The Message Boards at www.ambjentahjar.org have been made available to bring about environmental awareness as well as draw the attention of the public to the many areas which need our protection. It is hoped that these message boards will bring about lively debate and the sharing of focussed information. If you have a question or a unique idea of your own, post a note to the relevant message board and hear what others have to say about it. You never know - you may provide a missing piece of the puzzle. Click here to join the discussion.

Disclaimer and complaints
Opinions expressed by Message Board participants are their own and do not necessarily reflect those of Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar or the ambjentahjar.org web-editor and moderators. If you object strongly to the content of any message please send an email explaining why to The Website Editor (contact@ambjentahjar.org) who will attempt to resolve your complaint swiftly and fairly. The decision(s) of the Moderating Team and Web-Editor are final and unconditional on any Message Board issues concerning Postings, Topics or Posters.

Code of Conduct
In order to maintain a friendly and constructive environment on the ambjentahjar.org message boards, we have created a Code of Conduct that we ask posters to adhere to during their time on the message Boards. By posting at any ambjentahjar.org message board, all Posters imply agreement with and adherence to this Code of Conduct.

General
By registration you agree to be bound by the following:

While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, libellous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

This forum system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you enter when registering, they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. Unless you allow for visibility by other posters, the email address you provide is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one).

User account and registration
In order to post on one of the ambjentahjar.org boards, registration is required.

• Please take note of the text as outlined in General.
• Applicants using an anonymous surfing IP, blacklisted by Internet/Web Security web sites, will not be granted access.
• Only one User Account is allowed per person, and it is preferable you should register using your legal name.
• Although the use of an alias is allowed, unsuitable aliases will be rejected by the Moderation Team.
• Impersonating other posters or other individuals risks the termination of your account.
• The email details you provide us with on registration are published every time you post. If your email details change, please do not set up another Account. Simply inform the ambjentahjar.org Team of any changes needed.

Rules of Engagement
Remember that other posters and members of the ambjentahjar.org team are real people. Therefore, and at all times, please employ the same high standards of politeness that are expected of all of us in "real life" interactions.

• Please take note of the text as outlined in General.
• Please be considerate and never belittle, unduly criticize, hurt or ridicule posters and/or members of the ambjentahjar.org team. Ignorance is better treated with knowledge than ridicule.
• In all cases refrain from falsely accusing people and/or groups by conjecture like in far out conspiracy theories as legal implication could be involved.
• Please do not resort to excessive use of uppercase typing - this is the equivalent of SHOUTING!
• Racially offensive or abusive language is banned at all times.
• Posting something that's deliberately angry, sarcastic, sardonic, spiteful and/or otherwise mean-spirited, like racially offensive and/or abusive language, is totally unacceptable. Posting such deliberately provocative things in general and/or or aimed at other posters or members of the ambjentahjar.org team just to stir up trouble will not be tolerated; the same is true for pornography or links to pornographic sites. All posts that fall into these categories will be instantly deleted.
• Discussing and/or otherwise hinting at decisions of the ambjentahjar.org team on any of the ambjentahjar.org boards is not allowed and such posts will be deleted. If a poster resorts frequently to this type of posting, his/her account will be deleted. However, if in any disagreement with a decision of the ambjentahjar.org team, please contact our web editor. Your complaint will be processed carefully.
• Do not use the Message Boards for idle chit-chat. However, chit-chat is allowed to some extent on the General Chat Board.
• Messages should be appropriate and relevant to the board on which they are posted. This includes a restriction on severe “hobby horsing” a single topic again and again.
• Do not flood the board with large sections of cut and pasted text. It is often sufficient to quote the website URL instead.
• Please indicate clearly what point you are trying to make in your debate in your initial posting.
• Limit yourself in posting pictures form other websites because this will use bandwidth and could also infringe copyright issues.

Forum policy on Suspensions
Once in a while we will probably run into the unfortunate situation where we have to suspend members for poor conduct at the forum. We have a formal process for dealing with members who decide to break the code of conduct repeatedly. This process will only be applied in extreme cases such as personal insults, foul language, and generally persistent vindictive posting on the part of the member.

The member will receive a maximum of three warnings and on the third offence will be barred from posting for a period of time. At that point the three offensive posts will be publicly displayed at the forum with a clear explanation of why each of the posts was in breach of our code of conduct.

The reason we're doing this is so all the members can see for themselves that the banning isn't random or unwarranted. Members may see others banned and have no idea why because they have not witnessed the reoccurring behaviour that led up to the member being dismissed by the ambjentahjar.org team.

We need to maintain a high standard of quality in the exchanges here to insure that we can attract more of the public. This does not in any way mean that we discourage debate; it simply means that any debate must be done within the confines of the code of conduct by all members.

We hope everyone understands the need to do this. We need to ensure that there is a mutual understanding by all members of the reason for these regrettable occurrences.

Policy regarding Harassing, Abusive, or Otherwise Objectionable Communications
All direct and/or indirect non-message board communication, for instance Email, sent to the staff of ambjentahjar.org, either in official or in private capacity, will remain confidential, and will not be reproduced without permission, except in one or more of the following circumstance:

• harassing, threatening or abusive to ambjentahjar.org or any content writer or staff member thereof;
• damaging to the reputation of ambjentahjar.org or any content writer or staff member thereof;
• serves to vilify, defame or cast aspersions against ambjentahjar.org or any content writer or staff member thereof with the intent of interfering with business relationships, including, but not limited to, affiliations or service agreements (this includes ANY threatening letters to an ISP, Web host, etc., or allegations of activities in violation of applicable laws and/or service agreements).
  

Any such material shall become the property of ambjentahjar.org. The staff of ambjentahjar.org shall be the sole arbiter(s) of what constitutes a communication fitting the above descriptions. Upon receipt of any such communication, or notification of receipt of any such communication by a party associated with the site, the staff of ambjentahjar.org reserves the right take to take action as necessary to protect their rights and interests, with or without prior notice to the person(s) or group(s) responsible for said communication.

What does this harassment section mean in plain English?
The section on harassment deals only with non message board harassing communication with members of the ambjentahjar.org team – for example by email. In this we want to make sure that whenever a malicious individual emails any member of the ambjentahjar.org team in:

• a threatening and/or obscene way, and/or
• with bragging texts about how wonderful his/her progress is on wrecking the ambjentahjar.org, and/or
• foul rants in general, etcetera,

we reserve the right to expose this malicious individual’s communication on the ambjentahjar.org message boards whenever we feel there to be a need for it. This need will usually arise when we are in a process of banning said malicious individual. Regular posters usually will not be aware of some of the bickering that can go on “off board” and can therefore sometimes have difficulty in understanding why a poster suddenly is banned. When exposing, we can show the general public the true intent of some malicious posters and we do not want to be hampered by “copyright issues”.

Copyright Issues
Rules for non-message board content

It is not allowed to sell access to any of the non-message board content of the ambjentahjar.org or redistribute them for profit, or otherwise commercially exploit them, without the written permission of Flimkien ghal Ambjent Ahjar.

Rules for message board content

When posting on any of theambjentahjar.org message boards remember to give credit to the authorship and Copyright of any references or articles that are linked to and/or included in said post, and take note of any "All Rights Reserved" Notices on Website Pages/Articles.

Advertising

No commercially-motivated messages, such as advertisements or links to commercial websites. It is okay to put links in your messages if these are informative and directly relevant to a discussion. Any other links should be sent to contact@ambjentahjar.org, so they can be considered for our links section.