Post by Josh on Nov 16, 2004 0:23:11 GMT -5
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This rare award from the ODP represents the glowing comments we receive from other poultry sites and our many valuable members and visitors. We are both humbled and honored by such positive reviews, and strive daily to continue to provide the world with the very best in poultry resources.
To ensure that you, our loyal friend, find the poultryOne experience just as enjoyable, we have written the following Code of Conduct (CoC) that is to be followed at all times while utilizing our forums and community tools. Please take a few short minutes to read the entire CoC, and thanks for visiting!
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Introduction:
The purpose of these free forums is to facilitate the dissemination of poultry information among poultry hobbyists. It is also our hope that this community will help create a network of farmers to help build and support the exciting hobby of raising poultry. Your active participation in these forums is crucial for the success of the community as a whole.
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poultryOne Community Code of Conduct (CoC), last updated 02/23/2005
Use of the forums constitutes acceptance and agreement to this Code of Conduct and Forum User Agreement. If you violate the Code of Conduct or User Agreement, be prepared to lose your posting privildges without prior notice. We prefer to advise users of inappropriate behavior. However, flagrant and repeated violations of our CoC will result in an immediate ban. Our failure to enforce this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any time.
We created the Code of Conduct to provide a basic understanding of what's allowed and not allowed on our message boards. The following are guidelines for the establishment and enforcement of our CoC:
~ Ensure a friendly learning atmosphere to our visitors and forum members
~ Ensure the privacy of our members and that of others
~ Comply with existing laws
~ Encourage responsible use of our forums and discourage activities which disrupt our community and reduce the value of our services to our visitors
~ Encourage the freedom of expression and exchange of information in a mature and responsible manner
While we are committed to the principles of free speech, certain activities may be damaging to the resources of both poultryOne and our communities and cannot be permitted under the guise of free speech. The resources of poultryOne are limited, and abuse of these resources by one user has a negative impact on the entire community.
As a member of our community, you must participate responsibly. If you have any questions regarding our CoC, please contact the forum administrator, Josh, via email at webmaster@poultryone.com
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Violations of the Code of Conduct....
The following constitutes violations of our Code of Conduct and are strictly prohibited.
1. Forum Security
~ Accessing, or attempting to access, the accounts of other users
~ Exploiting, or attempting to exploit, bugs, vulnerabilities, or loopholes; whether they are disclosed or undisclosed
~ Penetrating, or attempting to penetrate, security measures of the ProBoards software or hardware, or electronic communications system
All intrusions will subject all your forum accounts to immediate termination, regardless of whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption, loss, or theft of data
2. Spamming
Spam includes, but is not limited to, the following:
~ Excessive off-topic threads
~ Posting nonsensical messages
~ "Flooding" the forum with similar meaning messages
~ Trying to inflate your post count.
~ Inciting a "forum war" or "riot"
~ Outwar-style links
~ Blatant advertising
~ Messages without content
~ Fraudulent activity (Pyramid schemes, chain letters, etc.)
2.1 Advertising
~ Please do NOT use any of our forums as an advertising medium for your own site or forums. If you wish to advertise on our forum, please contact our advertising team at poultryone.com/advertise.html to get the latest deals on promoting your company/products on poultryOne.com. Our advertising team is also available at advertise@poultryone.com to negotiate a special advertising campaign that fits your needs.
Any user found mass-advertising their own site may be banned.
~ Linking to your site in your signature is acceptable. However, please do not incorporate large paragraphs in your signature.
~ You may post want/for-sale/trade ads in The Marketplace forum, provided you are not a commercial enterprise.
3. Forgery or impersonation
~ Attempting to impersonate any person, including staff, using forged headers, instant messenger names, similar usernames (i.e. "Jossh", "JosH", "j0sh") in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited.
4. Profanities
~ You may not use profanity or bypass the software-based censor. In addition to words included in the censor list, sexual remarks and slang may be considered profane when used in certain contexts.
5. Harassment
~ We have no tolerance for personal attacks as determined by forum moderators, whether public or private, towards user or staff. You may not use terms or audio/visual materials referring to ethnic/national origin, ideological/religious beliefs, gender, or sexual preference in a demeaning context.
6. Porn/Sexually Offensive Materials
~ You may not post or link to pornography or sexually offensive materials.
7. Illegal Use
~ You may not use our forums for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities, as determined by the laws of the United States of America and Canada. Such activities will guarantee a ban. We reserve the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.
8. Privacy
~ You may not post any form of real life information of a user unless the user has first permitted it by express consent. Examples of real life information include name, address, IP addresses, and phone numbers.
~ You may not distribute any form of real life information, email address, private/email Messages, and Instant Messenger messages with intent to harass or in any demeaning manner as determined by a moderator, regardless of consent.
~ You may not disclose a user's unpublicized email address unless the user has first permitted it, either by actual consent or previously releasing said information.
9. Signatures
Signatures, whether facilitated by the forum software or by the user, may not exceed the following restrictions:
~ The signature may not contain more than 6 lines including blank lines
~ Signature images may not be larger than 300 pixels wide by 75 pixels high
~ Signature images may not be larger than 7 kilobytes
~ The signature must not violate any part of this CoC
10. Email Addresses
~ You may not harvest email addresses from our forums for any purpose
~ You are required to keep your forum account's email address up-to-date. If a warning sent to the email address on record bounces, your account will be banned and you will have to email a request to Josh (webmaster@poultryone.com) to have your account unbanned.
12. Moderation & Bans
~ You may not evade a ban. If you do so, look forward to being permanently banned from this forum. If you have a problem with the banning or feel it was inappropriate, please fill out a please contact our administrator (Josh) and wait for a response
~ You may not publicly complain about or demand a reason for another user's ban, the deletion of a message, or the deletion/closure of a thread. Any discussion about warnings, bans, message deletion, thread deletion and thread closure should be done over private email or private messaging (PM) between the person concerned and the moderators
~ You may not re-edit a message that has been edited by a moderator
13. Miscellaneous
~ Do not post negative posts and discussions that are repeated over and over and over with no other purpose than to disrupt conversation. If you feel the need to say something, say it once and then move on. Do not disrupt multiple threads in order to get your view out.
~ You may not bait/troll users. Bait / Trolling is defined as posting with a clear intent to provoke anger, incendiary posts, and behavior that results in other users violating the CoC.
~ You may not bait, insult, flame, or otherwise abuse a staff member
~ You may not abuse your ability to post in HTML in HTML-enabled forums
~ You may not post graphically-disturbing images as inline images (such that the images are displayed when users view your post). However, you can link to the images with a warning stating that the images are graphically disturbing
~ You may not post in a manner that is harmful to poultryOne and its online community. For example, saying that "poultryOne is awful. Go to this other site!" or posting confidential poultryOne documents or correspondence. If you do, the post will be deleted and you will be banned.
~ You may not register multiple accounts with intent to violate any part of this CoC.
Questionable actions and content
Contrary to popular beliefs, the CoC isn't designed to cover everything. We reserve the right to act if a user's actions, including the user's posts, is deemed counterproductive to the forum community.
Contacting the poultryOne support forums:
If you have any questions about the above information, please contact us via our official website at poultryone.com/contact.html. You can also contact Josh directly at webmaster@poultryone.com.
Thanks for visiting and making us one of the leading providers of online resources for raising poultry! We are proud to be of service to you, and look forward to your active participation in our online community.
= Josh =
Community Administrator
poultryOne Webmaster and Senior Editor
poultryone.com
This rare award from the ODP represents the glowing comments we receive from other poultry sites and our many valuable members and visitors. We are both humbled and honored by such positive reviews, and strive daily to continue to provide the world with the very best in poultry resources.
To ensure that you, our loyal friend, find the poultryOne experience just as enjoyable, we have written the following Code of Conduct (CoC) that is to be followed at all times while utilizing our forums and community tools. Please take a few short minutes to read the entire CoC, and thanks for visiting!
====================
Introduction:
The purpose of these free forums is to facilitate the dissemination of poultry information among poultry hobbyists. It is also our hope that this community will help create a network of farmers to help build and support the exciting hobby of raising poultry. Your active participation in these forums is crucial for the success of the community as a whole.
====================
poultryOne Community Code of Conduct (CoC), last updated 02/23/2005
Use of the forums constitutes acceptance and agreement to this Code of Conduct and Forum User Agreement. If you violate the Code of Conduct or User Agreement, be prepared to lose your posting privildges without prior notice. We prefer to advise users of inappropriate behavior. However, flagrant and repeated violations of our CoC will result in an immediate ban. Our failure to enforce this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any time.
We created the Code of Conduct to provide a basic understanding of what's allowed and not allowed on our message boards. The following are guidelines for the establishment and enforcement of our CoC:
~ Ensure a friendly learning atmosphere to our visitors and forum members
~ Ensure the privacy of our members and that of others
~ Comply with existing laws
~ Encourage responsible use of our forums and discourage activities which disrupt our community and reduce the value of our services to our visitors
~ Encourage the freedom of expression and exchange of information in a mature and responsible manner
While we are committed to the principles of free speech, certain activities may be damaging to the resources of both poultryOne and our communities and cannot be permitted under the guise of free speech. The resources of poultryOne are limited, and abuse of these resources by one user has a negative impact on the entire community.
As a member of our community, you must participate responsibly. If you have any questions regarding our CoC, please contact the forum administrator, Josh, via email at webmaster@poultryone.com
--------------------
Violations of the Code of Conduct....
The following constitutes violations of our Code of Conduct and are strictly prohibited.
1. Forum Security
~ Accessing, or attempting to access, the accounts of other users
~ Exploiting, or attempting to exploit, bugs, vulnerabilities, or loopholes; whether they are disclosed or undisclosed
~ Penetrating, or attempting to penetrate, security measures of the ProBoards software or hardware, or electronic communications system
All intrusions will subject all your forum accounts to immediate termination, regardless of whether or not the intrusion results in the corruption, loss, or theft of data
2. Spamming
Spam includes, but is not limited to, the following:
~ Excessive off-topic threads
~ Posting nonsensical messages
~ "Flooding" the forum with similar meaning messages
~ Trying to inflate your post count.
~ Inciting a "forum war" or "riot"
~ Outwar-style links
~ Blatant advertising
~ Messages without content
~ Fraudulent activity (Pyramid schemes, chain letters, etc.)
2.1 Advertising
~ Please do NOT use any of our forums as an advertising medium for your own site or forums. If you wish to advertise on our forum, please contact our advertising team at poultryone.com/advertise.html to get the latest deals on promoting your company/products on poultryOne.com. Our advertising team is also available at advertise@poultryone.com to negotiate a special advertising campaign that fits your needs.
Any user found mass-advertising their own site may be banned.
~ Linking to your site in your signature is acceptable. However, please do not incorporate large paragraphs in your signature.
~ You may post want/for-sale/trade ads in The Marketplace forum, provided you are not a commercial enterprise.
3. Forgery or impersonation
~ Attempting to impersonate any person, including staff, using forged headers, instant messenger names, similar usernames (i.e. "Jossh", "JosH", "j0sh") in an effort to deceive or mislead is prohibited.
4. Profanities
~ You may not use profanity or bypass the software-based censor. In addition to words included in the censor list, sexual remarks and slang may be considered profane when used in certain contexts.
5. Harassment
~ We have no tolerance for personal attacks as determined by forum moderators, whether public or private, towards user or staff. You may not use terms or audio/visual materials referring to ethnic/national origin, ideological/religious beliefs, gender, or sexual preference in a demeaning context.
6. Porn/Sexually Offensive Materials
~ You may not post or link to pornography or sexually offensive materials.
7. Illegal Use
~ You may not use our forums for illegal purposes, or in support of illegal activities, as determined by the laws of the United States of America and Canada. Such activities will guarantee a ban. We reserve the right to cooperate with legal authorities and/or injured third parties in the investigation of any suspected crime or civil wrongdoing.
8. Privacy
~ You may not post any form of real life information of a user unless the user has first permitted it by express consent. Examples of real life information include name, address, IP addresses, and phone numbers.
~ You may not distribute any form of real life information, email address, private/email Messages, and Instant Messenger messages with intent to harass or in any demeaning manner as determined by a moderator, regardless of consent.
~ You may not disclose a user's unpublicized email address unless the user has first permitted it, either by actual consent or previously releasing said information.
9. Signatures
Signatures, whether facilitated by the forum software or by the user, may not exceed the following restrictions:
~ The signature may not contain more than 6 lines including blank lines
~ Signature images may not be larger than 300 pixels wide by 75 pixels high
~ Signature images may not be larger than 7 kilobytes
~ The signature must not violate any part of this CoC
10. Email Addresses
~ You may not harvest email addresses from our forums for any purpose
~ You are required to keep your forum account's email address up-to-date. If a warning sent to the email address on record bounces, your account will be banned and you will have to email a request to Josh (webmaster@poultryone.com) to have your account unbanned.
12. Moderation & Bans
~ You may not evade a ban. If you do so, look forward to being permanently banned from this forum. If you have a problem with the banning or feel it was inappropriate, please fill out a please contact our administrator (Josh) and wait for a response
~ You may not publicly complain about or demand a reason for another user's ban, the deletion of a message, or the deletion/closure of a thread. Any discussion about warnings, bans, message deletion, thread deletion and thread closure should be done over private email or private messaging (PM) between the person concerned and the moderators
~ You may not re-edit a message that has been edited by a moderator
13. Miscellaneous
~ Do not post negative posts and discussions that are repeated over and over and over with no other purpose than to disrupt conversation. If you feel the need to say something, say it once and then move on. Do not disrupt multiple threads in order to get your view out.
~ You may not bait/troll users. Bait / Trolling is defined as posting with a clear intent to provoke anger, incendiary posts, and behavior that results in other users violating the CoC.
~ You may not bait, insult, flame, or otherwise abuse a staff member
~ You may not abuse your ability to post in HTML in HTML-enabled forums
~ You may not post graphically-disturbing images as inline images (such that the images are displayed when users view your post). However, you can link to the images with a warning stating that the images are graphically disturbing
~ You may not post in a manner that is harmful to poultryOne and its online community. For example, saying that "poultryOne is awful. Go to this other site!" or posting confidential poultryOne documents or correspondence. If you do, the post will be deleted and you will be banned.
~ You may not register multiple accounts with intent to violate any part of this CoC.
Questionable actions and content
Contrary to popular beliefs, the CoC isn't designed to cover everything. We reserve the right to act if a user's actions, including the user's posts, is deemed counterproductive to the forum community.
Contacting the poultryOne support forums:
If you have any questions about the above information, please contact us via our official website at poultryone.com/contact.html. You can also contact Josh directly at webmaster@poultryone.com.
Thanks for visiting and making us one of the leading providers of online resources for raising poultry! We are proud to be of service to you, and look forward to your active participation in our online community.
= Josh =
Community Administrator
poultryOne Webmaster and Senior Editor
poultryone.com