Join Our Community

Take advantage of our member benefits when you sign up | log-in

Commenting Policy

Web Search powered by YAHOO!

Commenting Policy

Thank you to everyone who has registered with NewsOK.com and chooses to participate in commenting. We have seen dramatic increase in traffic on NewsOK.com and the number of readers' comments on stories, your comments are a vital part of the NewsOK.com experience and individuals come back to see your reactions to the news.

But with that increase, we are seeing more posters violating NewsOK.com Terms of Use. Please help us by clicking the "Report as inappropriate" next to a comment when you see one that is out of line.

By default, we allow commenting on our stories. It is our intention to facilitate a conversation around news and information on NewsOK.com; it is not our intent to offer comments on crime or fatality stories.

Commenting and posting policy:

NewsOK.com may permit you to post, submit, transmit, email, or otherwise make available text, information, questions, comments, graphics, video, audio, photographs or other material (collectively, "Postings"). You may only submit Postings that you create or that you have permission to submit and that do not violate copyright, trademark, or any other rights of third parties. We do not claim ownership of any Postings that you may submit. However, by submitting Postings to any of the other Services, you grant us, our subsidiaries, affiliates, successors, and assigns a perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide, royalty-free, fully-paid, non-exclusive, and sub-licensable license to use, copy, display, distribute, modify, adapt, publish, translate, publicly perform and publicly display the Postings (in whole or in part) and to incorporate the Postings into other works in any format or medium now or later known.

You may not upload, post, submit, email, transmit, or otherwise make available any Postings that (i) contain falsehoods or misrepresentations that could damage OPUBCO or any third party; (ii) are unlawful, obscene, defamatory, libelous, threatening, pornographic, harassing, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive, or encourage conduct that would be considered a criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, violate any law, or are otherwise inappropriate; (iii) contain advertisements, solicitations of business or spam; (iv) disseminate or transmit any worms, viruses or other harmful, disruptive or destructive files, code or programs; (v) collect or store personal information about others or otherwise invade their privacy; (vi) impersonate another person or forge headers or use any other method to disguise the true origin of the Posting; (vii) contain materials protected copyright, trademark patent or other intellectual property rights unless you are the owner of such material or have license from the owner of any such proprietary rights to provide the materials; or (viii) you do not have a right to make available under any law or under contractual or fiduciary relationships. Additionally, you may not submit any Postings that violate the TOU. All liabilities resulting from postings remain with its creator and not OPUBCO.

Thank you for your cooperation. Send comments and/or suggestions to webmaster@newsok.com

View our full Terms of Use Policy.

CONTACT US



PHOTOS
Upload your photos to NewsOK and share them with the world.


VIDEO
Upload your videos to NewsOK and share them with the world.


STORIES
Share your story idea with The Oklahoman.