Moderation Guidelines for Club Lodge Working Group (CLWG) – www.mtbullerlodges.com.au

CLWG aims to encourage vibrant discussions amongst Mt Buller Club’s and its members, about the important issues affecting our communities. It is to be expected that individual users of this site will sometimes disagree with one another. We just ask that everybody keeps the conversation constructive and civilised. And of course, we require you to obey the laws of Australia.

CLWG monitors all posts and reserves the right to remove any comment which breeches any of our Moderation Guidelines as expressed in a nutshell directly below, and in full below that.

All it really boils down to is good manners and a bit of common sense!

If you wish to alert CLWG site administration to a comment you believe breeches our Moderation Guidelines please follow the “report as offensive” link which appears under all comments. This will bring it to our attention for review.

CLWG reserves the right to our final decision whether to remove or allow any material on this website.

If you have any questions about our guidelines, contact info@mtbullerlodges.com.au

CLWG’s Moderation Guidelines in a Nutshell

We encourage your comments and welcome constructive and civilised debates. We ask that all users adhere to the spirit of respectful dialogue. CLWG monitors all posts and reserves the right to remove any comment which breeches our moderation guidelines. Please don’t post a comment which is threatening, discriminatory, slanderous, libellous, spam, advertising, uses offensive language or is wildly irrelevant.

CLWG’s Moderation Guidelines in Full

Threats

Statements which are threatening or abusive will not be tolerated.

Discrimination

Discriminatory remarks are unacceptable; this includes, but is not limited to, racism, sexism or homophobia. For more information about what constitutes discrimination we recommend http://www.hreoc.gov.au/.

Slander & Libel

Don’t make false or malicious claims about other people or organisations.

Spam

All comments are filtered through spam filtering technology. The technology isn’t perfect, so a human being makes a final decision on the appropriateness of all contributions.

Advertising

CLWG is an independent, not-for-profit discussion platform for the Mt Buller community. Talking about your business or industry is fine, hawking your goods and services is NOT.

Offensive Language

Please don’t swear. We really don’t want to have to remove any comments with valuable ideas because of foul language. Different people have different opinions about what constitutes offensive language and CLWG will review offensiveness based on severity and context in each particular instance.

Relevance

While we appreciate wide-ranging discussions, we’d like to avoid derailed threads. Please don’t engage in “trolling” (trying to cause trouble in an online forum just for the sake of it).

Anonymity

Pseudonyms are fine, but don’t impersonate another person or use an alias to agree with yourself.

Privacy

In addition to being mindful of your own, please always consider and respect other people’s privacy. For more information about privacy we recommend http://www.privacy.gov.au/ and http://www.staysmartonline.gov.au/

Web Links

You are welcome to include links to material on other websites that are relevant to your comment. CLWG administrators check these links and reserve the right to remove any which lead to material reasonably considered offensive in line with these moderation guidelines.

Illegal Activity

Do not use this website to conduct any illegal activity or solicit the performance of any illegal activity.

Intellectual Property

Do not publish another person’s intellectual property without their written and express consent. The intellectual property of all material published on this website remains with the author and or CLWG website. Any material published on this website may be reproduced only with the following acknowledgment:

“Originally authored by (insert name of author) and published on CLWG (embed hyperlink to http://www.website URL.com.au/) here (embed hyperlink to corresponding page of CLWG) on (insert date published on CLWG)”.

Widgets

Do not attempt to upload the coding for any device designed to effect the functionality or operation of this site or its servers or the functionality or operation of any users’ computer systems (for example, by transmitting a computer virus or other harmful component, whether knowingly or not).

Uniqueness

Organisations must not post comments on behalf of their individual members. Comments must be submitted by individually registered users. CLWG is designed to allow individuals to express their unique points of view. CLWG asks that organisations do not petition their members to automatically submit pre-prepared identical responses, such as the words of a petition, as excessive repetition impedes the conversational flow of a forum.

Moderation

CLWG’s normal practice is to allow user’s comments to be published automatically in real time. Occasionally we may host particular forums in which comments are pre-moderated. On these occasions it will be clearly identified on the affected pages and you will be notified that pre-moderation has been enabled when posting a comment.

In the event CLWG does remove a comment due to a breach of our Moderation Guidelines the author will be notified by email. If this happens to you, please feel free to post a new comment that expresses your point of view whilst keeping our Moderation Guidelines in mind. Serious and repeat offenders will have their user registration blocked.

If you have any questions about our guidelines, contact info@mtbullerlodges.com.au