Member/Writers Guidelines
Arc of Justice Alliance has a very powerful article submission user interface. It's the way we want you to submit your article submissions. Our website has many capabilities you don't see on any other site. The article submission "page" enables you and us to make most effective use of those capabilities.
Submit your article to us first and give us a 24, 48 or 72 hour exclusive and if we think it's good enough, we'll:
-process it in the queue giving it a priority over non-exclusive submissions
-headline it considering the exclusivity a strong factor in headline position
For all contributors:
You MUST be 16 years of age, or over. No exceptions.
When you register, please include a brief bio, written in the third person. (Joe Smith is a writer and community activist living in Mongolia.)
Readers (and we) want to know who you are, where you are from. We require a bio if you post articles, or comments. This is a community. If you don't like it, or find it too invasive of your privacy, find another place. Here, we expect a bio that is not just a sentence describing your opinion or a link to your website. Please tell what you do and where you are from. Make the bio at least 20 words.
If your submission is accepted, we will publish it on our webpages. We will respect whatever name byline you choose to write under, short of misrepresenting yourself as another person, but it must be a name, not a handle. Commenters may use handles, but article submitters must use a real name. We allow you to retain reprint rights, but we retain the right to publish your articles and images you include in them that are yours in collections in books or other websites, and, for images, in other articles on this site. And our policy, based on Creative Commons, is to give permission to other sites to reprint articles submitted by the author directly to this site-- either as an original article or a crosspost. We do not assume that we have the right to give permission for reprinting of articles we have reprinted, which are usually described as such at the top or bottom of the article.
We happily accept simultaneous submissions and reprint/re-publish submissions. If your article is posted on your personal blog, we will still consider it exclusive if you submit it to Arc of Justice Alliance as well.
Please only submit one article a day. More than two and we start thinking you're overdoing it. We do enable delayed publishing. No problem submitting multiple quicklinks to articles that are not yours or on your site-- only one a day if they are yours.
In the publishing world, it is customarily the editor's prerogative to select the title for articles, and even books. Part of the role of the Editorial team is to come up with strong, reader-grabbing titles.
Submitting an article to Arc of Justice Alliance signifies your agreement to allow title changes. Of course, the formatting, font style and size, colors, etc. are set by Arc of Justice Alliance. But we ask that you use 10 point verdana font for your submissions, with minimal use of capitalization, bolding and italicization. And please keep use of colors to a minimum. We filter out most other formatting so our look is uniform for all our articles.
You agree, by submitting your article, diary, or other content, to Arc of Justice Alliance or any other related sites, not to sue or litigate against Arc of Justice Alliance or other related sites for any reason having to do with the content you submit or Arc of Justice Alliance's use of it. You agree that once you submit your content to Arc of Justice Alliance, Arc of Justice Alliance may edit it and publish it. Editors spend their time to help make content more readable and clear. It is not acceptable to retract content that is submitted. This means that it is not Arc of Justice Alliance policy to delete articles, once published, though we retain the prerogative to do so at any time.
If your article is rejected, you are not permitted to resubmit it, unless it has been rejected because it needs revision. If it is rejected with a message not to resubmit it , and you go ahead and re-submit it, this is cause for losing access privileges to Arc of Justice Alliance.
You authorize Arc of Justice Alliance to share anything you create for the FAQ or help sections with other populum sites.
It is appropriate to politely email an editor who has rejected an article to ask questions. It is inappropriate to complain or attack an editor for rejecting your content. Any complaints about rejected articles that are considered abusive to the editor will be considered cause for banning from the site.It is not acceptable to attack the publisher or fellow writers on the site in content you submit to the site. Any emails sent to AJA editors will be considered for publication on the site.
For more details on our policies, read our FAQs. By becoming a member, you agree to follow the policies and rules stated in the FAQs.
We do not always notify contributors of publication, although we do this as much as possible. Usually we publish within 24-48 hours.
The views expressed on Arc of Justice Alliance or comments section of this website are the sole responsibility of the author (s) and do not reflect the views of the webmaster or the transmitter.
Please check the Arc of Justice Alliance FAQ for answers and solutions, before you email for help. You can also click on the site contents tab, on the navigation bar, at the top of the website, to access the link to the FAQ. That's where you'll find the website directory. It's worth spending some time familiarizing yourself with the site's content, how we organize it and our policies. While you're at it, try out the tag cloud control panel, an innovation unique to Arc of Justice Alliance
Promoting other sites on Arc of Justice Alliance:
Using Arc of Justice Alliance to promote other sites may be cause for loss of posting privileges and banning. This may simply entail creating a bio that is strictly or primarily made up of commercial links, or it may involve posting a link to another site in a comment. The editorial staff will make that determination.
Site membership is a privilege. Violation of site rules and policies can be a cause for loss of all privileges-- of free or paid premium membership. You agree to forfeit these privileges if the site determines that you have violated rules or policies. Also, you agree to check guidelines and FAQs and to any changes periodically made in the guidelines. You will be notified when you log in that changes have been made.
For further help on writing, check out the Arc of Justice Alliance FAQs.