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Dockside Chat is a place for boaters to come and visit with each other, a friendly place to sit and chat. iboats welcomes new members who want to share their stories and discuss events that affect our everyday lives. We like to keep this area welcoming, civil and polite. In order to accomplish this board administration decided to generate more specific guidelines. Thank you for joining. Please take a moment to introduce yourself to our other members.
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Guidelines
Please read the following rules and guidelines very carefully. By posting you agree to these guidelines and must obey them at all times. Refusal to obey these guidelines will result in the appropriate responsive actions.
You may not advertise or promote other companies or their programs or spam without the express consent of Iboats. If you have an issue concerning our services, policies, or staff, please use the contact moderator option. We take serious complaints to heart and will do our best to address them.
We reserve the right to ban any member who violates our guidelines or disrupts our community. Say what you want, but please do so responsibly and with respect for others.
Free speech is not an excuse for irresponsible behavior. We will be fair and provide warning in most cases. More specifically:
The following rules are intended as a guideline for the members of this website to interact and support each other in an enlightening and productive manner. As with any type of communication which is not face to face, it is sometimes difficult to understand another poster's intended message, which creates a bit of a chasm in a dialogue between posters. While we endeavor to protect freedom of speech, there are certain behaviors which are not allowed on this board and constitute an infringement of board rules. The Administrative Team may update this policy at any time.
Rules and Violations
SLANDERING - No slandering another iboater (calling names, personal attacks). It is okay to respectfully disagree with a person, but it is not okay to personally attack. Any person placing offensive, obscene, abusive or derogatory posts on the board or sending them to board members in PM form will be automatically banned. If you are faced with this on the board, report any posts you feel are offensive to administration. Please remember that when you use the "Report this post" option, it is sent to the Admin Team.
THREAD ALTERCATIONS - Differences of opinion will occur from time to time and this is understood. Threads that generate into fights between posters will be locked. Depending upon the nature of the thread, it may also be deleted and upon request, the original poster will be informed of the reason. It is not the job of the moderators to settle disputes between members.
TARGETING OTHER MESSAGE BOARDS - Please do not post your anger at other message boards by naming them. A moderator will delete these types of posts with no warning.
POSTING PUBLIC MODERATOR CHALLENGES: To repeat the above, we do endeavor to protect freedom of speech; however, when moderators have to step in and make a decision on a certain post, it is generally after much thought and discussion amongst all moderators available at the time. We make every attempt to address issues in a timely manner. If a poster disagrees with this decision and wishes to add another piece of information previously unknown to moderators, in order to perhaps amend the decision, they are welcome to privately contact moderators for this purpose. Any reasonable, but brief debate will be considered. However, public posts concerning moderators decisions will be deleted, as will posts questioning the integrity of admin. This is a privately owned website and the moderators have been chosen by the owner.
PROFANITY - Profanity is NOT permitted.
LANGUAGE - Use of foul language is discouraged on this board. Language or other material that goes beyond the bounds of good taste may be edited or deleted at the sole discretion of the management.Pictures, or links to, pictures of adult nature will not be permitted. If you wouldn't show it to your children, it doesn't belong on Dockside.JOKES: "Off color" jokes or those of a perverse nature will not be permitted. Again, if you wouldn't tell it to your children, it does not belong on Dockside Chat.
REPOSTING DELETED POSTS - Reposting deleted posts serves no other purpose than as an attempt to cause trouble in order to gain attention. Moderators will try to tell the board a reason for deleted posts but in some cases this may not be done. Sometimes people post stuff that just is best deleted and the right to delete without explanation ( which can cause more complications than the original deletion) is reserved. An example of this might be a post we feel will cause serious offense to readers of the site or is deliberately provocative.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT - Please give proper credit to the authors of original material, whether you bring it to this website or whether you take it from this website to another. It is an infringement of copyright of this board to take posts to another board and also a breach of confidentiality. If you wish to show a post from here on another board then a link should be provided.
BANNING - Moderators operate a three strikes and you are out warning system. If you get a warning from a moderator to modify the way you are talking to others please remember to take it seriously
First warning is by Private Message (PM) or email.
Second warning puts you on admin watch. Again, you will be notified of your status by a PM or email.
Third warning is a ban. This ban may be for a certain time period or the violations of the banned poster may be so egregious to indicate that it be permanent and the poster's ISP provider may be contacted, if deemed necessary.
Banned users who create new usernames or personalities and return will continually (and permanently) be banned and WILL be reported to their ISP provider and/or employer (if ISP address routes back to employer).
Note that we do not take contacting one's employer lightly. This measure is reserved for those who do not respect being banned.In addition to the above, any new poster deemed to be here purely to create disruption, or post spurious posts will be banned with immediate effect. This includes all "fake" posters and comes with the automatic approval of iboats.
Again, if action taken is mistaken, the poster concerned can always e mail the moderators directly. Any person placing offensive, obscene, abusive or derogatory posts on the board or sending them to board members in PM or email form will be automatically banned.
It is not our intent impede discussion. It is our intent to keep it in accordance with the rules set forth that will help us maintain a friendly place to visit.
iboats is happy to let you tie up or launch here-for free-at the Dock.
However, we expect courteousness, at our site. If you cannot abide by that, you will be denied access.
Thank you all for your cooperation and support.
The Moderator Team iboats_mods@yahoo.com
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Guidelines
Please read the following rules and guidelines very carefully. By posting you agree to these guidelines and must obey them at all times. Refusal to obey these guidelines will result in the appropriate responsive actions.
You may not advertise or promote other companies or their programs or spam without the express consent of Iboats. If you have an issue concerning our services, policies, or staff, please use the contact moderator option. We take serious complaints to heart and will do our best to address them.
We reserve the right to ban any member who violates our guidelines or disrupts our community. Say what you want, but please do so responsibly and with respect for others.
Free speech is not an excuse for irresponsible behavior. We will be fair and provide warning in most cases. More specifically:
The following rules are intended as a guideline for the members of this website to interact and support each other in an enlightening and productive manner. As with any type of communication which is not face to face, it is sometimes difficult to understand another poster's intended message, which creates a bit of a chasm in a dialogue between posters. While we endeavor to protect freedom of speech, there are certain behaviors which are not allowed on this board and constitute an infringement of board rules. The Administrative Team may update this policy at any time.
Rules and Violations
SLANDERING - No slandering another iboater (calling names, personal attacks). It is okay to respectfully disagree with a person, but it is not okay to personally attack. Any person placing offensive, obscene, abusive or derogatory posts on the board or sending them to board members in PM form will be automatically banned. If you are faced with this on the board, report any posts you feel are offensive to administration. Please remember that when you use the "Report this post" option, it is sent to the Admin Team.
THREAD ALTERCATIONS - Differences of opinion will occur from time to time and this is understood. Threads that generate into fights between posters will be locked. Depending upon the nature of the thread, it may also be deleted and upon request, the original poster will be informed of the reason. It is not the job of the moderators to settle disputes between members.
TARGETING OTHER MESSAGE BOARDS - Please do not post your anger at other message boards by naming them. A moderator will delete these types of posts with no warning.
POSTING PUBLIC MODERATOR CHALLENGES: To repeat the above, we do endeavor to protect freedom of speech; however, when moderators have to step in and make a decision on a certain post, it is generally after much thought and discussion amongst all moderators available at the time. We make every attempt to address issues in a timely manner. If a poster disagrees with this decision and wishes to add another piece of information previously unknown to moderators, in order to perhaps amend the decision, they are welcome to privately contact moderators for this purpose. Any reasonable, but brief debate will be considered. However, public posts concerning moderators decisions will be deleted, as will posts questioning the integrity of admin. This is a privately owned website and the moderators have been chosen by the owner.
PROFANITY - Profanity is NOT permitted.
LANGUAGE - Use of foul language is discouraged on this board. Language or other material that goes beyond the bounds of good taste may be edited or deleted at the sole discretion of the management.Pictures, or links to, pictures of adult nature will not be permitted. If you wouldn't show it to your children, it doesn't belong on Dockside.JOKES: "Off color" jokes or those of a perverse nature will not be permitted. Again, if you wouldn't tell it to your children, it does not belong on Dockside Chat.
REPOSTING DELETED POSTS - Reposting deleted posts serves no other purpose than as an attempt to cause trouble in order to gain attention. Moderators will try to tell the board a reason for deleted posts but in some cases this may not be done. Sometimes people post stuff that just is best deleted and the right to delete without explanation ( which can cause more complications than the original deletion) is reserved. An example of this might be a post we feel will cause serious offense to readers of the site or is deliberately provocative.
COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT - Please give proper credit to the authors of original material, whether you bring it to this website or whether you take it from this website to another. It is an infringement of copyright of this board to take posts to another board and also a breach of confidentiality. If you wish to show a post from here on another board then a link should be provided.
BANNING - Moderators operate a three strikes and you are out warning system. If you get a warning from a moderator to modify the way you are talking to others please remember to take it seriously
First warning is by Private Message (PM) or email.
Second warning puts you on admin watch. Again, you will be notified of your status by a PM or email.
Third warning is a ban. This ban may be for a certain time period or the violations of the banned poster may be so egregious to indicate that it be permanent and the poster's ISP provider may be contacted, if deemed necessary.
Banned users who create new usernames or personalities and return will continually (and permanently) be banned and WILL be reported to their ISP provider and/or employer (if ISP address routes back to employer).
Note that we do not take contacting one's employer lightly. This measure is reserved for those who do not respect being banned.In addition to the above, any new poster deemed to be here purely to create disruption, or post spurious posts will be banned with immediate effect. This includes all "fake" posters and comes with the automatic approval of iboats.
Again, if action taken is mistaken, the poster concerned can always e mail the moderators directly. Any person placing offensive, obscene, abusive or derogatory posts on the board or sending them to board members in PM or email form will be automatically banned.
It is not our intent impede discussion. It is our intent to keep it in accordance with the rules set forth that will help us maintain a friendly place to visit.
iboats is happy to let you tie up or launch here-for free-at the Dock.
However, we expect courteousness, at our site. If you cannot abide by that, you will be denied access.
Thank you all for your cooperation and support.
The Moderator Team iboats_mods@yahoo.com
