Blog content rules 

The City of Melbourne reserves absolute discretion in terms of holding, removing or deleting any posts to the blog. As a starting point, the following rules apply:

• Adult content: No images or videos that contain nudity or sexual activity.
• Child safety: No content that exploits children.
• Hate speech: We want you to use that’s melbourne blog page to express your opinions. But, don't cross the line by publishing hate speech. By this, we mean content that discriminates, promotes hate or violence towards groups based on race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, age, veteran status, or sexual orientation/gender identity.
• Crude content: No swear words and don't post content just to be shocking or graphic.
• Violence: Don't threaten other people on this blog.
• Copyright: Don’t infringe copyright or other intellectual property.
• Personal and confidential information: It's not ok to publish another person's personal and confidential information. For example, don't post someone else's credit card numbers, unlisted phone numbers, and driver's license numbers.
• Impersonating others: Don't mislead or confuse readers by pretending to be someone else or pretending to represent an organization when you don't. Avoid content that is likely to mislead readers about your true identity.
• Advertising: Don’t advertise or market any business or other entity.
• Illegal activities: Don't use that’s melbourne blog to engage in illegal activities or to promote dangerous and illegal activities.
• Spam: Don’t post spams. Some examples include creating comments designed to drive traffic to your site or to move it up in search listings and posting comments on other people's blogs just to promote your site or product.
• LOTE: Council encourages diversity participation. Posts submitted in languages other than English will be held by the moderator and translated if possible. Council accepts no responsibility in respect of translation inaccuracies.
• Malware and viruses: Do not post comments that transmit viruses, cause pop-ups, attempt to install software without the reader's consent, or otherwise impact readers with malicious code. This is strictly forbidden on the that’s melbourne blog.

Enforcement of the content rules

If you encounter any content on our blog that you believe violates our content rules, please report it to us by email.

Our team reviews these emails for violations and will take appropriate action without entering into any correspondence.