Deed Street House Rules

Our intent on Deed Street is to add value and build community.

To do so we have a few guidelines that, if followed most of the time by the majority, will promote such intent.

Respecting Fellow Members

This is the most important thing. Please try to treat others how you would like to be treated.

Adding Value

When you tag a tweet with a ^ for inclusion to the stream you will want it to add value for other members of our community.

The best Deed Street tweets will provide valuable news, statistics and subjects where you are knowledgeable. It may be an opinion or new information. It may be a great link (see below for more on linking).

What To Leave Out

Tweets that do not have to do with real estate should be left off the stream.

Extended discussions of politics should be left off the stream. If the politics relates specifically to real estate and adds value than it is ok.

One suggestion is to take things back channel by using an @reply without the ^ or a dm (direct message) when discussions veer from adding real estate related value.

Vulgarity

Using vulgar language is not loved on Deed Street though we will usually put up with occasional usage.

In the heat of the moment colorful language is natural. Nevertheless, we’ve learned from community feedback that some find it offensive which makes sense.

The one exception of course is if your tweet is really funny. You can get away with a well placed expletive if the tweet is hilarious.

Linking

Links are awesome on Deed Street when they go directly to an article, statistics or some type of information that is of value. They are not awesome when they go to a sign in page or to another link.

They are also not awesome when the implicit reasoning for tweeting is site promotion rather than adding value and frankly we view this as spam.

When linking to an external site, please use a URL shortener. It shortens the tweet leaving more room for a description. We recommend bit.ly.

Please do not link to a homepage. Instead, link directly to the article supplementing your tweet.

Please do not link to the same post more than once. This includes ReTweeting yourself.

Pace

Its important to pace tweets such that one person does not stuff the stream with a series of numerous rapid fire tweets in succession.

You might have noticed that this occurs most often when a bot gets on the feed but it sometimes occurs when someone gets very excited and forgets that they are broadcasting to thousands of people simultaneously.

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These house rules are not set in stone. They are, though, a road map for the benefit of everyone over the longer term as the community grows in number and richness of information.

This is a community where much high quality real time actionable information is shared and we want to keep it that way. All of us share responsibility to determine what we will include by tagging with the ^ and what we will leave out.