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Flagg, here's an idea for the charter (Community)
Flagg, here's an idea for the charter // Community
Dec 16, 2001, 4:12am
You know, if you change your calendar to 01/01/9999 and post this, it'll
stay at the top of this newsgroup for good... Flagg should look into that.
:)
SW Chris
[View Quote]"sinew" <citizenaw at hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:3c1a3a65 at server1.Activeworlds.com...
> Charter of the news.activeworlds.com/community
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> INTRO:
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> The need for a moderated group is best explained by taking a casual look
at
> the many off-topic postings in other, non-moderated group. Often times,
> disputes arise of personal nature or insults are thrown about with no care
> or regard for the rights or feelings of others. This flaming is not the
> purpose or intent of this particular newsgroup. We would like to avoid
such
> problems from the start. News.activeworlds.com/community has been set up
> as a media for dissemination of Information relative to the AW community
and
> the AW software in general. Events of interest to this community and the
> sharing of knowledge and community discussion will be posted here. We
invite
> you all to take an active share in this newsgroup and hope it will be a
> positive addition to your AW experience. Please join in and have fun.
>
> CHARTER: news.activeworlds.com/awcommunity newsgroup is a moderated
> newsgroup for the free exchange of information and opinions on AW culture,
> language, history, economics, science, and other topics related to
> ActiveWorlds. Posts appropriate for news.activeworlds.com/community
> include, but are not restricted to, all aspects of ActiveWorlds,
> informational posts about AW culture, history, etc. Language issues
related
> to AW. Discussion of education, health, environmental issues , politics,
> elections, etc. Discussion of books , articles, webarticles, movies, etc.,
> about AW or the 3D internet in general. Discussion of minority issues,
> including language, within AW. Job opportunities within AW. Discussions
> involving PeaceKeepers and GateKeepers. Suggestions and tips for
newcomers.
> Suggestions and tips for World Owners. Additions and alternative
> implementations of the AW client or server. AWCOM. posts relevant to the
AW
> community and public meetings.
>
> News.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup is for anyone who is interested
> in AW and who can follow Usenet newsgroup netiquette, basic rules of
polite
> human interaction, and any further restrictions imposed by this charter.
> There is no test or requirement as to how much of an AW citizen a person
is
> who wants to make a submission and participate. Any restrictions
concerning
> the contents of a post are intended to keep to the topic of AW, and are
not
> intended to restrict anyone's expression of opinions. Free speech exists
> within the context of AW as a topic as defined in this charter. If the
topic
> is not about AW, forums other than news.activeworlds.com/community
> newsgroup are probably more appropriate. Submissions unrelated to the AW
> Community shall be rejected. Commercial advertisements unrelated to AW
shall
> be rejected; all personal ads shall be rejected. Submissions containing
> ethnic slurs, or submissions intended to hurt any given race, religion,
> gender, or sexual orientation, shall be rejected. Personal attacks on
> individual posters will also be rejected. Attacks on AWCOM, its employees,
> contractors or partners will be rejected.
>
> When major changes to the charter are to be considered, an announcement
will
> be made on news.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup inviting interested
> people to respond and thus participate via email. The role of the
moderators
> is to ensure the conditions of the charter are met by any submission to
> news.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup. The moderators recognize that
> they should be as unbiased and objective as is humanly possible.
Submissions
> are evaluated as to whether or not (1) they are on topic, (2) they meet
> netiquette, (3) they are appropriate for the group membership as a group
> (rather than something that belongs in e-mail to an individual(s)), and
(4)
> meet any other submission standards as defined in the charter. The
deletions
> of the rejected submissions to news.activeworlds.com/moderated newsgroup
by
> the moderators should be in a timely manner. Should a moderator reject a
> submission, s/he will delete the complete with no notice to the group or
the
> submitter in a timely manner (usually within 48 hours). All of the other
> moderators shall be included in any notification of the deletion. Should
the
> moderators as a group disagree with a moderator's decision about a
> submission, a minimum a coin toss majority is required to override it.
Other
> details will be refined during the initial existence of
> news.activeworlds.com/moderated newsgroup, recognizing that it is
impossible
> to anticipate all of the details of moderation in advance. Submitters to
> news.activeworlds.com/community newsgroup should recognize the volunteer
> nature of the moderators, possible equipment problems with the server,
etc.,
> and keep such issues in mind when considering whether or not a post or
> deletion was made in a timely way. The moderators will also work among
> themselves to define the details of moderation, for example, addressing
such
> issues as how many moderators are actively moderating at a time and how to
> deal with threads that appear to have strayed from the subject of AW.
>
> We appreciate your cooperation, be excellent to each other and enjoy your
> stay here in Active Worlds.
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