Cider Workshop Principles
Forum Principles
The Cider Workshop is run on a basis of respect and responsibility. Therefore:
*Unmoderated discussions
Members of the forum are deemed to be sufficiently old and ugly to manage themselves without the need to excessive moderation – please act responsibly and with respect for other members. UPDATE (July 2009) - Unfortunately, because of one persons irrational reaction to the group, it has become necessary to set new members to 'Moderated'. This is being watched by the team, and genuine new members need not worry about us holding posts back at all.
*Moderators
The title is a bit deceptive – these are the people are within the community who will mediate and apply the rules where required. They are not forum police.
*Threads
Threads will not be deleted or edited by moderators unless offensive. However, moderators may publically request that a thread be left to die (if it’s so off topic or if it’s becoming offensive)
*Topics
Please try to keep to topic – we don’t mind near-misses. Common sense rules.
i. On topic means anything to do with cider or perry (or derivative of these).
ii. On topic may also mean other groups, clubs or campaigning groups.
iii. Please don’t berate anything unless you have first hand experience of said thing.
Forum Rules.
Please abide by the following extremely reasonable rules if you intend to post in the forums.
* Spam / Advertising:
Advertising of any commercial product or service on these forums is generally not permitted, unless it is ‘on topic’ and relevant to members. Chain letters and pyramid schemes are similarly prohibited.
* Flaming:
Any material which constitutes defamation, harassment, or abuse is strictly prohibited. Use common sense while posting.
* Offensive Content:
Material that is sexually or otherwise obscene, racist, or otherwise overly discriminatory is not permitted on this forum. This includes user pictures (where permitted). Use common sense. We want to show this website to our mums.
* Cross-posting:
Posting a thread in more than one forum can be annoying but is allowed, so long as you reference the originating thread or forum (starting with something like ‘this is a cross post from…’ is also courteous to others.
* Signature Size:
To avoid annoyance, signatures must not be more than three lines of text. If images are used in a signature, please keep them small. We only have so much space!
* Copyright and ownership:
Comments and forum messages are owned by the poster. As such:
i. You are responsible for the content of your own posts (remember, you own it!)
ii. You are responsible for referencing others material in your posts/blog. Please give credit where credit is due!
iii. Should a web resource be introduced as a knowledge bank, permission must always be sought before transfer.
iv. If you fail to reference an author/work, we may ask you to rewrite it with references inserted. Cider people are creative people – we value our contributios.
* Don't be a pain in the backside:
Or we'll add some really embarrassing music to your profile and email all your friends.
No, really…
Any penalties for the above rules are at the moderation team's discretion, relating to the nature and scale of the incident.
The forum will have several moderators, who will jointly decide on action/penalties. The forum operates a ‘3 strikes’ policy (strike 1 is a private warning; strike 2 is a public warning; strike 3 and your out). This strike list will be maintained by the forum administrator. For severe incidents, immediate removal may follow (with a public explanation to the rest of the members).
*Ownership/Management
As with all things, someone has to set these things up and people are needed to make sure it’s a safe environment. In the spirit in which this group was set up, the group ‘owns’ the forum and the intellectual property remains with the original authors at all times.
*The Pre-nuptial agreement for The Cider Workshop
In the even of a disagreement or falling out of the management of both this group and associated web portal, the following procedure will apply. Should 40% of the facilitators (including moderators and owner) feel that a member of the team should stand down, that person will do so. In any case, more than one person will have the ability to eject anybody else from the group. However, any such decision should be reached following mediation and as a result of a fair poll of the other facilitators.
This is in place for the groups’ protection and is so that the group can operate in a safe and free environment where you can be sure that policies are not the whim of a single person.
Note – these forum rules were adapted from List.fm’s rules