From: Bhrihskwobhloukstroy
Message: 70012
Date: 2012-09-01
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> ***HOW TO BEHAVE ON CYBALIST***
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> Moderatorial Recommendations and Rules of Proper Conduct
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> The purpose of Cybalist is to popularise Indo-European studies and to
> provide a discussion forum for people who are interested in the various
> linguistic, cultural and historical aspects of IE scholarship.
>
> Cybalist is not moderated in the strict technical sense: the moderators do
> not have to see all the messages before they are posted to the members.
> However, as an elementary precaution against Internet hooligans and
> spammers, new members remain moderated until they start posting regularly. A
> 'moderated' message has to wait for approval, which may take from a few
> minutes to a few hours. It may also be rejected by a moderator if it
> violates our rules of proper conduct (see below).
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> Our primary duty as list managers is to maintain a decent level of
> discussion and to make sure that out debates are conducted in a civil
> manner. We reserve the right to judge whether your postings are conducive to
> that purpose or not. If we find that a particular poster's behaviour is
> wilfully counterproductive, we shall react by issuing a warning off-list. If
> the warning has no effect, we can restrict the poster's privileges by
> changing his or her status to 'moderated' for about two weeks. Recidivists
> may expect a longer probation period. Since the public discussion of
> administrative and disciplinary problems on Cybalist would cause undesirable
> distraction, any complaints, concerns or suggestions regarding such matters
> should be sent to us off-list. Should anyone prefer a public discussion of
> them, we have established a separate forum called Cybalist_admin,
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist_admin/
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> where you can speak your mind freely before all the moderators and before
> anybody alse who wishes to join that list.
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> DON'T DO IT
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> Here is a list of things that are explicitly forbidden on Cybalist.
> Infraction will result in disciplinary action on the moderators' part, from
> off-list notification to immediate removal from Cybalist, depending on the
> seriousness of the offence. It is recommended that Cybalist members should
> save this list for future reference.
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> (1) Spam
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> Anyone caught spamming (that is, posting off-topic commercial advertisements
> or other unwanted junk) will be removed from Cybalist without warning.
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> (2) Off-topic postings and pseudoscience
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> Since this list is devoted to Indo-European studies, the discussion of
> extraneous or too general topics (e.g. other language families, the origin
> of language, long-range comparison etc.) will be discouraged. There are
> other lists where subjects like general linguistic, Nostratic studies,
> anthropology, etc., may be discussed more profitably. We assume that there
> is a nearly unanimous consensus among the list's managers and regular
> posters as to what should and what should not be discussed. While the
> discussion of controversial issues is welcome on the list, there are certain
> limits that we should like to be observed. In particular, we will not
> encourage the pursuit of pseudoscience, by which we understand, for example,
> amateurish decipherments of ancient scripts, racist theories, speculation
> about the language spoken in Atlantis or in the Garden of Eden,
> demonstrations that Latvian and Sumerian are practically the same language,
> or anything else that sinks below the level at which serious discussion is
> possible.
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> (3) Idées fixes
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> Please do not treat Cybalist as your private forum. Posters who attempt to
> publicise their private obsessions had better look for some other audience.
> Anyone who tries to dominate the discussion by sending an immoderate number
> of messages on a single topic may expect hear from the moderators off-list.
> In the interest of the group we may shut down a tired thread. In such cases,
> if you want to protest or ask the moderators to re-open the thread, please
> get in touch with one of us off-list or write to Cybalist_admin.
>
> (4) Flaming, trolling and ad hominem attacks
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> Please avoid deliberate rudeness, aggressive language, addressing the
> personalities of other members rather than their arguments, and other forms
> of disruptive behaviour. Posters who seem to enjoy irritating other
> participants or provoking violent exchanges will be given time out at short
> notice: their posting rights may be revoked for about two weeks. If you feel
> provoked or insulted by somebody else, please don't hesitate to complain to
> the moderators (privately or on Cybalist_admin) rather than repay insults in
> kind.
>
> (5) Flogging dead horses and reviving banned threads
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> We also wish to discourage attempts to resurrect a closed thread if the
> poster has no fresh ideas to contribute. The list archive is searchable, and
> before you raise a topic you should at least try to check if it has not been
> discussed in the past months. If we find a thread objectionable and announce
> its termination, any posters who want to post their final thoughts on it may
> do so within 24 hours. After that time, any attempt to revive a banned
> thread within two weeks of its termination may be punished with a brief (one
> or two weeks) restriction of the offender's posting rights.
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> TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS
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> (1) Post plain-text messages rather than HTML. Fancy backgrounds, colours
> and fonts are dispensable.
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> (2) To minimise readability problems, use 'West European' encoding (that is,
> the 'Latin-1' or ISO-8859-1 character set) whenever possible. If you find it
> necessary to use something more sophisticated (e.g. UTF-8), do so sparingly
> and don't forget to warn the list.
>
> (3) Avoid sending attachments with your postings. Any pictures, Word or PDF
> documents, etc. that you'd like to share with other list members should be
> uploaded to the Files area instead. Please remember that copyrighted
> materials have to be handled without breaking the legal restrictions on
> their fair use. When in doubt, consult the moderators.
>
> (4) When responding to others' postings, quote only those fragments of the
> original message that you want to reply to. In particular, do not quote
> whole threads. Make sure that the quotations are properly marked, so that
> one can easily see who wrote what.
>
> (5) If your reply drifts away from the original topic, change the subject
> line (e.g. 'IE loanwords in Hurrian [was: The Indo-Iranian homeland]').
>
> The above prohibitions and recommendations are tentative and may evolve
> further. We will keep you informed if we decide to modify them in the
> future.
>
> Piotr Gasiorowski
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