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Terms of Forum Use

 

General Posting Behavior:

No member is allowed to use foul language and/or disgusting expressions. Members would be ill-advised to argue as to what defines foul language or disgusting expressions. Every member understands what is and what is not acceptable.

Solicitation of goods and/or services is not permitted. This is a Forum for discussion.

No member is allowed to make personal insults with regard to another member or with respect to fellow members' opinions.

No member is allowed to accuse a fellow member of posting a falsehood without definitive proof.

The word "liar" shall not be used on the forum in reference to another forum member. 

Members are responsible for what they post on this board. A member will not use this board to post any comment or which is demonstrably false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually-oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.

Derogatory comments aimed at contemporary politicians or political parties are not allowed, except in designated threads. (Certain "Water Coolers.")

 

Voicing for Banned Members:

It is deemed to be a breach of the rules where a current member posts on behalf of a banned member. It is relatively easy to identify when such a breach may be taking place if requested by a member to post on their behalf. Safest to post for yourself and not on behalf of others.

Such behavior may lead to a temporary suspension of posting privileges.

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Racism:

Racism will not be tolerated on this forum. Action will be taken whenever and wherever it is seen on the forum. If the racism is particularly offensive the member will be expelled immediately and without warning.

 

Chaotic Threads:

Threads which descend into chaos may be completely deleted. Members are also not allowed to post multiple threads concurrently on the same topic. This is called "flooding" the forum. Members who attempt to "flood" the forum will be subject to moderation, and the threads will be either merged or deleted, at the option of the Moderators.

 

Accusations of Member Credibility:

Members that post and/or imply that a fellow member of this forum is using an alias on this forum or an alias elsewhere designed to deceive members at forum or any other forum, and/or that he/she may be paid to post on this forum.

Such behavior may lead to a suspension or ban from the forum.

 

Abuse of the Education Forum and/or its Members:

Any current member who casts aspersions about the Forum and/or its membership – either from within the forum or outside the forum - may lose their posting privileges or indeed be banned.

 

General Comments:

Having posted these Terms of Forum Use, no further warnings will be given.

If members need to consider whether a link, a word or a sequence of words will be acceptable -- to post or not post before posting -- then we would advise not to post such words or terms.

Membership in The Education Forum is voluntary, subject to approval by the owners of the Forum. Suspension of members, privileges, reinstatement of those privileges, or removal from membership shall be at the sole discretion of the owners of The Education Forum.

 

Copyright Ownership:

Forum members retain ownership rights to any content he or she posts on the forum. Members grant the Education Forum irrevocable, royalty-free rights to use that content.

Any person who wishes to copy the content to another website must obtain the author's permission.

 

Limitation of Liability:

Members are SOLELY responsible for the content of their posts. The Education Forum, as an entity, is in no way responsible for the content of these posts.

THEREFORE IN NO EVENT WILL THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE EDUCATION FORUM BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGE WHATSOEVER (INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION DAMAGES RELATING TO LOST REVENUES OR PROFITS, LOST DATA, WORK STOPPAGE, COMPUTER FAILURE OR MALFUNCTION) RESULTING FROM OR IN ANY WAY RELATED TO THE USE OF ANY MATERIALS POSTED ON OR MADE AVAILABLE IN THE DISCUSSION FORUMS OR ANY OTHER WEB SITE TO WHICH A LINK IS PROVIDED OR ON WHICH A LINK IS PROVIDED TO THESE DISCUSSION FORUMS, EVEN IF THE ADMINISTRATING TEAM HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES AND REGARDLESS OF THE LEGAL THEORY ON WHICH SUCH DAMAGES ARE BASED.

Note that Section 230 of U.S. Code provides liability protection for 3rd party content posted on a website.

 

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  • 6 months later...

The administration invested a lot to take over this site and protect and continue it. We created a set of rules which we feel to be important for the successful continuation of the site.

Recently I posted a statement on members use of language and behaviour. We recently updated our Terms of Forum Use. One of the amendments was that “no member is allowed to make personal insults with regard to another member OR with respect to fellow members opinions.” The personal abuse directed at Don Jeffreys and David Lifton appals me. In addition to that - throughout a series of threads - there has been constant bickering and infighting among a few members. This behaviour must come to an end.

In addition I have noted that some members have been playing with word structure to avoid using offensive language. That will no longer be tolerated.

We warmly welcome members to this site and encourage debate and discussion. However we have very clearly indicated what - we consider - to be the ground rules to be followed.

It is clear that a few members - and I stress the fact that it is a few members only - are disregarding these conditions of membership. Today I have suspended one member’s posting rights for 72 hours for blatantly disregarding these conditions.

In addition the administration reserves the right to immediately suspend/or delete membership where infringement of these conditions is detected.

There are on the internet many sites that are happy to accept this kind of behaviour occurring on their site. This site is not one of them. The administration does not subscribe to the theory that checking and dealing with this kind of behaviour is also an infringement of freedom of speech.

Therefore if a member suddenly sees their posting privileges removed - or indeed their membership removed - then it will be because that member has deliberately ignored this post.

There will be no warning given. The administration have warned on numerous occasions, I have posted - on the matter in the last few days - so no member can say they were not aware of these basic conditions of membership.

James.

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EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY

Forum members now have the right to demand that other members remove from their posts comments that violate forum rules.

Upon doing so, it is important that you also report the post in the usual way. That way, the admin team can confirm that the offensive comment was indeed removed.

PENALTIES WILL BE SEVERE for those who ignore these requests, as long as the request is reasonable.

Only YOU can prevent forum fires!
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