Community rules
Our aim on KnowledgeBoard is to provide a space for information exchange, discussion and debate. We have created the following set of Community Rules and Guidelines to foster an environment of shared values, mutual respect and trust.
These community rules are to be considered in line with the KnowledgeBoard netiquette, which outlines generally agreed terms of communication conduct over the internet, and the KnowledgeBoard terms and conditions: the legal information.
These apply to user contributions to the discussion forum, articles and documents uploaded to the site and comments added to existing articles published within the site. KnowledgeBoard reserves the right to remove any postings which do not adhere to these guidelines, or take further action if required (see below)
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- You are responsible for any content you post. Where it relates to an existing discussion topic or article, ensure that it is relevant and will prove useful to other members taking part.
- Keep the content of discussions on the topic of Knowledge Management and related issues.
- You are also responsible for copyright infringement in your messages. Please do not post copyrighted material in your messages unless you yourself hold the copyright or have received permission from the author.
- Please be polite and respectful towards other members of the community, and remember that others may not always share your point of view. Disruptive, offensive or abusive behaviour will not be tolerated. This is a sensitive area and the Project Management Team reserve the right to take action if requested by a community member: remember: your debating style may seem 'excitable' to you but intimidating to others. Any such postings will be removed.
- Please do not use KnowledgeBoard for self-promotion. This can take the form of advertisements for your professional services, products etc. or repeated promotion of other websites/blogs/networks etc. We welcome collaboration with other networks but not a series of links to them without direct relevance to the discussion (e.g. repeated linking from comments). If you have a reasonable cause for promotion or would like to be sponsored in some form, please contact the KB team.
- Please consider other users at all times when using the interactive spaces on KnowledgeBoard. Behaviour that deters other members from engaging with the community is considered offensive. Allow other members to contribute and do not dominate any discussions. This is identified by repeatedly answering your own articles or comments, or being recognised as always the last person to comment. If members make complaints about members showing this behaviour, they will be taken seriously.
- Please remember that many members are not native English speakers; keep you language simple and clear for this sake.
- KnowledgeBoard discussion areas are not designated for the promotion of commercial activities. If you have an event you would like to promote, please add it to the Events Directory or e-mail events@knowledgeboard.com. If you are a commercial KM organisation interested in developing a partnership with KnowledgeBoard, please e-mail networks@knowledgeboard.com.
- Please do not use additional html code within postings or attach images, as this could alter or interfere with the way the site is designed to function. Contributions containing code which causes disruption to the site in this way will edited or removed.
- Repeated use of KnowledgeBoard to make defamatory or commercial postings, offensive behaviour towards other users, or any illegal activities) may result in a user being banned from future participation in the community and their ISP informed.
In the unfortunate event of any member abusing the community in any of the ways above, the KnowledgeBoard Project Management Team reserve the right to remove or edit postings. The author (of the article to which the comments are made) and commenter will be notified by the editor or community steward. If members continue to behave in an unsuitable manner, they are liable to being barred from the community for two weeks. When they come back after this barring, if they continue to behave in this way, they will banned from KnowledgeBoard.