Social Media Comment Policy 

Updated September 24, 2025

Visit Huntington Beach (VHB) welcomes comments and opinions from all visitors to our online communities relating to Huntington Beach travel and tourism related topics and issues. All visitors to our online communities need to abide by our online comment guidelines noted below.

We encourage comments that:

• Are "on topic," or that stick to the subject matter of the article or post.
• Are relevant responses to comments left by other readers.
• Are brief and have a positive, constructive tone.
• Are open to being contradicted by other readers.
• Might disagree with the content in an article or post, but that never insult the writer (or commenters) of the article or post.

We discourage comments that:

• Are not "on topic" or that don't stick to the subject matter of the article or blog post.
• Insult the writer (or commenters) of an article or post.
• Are non-constructive, hateful or spiteful.

Should comments or exchanges develop into personal attacks or inappropriate remarks, VHB reserves the right to remove them.

We will delete comments that contain language or imagery which:

• Are defamatory, compromises public safety or operations, contravenes law, disruptive or factually inaccurate.
• Are harassing, threatening or vulgar (including personal attacks or comments disparaging an individual or group based on ethnicity, race, gender, religion, age, disability or sexual orientation), invades personal privacy, has sexual content or obscene.
• Are advertising or spam, including any link to another site.
• Are considered trolling.
• Are not "on topic" or that don't stick to the subject matter of the article or blog post.
• Infringe on a copyright or other proprietary right.
• Violate any of this site's Terms and Conditions.

Violation of VHB's online comment guidelines will result in a commenter's post(s) to be removed without notice. VHB reserves the right to remove any other comments or content that is deemed inappropriate.