Social Media Community Standards
Thank you for participating in Laurens Electric Cooperative’s (LEC) social media communities. The cooperative has established these Social Media Community Standards to ensure a safe, respectful, and engaging online environment.
Laurens Electric’s official social media accounts (Facebook, Instagram, X, and YouTube) are administered and moderated by LEC Communications and Marketing. The administrators of any and all LEC accounts reserve the right to delete comments, replies or other content and interactions that they deem to be in violation of LEC’s Social Media Community Standards or in violation of the social media platforms’ community standards listed below. The administrators may also take action to report, block or ban users from social media platforms for violations.
Social media submissions that will be removed and reported may include, but are not limited to:
- Comments that include profanity
- Harassing, intimidating or threatening comments to another person
- Comments that incite violence or other action in violation of any federal or state anti-discrimination laws
- Sexually explicit and sexually vulgar language and profanity
- Comments that promote illegal activity
- Solicitations or promotions of products or services of any third party, unless approved in advance by Laurens Electric Cooperative
- Comments that include false or defamatory information
- Posts that misrepresent or hide the poster’s identity
- Comments that violate privacy or confidentiality
- Comments unrelated to the topic or to the LEC community
- Repetitive comments and spam posts
All links posted as comments on the LEC page or posts will be reviewed and may be subject to deletion.
LEC reserves the right to block/ban those who post comments that violate our community guidelines.
Some social media platforms limit the ability to hide comments. If so, LEC will still make sure the comment in question is reported or deleted.
LEC understands that social media is a 24/7 medium; however, our moderation capabilities are not. We may not see every inappropriate comment right away; and we trust members of our community to be polite and refrain from personal attacks and negative speech.
Disabling Comments:
Any of the following circumstances may result in disabling the ability for users to comment on the LEC social platforms:
- When LEC moderation capabilities become too limited to monitor comments.
- When there is a constant and/or overwhelming amount of comments that violate the Community Guidelines for LEC Social Media.
After a certain period, LEC may consider re-enabling the ability for users to comment on LEC social platforms.
Additional Community Standards for each social media platform are found here:
