Participation Rules for the DigiDems Forum

You are invited to participate in the DigiDems Forum. This is a shared resource, built by the Zinc Collective using open source “Discourse” software, that simplifies the structured interchange of electronic mail among cooperating participants. For the purposes of avoiding impermissible coordination under the Federal Election Campaign Act, please note that non-public information regarding federal candidates and party committees, and their plans, projects, activities, or needs, may be discussed on the DigiDems Forum.

These are the rules of the DigiDems Forum. Your use of the DigiDems Forum indicates your acceptance of these rules:

The objective of the DigiDems Forum is to promote the sharing of ideas, strategies and tactics for Democratic campaigns. The Forum also serves as a social space for campaign-embedded DigiDems participants. Valid topics for the DigiDems Forum may range from the profound to the mundane, from techniques to helping candidates win election to eating healthy in the process. The DigiDems Forum is what you make of it.
Everyone who participates is encouraged to post messages, and every invited participant can read them. You can also send private messages to other participants using the direct messaging feature of the Forum.
Messages cannot be anonymous or pseudonymous. The author of every message is automatically identified on it.
You can elect to receive notification emails from the DigiDems Forum immediately, in weekly summaries, or not at all.
All Forum discussions are public to Forum members but not available to non-members. They are confidential, but not secret. Speak freely here but to each other. If you wish to make a public or entirely private statement, please make it off this list.
The Chatham House Rule in this DigiDems Forum provides that participants may discuss the content of the discussion in the outside world, but they may not discuss who participated or identify what a specific individual said. You cannot copy any other participant’s messages outside this list without that writer’s express permission. This is known as a non-attribution rule that evolved early in the last century in England to facilitate a frank and honest discussion on major controversial or unpopular international issues by speakers who may not have otherwise had an appropriate forum to speak freely.
This list is moderated by Zinc Collective staff to ensure that discussions are not personally insulting, ad hominem, or angry. The goal is the exchange of ideas, not diatribes. Visualize what the U.S. Congress should be like.
There are discussions in the Forum that are explicitly marked private and viewable only to Zinc Collective staff and a few other invited participants. Those discussions are confidential to the participants and not subject to the Chatham House Rule. Please do not copy those messages without explicit permission.
You are encouraged to introduce yourself to other DigiDems Forum participants by posting a short description of yourself, your work, and the candidates you support. Please reply to the appropriate Topic in the ‘Introduce Yourself’ category to do so. People will trust other participants they learn to know.

Best wishes for Democrats in 2022.

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Your Content is not identified in a manner that misleads your readers into thinking that you are another person or company; and

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You agree not to share or use any non-public information from the DigiDems Forum in any manner that would constitute or facilitate an impermissible coordinated communication as defined under the Federal Election Campaign Act, or in any manner that would otherwise constitute a violation of applicable federal, state, or local campaign finance laws.

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