CONTENT POLICY

Independence always comes first for reporting, researching sources, receiving tips, and keeping investigation secure. Dogpatch Press reserves all rights to apply this policy for editors and admins, contributors on the site or accounts connected to it. For safety and security no comment will be given about sources, potential sources, or operation questions about any account anywhere for any reason. 

(A) Service

By visiting the site, contributing content, or engaging with it anywhere, you are using Service and agree to the following terms.

  1. Users are guests. They benefit from the Owner’s generosity of Service for fandom, not for profit, and nobody is entitled to the labor of editing, promoting, building and maintaining a site at constant cost to the Owner.
  2. Content isn’t consent. It implies no relationship, endorsement or obligation by the Owner unless specifically written and kept up to date as a signed contract. (Includes quotes, tweets, guest writing, or any other activity like following accounts).
  3. No bias is implied by lack of Service. Resources are limited for researching and completing hundreds of projects with protected priority. Service may be omitted, modified or discontinued at any time.

(B) Abuse of Service

Declining Service is final. Pressure, entitlement or abuse will be blocked and never considered. Abuse may include:

  1. Targeting with grudges, harassment, or mass brigading (such as callouts, hashtags, or demands about sources).
  2. Mischaracterizing and misquoting out of context, Catch-22’s (“you only did it for clout”/”you didn’t do it because of favoring ___”), baiting and manipulation to set up “gotchas” (“did you stop beating your wife yet”, “silence about ___ means ___”).
  3. Outside publication of content such as private messages, draft writing, outdated versions, or anything out-of-context and not approved by the Owner, which implies bias and bad faith that invalidates any claim about it.

(C) Creating or modifying content

In general, content on the site will be kept secure and as published. Outside directions to create, modify or remove will not be considered, except in these cases:

  1. Factual errors like a wrong name or year may happen to any news source occasionally and can be corrected.
  2. A considerate, direct request to do a story, add updates or provide context may be considered. Avoid blasting it on social media and email it directly.
  3. If you want to try a formal notice by lawyer letter, think carefully. Dogpatch Press is prepared for robust defense with a record of winning years-long legal battles to protect speech. Threats on social media are always taken to show incompetence to proceed in real court, which closes the issue.

The best way to get results is to assume good faith, avoid entitlement and only use non-threatening persuasion. There are many reasons you may receive no comment, especially for security of private investigation. See (A)3.

(D) License to use content

Please make direct contact to discuss using content from Dogpatch Press. Contributors of guest writing, comments, tips, and any other content (unless granted off-record privilege) agree by submitting it to any account connected to the site:

  1. License is granted for Dogpatch Press and the Owner to use it freely for any purpose with no obligation.
  2. Contributors are receiving valuable Service that is not to be taken for granted or abused, violating this will affect your contribution.
  3. If Service is discontinued, you’re free to post your own content anywhere else you like, but will not expect any further Service here.

By using Service, you agree that this policy is on public display, and you alone are responsible for following these terms. You agree to drop all claims to further Service immediately if terminated, and violating these terms makes you responsible for the termination plus costs and damages. If you don’t agree to these terms, you will not use the site or submit any content to any account connected to the site at any time.