Community Features

OnlySky creates space for meaningful conversations

How and Why We are Building OnlySky’s Community
OnlySky is dedicated to bringing innovative ideas to a broad audience through future-casting and critical thinking. Our content helps you visualize, navigate, and shape the future based on today's choices and actions.

Our audience includes individuals dedicated to understanding and shaping the future, including the rapidly growing 1/3 of U.S. adults who are religiously unaffiliated, progressive people of faith, supporters of science-based public policy, compassionate citizens, parents, and moderates.

OnlySky seeks to facilitate an inclusive and expansive community interested in the intersection of critical thinking, future-casting, impactful storytelling, and shaping a better tomorrow through thoughtful, informed actions. To ensure the highest quality conversation, we only allow postings and discussions from our supporting subscribers, maintaining a space for thoughtful and respectful exchange of ideas. Thank you for helping build an exciting resource for those interested in exploring and shaping the future through imaginative and evidence-based storytelling.

Community Features

Facilitating these conversations is part of our commitment to participatory civic media—the use of technology to amplify voices in our community to effect social change. This model relies on a genuine exchange of ideas, not a one-way broadcast. In addition to featuring our own creatives, we want to find and amplify the best voices in our user community and help you do the same.

Enhanced Interaction and Engagement for Paid Members:

  • Exclusive Member Access: Only paid members can post comments, ensuring a high-quality, spam-free environment.
  • Interactive Engagement: Share your thoughts, reply to others, and engage in meaningful discussions.
  • Dynamic Interaction: Like comments and engage with rich media.
  • Personal Profiles: Add your name and expertise for more context and depth in discussions.
  • Notifications: Receive email notifications for replies to your comments and stay engaged.
  • Community Moderation: Use on-page moderation tools to keep the conversation healthy.
  • Self-Policing: Report inappropriate comments and bad-faith users to help maintain a respectful environment.

Join OnlySky today and be a part of a thriving community where your opinions are valued and your engagement is rewarded! To create your own member account with access to all these community features, click HERE.

Community Guidelines

For comments and elsewhere on the site:

  • Go out of your way to be kind and supportive, even toward someone who is not.
  • Threats, hate speech, and defamatory comments will not be tolerated.
  • Do not post assertions that have been confirmed false or misleading by subject-matter experts such as public health authorities. Egregious or repeated violations will result in post removal and a site-wide user ban.
  • Trolls—commenters who intentionally incite annoyance or offense to inflame others—will not be tolerated. Repeated trolling will result in a site-wide ban.
    Go after ideas, not people.
  • Always be de-escalating. Never miss an opportunity to lower the temperature of an exchange.
  • Don’t proselytize religious beliefs.
  • Keep it relevant and substantive.
  • No advertising or spam content.
  • Posting URLs is allowed in comments, but all will be pre-moderated.
  • Do not advocate violence or illegal activity.
  • Avoid graphic descriptions or depictions of violence or sexual abuse, especially those involving children.
  • Preserve privacy. Do not reveal personal information you may know about someone else.

We have created a single sign-on process for the website and the commenting system, eliminating the need for multiple accounts. If you are logged in to your OnlySky account, you will also be logged in to the commenting section. (Not registered yet? Sign up here).

Moderation


At OnlySky, we believe in empowering our community to maintain a respectful and engaging environment. Our commenting system relies on you, our subscribers, to help uphold our community guidelines. Here's how you can contribute:

  • Self-Policing Community: Use the flag system to report inappropriate comments and bad-faith users.
  • Active Participation: Help us keep discussions intelligent and civil by following and promoting our guidelines.
  • Continuous Improvement: Your feedback is crucial. If you have concerns about the comment system or anything else on the site, we want to hear from you.

For any issues or suggestions, please visit our Help page or email us at help @ onlys.ky. Thank you for being an essential part of our community!