Reader Bill of Rights
Reader Bill of Rights at dfwfootball.net
The RBR (Reader Bill of Rights) is a promise that we are making to our readers at dfwfootball.net We are making promises about your, the reader of this site, about your experience at dfwfootball.net.
I promise to use any information you provide to dfwfootball.net only for the purpose of serving you. I will never, never, never sell or share any information you provide unless a gun is held to my head or as required by law. We will ask very little information from you, maybe an email address or name or address to mail a prize. We don’t need to know about your race, your religion, your gender or whether or not you are a Cowboys fan.
I promise to never make you register to read any content at dfwfootball.net. That is just annoying. You click on a link to go read an article, and you get a message saying you have register or pay a subscription fee to read the article. I don’t know about you, but I usually leave. The only exception is if I have already registered at the site. We may have a register feature at a later time, but it will not be for the purpose of you reading our content. We may ask for readers to register to receive some other, extra feature. However, our articles will not require registration.
I promise to not “weigh” readers down with too much advertising. I just hate in when I log on to a certain “newspaper” .com site to read an article and a javascript based ad comes rolling across my screen. I never click on those things. In fact, I look for the X to close out the ad so that I can keep reading. That having been said, I don’t want to provide my labor without getting some kind of compensation. There will be advertising. You just won’t be overwhelmed by it. Also, there won’t be so much advertising on a single page that it is too slow to load. I will try to keep ads per page at a minium.
I promise to try to be innovative with advertising. The models are changing often as media on the web tries to make sense of how to operate a media outlet online. Therefore, everyone is trying new things . Since I am promising not to overload readers with advertising (see above), and since I am actually trying to make a living and meet operation expenses, I will have to try to be creative with all of my advertising ideas.
I promise to adhere to the journalism standards as much as possible. However, I am not a “trained” journalist. I have been writing, both as a blogger and a sports writer for an online newspaper, for the past three years. I have slowly gotten better at interviewing and finding out information as well as offering my opinion. News happens and is reported by the second, and we can’t possibly cover everything, even in a “small” niche such as football in the Dallas-Fort Worth area. Even though we are a news source, we will mostly try to offer commentary and news analysis.
These RBR is subject to expansion and slight modification to better meet the needs of our readers.
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