The Federal Codes of Conduct Act

[Intelligentsia]

If this Act is passed, the three documents shown here made by me would replace respectively the three in this (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2) thread if the Administrator so finds pleasure in my work through this. This is part one.



THE FEDERAL CODES OF CONDUCT

I. The Premises
The Preamble
In collaboration with the interests and for the benefit of the Administrator and People of the Business Advice Forum, (BAF) the Federal Codes of Conduct are established.
The Federal Jurisdiction and Individual Districts
The Federal Codes of Conduct are to be present and the order of all throughout the BAF save during occasions in the case of the individual districts, specific boards and social groups, wherein the moderator of such specific board or the owner of such social group has opted to exercise its own sovereign Codes of Conduct or some alterations of the aspects of the Federal Codes of Conduct in its application to its individual district if it so garners the approval the Administrator beforehand.
Punishments: Banishment, Imprisonment, and or or Suspension
This document defines merely the circumstances and or or actions for which would merit the punishments prescribed in the title. The length and procedures to determine for such violations are at the Administrator's discretion.
The Objectivity
To maintain the ideals of swiftness, certainty, and justice as possibilities, all of the universal Rules as listed from Article 2 and onwards do not contain within it any subjectivity nor personal definitions but the objectivity or factual statements so that clarity can be utilized and ambiguity can be unattained when attesting to the positiveness of one's violation of such universal Rules.

II. The System
The Alteration of Forum Coding without Permission
No person may alter, change, etc. the forum coding of BAF, especially to weaken the security so as to gather information without the preset resistance of the system, without the expressed approval by the Administrator -- preferably through the forum for facile identification.
Accessing a Member's Account
No IP address may be present in an account of BAF unless it is the initial registrant IP address or under such has indicated through a written notice through the private messaging system for the Administrator about the account transfer to a different IP address.
Duplicate Account
No one IP address may register more than one account on the forums unless, upon its prior account, the person informs the Administrator of its want of switching to a new account.
Proxy
No person may register an account on BAF whose IP address is determined to be fraudulent by the Administrator, whose methods are not to be disclosed within this document.
Evasion of the System
It is especially unlawful for a convict to circumvent or procrastinate an issued punishment through the creation of a duplicate account except, in such case, it has no right to request the migration over to another account during its sentence or even after its punishment as it has proven itself to be a threatening asset to BAF.

III. The Copycat
Copyright
The servers being located in the United States of America, no content may be deemed to be infringing upon the Copyrights (http://www.copyright.gov/) of such nation unless it is deemed to be applicable under the Fair Use Act (http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl102.html).
Plagiarism
No post may contain within itself content being claimed as the author's original content or being noncommittal to such statement that features equivalent to or over fifty percent of any content on or off BAF or on or off the internet.
Quotation
Any quotation of a post or article on or off BAF or on or off the internet may be posted, though the excerpt may only be a paragraph, or two to ten sentences in length, and it must be with the location of the source of such information. All laws regarding the post are to be considered notwithstanding the quotation; therefore, it and the content of the post provided by the author itself are to be treated individually.

IV. Content which Lacks Quality
Spam
A post which contains under five characters is to be considered spam.
Riot
A riot it is to be categorized if there are multiple posts, two or more, containing content which defies the Rules under the timeframe of one hour. An addition as to what would be considered a single post under the collective of a riot is one which contains fifty percent or more of the same content of another post by the identical author.

V. Unacceptable Content
The Language Doctrine
No post may be in any language other than English.
Advertisements
Unless it is in the signature or another expressively proper location on the forum, no member may feature any solicitations, requesting another user to join a specified website or featuring a website that requires registration before one may attain the initial incentive including, but not limited to, the viewing of an article or the entirety of an article or the viewing of a video or the gross of the video.

VI. The Regulation and Restriction upon Images
Pornography
No picture inserted by a user may contain a depiction of the male genitalia or over seventy-five percent of the anus, nor the female vagina, breasts, or over seventy-five percent of the anus.
Size
No avatar may be over the specified size of 80x80 pixels or 19.5 KG in data. A picture over the size of 400x400 pixels may not be utilized in the signature and may be posted in the public threads, private threads such as those within social groups, or private messages with the regulation that there is a warning stating at least, "56K!" at the top of the message, wherefrom the picture must be the minimal of four spaces.

[Intelligentsia]

This is part two.



THE DISCLAIMER OF AUTHORITY

The Business Advice Forum (BAF) has the self-explanatory manifesto of being an open forum for interaction amongst its members so that advice, comments, and posts may be shared freely to produce a healthy system of commerce amongst the members. The discussions, however, mostly feature and revolve around the opinions and statements of the people of BAF, whether it is based upon supportive facts or personal belief. For such to be considered professional or authoritative advice, the adviser would have to have proven itself to be a professional or an authority in such education, and it is neither mandated nor required for any such people to present their qualifications or credentials in accordance with the Privacy Policy, save from their own willingness to do so. It is therefore at the discretion of the viewer or the beholder over how it wishes to proceed with any advice from BAF, but it is neither the responsibility nor duty of BAF to verify any transactions or statements whatsoever, except for those that conflict with the interests or image of BAF itself.



THE PRIVACY POLICY

I. The Premises
The Preamble
No knowledge of person can be garnered save in the cases the information is requisite for its functionality on the forum, unless in the occasion the intelligence is disclosed by it itself, or lest the facts are attained through the illegal act of violating Article 2, Section 1 or 2, of the Federal Codes of Conduct.
The Disclaimer
The Business Advice Forum (BAF) accepts no accountability in the event of the latter of the three methods in the Preamble happening, but it does to its optimal ability attempt to prevent any such occurrences and provide justice if it does indeed occur.

II. The Essentials
IP Address
The IP address of the registrant is to be logged and recorded after application for member if accepted. It is not to be disclosed to any individuals except for the sanctioned officials of BAF that would indeed have access to such fact.
Username
An identifier is to be issued by the registrant upon application for membership.
E-Mail Address
An e-mail address is to be stated by the registrant upon application for membership. It is merely to be used for the verification during the process, and it is to attain e-mails from BAF occasionally for notices from the Administration, with the virtual guarantee that there would be no more than fifteen e-mails per year.
Automatically Generated Information
The position of the poster, registration date, post count, thanks count, reputation bar, and such statistics are the automatically generated information for which has the function of providing support for the members of BAF and contain no knowledge that would be considered detrimental to the essence of a user here.

II. The Additional Inputs
Gist of the Separate Options
Any information such as contact information for conversations outside of the realm of BAF, location in the material world, etc. are supposed to be at the choice, discretion, and free will of the disclosure, and BAF will not support in any endeavors to regain any leaked information if it originates from its mouth.
Personal Information
Personal information such as the actual first and last name of a member or its picture is undoubtedly to be used carefully. Even if the personal information is disclosed by the person itself whom the knowledge would be applicable, any who announce such information in an attempt most likely to embarrass or demoralize the user, when it was never intending willingly to state it on the public scale, does not receive any support from BAF and would probably be regarded as cruel or immoral in character on the governmental degree, if not also on the collective scale.
Article 2, Section 1 or 2 of the Federal Codes of Conduct
Any attempts to garner and enunciate any information mentioned without the initial discourse or occurrence whereof the owner of such knowledge exposes such information is to be presumed a violation of that which is prescribed in the title of this Section, and it is to be treated in such ways that would be befitting and proper for it.

III. The Miscellaneous Information
The Alteration, Amendment, and or or Correction of Information
Any member may alter, amend, and or or correct information it has presented to the community through and to the extent of the User Control Panel (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/usercp.php).
Minors
The BAF does certify by its word that it does not structure any content particularly to be appealing to minors nor any specific age group. In the event that a minor does register on BAF, it is the parent's responsibility to monitor its activity on BAF, if not all the internet, and BAF does not allow any transfer of duties nor accountability if the minor is to witness any content that the parent would believe to be inappropriate or unfavorable to its wants.
Contact Directly
For any questions or inquiries regarding what you have just read or anything else that may be aching you, you may contact directly the officials of BAF through the BAF Contact Form (http://www.businessadviceforum.com/sendmessage.php).

[Fergal]

Thank you ever so much for the time and effort you put into that Intelligentsia.

I'd be interested to hear the opinions of other members on Intelligentsia's ideas, please reply to share your views.

[Fergal]

Intelligentsia, I've read through your suggestions for a Code of Conduct and I would have to say that they are extremely detailed and read like a legal document. Personally I've always believed that many members never actually read forum rules and that one way to encourage people to read the rules, was by keeping the rules short and simple. This is what I've endeavoured to do on our forums.

Our rules would possibly not be comprehensive enough to withstand a rigorous legal examination but personally I feel that they suffice pretty well for Business Advice Forum.

One item you mention is not specified in our rules. That is copyright and I feel that our rules do need to be amended to reflect that. Thanks for the suggestion.

Intelligentsia, I'd welcome your views and those of any other members on this discussion.