Updated Blog Posting Guidelines and Blog Comment Reminders
Hello Union Sibling!
The AFSCME Local’s blog always gets a much higher volume of comments during bargaining, because of this we have a few small updates to our blog commenting guidelines along with a reminder of previous guidelines. With these being republished here we will enforcing them more strictly than before.
The comments on our blog are one of the best ways our union has to get feedback from and communicate with our represented employees, and we appreciate hearing from you. Please familiarize yourself with the below guidelines and follow them when commenting on our blog. Thank you for your understanding and cooperation!
Please be respectful with your comments. The AFSCME Local 328 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.
You MUST provide your OHSU email address when you submit your comment. Comments in violation of this guideline will not be published. Your email address will only be visible to our moderator and will only be used to verify that you’re part of our bargaining unit or work at OHSU. Since we don’t require registration to comment, this requirement also helps us ensure that folks are commenting in good faith. In addition, we sometimes need to email a commenter before we can release their comment from moderation. Your comment will not be approved without a valid OHSU email address.
Please provide an actual name or department title when you make your comment. If you’re not comfortable with your full name being visible with your comment we are now allowing either just a first name, initials, or your official OHSU title as confirmed by your email address. We want to foster open conversations, and believe that actual names help with that but also understand concerns with your name visible online. Anonymous usernames, especially ones that are intended to disparage others comments, will not be allowed. If you submit a comment using a rude or obscene username, we’ll ask you to resubmit your comment using an actual name. Please refrain from submitting multiple comments using different names.
Please read the previous comments before submitting a question. Especially on posts with many comments, it’s very likely that your question was already answered. Reducing the number of repeat questions in the comments allows our moderator to respond to new questions more 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.
Our practice and wish is to allow unrestricted comments — including those that are critical of our union or voice a contrary opinion — but we ask that you do not submit comments that express bigotry, that are insulting/bullying to another commenter or that share misinformation/deliberate mischaracterizations. We will not host such comments and will need to reach out to you to submit a revised version of your comment before it can be published. Constructive criticism is absolutely welcome; hostility and lashing out is not. In addition, please assume benign intent on the part of our moderator and other commenters.
Please be patient. Our blog is moderated, so comments do not appear instantly. We do our best to review and publish them as soon as possible, but commenters should be aware that it may take up to a day before your comments are visible. Comments aren’t reviewed or published during our moderator’s work day, and pending comments are reviewed and responded to less frequently on weekends/holidays. In addition, some questions require us to confer with others in order to respond, which may cause a delay in the release of the comment.
For Bread and Roses,
-Sean Bovett, ICC Chair