freediver wrote on Mar 19^th, 2008 at 3:38pm:


maybe one poster could contact another and ask for offensive word to be removed?

freediver wrote on Mar 19^th, 2008 at 4:21pm:


Would seem the commonsense thing to do.

This is the policy on Appropriate Conduct from the Google forums - which seems fairly comprehensive.  It can be modified quite easily, but seems to cover it all.  It may sound a bit harsh for some - but it is something to work on.  

Appropriate Conduct

You agree that you are responsible for your own conduct and communications while using the Forum and for any consequences thereof. You agree to use the Service only to send and receive messages and material that are legal, proper and related to the particular Forum. By way of example, and not as a limitation, you agree that when using the Service, you will not:

defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others;

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post messages that promote pyramid schemes, chain letters or disruptive commercial messages or advertisements, or anything else prohibited by the Group owner.

download any file Posted by another user of a Group that you know, or reasonably should know, that cannot be legally distributed in such manner;

impersonate another person or entity, or falsify or delete any author attributions, legal or other proper notices or proprietary designations or labels of the origin or source of software or other material contained in a file that is Posted;

restrict or inhibit any other user from using and enjoying the Service;

use the Service for any illegal or unauthorized purpose;

remove any copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights notices contained in or on the Service;

interfere with or disrupt the Service or servers or networks connected to the Service, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service;

use any robot, spider, site search/retrieval application, or other device to retrieve or index any portion of the Service or collect information about users for any unauthorized purpose;

submit Content that falsely expresses or implies that such Content is sponsored or endorsed by Ozpolitics;

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promote or provide instructional information about illegal activities or promote physical harm or injury against any group or individual; or

transmit any viruses, worms, defects, Trojan horses, or any items of a destructive nature.

That sounds OK - I misunderstood and thought you wanted to eliminate the hassle of posters complaining all the time.  But yes a more personalised set of standards is a good idea.  Do you agree with this:

Quote:

Basically it's just saying that we can't use another poster's contribution in another forum (unless permitted by the poster) and we are not to alter (unless there's a violation) another person's post.  Which can be looked at two ways I suppose and no doubt DT will make a comment on this.

Yes but you're right FD - everything is open to interpretation.  Obviously some posters aren't happy with any specific regulations and that's fair enough.

If some posters believe it should be open slather and anything goes and this is accepted by the administrator - then it also has to be accepted that this will have a detrimental affect on the forum at the expense of new posters, guests and prospective advertisers.

Doesn't the Yabb forum come with its own terms of use template? I'll check.

Here we go. This is what you agree to on registration (FD may have modified this for this board - I'm not sure):

You agree, through your use of this YaBB forum, that you will not post any material which is false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually-oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise in violation of ANY law. You also agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or you have consent from the owner of the copyrighted material. Spam, flooding, advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, and solicitations are also inappropriate to this YaBB forum.

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deepthought wrote on Mar 20^th, 2008 at 6:23am:



Bump for freediver

freediver wrote on Mar 20^th, 2008 at 5:51pm:


Why?  You said you acted on a request from a member and overruled the moderator of the time who had made a different ruling.

The other day I made this statement.

deepthought wrote on Mar 18^th, 2008 at 6:08pm:



It appears I am right about the arbitrary application of so called rules.  Am I not?