Content Guidelines

General Guidelines

People come to Union Break to connect with trusted contractors and share genuine job-site experiences. We know that people won't always agree, but we expect everyone on the site to treat one another and the platform with honesty and respect. We've put together these general guidelines to help set the tone for discourse on the site—just in case. Please also read the additional guidelines below for specific types of content that you might contribute to the site.

Relevance

Please make sure your contributions are appropriate to the forum. For example, reviews aren't the place for rants about political ideologies, a business's employment practices, extraordinary circumstances, or other matters that don't address the core of the contractor experience. Review content also should only be posted to the business page for the specific location you worked at or contacted, and should focus on your professional experience with that location.

Inappropriate Content

Colorful language and imagery are fine, but there's no place for threats, harassment, lewdness, hate speech, or other displays of bigotry.

Conflicts of Interest

Your contributions to Union Break should be unbiased and objective. For example, you shouldn't write reviews of your own business or employer, your friends' or relatives' business, your peers or competitors in your industry, or businesses in your networking group. Businesses should never ask customers to write reviews.

Privacy

Don't publicize people's private information. For instance, please don't post close-up photos or videos of other patrons without their permission, and don't post other people's full names unless you're referring to someone who is commonly referred to by their full name.

Promotional Content

Don't post promotional material unless it's in connection with an advertising product and through a Business Account. Let's keep the site useful for contractors and not overrun with commercial noise from every user.

Post Your Own Content

Don't copy content created by other people or businesses. Write your own contributions and only share your own photos and videos. This also means you shouldn't use chatbots or other AI tools to create reviews or other content, including using such tools to draft or revise content.

Review Guidelines

The best reviews are personal, passionate, and reflect your consumer experience. They offer a rich narrative, a wealth of detail, and a helpful tip or two for other consumers. Here are some additional thoughts for conscientious reviewers:

• Personal experience: We want to hear about your firsthand consumer experience, not what you heard from your partner or co-worker, or what you saw in the news or on social media. Tell your own story without resorting to broad generalizations and conclusory allegations.
• Accuracy: Make sure your review is factually correct. Feel free to air your opinions, but don't exaggerate or misrepresent your experience. We don't take sides when it comes to factual disputes, so we expect you to stand behind your review.
• Demanding payment: Writing a review should be informative and meant to help the broader community. You should not threaten to post or offer to remove a negative review as a way to extract payment from a business.
• Review updates and repeated posts: Review updates should reflect a new experience or interaction with the business you originally reviewed. If you'd like to add new insight about a past experience, you can edit your review within 30 days of posting it. Please don't post repeatedly about the same experience on a business page, and don't post the same content to multiple business pages.