All Members, I wasn't able to append it to the Forum's Home Page so I uploaded and saved it as a File. I've marked it to be sent as an attachment to an email to every member announcing it, sent to every new member when they sign up, and sent to every member once a month.
We might revisit this once a month mailing and delete or revise it. Thanks for everyone's participation in creating and cooperation with this new policy. ...Bill ...for Edgar and Al --- In [email protected], "Bill!" <BillSmart@...> wrote: > > All Members: > Below is the revised and now finalized text of the Forum's Posting > Policy. It will be posted it on the Forum's Home Page and all new > members will be made aware of it. > Edgar and I have noted all of your comments and have done the > following: > * Warnings will be delivered privately for now, but if the warning is > for a personal attack the member attacked may be also advised. > * We've included some wording which requests new Threads be started > if your Reply is off the Thread's topic or will take the Thread in a > different direction then the original Poster intended. > * We've included Chris' suggestions in a separate POSTING TIPS > section. > * We've tabled the suggestion of 'tagging'. We will investigate this > some more and revisit this suggestion when we know more about what it is > and how to do it. > ******************** > > POSTING POLICY > > > * All posts and replies should have some relevance to the forum's > published topic zen or related areas such as Ch'an, Buddhism, > Hinduism, Christianity, philosophy, etc..., as long as you tie it back > to zen. Digressions will be tolerated to some extent, but any truly > off-topic conversations should be taken off the forum to another medium > such as email. > * New topics or a significant divergence from an existing Thread > should be Posted in a new Thread. > * Personal attacks will not be tolerated. This will be strictly > enforced. Calling someone `stupid' and then following that with a smiley > face will not be accepted as amelioration. > * The Forum Moderators will discuss any problematic Posts or Replies > and will issue a warning (privately via email) to anyone they deem to > have violated this policy. There is no set number of warnings. The > number could range from zero to three or four depending on the severity > of the violation as determined by the Moderators. > * If any member continues to violate any part of this policy his/her > membership posting privileges will be changed to MODERATE - which means > all Posts and Replies will have to be read and approved by the > Moderators before it is posted to the Forum. > > > POSTING TIPS > > > * Spirited discussions including disagreements about ideas or > opinions are encouraged. > * Write scrupulously. Assume goodwill. Help rather than judge, > and be aware of people's sensitivities. It is easy to trigger people's > sore spots with careless words. > * Read forgivingly. Assume goodwill. Assume even critical sounding > judgments are meant to be helpful. Read remembering that there is no way > someone can judge you at all based on just your posts. If someone does > get `up in your face', it is their style, not a sign they have > some special authority to judge you. If it continues the Moderators > will intervene. > * Consider including a bit of good humor, koans or anecdotes to > support whatever potentially judgmental or off-topic words you also are > including. Traffic composition is a matter of balance. Make those busy > people happy they glanced at your words. > > > ******************** > > ...Bill! for Edgar and Al > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
