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- Have fun. Annexcafe is here for people to have fun.
The rules are to protect your enjoyment of our services, not to spoil
sport. Most are common sense and courtesy. Individual areas will provide
FAQS if their rules differ from these.
- No flames. We want the online experience to be fun for
all, not just an elite few. Debate is great; but keep your discussion to
the topic, not your fellow chatters and posters.
No bigotry. Prejudice of any kind has no place on our boards, nor in
our chats. Chatters and posters may not be excluded based on gender,
race, religion, sexual orientation or national origin
Obey chat rules - See Above
No host baiting. Hosts, moderators, and other staff are people too.
We volunteer our time and effort to make all Annexcafe a great place to
hang out, but we want to have fun too. No one likes to be a target.
No pornography. Like prejudice, pornography has no place here. We
are not passing judgment, but there are plenty of places to find it. We
have "rated" areas where we encourage artistic nudity and eroticism, but
please do not confuse pornography with art. No "crotch shots", please.
No rated material in family areas. Most of Annexcafe is family
oriented. Please keep rated material in rated areas.
Label rated material in borderline areas. Many boards are
specifically labeled rated or the adult nature of the board is implicit in
its name. On these no further labeling of posts is needed. Several other
boards obviously deal with potentially adult themes, but we ask you to
label risqué material so that people may choose whether or not to open it.
No meat market behavior. Many rooms encourage meeting of like minded
people, but we do not run "meat markets". No posting or trading of nude
or erotic self pics. No cybering on boards or in chats.
Label potential "Puter Lockers". Some computers still lock up when
exposed to various graphics or sound displays. If your post uses a script
or enclosure that has been known to lock people, please label it in the
subject header. This is not an indictment or condemnation of the
program. It is a courtesy. So even if you think the complaint erroneous,
be nice--- label.
Label spoilers and allow spoiler space. Please label spoilers and
give spoiler space. Many people now tape shows to watch at their
convenience. Furthermore, in many countries movies and televised shows
may air months later than in their countries of origin. Let people choose
if they wish to "snoop" the ending. The same goes for books and movies.
Reviews are great, but don't give away the juicy stuff. Again, if you wish
to discuss the ending, just warn and then leave spoiler space.
No warez sites. They are illegal.
No server attacks. No posting of Trojans, virii, worms or otherwise
harmful material. Annexcafe is our home and the server owner has been
extremely generous to us. Let's protect and care for it as we would our
own homes.
No spamming. No automated posters. Spamming is not permitted.
While you may do limited cross posting, posted messages must apply to the
topic of the board, and people cross posting are responsible to label the
crossed threads and then to uncross threads as they diverge on different
boards. If a particular ng forbids crossposting altogether, it may not be
crossed to that board. No pyramids, get rich quick schemes, chain
letters, or "dying child" pleas. If you think a post, such as a virus
warning, has merit for server-wide posting, please contact the newsgroup
director at
newsadmin@annexcafe.com for permission. It is also a good idea to
check such claims at a "debunker" site, such as
http://www.snopes2.com/index.html.
No advertising. Annexcafe is a noncommercial site. You may not use
our boards or chats to advertise products or sites. You may not use any
automated posters anywhere in Annexcafe. You may use a URL and/or email
address as part of your sig. You may submit suggestions for webrings and
mutual links to the newsadmin for consideration. Community members may
offer an occasional item for sale or trade on an individual basis, and
where that item would reasonably interest the specific population of a
given board. You may post noncommercial URLs appropriate to a topic under
discussion as references for further information on that topic or on
specific boards dedicated to site recommendation You may not post ads that
attempt to "pirate" the members of a community or chat. You may not enter
and leave a chat or newsgroup for the purpose of announcing a different
chat or newsgroup, nor may you lurk in a chat or newsgroup and attempt to
move visitors to another chat, newsgroup or server. We have a newsgroup:
Annexcafe.Phoenix.FavoriteSites, where you may post sites that you have
enjoyed and which may interest others.
No impersonations. No impersonations of Server or Phoenix forum staff
is permitted, nor may you deliberately attempt to pass yourself off as
another user. Nicks such as: Annexcafe, Sysop, Manager, Moderator, Host,
Guide and _SFF or _Phoenix are reserved for staff. Posts by members using
them or close facsimiles of them will be removed.
No illegal activities. The server is located in California, USA, and
those are the laws we apply.
This server is private property; "free speech" does not apply. The
server is privately owned and we are non-paying guests. While we wish to
encourage you to express yourselves, your "rights" end where the other
peoples' rights begin. "Free Speech" does not apply here anymore that it
does in a private home. If the rules as applied in a particular room or
board don't suit you, find another. There are plenty. Gregory Gooden
owns this server. His word is final.
Most newsgroups and chatrooms are autonomous; moderators have final
say. Most areas of Annexcafe are autonomous. This means that while the
NewsAdmin, or ChatSupport may assist you on mediating an issue, the chat
host or board moderator has the final say as long as server standards are
observed. If you feel you have been treated in violation of the posted
rules and standards or that a chat or newsgroup is operating in violation,
please contact either
NewsAdmin@Annexcafe.com or
ChatSupport@Annexcafe.com. We will be happy to assist you.
No mailing lists. No automated mailers. Since email addies are often
displayed with one's posts, it can be tempting to build a mailing list.
Please confine any such lists to your friends-- people you KNOW want to
hear from you. If you mail to several people who are not all known to
each other, it is a courtesy to use the bcc feature so you are not making
a present of everyone's addy to the world at large.
No hacking or stealing of data. You are not permitted to attempt to
access any of our chat or server tools, nor staff or user accounts. You
may not solicit information from other members to sell, distribute, or
attempt unauthorized access to other accounts or computers.
Courtesy and mutual respect are the rules of the day. Treat the staff
and other members of the community with courtesy and respect. Expect to
receive courtesy and respect in return.
Do not troll or deliberately disrupt chats. Do not disrupt chats or
troll boards. Trolling is posting deliberately inflammatory material
intended to upset people. This is board specific. What is acceptable in
one area may be trolling in another. Do not enter newsgroups or chats to
proselytize or convert members. No Annexcafe group is exclusionary, but
if you are not a part of the community a chat or board represents, be
there to listen and learn, not to expound your own opinions or challenge
those of the community.
Trim tails. It is a courtesy to remove "tails" from posts. Just
leave enough so people reading your post do not need to scroll back to
find out what you are talking about. It is also best to have your
newsreader set to "reply in plain text". No one wants to open a 300Kb
post to read "Very pretty".
Do not use crude, obscene or derogatory language or inappropriate
nicks. While hosts have been requested not to be language "Nazis", we ask
you to keep in mind the family nature of this server. We overlook
occasional slipups, but please avoid regular use of obscenity in chats, &
posts. Do not use obscene, suggestive, bigoted or misleading nicks. The
intent is to be courteous, so if members of a chat or board find language
offensive, we ask you to accommodate their feelings. The words themselves
are not the issue. If a host asks you to tone it down, it is not a
personal affront, nor does it imply you are wicked, evil, etc. For wavs
and such used in chats, we ask that the names be innocuous. Content there
does not matter since a person will presumably not keep a wave he or she
finds offensive, thus it will not play to them. Wavs used on newsgroups
need to be in accordance with the nature of the newsgroup, since they open
automatically, and the funniest of them may be less amusing when
accidentally opened in the presence of your toddler who then proceeds to
demonstrate her new knowledge at your next family holiday gathering. As
with graphics and jokes, when in doubt, label.
No threats. Threats against staff, the server, or other members of
the community will not be tolerated. Do not issue threats , then expect
to pass it all off as a joke. It will not be treated as amusing.
No "jokes" that scare or upset others. No jokes that inherently might
be expected to scare or upset others. What is obviously a joke to you may
not be to others. Many newbies have been scared away from chats by jokes
about infecting them with viruses or reformatting their hard drives.
Credit and provide links for sources. Get permission before posting
copyrighted material and post the permission with the work. Copies of
permissions are to be forwarded to the news administrator for permanent
files. If you use someone else's art, music, or writing, credit the
creator and refer viewers to the site where you found your material. That
way there is mutual benefit to all. Respect copyrights; it is the
artist's, musician's and author's right to determine the use of his or her
work, and they may limit or revoke their consents.
Do not displace posts without the permission of the original author
Taking someone's post from an AnnexCafe community and posting it elsewhere
without the original poster's permission is inappropriate. Don't take an
AnnexCafe poster's post and post in in another AnnexCafe newsgroup, Usenet
or on an e-mail list-serv unless the original poster has given you
permission to do so. Taking someone else's posts and using them outside
of the AnnexCafe newsgroups without their express permission is a
violation of that participant's privacy. While anybody with a newsreader
can read and post here, our boards are Annexcafe; they are not part of the
Usenet hierarchy. Posting to an AnnexCafe newsgroup is not "implied
consent" to publication on Usenet.
Don't use one AnnexCafe community to criticize another AnnexCafe
community. It's not appropriate to use the one AnnexCafe community to
criticize other AnnexCafe communities. If you have something critical to
say about a community, its moderator or members, post it in that community
or, better yet, e-mail the moderator and/or the newsgroup administrator.
For that matter, it is best not to criticize other newsgroups, whether
they are Annexcafe or off-server. Let's treat others as we wish to be
treated. There is plenty of room on the internet for all of us.
Guidelines: While some of the above are hard and fast rules (such as
no illegal activities), many (such as snipping tails), are suggestions to
help make your experience with us more enjoyable. If you have questions
or concerns, feel free to email me. Though I prefer not to be cc'd with
every post you make to each board, my door (or at least my mailbox) is
always open. I look forward to hearing from you with your ideas and any
suggestions you may have to add boards or improve the ones we have. Board
moderators are free to repost these Guidelines to their own boards; for
that matter, anyone is free to use any part anywhere else as well. So if
you like it, take it. I wouldn't mind being credited with the authorship,
but if you happen to forget, I promise not to track you down or chop off
your ears.
Contacts: To contact us, go to
http://www.annexcafe.com/chat/channels.cfm and click on feedback. You
may contact any board moderator by posting to the board with the header:
ATT'N BOARD MODERATOR. For chat questions, email
ChatSupport@annexcafe.com.
For questions regarding newsgroups or Phoenix Forum, email
NewsAdmin@annexcafe.com If
you need to contact the server owner, email
NewsAdmin@annexcafe.com and
include the header ATTN: G. Gooden. If you'd like to discuss things you
see on this board, visit
news://news.annexcafe.com/annexcafe.discussions, and have your say.
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