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2. Limits on Posting Participants must follow any posting frequency limits (often 2 per day per person) when established in a forum charter. Participants must not post messages about topics that are specifically not allowed in a forum's charter. 3. Keep Topics within Forum Purpose Requests by the Forum Manager to bring discussions within the scope of the forum must be followed or warnings may be issued. Limit posts to topics within the geographic area or issues related a forum's scope. 4. Be Civil No insults, name calling or inflamed speech. Personal one -on -one arguments, disagreements or personality conflicts are not appropriate on the public discussion forum. The Forum Manager shall provide guidance to participants on what is appropriate and what is not allowed. Attempts at humor or sarcasm should be labeled etc. 5. No Attacks or Threats Personal attacks or public threats against the safety or security of participants are not allowed. The Forum Manager may issue warnings or remove participants based on their public posts to a forum legally owned by E- Democracy.Org. If you receive private communication from another participant that causes you serious concern, you may communicate that to the Forum Manager, but no action should be taken by the Forum Manager or E- Democracy.org to intervene in private disputes among individuals. If you feel you have privately received an illegal threat via e -mail you should contact the appropriate legal authorities. E- Democracy.Org and its Chapters are not responsible for any private behavior. However, if it is determined that a pattern of abusive behavior is having a chilling effect on other's participation in the public forum, the Forum Manager may issue a warning and /or removal upon advising the local Chapter Steering Committee. 6. Private Stays Private Forwarding private messages to the online forum is not allowed without the express permission of the original author. This includes private replies to public posts and other private or personal communication including e -mail communication with public officials who may or may not be forum members. Public officials and Forum Managers have equal participation rights and responsibilities in our forums everyone is a citizen first. 7. Avoid False Rumors, You are Liable Rumors of a personal nature are not allowed. Your posts must be accurate based on your full knowledge and never intentionally false. Unverified "grapevine" information of a public nature must be within a forum's issue -based scope to be appropriate. If in doubt about the appropriateness of a given topic, check privately with the Forum Manager before posting. Otherwise, the Forum Manager might take disciplinary action if your post is deemed to be off topic. Further, via the forum itself, you must correct your previous expressions of fact or "known" information that you find later to be false or substantially incorrect. Exceptions include your assertions already publicly corrected or clarified by others in forum discussions. Corrections must be made within any daily posting limit or via the Forum Manager if urgent. You, and you alone are liable for the content of your own messages. E- Democracy.Org is not responsible or liable for the content posted to any technically unmoderated forum or moderated announcement service. 8. Right to Post and Reply E- Democracy.Org through its right of free assembly and expression have further established equal rights among all registered forum members to participate. You may only lose those E- Democracy.Org established rights based on your actions, particularly rule violations. Only those who are registered forum members may post directly. Any person or organization that is publicly mentioned in a forum post has a right to reply, unless that person has been suspended for rule violations. In order to post a reply, the individual (or an individual representing the organization) must become a registered member of the forum. 9. Items Not Allowed in Forums, Exceptions Commercial advertising, virus warnings from members, and chain letters are prohibited from all forums. In e -mail based forums, posts must be plain text with no file attachments. Comments or complaints about forum management or complaints about member rule violations must not be posted to the main forum. Instead, direct such messages privately to the Forum Manager. Discussion of these rules or forum management may be taken public via our Participant Assembly in our Townhall: http: /e- democracy.org /townhall Roseville Issues Forum Project: Tim Erickson, 651 246 -5045 or tim e- democracy.org_ Page 6 6 June 2006