Pharmaceutical-journal.com community guidelines

1. Your views are welcome: express your views and support them with evidence and accurate facts.
2. Use your real and full name when creating a profile and posting comments. Never impersonate another person. If you have a personal connection to a story or topic, you should disclose your connection or, where appropriate, not comment at all.
3. Once your comment is online, everyone will be able to read it. Don’t forget that you are legally responsible for what you submit. Please consider how your comment could be perceived by others. Please make your comment clear to ensure that it is not misunderstood. Many different types of people of different ages may view your comment.
4. Cite your sources and attribute quotes and paraphrased comments to their proper sources.
5. Stay focused on professional and scientific matters. This is a website about science, healthcare and pharmacy practice. There are other websites where you can discuss other topics. Please keep within the bounds of a topic as initiated. Do not sway the discussion towards your own preferred topic or set off on a tangent. Be succinct.
6. Contribute new information to the discussion. Add a unique perspective, a constructive argument, a thoughtful question or new information. Read the comments in a discussion thread before posting your own so you don’t repeat what’s already been said. If you find factual errors, politely point them out and explain why you believe that the statements are wrong.
7. The more detail you add to your profile, the more people will want to engage with you and the more connected you’ll be to the network of science and health care professionals.
8. No libel or abuse. You must not make or encourage comments which are defamatory, false or misleading; insulting, threatening or abusive; obscene or of a sexual nature; offensive, racist, sexist, homophobic or discriminatory against any religions or other groups.
9. Report inappropriate comments. We strongly support the pharmaceutical-journal.com community in maintaining high standards of participation. If you consider that a comment does not comply with these guidelines or our terms, please use the relevant Report Comment facility, located next to the comment in issue. This facility should only be used for serious complaints, not simply because you disagree with something said.
10. Do not sell or promote stuff. If you have a product or service to sell or promote, you can buy advertising on this site.
11. Do not post essays or technical reports. Commenting is a tool for discussion. It’s not the place to self-publish papers, reports or long descriptions of your theories or hypotheses. You can do that on your own website.
12. Do not infringe copyright. If you want to upload a copy of an image, text or any other content, make sure you have the right to reproduce them on pharmaceutical-journal.com. Posting copyright material without permission may be unlawful. If you want to discuss a paper or news story, summarise it in your own words.
13. Do not post inappropriate links. You can only post links to another website if the content on that other site abides with these guidelines and our terms.
14. Do not violate someone else’s privacy. You can post personal and contact information about yourself if you really want (but do remember this is a public forum), but don’t post anyone else’s personal details or contact information.
15. Removing inappropriate content. Reader comments that violate the letter or spirit of these guidelines or our terms may be removed (or, if moderated in advance, may not be published in the first place). If we do remove something, we will generally remove whole posts, or where necessary, whole threads (not parts). This means that even if only one sentence is objectionable, the whole comment will usually be removed (or not published). Sometimes, a comment may be removed because it is connected to another comment which is being removed.
16. On occasion, we may decide to add your comment to the “correspondence” section of in print, online or both. By commenting on our website you are authorising us to re-use your comments in our other sections and packages.

If your content has been removed, we may email you to let you know or to inform you if you have been suspended or banned from submitting further comments to the site.