Content Guidelines: How an editor-managed, public directory works

Our goal is to build the world’s largest people directory, but as we grow, we also want to ensure that at any given time the data is accurate and up to date. In order to do this, we have established certain content standards and employ a team of editors to actively review entries. Our content guidelines:

Real Photo, Real Name, Real Data: bigsight is about your true identity. We do not allow avatars, aliases, or imagined data. Users must use their real names, real data, and provide an image in which they can be plainly seen.

Third-Person Bio: Central to the bigsight model is a third-person, narrative biography that connects all of the elements on the user’s profile. Editors may, at times, make corrections to a user’s bio or suggest improvements; however, each time an editor touches a user’s profile, the user will be notified of the change for review. We do this to ensure a moderate level of standardization across entries.

Quarterly Updates: To ensure that profile data is timely, we ask that users visit their profiles at least once each quarter to provide appropriate updates. Profiles that go un-touched after two quarters will be considered abandoned, and thus removed from the directory.

Spam: bigsight can be a tool for you to get your work out to a larger audience; however, there is a line after which promotion becomes a bit excessive and spam-like. We don’t yet know where this line is, but we’ll let you know if we think it has been crossed.

The editors reserve the right to discuss these guidelines with users and ultimately remove profiles that do not adhere to them.