Social Media Comment Moderation Guidelines
This policy applies to how the official Otis College accounts are managed by the Communications and Marketing team. Otis College reserves the right to moderate comments on the College’s social media platforms.
The College encourages thoughtful community discourse online, while using discretion to remove comments that:
- Are defamatory or obscene
- Violate the College’s Responsible Use Policies, or other policies outlined in the Student Handbook or the Faculty/Staff Handbook
- Include profanity
- Publish a person’s private email address, phone number, address, birth date, Social Security number, or other personally identifiable information
- Publish information protected under the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA)
- Include affiliate marketing, link referral codes, junk mail, spam, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or unsolicited commercial advertisements
- Stereotype, intimidate, or are hateful toward an individual or group of individuals on the basis of religion, gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, nationality, age, health, or disability
- Fabricate, deceive, or mislead
- Violate any other Otis College policy. Policies can be found on the Policies and Disclosures page on otis.edu
- The official and unofficial Otis College social media accounts are not an extension of the Otis College leadership or administration. If someone has a question, please email the respective staff/faculty/leadership member directly.