempting to answer a question or provide further clarification on your question. As this is a place to ask and answer question, posting must be in question and answer format or they may be deleted.


4. SHARE YOUR SOURCES
The Web is a great resource for information, so when you use online sources, share where you found your information. We provided a place for links on the answer form and encourage you to use it.


5. MODERATE YOUR CONTENT
Please help us keep the content in the community on-topic and relevant. When asking, answering or just looking around, if you see informative or high quality content give thumbs up or mark the answer as best answer. Similarly, for content that is off-topic, not relevant or just plain spam, please click on the red flag and tell us about it.


6. USE ENGLISH PLEASE
You may not use other languages or symbols. Content that is unreadable due to excessive typos may be removed.


7. CATEGORIZE CONTENT CORRECTLY
Content must be categorized in the appropriate category. Trulia reserves the right to re-categorize or remove questions it determines to be categorized incorrectly.


8. BE CAUTIOUS
Do not share your personal, private information such as social security number with any member. If you wish to engage in real life business relationship with any Trulia member we highly recommend that you do some research and meet this member in person before you take any action.

What NOT to do

1. YOU MAY NOT POST CONTENT OR LINKS
1. To exploit, solicit or harm minors.
2. That are violent, racist, incendiary, or otherwise objectionable.
3. That are abusive, threatening, harassing, defamatory, libelous, fraudulent, invasive of another's privacy, or belligerent against any individual or groups of individuals for any reason.
4. That violates federal, state or local law, including but not limited to Federal (applicable to everyone and all jurisdictions), State or local Fair Housing Laws. Federal, State and local Fair Housing Laws prohibit any discrimination in the provision of housing based upon race, color, national origin, creed, religion, physical or mental handicap, ancestry, age, marital status and familial status. Posting of questions or answers that may be in violation of Fair Housing Laws is prohibited. This also includes any posting that victimizes, harasses, degrades or intimidates any individual or group of individuals on the basis of the above.
5. That contains profane, obscene, vulgar or sexually explicit language.
6. That glorifies self-harm, suicide, anorexia, bulimia, or any other practice that is clearly unhealthy or harmful.
7. For commercial or advertising purposes, including classified ads.
8. To vent your frustrations, rant, make statements, or otherwise violate the question and answer format.
9. To post personal ads or your own or others' personal information.
10. That violates the Trulia Voices Guidelines or the Trulia Terms of Service in any manner.
11. That is copyrighted. Examples include a company logo.
12. In fields that aren't intended for that content. Example: Putting an address in a name field.
13. That are disparaging of any firm, person, company or brokerage business plan, brokerage concepts or pricing of services.
14. That discuss the pricing of brokerage services of any real estate brokerage firm.
15. That impersonates any business, person or entity.
16. That contains viruses or any other computer code, files or programs designed to interrupt, destroy or limit the functionality of any computer software or hardware or telecommunications equipment or venue.



2. MULTIPLE PROFILES ARE PROHIBITED
Each individual can only have one profile and account. Members who use different profiles to ask and answer their own questions or disturb the community risk having their accounts deactivated.


3. NO COMMERCIAL POSTINGS OR ACTIVITY
Trulia Voices purpose is to share knowledge and exchange opinions. You may not post URLs or content for the sole purpose of soliciting business or for the sole purpose of directing commercial activity to a non-Trulia site. The URLs or content must be of relevance and pertain to the question at hand.


4. DO NOT VIOLATE THE LAW
Trulia Voices is a place where consumers and Real Estate professionals can exchange information. Many consumers are not aware of Fair Housing regulations that Real Estate professionals must adhere to. Therefore it is upon the Real Estate professionals using Trulia to ensure that they do not violate any Fair Housing rules or regulations. Trulia is not responsible for any law violations, however, we maintain the right to remove such content at any time.


5. NO REPEAT POSTINGS
You may not post similar or identical postings. This also applies if you are including the same commercial URL on all of your postings for the purpose of directing commercial activity to a non-Trulia site. Multiple identical postings, even if legitimate, may be considered spam.


6. USE THE FLAGGING TOOL CAREFULLY
You may not use the Flag link for purposes other than reporting a violation of the Trulia Voices Guidelines or the Trulia Terms of Service. You may not report abuse for posts that you personally disagree with, or by people you personally dislike.


7. NO HACKING
You may not promote or redirect traffic to third-party sites, post links to sites that force the download of a virus, programs, or other content, in any way interfere or disrupt the Trulia Voices service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations connected to Trulia.


8. NO TRADING OF PRIVATE INFORMATION
You may not upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content or initiate communications which include information that you do not have the right to disclose or make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships (such as insider information, passwords or proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed as part of employment relationships or under nondisclosure agreements).


9. DON'T DO FRAUD
You may not falsely state, impersonate, or otherwise misrepresent your identity, including but not limited to the use of a pseudonym, or misrepresenting your current or previous positions and qualifications, or your affiliations with a person or entity, past or present.


10. RESPECT THE COPYRIGHT
You may not post content that that is copyrighted, protected by trade secret or otherwise subject to third party proprietary rights, including privacy and publicity rights, unless you are the owner of such rights or have permission from their rightful owner to post the material Trulia does not evaluate or guarantee the accuracy of any Trulia Voices content.


11. RESPECT THE TRULIA VOICE COMMUNITY
Every member is entitled to share their opinion on Trulia Voices. Do not insult other members because you strongly disagree with their views or for any other reason. Do not engage in hateful discussions, venting or ranting or use inappropriate language. We respect everyone’s right to free speech but do not tolerate stalking, threats, harassment or inappropriate self promotion.

Response to Violations of Trulia Voices Guidelines

Trulia does not edit the content of profiles, questions, answers, or comments in Trulia Voices. However, we reserve the right to remove content that we determine, at our sole discretion, to be inappropriate and/or in violation of the Trulia Voices Guidelines or the Trulia Terms of Service. Depending on the level of offense, you may risk deactivation of your Trulia account and consequently everything associated with it. If you are unsure whether your content is appropriate or consistent with these policies, please do not post it in Trulia Voices.

We reserve the right to modify these guidelines at any time without notification.