Ruleset For The HOLYSMOKE Echo
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Last Modified: 05/08/2009
Moderator: Ross Cassell @ 1:123/500
--Purpose Of Echo
For the free discussion both for and against the validity of any
religious belief.
--Swear Words
The usage of swear words are not prohibited for purposes of exclaimation, however the usage of swear words:
* To insult, flame or inflame if directed towards a member of this echo
* As the sole or only content of your message or reply.
* For only the sake of using them.
Are prohibited, if in doubt dont do it, else when you cross this line, you
will be cautioned.
--Name Calling/Personal Attacks
Messages that are designed to deliberately insult without conveying
any relevant information are included as forbidden.
Additionally echo participants are not to be made the subject matter of
any message:
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--The "I Hate You" Rule
Disputes and personality conflicts that originated in other echoes or
which have been long standing, regardless of origination point, are not welcome here. Do not use or enter this echo for the sole purpose of
carrying out existing grudges.
--The "Persona Non Grata" Rule
Individuals banned or suspended from this echo are not to be included in debate
within this echo, for purposes of this echo, if a person does get banned or suspended, they do not exist for as long as any ban or suspension is in force. If a banned or suspended person comes into the echo, do not respond to that person if their ban or suspension is still in effect. Violation of this rule can result in being sustended or banned.
Explaination:
If a person is prohibited from posting in the echo, be that prohibition short term, long term or permanent, then there should be nothing coming from this echo to compel that person to want to or have to defend themselves.
--The "Non Echo Member" Rule
Do not use this echo to convey information about a person whom
is not actively using the echo, if such information is less than
factual or is inflammatory.
--The "I Twit Thee" Rule
The usage of twit filters, assuming your message reader supports it, is encouraged in the event you encounter a individual whom otherwise causes you great irritation.
However if you do decide on this course of action and you publically announce that you are twitting someone, you better be sure you live by that proclaimation, which includes up to you treating the irritant as if s/he doesnt
exist.
If you announce that you have twit filtered someone and in turn take pot shots at them in messages to others, either out of the blue or by seeing that persons
messages quoted by others, you are as guilty of being annoying as the person you twitted, and may face risk of being suspended from the echo if not worse.
--The "Liar" Rule
If you are asking for someones opinion on something and they give it, do not proclaim it to be a lie, an opinion is what it is. If you can have an opinion on something, so can others, see how that works?
Someone disagreeing with your viewpoint does not a liar make, if you proclaim someone to be a liar, be prepared to prove it as such or hold thy tongue by not proclaiming someone to be a liar.
--The Posting A Lie Rule
Do not post anything about another participant which is a deliberate misrepresentation of what they said or whom they are. If you post
anything of this nature, it best be worded as an opinion unless proven
or admitted to, if it cannot pass the test of proof, then do not
present these things as factual.
DO NOT POST LIES ABOUT ANYONE!
Having said the above, the moderator is not your holy protector and is
not responsible for for deciding what was a lie and what is the truth,
do not expect arbitration on anything you feel said about you which
might have been a lie.
--Real Names
This is a real names only echo, no handles, aliases without moderator approval.
--The To All Rule
Do not post messages addressed to all, unless it is to introduce
subject matter you wish to have debated.
Do not post any message to All, which is in fact a reply to a message
written in the echo by another participant. Doing so by inference makes
the person whom wrote the message as topic for debate, echo
participants are not topics for debate.
--Quoting and Quotations
Do not over-quote your message replies, quote back that which is needed
to specify those points in which your reply is addressing.
Do not alter message quotes to change the meaning of the original
posters points, this is not to say you are required to quote back every
single thing the person said if you are not addressing every single
thing they said, just dont make your quote back look as if the person
said something they did not.
No one is required to address every single point you made in any
message.
Continually harassing a echo participant with a message quote of what
they may have said in a earlier point in time regardless of context, will
be regarded as harassing a participant if done to excess. If the person refuses to acknowledge, concede or retract, dont think baraging them
with said quote multiple times is going to change the status quo.
--Moderation.
Leave the moderating to the moderator.
The moderator of this echo reserves the right to add, subtract or otherwise amend these rules as necessary up to and including taking action against an individual for something not currently spelled out within the current rule set.
-The Moderator-
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