Community Protections

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Community Protections

Community Protections

Common sense strategies for playing it safe
What you can do to protect your privacy
  • Create a distinct and robust password. Use a unique phrase that will be easy for you to remember but hard for others to guess. Strong passwords will include a combination of letters, punctuation marks, and numbers. As you create your password, our password meter will help you determine its strength.
  • Privatize your password. To keep you password secure and private, always keep it under wraps by never sharing it with another person.
  • Log out! If you use Youtropolis on a shared computer, always end your session by logging out and closing your browser window. This will deny others the opportunity to access your valuable personal information.
  • Use private browsing. As an added protection, if you are using a public computer, set the browser to private browsing. This safeguards your privacy and prevents others from accessing your personal information through the browser's history if you fail to log out. 
  • When collaborating with others, don’t share your email address. You can safely communicate privately with other liberators through private messages and e-cards which do not reveal email addresses.
Safety tips to protect your security

Tip 1. Use good judgment. 

As in any society, you should always welcome new friends with good judgment. Keep your antenna up. Be weary of those who promise you the world or sound too good to be true. Take time to get to know others. Check out their profile and Call to Action to learn more about their beliefs and commitments. Then learn about their pledges and wishes to see if there’s synergy and potential for a successful collaboration. 

Tip 2. Exercise discretion.

Only share what’s important for others to know about you. Never divulge personal information about your comings and goings, or those of your family or friends, and never share your location or home address. Always use your intuition to decide if meeting another liberator in person is the right thing to do. If you decide to meet, invite others along and only meet in well-trafficked, public places. 

Tip 3. Don’t give in. 

Don’t allow others to pressure you into submitting to their whims, needs, or desires. If anyone attempts to persuade you to do something you are declining to do, stand firm. Don’t trust anyone who won’t take “no” for an answer. If they persist in pressuring you or start harassing you, demand that they stop, and take immediate steps to banish them from your tribe.

Tip 4. Exercise restraint.  

Youtropolis engages members in a set of unique activities to promote meaningful collaborations. As an inclusive society, we welcome and value the exercise of free speech and healthy discourse. To ensure the safety of all our members, we don’t tolerate hate speech. If you become aware of, or are on the receiving end of hate speech or veiled threats, please exercise restraint and don’t respond in kind. Instead, contact us so that we can investigate and take appropriate action.

Be a teen liberator

If you're a teen, protecting yourself and others from bullying or social ostracizing is foremost in mind. Here are immediate actions you can take to ensure your safety. 

  • Promote a safe social environment by watching out for each other.
  • Engage in powerful civic actions to empower yourself and uplift your peers. In the process, you'll gain valuable skills in social responsibility and collaboration.
  • Stop bullies in action by immediately flagging hostile or offensive content and reporting abuse.
  • Collaborate with other teens to form a strong safety net for the greater good. By doing so, you'll rise up with the moral determination and courage to end the culture of hostility online, or wherever it is encountered.
Lead, don't follow

You can’t protect yourself if you’re at the mercy of others, so to be in the safest zone, be your own leader and help other teens do the same.

  • Leaders follow their own intuition before putting blind faith in others. 
  • Leaders protect their tribe by flagging offensive content, and removing offensive content posted into their Younited Front.
  • Leaders endeavor to create harmony within their tribe by resolving conflicts amicably.
  • Leaders reject hate in any form.

 

Be a social populist
  • Populate your city with people you know and trust.
  • Grow you population with those who inspire and uplift you. 
  • Banish all evildoers.
  • Bow out of cities that are populated with hate-mongers. They are not safe.
  • Don’t share gossip. It’s worthless. 
  • Be a responsible reporter by not sharing news stories that defame others or use heavy-handed scare tactics. Chances are they’re propaganda tools designed to mislead the reader. When in doubt, verify the accuracy of the story on a website like Snopes.
Be a conscientious objector

Stay safe and protect your reputation by conscientiously objecting to and reporting:

  • content that objectifies girls or women
  • images that portray graphic violence
  • people who purposefully shame, bully, or humiliate others
  • people who harass or stalk others

To learn more about protecting yourself online, here are some additional helpful resources:

StaySafeOnline

OnGuardOnline

Help us keep Youtropolis safe!

The following activities are strictly prohibited. If you become aware of any person engaging in any one of these activities, please contact us.

  • Please do not ask other liberators for their passwords or personal identifying information. Honor everyone’s privacy rights.
  • It is unlawful to infringe the copyrights or trademark rights of another person or business organization.
  • Do not engage in any activity that harms Youtropolis or interferes with our networks and services.
  • You may not modify or mimic any Youtropolis content, design, services, or features through any means.
  • Never attempt to impersonate any Youtropolis personnel, administrators, or its members.
  • It is unlawful to engage in any activity that harms the functionality of any device software or hardware through bots, worms, viruses, code, files, or programs.
  • Please do not spam by any means, including sending junk mail, chain letters, instant messaging, or any unsolicited mass mailing from our website. If you do, you will be violating the CAN-SPAM Act, and will be liable for all damages and severe fines.