Forum Purpose and Guidelines (Please Read!)

[Jesh]

Welcome to the Musings and Rantings forum. Your friendly neighbourhood moderators are Gorax and The Evil Cashew.

Purpose

This is the forum where you can post your thoughts, tirades and experiences related to asexuality. If it's about asexuality but doesn't seem to fit anywhere else, this is your general-purpose stop! If in doubt, consider:

• Any relationship posts should be posted in Relationships

• Any posts with questions about asexuality should be posted in Q&A

• Any non-asexuality related posts should be posted in Off-A

• Any posts of a basically joking nature should be posted in Just For Fun

If you're still not sure where a post should go, feel free to hazard a guess, and a mod will move it if necessary.

The forum rules are listed below, and any questions or comments may be directed toward Gorax or myself, or any of the admins.

Forum Guidelines:

• Controversy is fine, getting frustrated and even angry is fine. At their discretion moderators will communicate with users not because those users are in trouble but because they want to keep a situation from getting out of hand.

• Personally insulting other users is not allowed.

• Because many users find sexually explicit material offensive we request that posts which contain sexually explicit material contain a warning in the subject line. Please refrain from using sexually explicit subject lines.

• Posting personal information about another user without their express permission is a serious offense. Such posts are subject to deletion at the request of the exposed party. This extends to posting PMs and IM conversations, as well as personal emails.

• Making judgments about other users, especially about the validity of their asexuality, is strongly discouraged. We are here to figure ourselves out, not to put each other in boxes.

• Please use the search function before making a new thread. We would much prefer that you bring an old topic back than start a new one on something that's already been discussed. Any repeated topics will be locked, with a link given to the previous thread on the topic.

• If you see something offensive/off-topic/otherwise inappropriate, please PM an admod and refrain from posting about it. Chances are it can be worked out without any animosity.

Mod and Admin Guidelines:

Responsibilities

• Mods are responsible for their respective forums. Admins should become involved in a forum as a mod only when-

- The mod requests their assistance

- The mod is not present and there is a situation which must be dealt with urgently.

• Admins are responsible for coordinating between mods, dealing with forumwide dilemmas, implementing structural changes to the forum and banning users when necessary.

Infractions

• All infractions on the forum should result in a warning. If the infraction is limited to one forum the warning should come from the mod of that forum, if it spreads across several forums it should be issues by an admin.

• If warnings are ignored and infractions continue the user should be banned.

• If the user expresses a desire to discuss their infraction then such discussion should be pursued, and further action should take place at the discretion of the mods and admins involved in said discussion.

Heated Discussions

• Controversy is important to the life of any community, and should not be discouraged. At their discussion mods can act as facilitors for a discussion. If a mod chooses to ACT as a facilitator.

• Facilitators act as referees, allowing discussions to continue without spinning out of control. Good facilitation involves digesting and restating both sides opinions in a way that is no longer inflammatory. Facilitators should post in the appropriate threads and remain in communication with all involved parties through PM or e-mail.

• Facilitators should NOT take sides in a discussion. If a mod feels a need to do so they should request that an admin fill their role as facilitator.

• Personal insults or judgmental statements should be treated appropriately.

• At their discretion facilitators may request that threads be moved to the hot box.

• Threads should be locked only when they degrade entirely to personal insults.

• Threads should be moved to the hot box when they are deemed disruptive to the rest of the forum.

If you feel that someone has broken one of these, please contact an Admin. We will do our best to mediate between the two parties.

(the purposes section was written Vicious Trollop and Jesh; guidelines were written by Kez.)

[Xenon]

Postscript from Torgo the Mod:

If I am posting in my capacity as a Moderator, I will make it blatantly obvious that I am doing so. (Something along the line of Torgo The Moderator Says: at the start of a post. Like I did in this post.)

So if I post here in Asexual Musings and Rantings and there isn't such a disclaimer, you may safely assume that I am not acting in my capacity as a Moderator.

(And of course, any post I make outside Musings & Rantings is not as a Moderator at all, except for the Admods-only areas.)

[Jesh]

And now that I have taken over musirants again (:twisted:) I, as well, will make it clear when I am posting as a moderator. All other times I am posting as a regular bunny. Er, AVENite. Something.

-Jesh, musirants mod