Creative & Compassionate

We believe the future should be fun & fair, beautiful & just, expansive & inclusive, creative & compassionate. 

We expect our community to embrace and reflect this vision.

FanFuture is fundamentally a marketplace of ideas and potential futures.  

We’re also a community of Fans who rally together to provide market momentum and shape more perfect futures. 

The true magic happens when Founders and Creators engage constructively with Fans to fold in the best ideas and skills.

To that end, we encourage constructive comments and engagement on the campaign pages themselves, however we’ve also set up a Community Forum to better facilitate that deeper strategic and creative interaction.  

Regardless of the forum, we ask that all Fans keep the following guidelines in mind as they post.

And when you’re done here please also take the time to read our Anti-Harassment Policy.

Community Guidelines

Be Civil, Inclusive and Positive.

That’s basically it.

Really.  Everything else flows back to that.

OK fine, here’s a deeper dive with tips & guidelines.

This is a Civilized Place for Public Discussion

Please treat this site with the same respect you would a public park.  We, too, are a shared community resource — a place to share ideas, and encourage Founders and Creators.

These are not hard and fast rules, merely guidelines to aid the human judgment of our community and keep this a clean and well-lighted place for civilized public discourse.

Improve the Discussion

Help us make this a great place for discussion by always working to improve the discussion in some way, however small. If you are not sure your comment adds to the conversation, think over what you want to say and try again later.

The campaigns discussed here matter to us, and we want you to act as if they matter to you, too. Be respectful of the campaigns and the people discussing them, even if you disagree with some of what is being said.

One way to improve the discussion is by discovering ones that are already happening. Spend time browsing the comments that came before yours before replying or starting your own line of thought, and you’ll have a better chance of meeting others who share your interests and ideas.

Be Agreeable, Even When You Disagree

You may wish to respond to something by disagreeing with it. That’s fine. But remember to criticize ideas, not people. Please avoid:

• Name-calling
• Ad hominem attacks
• Responding to a post’s tone instead of its actual content
• Knee-jerk contradiction

Instead, provide reasoned counter-arguments that improve the conversation.

Your Participation Counts

The conversations we have here set the tone for every new Fan that drops in. Help us influence the future of this community by choosing to engage in discussions that make these campaign pages an interesting place to stay and explore — and avoiding those that do not.

Disqus provides tools that enable the community to collectively identify the best (and worst) contributions: likes, flags, replies, edits, and so forth. Use these tools to improve your own experience, and everyone else’s, too.

Let’s leave our community better than we found it.

If You See a Problem, Flag It

Moderators have special authority; they are responsible for maintaining the comment sections. But so are you. With your help, moderators can be community facilitators, not just janitors or police.

When you see bad behavior, don’t reply. It encourages the bad behavior by acknowledging it, consumes your energy, and wastes everyone’s time. Just flag it. If enough flags accrue, action will be taken, either automatically or by moderator intervention.

In order to maintain our community, moderators reserve the right to remove any content and any user account for any reason at any time. Moderators do not preview new posts; the moderators and site operators take no responsibility for any content posted by the community.

Always Be Civil

Nothing sabotages a healthy conversation like rudeness:

• Be civil. Don’t post anything that a reasonable person would consider offensive, abusive, or hate speech.
• Keep it clean. Don’t post anything obscene or sexually explicit.
• Respect each other. Don’t harass or grief anyone, impersonate people, or expose their private information.
• Respect our site. Don’t post spam or otherwise vandalize the site.

These are not concrete terms with precise definitions — avoid even the appearance of any of these things. If you’re unsure, ask yourself how you would feel if your post was featured on the front page of the New York Times.

This is a public forum, and search engines index these discussions. Keep the language, links, and images safe for family and friends.

Post Only Your Own Stuff

You may not post anything digital that belongs to someone else without permission. You may not post descriptions of, links to, or methods for stealing someone’s intellectual property (software, video, audio, images), or for breaking any other law.

Terms of Service

Yes, legalese is boring, but we must protect ourselves – and by extension, you and your data – against unfriendly folks. We have a Terms of Service (TOS) describing your (and our) behavior and rights related to content, privacy, and laws. To use this service, you must agree to abide by our TOS.