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Topic Started: Feb 23 2011, 11:58 AM (45 Views)
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The Rules of the Revelation Highway Christian Discussion Board Community

1. General Forum Behavior.

a. Any mocking and/or attacking of the truth, our faith, and especially of The Holy Trinity and His written Word will not be tolerated. Likewise, any mocking and/or attacking of other members for any reason will not be tolerated.

b. This is a Bible-based Christian fellowship discussion and study board. "Bible-based" meaning that all things are first held up to the Word of God and measured accordingly. While we strongly welcome and encourage debate and/or opinions, we also strongly suggest that our participating members compare any and all position(s) and personal ideologies with the written Word of God, and less of mere human emotion and/or worldly-based understanding as much as possible.

c. Our Administrator and Moderator Staff Team reserves the right to delete, close, split, prune, store, unpin, and/or move topics of debate which stray continually into the realm of argument, rather than maintaining a warm and fruitful discussion(s), for the purpose and direction both learning and growing in Jesus Christ. Members and/or guests, who's prolonged actions do not uphold and respect both our rules, and the fruits of the Spirit, may be banned from communication on this message board.

d. Simply sharing the truth does not constitute an attack onto another. It is purely an act of sharing the truth, and we desire the truth be fully upheld here, even if it does seem to offend someone inwardly at times. If it is truth, then our guests and/or members should not be blamed for sharing it, nor should their motives be hastily misread as an attack or an offense. Please first consider God's ways and truth in all things before jumping to conclusion in premature haste.

2. Doctrinal Differences.

Debating the Word of God, as it applies to our every day life, is one way in which Christians grow. We require that debates follow the spirit of upholding Christian values and temperament, as defined in Galatians 5:22-23: "But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law."

We ask that you be mindful of debate topics, and consider whether or not you are willing and/or able to debate in these commanded Fruits of the Spirit. If not, then please do not include yourself in our areas of debate, otherwise your posts may be removed from the topic(s) being. Debates will be heard until such time the debate breaks down into distressing, harmful, emotional outburst, either in direct application towards others, and/or practices of indirect suggestion/accusation. Debates could cover a range of topics, therefore, please choose your battles wisely.

3. No spamming.

This is a non-profit Christian message board, freely available to all who desire to learn and grow deeper into God's Word with us. Spamming is defined as posting advertisements for business purposes, without written permission first given by our staff. Spamming prohibitions also apply to the usage of our Private Message system, shoutboxes, chat, or the access to member's personal e-mails/personal messages, either through the on-board personal message system here, or any e-mail address they may share with the public in their profiles or postings. If we receive member complaints of even unwelcome, off-board spamming via any internet service(s), which are sent directly or indirectly to our Board membership here, we will still enforce the very same discipline processes that we will enforce if this occurs on our Board.

4. Profanity/Immorality.

We will not tolerate members or guests posting profane images such as direct or suggestive pornography, and/or visual depictions that are offensive, vile, disgusting, hateful, racist, mean, or any other forms repulsive images. This also includes any use of written profanity, slander, hate, immorality, racial remarks, suggestions, and slurs, cursing, all forms of immorality, offers and/or acts of online gambling, etc..

5. Trolling will not be tolerated.

This includes purposely derailing a topic subject of another, starting a multitude of new threads to push a point, and acts of harassment in all forms. Some topics inevitably tend to lean away from the intended course of discussion by way of natural conversation, which does not constitute trolling. Acts of trolling are easily viewed as apparent, intentional, divisive, and destructive in nature. We will not tolerate someone who posts controversial, inflammatory, irrelevant, and/or off-topic messages within our Board discussion/fellowship community, including our associated Board communication features such as a chat room, our Personal Messaging system, shoutboxes, etc; with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response, or to generally disrupt a normal flow of on-topic, and/or fruit-filled discussion.

8. Illegal hotlinking, copyright violations, theft or alteration of membership intellectual/creative property, etc.

a. Hotlinking: "Hotlinking is the act of directly posting images, audio, an video directly to our Board via the use of the url connections to the owner's website(s) which lie outside of our Revelation Highway web domain within the Zetaboard Board system and service. For example, a person can simply copy the url which is a part of an offsite website owner elsewhere, and use the posting [img] BBCode to wrap the url into and post into our Board. Realize that internet uploads do use up an owner's bandwidth which is costly to the owner, and when a member does this without permission, it is legally deemed bandwidth theft, and real-life legal consequences can and will apply if we are caught doing this here. This cost increases proportionally on busier Boards in which many members click to see a member's posting of a hotlinked image and such. The owner can easily track who is stealing bandwidth and they do have the means to file legal charges is they choose. Please ask website owners first before using their bandwidth for posting images here, or if you choose not to ask, at least load them into your own image hosting account and use that url to post images here. This way, only you alone will be legally accountable and endure any applied legal actions decided by a court of law. If you are caught hotlinking images and such illegally by our Staff here, we may choose to permanently delete your account and ban any access thereafter, as the Main Administrator and Board Owner is also legally responsible for posting being made to this Board. It is in everyone's best interest (including your own) that you do not do this at all unless you are 100% assured you have permission from the owner of the website you connect these images (hence ourselves) to.

b. Posted Copyright violation in any manner or degree on this Board may result in the immediate and permanent deletion of your account, and a ban of your IP and email address data. Please always be sure you have permission to post and/or alter copyrighted material of any kind from the owner before considering posting them here. This also applies to the intellectual, even officially copyrighted property of our Amphitheater authors sharing such gifts and talent on our Board.

c. News. Make sure you know and understand the sharing permissions of news articles you post here from the parent website. As a general rule for this allowed, only post the first few written paragraphs of the news article you are sharing, an provide a functional url link to the artcle hosted on the parent website. This also applied to articles of any kind hosted on the world-wide web.

7. Staff enforcement, our desired steps of disciplinary action, and our private "Highway Jailhouse" Staff-to-Member ONLY discussion forum feature.

We do not wish to resort to disciplinary action of any kind, but maintaining and preserving the quality and integrity of both our fellowship and outward witness will naturally take top priority. If our pre-disciplinary warnings to members breaking these rules continue to go on unheeded and uncorrected, we will initiate a 3-step disciplinary system leading up to the deletion of member account, in addition to IP and/or email banishment and blocking. This also applies to guests who's IP's are made known to us, even if guest's names are kept anonymous. Do realize that the following steps are our DESIRED procedure, but depending on both situation and behavior, we may choose the final step as the only step we take to further preserve our Board and membership wellness.

And since guests do not reside within our membership group controls, our only choice will be to initiate Step #3 if our warnings regarding guest behavior continue to be unheard.

Step #1. Member is placed "On Temporary Restriction" and limited to only "The Highway Jailhouse" Member/Staff counseling feature. (See details of this feature below).
Additionally, being placed into this restricted group, the color of your registered username will change to a bright red throughout the Board.

Step #2. Temporarily banned for a limited period of time, commonly for an average of one full week, but not necessarily one full week in each case. We reserved the right and means to choose whatever time we deem needed to ban members, until we feel confident the given problem is corrected and resolved. The date of expiration will be displayed to the banned member whenever they view our Board's main entry page. Banned members will have no access whatsoever to the Board, and many features of the Board, until they are moved back in to unrestricted membership once again, and out of the "On Temporary Restriction Group" setting. The color of the member's username displays will then be returned to their normal group member color.

Step #3. If the problem persists, the final step will be permanent banishment and a permanent deletion of your account. You will be permanently banned from accessing our Board unless we remove your IP/Email ban, and then you will have to re-register a new account to re-join our community once again.

We desire that we never have to reach any of the steps in this process, and that warnings will be quickly heeded to if and when warnings must be given.

7. The Highway Jailhouse Board Feature.


The Highway Jailhouse is simply a limitation of a member's Board viewing and posting ability, which is exclusively limited to this single forum on the Board totally hidden from active member/guest view. Members and guests will never be able to see this hidden discussion arena solely between restricted members and our counseling Staff. Restricted members placed On Temporary Restriction will also have limited or no viewing or function ability of areas such as our shoutbox, the personal messaging system, member profile or personal profile changes, calender posting, etc.
Consequently, if there are more than one restricted member in our Jailhouse arena at any given time, we will create a new area for you, and there will be no viewing nor communications between other members in this totally private, Staff-to-Member disciplinary arena.

While the name of this arena may sound harsh in title, or seem harsh in its internal limitations, please understand that this is simply our heartfelt offering in uniquely going the extra mile with unruly members before having to resort in more firmer and harder disciplinary actions in the 3-step program, in which the means of communication to possibly reason out the problem are then greatly reduce in the next two final steps which then exist outside The Highway Jailhouse arena.

This is a Christian forum and fellowship, and we simply ask that members practice the instructions the Lord expects of us all to retain a joyous, fruitful, growing, fun, loving, wise, and warm Christian fellowship as congregating children unto our Lord, Jesus Christ.

It is only our great sorrow and sadness to resort to disciplinary measures of any kind, and ours is only a heart of retaining your Christian (or even non-Christian) membership and fellowship with the rest of us here at Revelation Highway discussion community and fellowship.

That said, we accept you with open arms to our free Christian here at Revelation Highway!

Please deem yourself welcomed and share with us in the blessing and loving fellowship our free service offers and provides to you!
We have joy, we have fun, we have seasons in the Son.
And the hills that we climb, are just seasons in His time.
We have joy, we have fun, we have seasons in the Son.
And the stars we can reach, are reflections that we teach.
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