📖 Community Guidelines
These ten commandments serve as the foundational pillars of our community and its integrity.
Respect Each Other
We love a good debate, but we don't tolerate personal attacks or harassment. You can disagree with someone's ideas or opinions, but you can't insult or threaten them. You also can't use derogatory or racist language against any group of people on IMI. And please keep it classy and avoid using vulgar words in your messages, profile and on stock discussions.
Keep It Relevant
We want to keep IMI focused on stocks and markets, so please don't post messages that are unrelated to these topics. You also can't use IMI to discuss politics, religion, sports, entertainment, or anything else that is not relevant to our community.
No Promotion Allowed
Please refrain from posting any promotional links or screenshots in stock discussions. This includes paid services, coupon codes, referral links, or any other form of third party or self-promotion. However, feel free to share such information on your profile.
Mind Your Own Trades
Everyone has their own strategy, risk, and rewards. Do not evaluate or criticize others' trades. Let's focus on sharing information and learning from each other.
Do Not Solicit
Do not try to influence other users to like, comment, follow, or subscribe to your posts or services. This will affect your reputation score. Also, refrain from sending unsolicited messages to any users.
No Manipulation
No posting of messages with the intention of positively or negatively influencing a stock, without new or substantive information. Let's keep it fair and square, without any manipulation tactics.
Tag Relevant Tickers
Keep it relevant and tag relevant stock tickers. Failure to do so may result in immediate account suspension.
No Shady Trading Practices
Do not post or indulge in illegitimate trades and try to game the system.
No Fake Engagement
Don't cheat the system by artificially inflating engagement or manipulating votes. Let's keep things authentic and honest.
No Plagiarism
We respect intellectual property rights on IMI, so please don't copy or paste content from other sources without giving proper credit. You also can't use IMI to infringe on the rights of others or to violate any laws or regulations.
Enforcement
We have a variety of ways of enforcing our rules, including, but not limited to:
- Follow the Rules or Face the Music: Our community rules are not just for show, they are the law of the land. We expect all members to respect and follow these guidelines to keep our community healthy and productive. If you break the rules, you will face suspension/account ban.
- Don't Push Your Luck: We believe in giving people a chance to redeem themselves and will issue warnings to those who cross the line. However, if you keep pushing your luck, you will run out of it soon enough.
- Time-Outs and Goodbyes: We have the right to put you in time-out or say goodbye to you for good if you behave inappropriately or violate our community guidelines. We will not hesitate to take action to protect our community from harm. Also, we have the right to delete any content that goes against our community standards.