The Rules
We published these before there was a single post on the site. That's on purpose. A place to be honest about Tulane only works if it isn't a place to go after people.
You can name an instructor. Write about the teaching.
If you're posting about a class, you can say who taught it. What we care about is that the post is about the teaching — how clear the lectures were, how the grading worked, whether feedback showed up, how much work it actually was, whether office hours happened.
“Professor Ruiz's grading criteria were never explained and the midterm didn't match the lectures” is a scoop. “Professor Ruiz is an idiot” is not, and won't go up. Same name, completely different post.
The test: could the person reading it use it to decide whether to take the class? If yes, write it. If it's just how you feel about someone, keep it.
Write it as what you experienced (“in my section, the midterm covered material we never saw in lecture”), not as a claim about the person. An instructor may be named only in a post about their teaching, never about their personal life, their appearance, or anything you can't back up from your own time in the class.
Off limits, regardless of who it's about
- Anything not about the course. Appearance, accent, age, personal life, politics, who someone is dating. None of it belongs here.
- Accusations of misconduct. If something serious happened — harassment, discrimination, anything that needs an investigation — this site is the wrong place and posting it here may make it harder to deal with properly. Take it to the university or to Title IX. We will remove those posts, and we're not being difficult: we can't investigate, and a public accusation nobody has looked into helps no one.
- Anything you can't stand behind. Write what happened to you, not what you heard. Don't state something as fact if you can't know it's true.
Other students, staff, and everyone else stays unnamed
The naming exception is for instructors in their teaching role, and only that. Don't name other students, RAs, dining staff, advisors' personal details, or anyone else.
Places are places, not people
When you add a place, it has to be a real location, service, organization, or course: a dorm, a bar, a club, a class. Never a person. Name a course by its title or number, not by who teaches it. No insults, jokes, or opinions in a place's name (“Worst Dorm Ever” won't go up), and no private homes or room numbers. If it's already listed under another name, we'll merge it.
No pile-ons
If something's already been said, you don't need to say it again louder. Repeated posts aimed at the same target get removed even when each one on its own looks fine.
Be honest, including when it's boring
The useful scoop is often unglamorous — a deadline nobody mentions, a building that's further than it looks. You don't have to be funny. You have to be accurate.
Don't post things that aren't yours to post
No private messages, no photos of people who didn't agree, no someone-else's-business.
How moderation works
Every post is read by a person before it appears. Nothing publishes automatically. If a post follows the rules it goes up; if it doesn't, it doesn't, and it isn't published in edited form either — we don't rewrite what you said.
Posts are reviewed by the CampusScoop team, a small group of Tulane students. We don't promise a turnaround time yet. Most posts should go up within a few days, and it can take longer over weekends and breaks.
We ask for a Tulane email address when you post. It is never shown on the site. Only the moderators see it, and it exists so that posts come from people who actually go here. We check that it's a Tulane address, but we don't send a confirmation link, so posts are pseudonymous, not anonymous: your name isn't shown, but the team can see which address sent a post. Details are on the Privacy page.
Reporting a post
If something here breaks these rules, tell us and we'll look at it. There are two ways:
- The “Report this post” link under every post on a place page. Pick a reason, add details if you want, and leave an email only if you'd like a reply. It doesn't have to be a Tulane address.
- Email campusscoopmktg4250@gmail.com with a link to the post and what's wrong. This is also the way to reach us if a post is about you, if something is urgent, or if the report link isn't working.
A person reads every report. Posts with threats, slurs, or someone's private information come down first and get looked at after. Reporting a post doesn't publish anything, and the person who wrote it isn't told who reported it.
If we get it wrong
These rules will have gaps we haven't thought of. When we change them, we'll say what changed and why, on this page.