Community Guidelines
Community Guidelines
Rocky Mountain Public Media Community Guidelines
Our Community Purpose
Rocky Mountain Public Media (RMPM) exists to serve the people of Colorado through trusted journalism, meaningful storytelling, and community connection.
Our comment spaces are intended to foster thoughtful, respectful conversation between community members and our journalists. When these spaces work well, they help strengthen public understanding, improve our reporting, and build a stronger civic commons.
Participation in our community requires shared responsibility. Because public media works best when everyone contributes constructively.
Expectations for Participation
We welcome a wide range of viewpoints. However, participation in RMPM comment spaces requires that conversations remain:
- Respectful
- Relevant to the topic
- Grounded in good faith
- Constructive to the community
- Comments that undermine these principles may be removed.
- Prohibited Content
- We do not permit content that:
- Violates any applicable law or promotes illegal activity
- Contains pornography or explicit sexual content
- Includes sexual or suggestive content involving minors
- Encourages or incites violence or dangerous acts
- Threatens, harasses, bullies, or intimidates others
- Contains hate speech or slurs targeting individuals or groups
- Promotes violence or hatred based on protected characteristics, including race, ethnicity, religion, disability, gender, age, nationality, veteran status, or sexual orientation/gender identity
- Doxes individuals or shares private or confidential information
- Impersonates another person or organization
- Is spam, commercial promotion, or repetitive posting
- Is clearly off-topic or intended to disrupt conversation
We reserve the right to remove content that, in our judgment, undermines the health of the community conversation.
Moderation Approach
RMPM uses a combination of automated tools and human review to moderate comments.
Our moderation goals are to:
- Protect participants
- Maintain constructive dialogue
- Support civil disagreement
- Uphold public media standards
- Moderation actions may include:
- Comment removal
- Comment editing (where appropriate)
- Temporary suspension
- Permanent account restriction
- Repeated or severe violations may result in loss of commenting privileges.
- Good Faith Participation
- We encourage community members to:
- Engage the ideas, not the person
- Contribute new information or perspective
- Ask sincere questions
- Cite sources when making factual claims
- Help maintain a welcoming civic space
- Strong disagreement is welcome. Personal attacks are not.
Publisher Responsibilities
Rocky Mountain Public Media is committed to maintaining active moderation practices to ensure community content aligns with these guidelines and our public service mission.
We will regularly review and refine our moderation practices to support healthy community dialogue.
Questions or Appeals
If you believe your comment was removed in error or have questions about these guidelines, you may contact us at:
By participating in any RMPM contest you agree to the following rules, terms, and conditions:
- Purchase: NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO WIN. Multiple entries, unless otherwise stated, will not increase your chances of winning. Unless otherwise stated, multiple entries by the same person will be discarded and may be deemed cause for disqualification.
- Sponsor: Rocky Mountain Public Media, Inc. (“RMPM”) sponsors various contests. RMPM does business as Rocky Mountain PBS, KUVO JAZZ, and THE DROP. RMPM’s mailing address is 2101 Arapahoe Street, Denver, CO 80205.
- Eligibility:You must be aged 13 or older to be eligible to win.
- To be eligible to win any prize from RMPM, you must not have won anything in the past six (6) months. Any prize awarded to an ineligible participant will be considered null and void, and an alternate eligible winner may be named. RMPM reserves the right to revoke prizes if the winner does not meet any or all eligibility requirements, even though an announcement may have been made on the air or online indicating that you were the winner.
- Employees of RMPM and their immediate family members may not participate in contests conducted by RMPM.
- Prizes & Collection:ALL PRIZES ARE AWARDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE), AND ALL SUCH WARRANTIES ARE HEREBY DISCLAIMED.
- Winners for each contest will be selected in a manner announced in the specific contest rules. The specific contest rules will indicate the prizes and values of the prizes and odds of winning that contest.
- Winners may not request substitution or other consideration from the originally awarded prize. Unless otherwise stated, all prizes must be picked up in person within seven (7) days of notification email during business hours (8:30-5:00 MT) from RMPM at 2101 Arapahoe Street, in Denver, Colorado.
- RMPM may, due to the unavailability of prizes awarded, substitute another prize of equal or greater value for the prize originally won. RMPM will not be responsible or be held liable for prizes awarded to an event that is canceled due to circumstances beyond our control.
- The prizewinner or their parent/guardian must fill out an IRS Form W-9 at the station, which requires you to provide your name, address, Social Security Number or other tax identification number. The prizewinner alone is responsible for payment of all applicable taxes and any other charges, fees, costs or expenses related to your receipt or use of the prize.