« Not Offending Eric Noah's Grandmother » Welcome Guest. Please Login or Register. Jan 7, 2010, 8:10am

Ermoon :: Board Administration :: New User Information :: Not Offending Eric Noah's Grandmother Author Topic: Not Offending Eric Noah's Grandmother (Read 151 times) Duck de Guerre Administrator member is offline 'Ducks, the policeman knew, were supposed to breathe fire, and sometimes get themselves killed.' Joined: Sept 2001 Gender: Male Posts: 1,298 Location: Bryan, TX Not Offending Eric Noah's Grandmother « Thread Started on Oct 29, 2002, 11:20am » The following is an introduction to Netiquette, the simple standards of online etiquette that this forum adheres to as best as possible. The complete text of this information may be found here. THE CORE RULES OF NETIQUETTE The Core Rules of Netiquette are excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Click on each rule below this introduction for elaboration. What is Netiquette? Simply stated, it's network etiquette -- that is, the etiquette of cyberspace. And "etiquette" means "the forms required by good breeding or prescribed by authority to be required in social or official life." In other words, Netiquette is a set of rules for behaving properly online. When you enter any new culture -- and cyberspace has its own culture -- you're liable to commit a few social blunders. You might offend people without meaning to. Or you might misunderstand what others say and take offense when it's not intended. To make matters worse, something about cyberspace makes it easy to forget that you're interacting with other real people -- not just ASCII characters on a screen, but live human characters. So, partly as a result of forgetting that people online are still real, and partly because they don't know the conventions, well-meaning cybernauts, especially new ones, make all kinds of mistakes. The book Netiquette has a dual purpose: to help net newbies minimize their mistakes, and to help experienced cyberspace travelers help the newbies. The premise of the book is that most people would rather make friends than enemies, and that if you follow a few basic rules, you're less likely to make the kind of mistakes that will prevent you from making friends. The list of core rules below, and the explanations that follow, are excerpted from the book. They are offered here as a set of general guidelines for cyberspace behavior. They won't answer all your Netiquette questions. But they should give you some basic principles to use in solving your own Netiquette dilemmas. Rule 1: Remember the Human Rule 2: Adhere to the same standards of behavior online that you follow in real life Rule 3: Know where you are in cyberspace Rule 4: Respect other people's time and bandwidth Rule 5: Make yourself look good online Rule 6: Share expert knowledge Rule 7: Help keep flame wars under control Rule 8: Respect other people's privacy Rule 9: Don't abuse your power Rule 10: Be forgiving of other people's mistakes « Last Edit: Oct 29, 2002, 1:01pm by Duck de Guerre » Link to Post - Back to Top   Logged Forum Jump--------------------» Home--------------------» ----------------------------------------» Board Administration--------------------- New User Information- Notices--------------------» Ermoon Worldwide--------------------- General Discussion- Game Mechanics- House Rules- Knasty Zone- Oliver's Sick Polls- Reviews- Player Strategy & Tactics--------------------» Campaign Discussions--------------------- Atlanta- The College Station Adventurer Guild- Cale's High Adventure!- Houston- Ideas of Order- Virginia One- Phoenix- The Wakamusha Campaign- The Graveyard--------------------» Ermoon Atlas--------------------- Ermoon World General Information- Nobunaga and Chien- Cimbria- Ionia- Kalevala- Leinster- Yalstruupa- Free Cities