Community Guidelines
Scour is an online searching community built on the contributions of its users. We are serious about creating a fun, safe, rewarding, and effective search engine. Please read through the following guidelines and know that if you choose to violate our guidelines for using Scour, it can hurt the community as well as risk banning your account and losing all your points. Below are some best practices and guidelines to make Scour a better place for everyone.
Invalid Scour Usage Guidelines: Please be sure to read and understand what type of usage and activity is considered invalid.
Things We Encourage On Scour:
Positive Community Participation
Scour's safe and fun atmosphere is in the care of each member. Any member that notices abuse of the site is encouraged to report it immediately. Reporting abuse helps Scour to remove it more quickly, keeping our online community safer and more enjoyable for everyone.
Our current points program for all countries are as follows:
1 Point = Search, 1 Point = Vote, 1 Point = Comment
Max amount of points per search = 3.. Points will be earned from the first 100 daily searches with a daily cap of 300 total points. Our current rewards schedule for Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, U.S., and U.K:
- 6,500 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $25.00
- 12,500 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $50.00
- 25,000 Rewards Points may be redeemed for a $100.00
Countries not listed above are eligible to participate in the following rewards schedule:
- 50,000 Rewards Points may be redeemed for = $5.00
While using Scour and participating in our rewards program, please keep in mind that others will be sharing their opinions, and the opinions expressed are likely to be differing and diverse. Be respectful of others' opinions. A respectful atmosphere will make the community a better place for sharing views and opinions.
Be A Good Samaritan
If you see a great comment, show your approval of it by recommending it. Others will be more likely to read it if they know someone else has found it helpful. If you see any abuse, report it immediately. Together, we can make Scour a safe and effective search engine.
Be Clear and detailed
You can be very helpful to others by sharing things you know, your personal experience and situations, and your opinions. Make a good contribution by sharing what you are familiar with.
Always try to ask questions and post comments in clear language. It will be easier for others to understand and reply to your question or comment if they can better understand it. Try to use correct spelling and grammar to make reading your comments easier for other readers to communicate with you.
Stay Focused
Be sure to keep your comments within context. You are expressing your experiences with a website. Try not to talk about cats when everything the site is about Linux. This will make your comment more useful and easier to understand.
Scour Restrictions...
We Do Not Tolerate Negative Behavior or Inappropriate Language
If you exhibit inappropriate behavior you may be subject to cancellation of your Scour account. Scour isn't a place to rant about personal frustrations or issues. This is a diverse community aimed to make search results more relevant. Hate speech, discriminatory words and negative behavior are not acceptable.
Remember that Scour is open to users as young as 13
Keep this in mind when posting on Scour and don't use sexual or vulgar language or images. Also, please refrain from insulting others, using slurs or objectionable terms. Remember that Scour is a public community, and we're trying to keep it clean. We also don't want spam or soliciting.
Don't Use Scour For Personal or Financial Gain
Scour is not a medium for you to gain personally or financially, by exploiting Scour and other users. Do not use Scour to proposition people or promote your products/services. If you have a relevant link for more information on the topic discussed, post it. If you are trying to get more online traffic use ABCSearch.com.
Don't Use Scour As Your Instant Messaging Service
There are programs out there that allow you to have conversations not related to the Scour community. Please refrain from comments that aren't related to the listing.
Don't Break Local or Federal Laws While Using Scour
Please do not break the laws of your town, city, state, province, or country on Scour. Do not attempt to trick people into sharing their personal information, don't harass, threaten, impersonate or hurt others, don't invade the privacy of others, don't try to steal anything copyrighted, trademarked, or otherwise not yours... don't break any laws.
Don't Be Malicious
Do not link to or promote any site that has viruses or other malicious programs that may interfere with Scour or with other users. Show some responsibility and integrity. We do not want Scour users to provide advice or other information that may cause others harm.
Scour is an online searching community for you to share search results, sites, and more. As a community member, we require that users follow our guidelines for acceptable behavior to make Scour a better place for everyone.
To use Scour's social searching features, you must be at least 13 years of age.
Positive Community Participation
Scour's safe and fun atmosphere is in the care of each member. Any member that notices abuse of the site is encouraged to report it immediately. Reporting abuse helps Scour to remove it more quickly, keeping our online community safer and more enjoyable for everyone. Contribute
You can be very helpful to others by sharing things you know, your personal experience and situations, and your opinions. Make a good contribution by sharing what you are familiar with. Respect
Others will be sharing their opinions, and the opinions expressed are likely to be differing and diverse. Be respectful of others' opinions. A respectful atmosphere will make the community a better place for sharing views and opinions.
Recommend good behavior, and report the bad stuff
If you see a great comment, show your approval of it by recommending it. Others will be more likely to read it if they know someone else has found it helpful. If you see any abuse, report it immediately. If all of Scour's users watch out for abuse, we can work better to keep Scour a safe place.
Communicate clearly
Try to ask questions and post comments in clear language. It will be easier for others to understand and reply to your question or comment helpfully if they can better understand it. Try to use correct spelling and grammar to make reading your comments easier for other readers to communicate with you.
Relative
Keep your questions and comments in the listing that make sense for their context. Don't talk about cats when everything else around your comment is about Linux. It will make it easier to follow, and it will make it easier for others to respond to your question or comment positively.
Negative Behavior
If you exhibit inappropriate behavior you may be subject to cancellation of your Scour account.
Don't rant Scour isn't a place to rant about personal frustrations or issues. It's a diverse community, and that should be reflected in the behavior of Scour users. Hate speech and discriminatory words are not acceptable.
Don't use Scour as your instant messaging service
There are programs out there that allow you to have conversations not related to the Scour community. If your comments are related to the material, leave a question or comment. Just don't try to monopolize the Scour community for your personal conversations.
Don't use inappropriate language
Scour is open to users as young as 13. Keep that in mind when posting on Scour and don't use sexual or vulgar language or images. Refrain from insulting others, using slurs or objectionable terms. Remember this is a public community, and we're trying to keep it clean. Don't spam or solicit through Scour
Scour is not a medium for you to gain personally or financially by exploiting Scour and other users. Do not use Scour to proposition people, and don't post links that are unrelated to the topic or solicitous. If you have a relevant link for more information on the topic discussed, post it. If you are trying to get money, online traffic or a date, don't do it on Scour.
Scour Abuse Guidelines
Scour is trying to promote a sharing community by offering points and prizes to active users. Creating multiple accounts or posting any content just to gain more points or solicit others for points is not accepted. Copy/pasting other users' comments and answers, as well as posting filler answers, questions or comments is also considered cheating.
Don't break your local laws
If you break the laws of your town, city, state, province, or country on Scour, you are not above the law. Do not attempt to trick people into sharing their personal information, don't harass, threaten, impersonate or hurt others, don't invade the privacy of others, don't try to steal anything copyrighted, trademarked, or otherwise not yours... don't break any laws.
Don't be malicious
Do not link to or promote any site that has viruses or other malicious programs that may interfere with Scour or with other users.
Don't misuse answers
There are features allowing users to report abuse to try to keep Scour enjoyable for everyone. Don't misuse these features to target others. Do not post incomprehensible words or things in the wrong language. Don't post the same thing multiple times.
Refrain from doing harm to others
Show some responsibility. Do not provide advice or other information that may cause others harm.