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May 11, 2001, 1:58am

Subject: Community Charter
Date: 15 Nov 1999 10:33:54 VTZ -0200
From: "Activeworlds.com, Inc." <cof at activeworlds.com>
To: moderator at activeworlds.com
Newsgroups: community

Charter of the news.activeworlds.com/community

INTRO:

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.

May 16, 2001, 3:54pm

Excellent idea Tony I was thinking of proposing that idea myself, however I
feel moderators should be able to follow a thread and have a reasonable
knowledge of at least one language and preferably not Anglo-Saxon :)

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