Proposed eGreece forum rules and regulations

[Mavro]

These are the rules and regulations that are followed on one of the forums I am a member of. They might seem a little harsh, but they keep everyone in line and keep the conversations flowing. I think they make a good starting point for our purposes. I've tailored them to suit our needs.

-Mavro

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Egreece.forummotion.com is run by a small team of dedicated volunteers with the aim of providing a haven for good-natured discussion, debates, and fun on the internet. It is the Individual Members’ responsibility to be aware of all current forum Rules/Guidelines. Ignorance isn't a justifiable excuse, so if you aren't certain then ask first.

In the interest of creating a healthy discussion forum environment that encourages active posting by both new and long-term members, we have created a "Code of Conduct" that all posters must adhere to. In addition to this, a Glossary of Terms has been created to better define to the membership as to how some terms apply to this site.

Moderation
We moderate the forum on a common sense basis and would ask that each of our visitors obeys simple general good manners when posting on the forum. We have a very wide range of user groups represented on the forum so please don't post swears, pornographic pictures, or anything that you wouldn't want your own kids accessing!

This is a 'moderated' forum so moderators can and will move topics which are posted in the wrong area, and they will also edit / close/ delete topics at their discretion. Posts with poor grammar or L33t speak may also be edited / closed / deleted.

Warning System
The mods will issue warnings for wrongful behavior and their decision is not up for debate. Users may also be banned without notice or explanation from the team if we feel it is in the best interests of the community. This Site enforces both a "three strikes you're out" policy for repeated violation of the Terms of Service (TOS), and an immediate banning policy for extreme infractions. When necessary, posters who have broken forum rules will receive an official warning from staff via the forums' "private message" feature. After two warnings, a third infraction will result in immediate termination of the account without further notice (It is the responsibility of each forum member to check their PMs on a regular basis).

The following infractions are grounds for immediate, no-questions-asked banning from the Forums:
• Drive-by Spamming. Users who register and post for the sole purpose of linking to their own sites will be immediately banned from the forums.
• Threatening Posters. Users who make threats of a physical and/or cyber (hacking, viruses, or other malicious internet based attacks) nature against staff or members via forum posts, private messages, or e-mail will be immediately banned from the forums. Posters who receive such threats should immediately contact a staff member and should save the original copy of the threat.
• Public Challenging of the Management Team. Users who purposely and publicly challenge the ruling, warning, and/or actions of the Management Team are subject to an immediate ban without further warning. Any and all issues concerning any member of the Management Team are to be ADDRESSED BY PM TO THE ADMINISTRATOR(S) OF THE SITE ONLY.

General Posting Guidelines
• This forum is about eGreece, so please don't post topics of a RL political, religious, or racial nature without moderator approval.
• Do not spam.
• No warez, cracks, serials or illegally obtained copyrighted content! Links to content of a questionable nature, asking for, offering, or asking for help/helping to process such content in any way or form is not tolerated.
• No cross posting. Post your message once, to the appropriate forum and nowhere else or it will be locked or deleted without warning.
• Use a title that describes the content of your post. Don't use all caps or special characters to draw attention.
• All questions pertaining to sections or use of this forum should be posted in the appropriate areas, and not sent as PM's or Email's to the Admin or Mods.
• All posts are required to be in English or Greek unless prior approval is given
• Multiple registrations are prohibited and are grounds for immediate account deletion. One account per person.
• Creating a second account to attempt to circumvent an account ban is not allowed and will result in an immediate IP Ban.
• You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use the Forums to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, rude, disrespectful, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.
• You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or you post the url to the original source giving them credit.
• Advertisements of any type, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are not permitted
• Absolutely NO flaming or Flame baiting. Posts containing hostile language or rudeness directed at staff or other members will not be tolerated. Posts made with the intent to solicit a hostile response constitutes Flame Baiting and will not be Tolerated.
• Adult content is prohibited. Because the forums are family friendly, discussion or linking of adult sites is prohibited by the TOS. Links to adult content and/or posting of jokes or comments of an adult nature in either forum posts or user profile are prohibited. All links to adult content, within forum posts will be immediately deleted and the posters will be issued an official warning from staff. Adult links located within your user profile will be deleted by the administrator.
• Self promotion is prohibited. The forums are designed to be an educational environment. Posters who solicit work within threads, or who make posts for the sole purpose of linking to their own content will be issued an official warning from staff.
• Thread hi-jacking will not be tolerated. All posters must respect the rights of other members to post questions, comments and ideas that do not agree with their own. Please keep your posts "on topic" i.e. relevant to the subject(s) of the thread.
• When you post asking for help, allow other members time to respond. Repeatedly "bumping" your post without allowing sufficient time for someone to respond constitutes spamming and will result in the post being locked.
• Before creating new threads, please use the Search feature. You may find that your issue/topic has already been addressed.
• Look before posting to ensure you are posting in the correct section.

Glossary of Terms

Flaming: The act of posting deliberately hostile messages on the Internet. This includes but is not limited to the use of derogatory names, racial slurs, sexist remarks, and/or otherwise deliberately rude comments.

Flamebait: A message posted to a public Internet discussion group, such as a forum, newsgroup or mailing list, with the intent of provoking an angry response (a "flame") or argument over a topic.

Forum spam: Posts that have no relevance to the threads topic, or have no purpose in general (e.i, a user typing "CABBAGES!" or other such useless posts in an important news thread). This includes but is not limited to, making threads or posts with only smilies, "LOL", +1 and other one word/letter/number content.

[Guest]

All looks fair to me, I say institute these.

[Admin]

Done

[Sophotatos]

I think that a known eGreek (as opposed to an invading turk spy, ect) should have a hearing or vote before he is permanently ejected from our forums.

[Guest]

That or some sort of time limit on the warnings, like 2 weeks or whatever for infractions that aren't major. That was a true eGreek speaking out of turn doesn't end up with him being ejected with no chance to make amends.

[Mavro]

Done

That was easy. We should still discuss changes, additions, and deletes if anyone has any other ideas.

Nice job working together, everyone.

[Guest]

Only thing I can think of is changing the wording for the 'Self Promotion' rule. I'm assuming that applies to soliciting rl work, but it seems to me that the term 'Self Promotion' could confuse people who want to run for a presidency/congress seat and skim the rules and assume that to mean that they can't make a thread about their bid.

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