Bohgosity BumaskiL
2011-03-05 04:59:50 UTC
For your newsgroups file, perhaps:
rec.music.practice Care and enjoyment in music practice (Moderated)
CHARTER:
C01 Description and Purpose
rec.music.practice would be a moderated newsgroup that provides a friendly,
respectful forum for discussion of all aspects of Mathematics, Phyics, and
psycho-acoustics that are relevant to music. rec.music.practice appeals to a
wide range of people people involved in both recreational and professional
aspects of establishing, maintaining, propagating, and rendering musical
repertoire. Participants range from novices to people with many years of
experience; from those with a day job, to those whose day job involves
music; from specialists to solo producers; serial to orchestral; enjineers,
scientists, and artists. Sharing ideas, asking questions, or lurking are
welcome from all who want to learn.
C02 The Following Is Prohibited
All posts containing these items will be rejected, and returned with
explanation if permitted by automated software.
* Excessive cross-posting, although limited, on-topic cross-posting
is permitted (many *servers* disallow more than five cross-postings)
* Commercial posts or Excessive Multiple Posting (bot actuated).
* Obscenities.
* Excessive morphing/nym shifting ("excessive" is at moderator discretion)
* Implied or direct threats, slander, insults, bigotry, prejudice
or harassment
* Flaming, baiting, flooding, and personal verbal attacks
* Unjustified kritisizm, especially unusable kriteek.
* Posts advocating violence or containing physical threats
* Attacks on others based on gender, race, sexual orientation
or religion
* Chain letters
* Binaries, other than pgp signatures, x-face headers, and other
ancillary article meta-data. Links are fine.
* Forgery of names, valid email addresses or approval headers
* Excessive quoting of old material, with little new content
(these will be judgment calls made by moderators)
* Personal identification information associated with anyone other
than yourself (e.g. residential addresses, phone numbers and
government identifications).
* Content advocating acts that would be intrinsically illegal
in most places
* Copyright violations. (However, pointers to news articles,
blogs, etc. that are on-topic are welcome. They must comply with
fair use standards.)
C03 Permitted Content
Discussions appropriate to a musical community include:
* Melody
* Harmony
* Counterpoint
* Baseline
* Dissonance
* Time Signatures
* Consonance (Archaically, Assonance)
* Chords, tablature, and numeric notation
* Just Intonation and Equal Temperament
* Temperament or tampering with established tunings
* Timbre Harmonics, patches, and transforms.
* History of Musicians and Temperament
* Publishing technique (How to use your web host)
C04 Charter Implementation
See Moderation Policy and Practice.
C05 Changes to Moderation Policy
Proposals for changes to this document can pass with a two thirds majority
vote. All who approve this document should send it to
mailto:***@big-8.org. It is up to their quorom rationale to decide whether
sufficient approval has been met. Changes may also be discussed in this
thread or proposed in a pre-amble of your submission to that board.
C07 (Most of Section Deleted under "If it goes without saying, then let it
go without saying.")
(Moderator Contact Addresses, first copy)
C08 Readership Participation & Responsibility
All participants in news:rec.music.practice may:
* Request changes to moderation policy and participate in discussion of
changes.
* Privately ask for all moderators to review a specific rejected
post (within practical numerical limits determined by moderators.)
* Nominate new moderators.
MODERATION POLICY: rec.music.practice
MPP01 Purpose
rec.music.practice would be a moderated newsgroup that provides a friendly,
respectful forum for discussion of all aspects of Mathematics, Phyics, and
psycho-acoustics that are relevant to music. rec.music.practice appeals to a
wide range of people involved in both recreational and professional aspects
of establishing, maintaining, propagating, and rendering musical repertoire.
Participants range from novices to people with many years of experience;
from those with a day job, to those whose day job involves music; from
specialists to solo producers; serial to orchestral; enjineers, scientists,
and artists. Sharing ideas, asking questions, or lurking are welcome from
all who want to learn.
MPP02 Automated (robotic) Moderation Software
Moderators should employ automated moderation software to initially screen
and pre-filter all incoming posts, and to ensure that all posts meet certain
current moderation policies. Posts that do not will be automatically
returned along with a brief explanation, provided that such posts have a
valid return address. All posts that are approved by automated software
will be forwarded to human moderators for further examination.
MPP03 Cross-posting
Cross-posting to related groups based on subject matter (e.g.,rec.music.*,
alt.music.*, and groups related to lyrics in links) will be allowed. No
cross-posting to irrelevant groups will be permitted. Such cross-posted
messages shall be returned, provided a valid return email address is
provided.
MPP04 Authorship of Posts
Anyone will be allowed to post as long as they are not forging another
poster's name or address. Anonymous posting will be allowed. Occasional
name-shifting may be permitted, but excessive name-shifting will not be
permitted, as per C03.
MPP05 Human Moderation
After approval by any automated software, messages are forwarded for review,
based upon C02 & C03. Rejected messages shall be returned to a poster,
provided a valid return address is available. An explanation for rejection
shall be included, and it may be automated in case of blocked senders.
Moderators do not add, delete, or edit anything within a post. Tags are not
added. With exceptions for bot-actuated rejection and anonymous submission,
a moderator randomly assigned will pass all rejected articles back to a
submitter, along with either guidance for changes, or a reason for rejection
of a subject. In rare cases, individuals who persist in sending material
that does not meet content guidelines in this charter will be blocked from
making submissions to any moderator: Inclusion of an individual on a block
list requires consent of two thirds of moderators, and it may happen without
collusion.
Moderators permit posts that may contain technically incorrect information,
provided that the post is not deemed to be deliberately deceptive. Any
approved post that is forwarded to this newsgroup, and contains incorrect
information, may and should be followed up by posts that attempt to correct
the misinformation. Such corrective posts may be made by any interested
person/s in the newsgroup.
All personal posts made by moderators go through the same complete process
as posts made by the general readership of the group. Moderators do not
review their own posts, nor those of a relative. Moderators who fail to
abide by the charter and current moderation policy may be warned or removed
by other moderators; two thirds of a majority.
Posting with a valid or mangled-and-decipherable (munged) e-mail address
enables accountability.
MPP06 Moderator Approval and Rejection Policies
Moderators may consult with one another before deciding to pass or reject a
post whose content is borderline or questionable. This consultation may add
to the time-delay of the processing of a post.
If a post is rejected, it may be appealed to the Moderation Team, provided
it is seen as a legitimate request, and not as a disruptive attempt or
tactic to distract or flood the team with large numbers of obviously
inappropriate messages.
MPP07 Personal Advertising
Very limited personal advertising shall be permitted. Such advertising must
be directly related to music marketing. The number of ads permitted by any
one poster per any given time period shall be left to the discretion of the
moderators, with all posters subject to the same conditions. Links on the
last line of a post (Loosely, signatures) that otherwise follows in a thread
do not count under this policy.
MPP08 Ending Threads
Moderators reserve the right to end a thread that has veered significantly
off-topic, or that has become dominated by rehashing and/or repetition.
MPP10 Structure of the Human Moderation Team
(ignore dates that I do not set)
The review and moderation of posts that are approved by the automated
software program will be conducted by a Moderation Team.
The first moderation team members will be divided into two classes, and
appointed for one or two year terms, to end on August 31, 2008 and 2009
respectively. Thereafter a new class of moderators will be elected annually
during the month of August, to serve two-year terms, beginning on September
1st of the election year and continuing through August 31st of the second
year after the election. The current moderation team will select each new
class of moderators, and election will be by a minimum 2/3 vote of the
current moderators.
The total number of moderators may be changed by the moderation team, which
will seek to maintain an equal number of members in each class. The general
readership of rec.music.practice are encouraged to propose/nominate
potential moderators to the team, as per C08.
Moderators may be re-elected. The moderation team shall elect persons to
fill vacancies using the 2/3 criterion for election.
MPP11 Head Moderator
The moderation team may choose to elect a (head/chief/administrative)
moderator by a majority vote, if it deems such a position to be necessary.
The duties and responsibilities of such a position would be determined as
needed.
MPP12 Moderator Removal
If a moderator does not abide by the charter and current moderation
policies, the other moderators may warn and, if necessary, remove that
moderator by a 2/3 majority vote of the moderation team. Moderators who wish
to resign for any reason may do so by emailing all other moderators.
MPP13 Changes to Moderation Policy & Practices
As stated in the Charter, moderation policy & practices (MPP) may be changed
to meet the permanent objectives of the Charter and the ongoing needs of the
newsgroup.
Proposed changes are announced by the moderators in the newsgroup, and the
general readership may discuss the proposed changes. Changes shall be
adopted by a 2/3 majority of the current moderators, and will be published
in the newsgroup.
As stated in C08, the general readership may suggest changes to policy and
practices.
MPP14 Moderator Posts
Moderators shall use [MODERATOR ANNOUNCE:] to preface official informational
posts to the readership of rec.music.practice.
MPP15 Moderator Contact Addresses
()
As per C07, moderators shall provide a contact email address for anyone who
wishes to make a complaint, question, or offer a suggestion.
PROPONENT:
JWL <***@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
CHANGE HISTORY
1. Began as rec.ponds.moderated.
2. Changed purpose and examined content.
3. Minor operational and practical changes made mostly to integrate sections
on moderator conduct and make policy online with software available.
4. Other aesthetic and readability changes made, for example I deleted the
paragraph that mentioned PGP, because the technology (maintained service,
really) to hide a pseudonym's ISP has existed for a decade, and actually in
The Onion Router, it has grown to layers upon layers of indirection.
5. Removed a lot of superfluous definite articles.
rec.music.practice Care and enjoyment in music practice (Moderated)
CHARTER:
C01 Description and Purpose
rec.music.practice would be a moderated newsgroup that provides a friendly,
respectful forum for discussion of all aspects of Mathematics, Phyics, and
psycho-acoustics that are relevant to music. rec.music.practice appeals to a
wide range of people people involved in both recreational and professional
aspects of establishing, maintaining, propagating, and rendering musical
repertoire. Participants range from novices to people with many years of
experience; from those with a day job, to those whose day job involves
music; from specialists to solo producers; serial to orchestral; enjineers,
scientists, and artists. Sharing ideas, asking questions, or lurking are
welcome from all who want to learn.
C02 The Following Is Prohibited
All posts containing these items will be rejected, and returned with
explanation if permitted by automated software.
* Excessive cross-posting, although limited, on-topic cross-posting
is permitted (many *servers* disallow more than five cross-postings)
* Commercial posts or Excessive Multiple Posting (bot actuated).
* Obscenities.
* Excessive morphing/nym shifting ("excessive" is at moderator discretion)
* Implied or direct threats, slander, insults, bigotry, prejudice
or harassment
* Flaming, baiting, flooding, and personal verbal attacks
* Unjustified kritisizm, especially unusable kriteek.
* Posts advocating violence or containing physical threats
* Attacks on others based on gender, race, sexual orientation
or religion
* Chain letters
* Binaries, other than pgp signatures, x-face headers, and other
ancillary article meta-data. Links are fine.
* Forgery of names, valid email addresses or approval headers
* Excessive quoting of old material, with little new content
(these will be judgment calls made by moderators)
* Personal identification information associated with anyone other
than yourself (e.g. residential addresses, phone numbers and
government identifications).
* Content advocating acts that would be intrinsically illegal
in most places
* Copyright violations. (However, pointers to news articles,
blogs, etc. that are on-topic are welcome. They must comply with
fair use standards.)
C03 Permitted Content
Discussions appropriate to a musical community include:
* Melody
* Harmony
* Counterpoint
* Baseline
* Dissonance
* Time Signatures
* Consonance (Archaically, Assonance)
* Chords, tablature, and numeric notation
* Just Intonation and Equal Temperament
* Temperament or tampering with established tunings
* Timbre Harmonics, patches, and transforms.
* History of Musicians and Temperament
* Publishing technique (How to use your web host)
C04 Charter Implementation
See Moderation Policy and Practice.
C05 Changes to Moderation Policy
Proposals for changes to this document can pass with a two thirds majority
vote. All who approve this document should send it to
mailto:***@big-8.org. It is up to their quorom rationale to decide whether
sufficient approval has been met. Changes may also be discussed in this
thread or proposed in a pre-amble of your submission to that board.
C07 (Most of Section Deleted under "If it goes without saying, then let it
go without saying.")
(Moderator Contact Addresses, first copy)
C08 Readership Participation & Responsibility
All participants in news:rec.music.practice may:
* Request changes to moderation policy and participate in discussion of
changes.
* Privately ask for all moderators to review a specific rejected
post (within practical numerical limits determined by moderators.)
* Nominate new moderators.
MODERATION POLICY: rec.music.practice
MPP01 Purpose
rec.music.practice would be a moderated newsgroup that provides a friendly,
respectful forum for discussion of all aspects of Mathematics, Phyics, and
psycho-acoustics that are relevant to music. rec.music.practice appeals to a
wide range of people involved in both recreational and professional aspects
of establishing, maintaining, propagating, and rendering musical repertoire.
Participants range from novices to people with many years of experience;
from those with a day job, to those whose day job involves music; from
specialists to solo producers; serial to orchestral; enjineers, scientists,
and artists. Sharing ideas, asking questions, or lurking are welcome from
all who want to learn.
MPP02 Automated (robotic) Moderation Software
Moderators should employ automated moderation software to initially screen
and pre-filter all incoming posts, and to ensure that all posts meet certain
current moderation policies. Posts that do not will be automatically
returned along with a brief explanation, provided that such posts have a
valid return address. All posts that are approved by automated software
will be forwarded to human moderators for further examination.
MPP03 Cross-posting
Cross-posting to related groups based on subject matter (e.g.,rec.music.*,
alt.music.*, and groups related to lyrics in links) will be allowed. No
cross-posting to irrelevant groups will be permitted. Such cross-posted
messages shall be returned, provided a valid return email address is
provided.
MPP04 Authorship of Posts
Anyone will be allowed to post as long as they are not forging another
poster's name or address. Anonymous posting will be allowed. Occasional
name-shifting may be permitted, but excessive name-shifting will not be
permitted, as per C03.
MPP05 Human Moderation
After approval by any automated software, messages are forwarded for review,
based upon C02 & C03. Rejected messages shall be returned to a poster,
provided a valid return address is available. An explanation for rejection
shall be included, and it may be automated in case of blocked senders.
Moderators do not add, delete, or edit anything within a post. Tags are not
added. With exceptions for bot-actuated rejection and anonymous submission,
a moderator randomly assigned will pass all rejected articles back to a
submitter, along with either guidance for changes, or a reason for rejection
of a subject. In rare cases, individuals who persist in sending material
that does not meet content guidelines in this charter will be blocked from
making submissions to any moderator: Inclusion of an individual on a block
list requires consent of two thirds of moderators, and it may happen without
collusion.
Moderators permit posts that may contain technically incorrect information,
provided that the post is not deemed to be deliberately deceptive. Any
approved post that is forwarded to this newsgroup, and contains incorrect
information, may and should be followed up by posts that attempt to correct
the misinformation. Such corrective posts may be made by any interested
person/s in the newsgroup.
All personal posts made by moderators go through the same complete process
as posts made by the general readership of the group. Moderators do not
review their own posts, nor those of a relative. Moderators who fail to
abide by the charter and current moderation policy may be warned or removed
by other moderators; two thirds of a majority.
Posting with a valid or mangled-and-decipherable (munged) e-mail address
enables accountability.
MPP06 Moderator Approval and Rejection Policies
Moderators may consult with one another before deciding to pass or reject a
post whose content is borderline or questionable. This consultation may add
to the time-delay of the processing of a post.
If a post is rejected, it may be appealed to the Moderation Team, provided
it is seen as a legitimate request, and not as a disruptive attempt or
tactic to distract or flood the team with large numbers of obviously
inappropriate messages.
MPP07 Personal Advertising
Very limited personal advertising shall be permitted. Such advertising must
be directly related to music marketing. The number of ads permitted by any
one poster per any given time period shall be left to the discretion of the
moderators, with all posters subject to the same conditions. Links on the
last line of a post (Loosely, signatures) that otherwise follows in a thread
do not count under this policy.
MPP08 Ending Threads
Moderators reserve the right to end a thread that has veered significantly
off-topic, or that has become dominated by rehashing and/or repetition.
MPP10 Structure of the Human Moderation Team
(ignore dates that I do not set)
The review and moderation of posts that are approved by the automated
software program will be conducted by a Moderation Team.
The first moderation team members will be divided into two classes, and
appointed for one or two year terms, to end on August 31, 2008 and 2009
respectively. Thereafter a new class of moderators will be elected annually
during the month of August, to serve two-year terms, beginning on September
1st of the election year and continuing through August 31st of the second
year after the election. The current moderation team will select each new
class of moderators, and election will be by a minimum 2/3 vote of the
current moderators.
The total number of moderators may be changed by the moderation team, which
will seek to maintain an equal number of members in each class. The general
readership of rec.music.practice are encouraged to propose/nominate
potential moderators to the team, as per C08.
Moderators may be re-elected. The moderation team shall elect persons to
fill vacancies using the 2/3 criterion for election.
MPP11 Head Moderator
The moderation team may choose to elect a (head/chief/administrative)
moderator by a majority vote, if it deems such a position to be necessary.
The duties and responsibilities of such a position would be determined as
needed.
MPP12 Moderator Removal
If a moderator does not abide by the charter and current moderation
policies, the other moderators may warn and, if necessary, remove that
moderator by a 2/3 majority vote of the moderation team. Moderators who wish
to resign for any reason may do so by emailing all other moderators.
MPP13 Changes to Moderation Policy & Practices
As stated in the Charter, moderation policy & practices (MPP) may be changed
to meet the permanent objectives of the Charter and the ongoing needs of the
newsgroup.
Proposed changes are announced by the moderators in the newsgroup, and the
general readership may discuss the proposed changes. Changes shall be
adopted by a 2/3 majority of the current moderators, and will be published
in the newsgroup.
As stated in C08, the general readership may suggest changes to policy and
practices.
MPP14 Moderator Posts
Moderators shall use [MODERATOR ANNOUNCE:] to preface official informational
posts to the readership of rec.music.practice.
MPP15 Moderator Contact Addresses
()
As per C07, moderators shall provide a contact email address for anyone who
wishes to make a complaint, question, or offer a suggestion.
PROPONENT:
JWL <***@freenet.edmonton.ab.ca>
CHANGE HISTORY
1. Began as rec.ponds.moderated.
2. Changed purpose and examined content.
3. Minor operational and practical changes made mostly to integrate sections
on moderator conduct and make policy online with software available.
4. Other aesthetic and readability changes made, for example I deleted the
paragraph that mentioned PGP, because the technology (maintained service,
really) to hide a pseudonym's ISP has existed for a decade, and actually in
The Onion Router, it has grown to layers upon layers of indirection.
5. Removed a lot of superfluous definite articles.