Amendment to Forum Posting Guidelines

[iceman (Mike)]

Guys,

The following changes have been made to the IceInSpace Forum Posting Guidelines:

Rule #11 expanded:

Vendors are permitted to participate in discussions but not promote or sell their products. That is, they are free and welcome to post in their capacity as an amateur astronomer or stargazer, but in their capacity as a vendor they should only state information in a thread that discusses one of their products. Their signature may include a link to their company website.

What this means, is that if someone posts a thread about a product, its specifications, etc, the vendor of that product is free to correct any wrong information or answer specific questions about what the product can do. However vendors should avoid selling or advertising their products, especially in other threads not specifically related to their product. Example, they should not post "buy it from here.." type of statements.
They are more than welcome (and encouraged) to participate in the IceInSpace community as an amateur astronomer or stargazer.

Rule #16 added:

When discussing a vendor, be careful about what you post as it can be easy for comments to be taken the wrong way and a vendor may take offence. In general, remember to be specific about your experience or opinion, don't generalise and don't play judge and jury. The rule #7 above applies even more so here - think and re-read before pressing submit.

This rule was added due to a recent thread about a vendor which degenerated and had many bad comments from forum members which have the possibility of landing them, or IceInSpace, in legal trouble. So this guideline is to encourage people to think before they post, especially when talking about a vendor.

If you haven't read the guidelines yet, then please take the time to do so now. It is at the top of every forum so you can't miss it, and you can't plead ignorance if your post is deleted because it violates the guidelines. It's your job to ensure you keep up to date with the guidelines and that your posts don't breach any of the forum rules.

Thanks and I'm happy for discussions about the rules or guidelines to take place in this thread.

[Striker (Tony)]

Fair enough....I would hate to see someone going to court over a thread put it is possible.

Mike,

It maybe well worth you to post a statement within the guidelines like "as this forum is unmoderated to point and so the views expressed here are not nesecerily the views held by the IceInSpace team" or something similar this may help safe guard you in case things get out of hand.

Just a thought

regards,CS

[iceman (Mike)]

Yeh I've been meaning to add that one Rob, kept forgetting. Will do so next week. Thanks for the reminder.

[iceman (Mike)]

2 new rules have been added to the IceInSpace Forum Posting Guidelines. Please make sure you read the guidelines.

Rule #17 added:

The thoughts posted by any IceInSpace member are their own, and do not necessarily reflect the thoughts of the IceInSpace Administrators or Moderators.

This is to protect the IceInSpace Administrators and Moderators from any legal action that may arise as a result of something an IceInSpace member has posted.


Rule #18 added:

When creating a new thread, please ensure the thread title is descriptive of the content of the post.

This allows people to be more informed about their chioce of whether to open and read the thread or not, and make the life of moderators easier.

Thanks

[ving (David)]

sounds sound mike
thnx