Unlike forums hosted by E-Democracy.org, at DoWire.org there no
official rules or rights for that matter.
In general, I encourage:
1. You to be friendly and professional. I'll probably ban you for life
if I see you calling another participant a name or attacking someone
personally (its never happened on DoWire ...)
2. You to use your real name unless you come from a country where
political activities might get you tossed in jail or worse.
3. Your posts to relate to e-democracy. Meaning the use of the
information and communication technologies in democracy. Democracy
meaning for political participation, media, advocacy, governance,
transparency, campaigning, elections, and politics generally.
4. Everyone to send private feedback to folks you think are
communicating ineffectively or contact me rather than publicly call
for someone to be censored publicly.
5. Everyone to accept that this forum is run arbitrarily as a
volunteer activity by me and that I do not have a capacity to always
be consistent nor monitor the forum everyday.
6. Posts in whatever language you like. Just because the main language
used here is English does not mean you can't forward interesting items
in other languages. While useful, short English introductions are not
required.
Finally, we will start in "moderated" mode for everyone and future new
members. I plan to enforce a "Soapbox" rule meaning if someone comes
to the forum with an ax to grind about some political issue on a
repeated basis, I'll probably suspend your posting privileges after
warning you that the Exchange@ is not a place for ongoing political
advocacy.
Cheers,
Steven Clift