The following rules are for individuals who submit content to Theme Park Insider, such as blog posts and comments. When you submit information to this site, you grant Theme Park Insider a perpetual, nonexclusive right to publish that information, in all media, and under your name. Please see our Privacy Policy for more detail on the information we collect on Theme Park Insider, and how we collect it.
Content submitted may be deleted if determined by the editor likely to be spam or a bot submission, or to contain a factual error, or to be hostile to a registered member participating in the comments. Any information submitted to the site may deleted at the discretion of the site's owner.
Don't steal someone else's stuff
Attribute all information you get from other sources, whether they be a person, a website, or another publication. Do not submit someone else's comment, photo, video, or article as your own. If you want to tell people about an post elsewhere, please provide a hyperlink rather than copying and pasting the information.
To hyperlink another webpage, use the following code in your post,
<a href="Webpage_Address">Webpage name</a>
Here's an example:
<a href="https://www.themeparkinsider.com">Theme Park Insider</a>
Be accurate
Don't post stuff that's wrong. Please email our editor for assistance if you can't make the correction by editing or deleting a response yourself.
Don't be a shill or a tool
We want people who write for the site to do so in a spirit of helpfulness to other readers, not out of selfishness or for personal gain. Therefore, we do not allow others to include commercial links or solicitations in any post on the site. In addition, your posts on Theme Park Insider may not include incentives of any kind for other users to click on ads which are displayed on the site. This includes encouraging other readers to click on the ads or to visit the advertisers' sites, as well as drawing any undue attention to the ads. This activity is strictly prohibited in order to avoid potential inflation of advertiser costs. In addition, we must disclose that as an author of published books and as an Amazon Associate, our editor earns from qualifying purchases of his books linked on the site.
Do not use Theme Park Insider's name to solicit theme parks or any other companies for anything of value, including admission or reservations. Theme Park Insider reserves the right to take legal action against a member, or anyone else, who uses the site's name in an effort to obtain gifts or other accommodations from theme parks.
We encourage our freelance writers to attend media preview days and other press events to gather information for the site, and we allow those freelancers to accept accommodations from a park for the purpose of covering a press event or conducting an interview on our behalf. Otherwise, Theme Park Insider writers should pay their own way at all times.
Don't get mad if someone actually uses your idea
Theme Park Insider readers abandon any claim on ownership of any plan, concept, idea, suggestion, or proposal for theme parks and other themed entertainment attractions posted to this site. We wish for theme park managers and designers to be able to read and consider suggestions posted to ThemeParkInsider.com without fear of being sued should they develop something similar to an idea posted on the site.
By posting to the site an idea, concept, plan, or suggestion for a themed entertainment attraction or operational procedure, you are agree not to seek any compensation or acknowledgement from any theme park or entertainment attraction that might implement a similar idea or concept. Readers that are unwilling to accept this condition should not post to the site.
Give us some context
If you have a family or business relationship with someone who owns or works for a theme park, or if you work for a theme park company, mention it in your posts and profile page on the site.
Being related to someone who works for a theme park, or even working for one yourself, does not disqualify you from submitting content to Theme Park Insider. Heck, as our name implies, we welcome insiders! But other readers deserve to know when they are hearing from someone who is a theme park employee, or a relative of one, as opposed to an outsider.
For example, as the founder and editor of Theme Park Insider, I am a former Walt Disney World Resort attractions host, though I no longer have any business relationship with Disney or any other theme park company.
Be nice, please!
Personal attacks on other writers are not acceptable on Theme Park Insider. Do not submit posts that threaten, demean, humiliate, attack, or harass other writers on the site, or that use offensive or bigoted language. We ask that all participants in the Theme Park Insider community treat one another with respect and a spirit of helpfulness.
