Social Media Community Guidelines

We value the comments and contributions we receive on social media. While we encourage people to join the conversation, we will not tolerate disrespectful, offensive, crude, hateful or abusive comments. Please keep all comments and discussion respectful and courteous.

We may remove or report posts, comments, or links that we consider to be:

• discriminatory, potentially defamatory, false, or misleading, racist, off-topic, inflammatory, repetitive, offensive or otherwise inappropriate;

• disrespectful, threatening or abusive toward another person;

• commercial content, advertisements, or spam;

• campaigning for a product, service, cause or initiative;

• infringement of the privacy, intellectual property or legal rights of others;

• any other material we consider to be inappropriate.

We retain the right to block a user whose posts or comments include any of the above. The views, opinions, and information expressed in user-generated comments remain with the authors and do not reflect those of Melbourne Writers Festival.

Melbourne Writers Festival will:

• endeavour to remove any inappropriate, offensive, or defamatory comments within
a timely manner.

• endeavour to respond to comments that ask questions in a timely manner.

Please note, response time outside of business hours may be delayed.