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Behavior & Problems (Revised 2/5/08):This
section refers to our “behavior guidelines” and any problems with
behavior. If you are having technical problems connecting, please use the
“Connecting To Chat” link for more information. These behavior
guidelines are just that — a list of suggested guidelines compiled over
our room’s many years of existence to maintain the safety of all members.
Please review this section, as well as the section called “Guidelines,”
for a full understanding of our room’s policies and procedures. The
channels’ “owners” (the current Chairperson and Co-Chairperson)
along with the other officers and/or operators (OP’s) collectively have
complete discretion in specific cases — especially where and when any discipline
is involved. However the channel must have consistency to be considered
fair in dealing with everyone. It will be rare when exceptions are made.
We always welcome suggestions. Please send them to any OP (operator) or
to slaaonline@yahoo.com In
maintaining the safety of our room, we endeavor to follow the SLAA
© Twelve Traditions. Since our room
is open 24/7, however, when a person if found to be in clear violation of our
behavior guidelines, We find that issuing
a warning, which may subsequently lead up to a ban if necessary, is sometimes
needed to provide safety to all of our members that
may arrive — especially newcomers in the room when there is not an operator
available to handle problem resolution. We are also hosted by StarLink-IRC.Org,
so we need to be mindful of their concerns, as well. What
behavior constitutes a problem? - Members (or anyone) seeking to avoid
a ban that is established in our room. This page is a proactive attempt
to inform participants about the few following courtesy rules — “behavior
guidelines” — that have been long established by our group conscience.
In the rare instance of a [channel] ban (second offense), trying to circumvent
this becomes a matter that StarLink-IRC.Org will assist with. The likely
result is a ban from connecting to them entirely (called a g-line or k-line).
- Members providing or supporting Warez (stolen software) distribution
or acquisition.
- Members advertising/spamming any goods and/or services
that involve a cost.
- Members soliciting, supporting or conducting sexual
activities.
- Members advocating abuse of human rights, including cruelty,
intolerance, child pornography, or similar subjects.
- Cloning or flooding
for the purposes of disrupting the network or its users.
- Members seeking
to actively suggest members to join “other” IRC servers than StarLink-IRC.Org.
- Members
abusing private messages (PM), query, DCC-chat, or any DCC or CTCP function to
systematically or repeatedly harass other members.
- Members engaging in
flirting, racy talk, or attempting inappropriate sexual/social behaviors.
“No” means “NO.”
- Members consistently “cross-talking”
during other member’s sharing in the main room.
- Member’s repeated
use of toxic or triggering comments in a share if warned by others (anyone) that
they are being inappropriate. Bear in mind that we all have different issues
and levels of sobriety, recovery, and tolerance. If a person asks that you
tone it down, please be respectful.
- Member’s repeated use of offensive
language in a share if warned by other’s that they are being offensive.
(See note above.)
- As a fellowship, S.L.A.A. has no opinion on outside
issues, and seeks no controversy. S.L.A.A. is not affiliated with any other
organizations, movements or causes, either religious or secular. Members
need to respect the religion(s) (or lack of religion), patriotism (or lack of
patriotism), or opinions of all other members.
- Remaining
in a room while not at your computer for long periods can under certain circumstances
be considered an invasion of privacy. If an operator considers this a problem
you will be kicked. If your computer is on auto reconnect, you will be kicked
and banned when your computer reconnects to the room. The ban will be lifted after
five minutes thus hoping to disable the auto reconnect feature. It would typically
occur if a member has been idle (away from keyboard) for more than 90-minutes
and a meeting is about to start or between meetings if a member is sharing a very
personal story.
- Members engaging in rumors about other
members (whether from our room or other recovery rooms).
- Members harassing
other members in any way or directly expressing anger toward other members.
- Members
identifying themselves as a sex and/or love addict and/or avoidant, but are actually
NOT a “qualified member” (or considering if they might be one) —
in other words, being in the room without consideration that they, themself, might
be a member desiring recovery or contemplating it.
- Non-members entering
the room under the “assumed” nickname of their spouse or signficant-other
or another member to obtain “inside” information about their spouse
or significant-other or other members.
Does this apply to the #SLAA
room between meetings? - Our group conscience suggests that the #SLAA
room be considered as a 24/7 informal chat meeting. While the regularly
scheduled meetings take precedence over the informal chats, the room always falls
under the Traditions and is therefore treated as a “meeting in progress”
at all times.
How do we know if people in the #SLAA room are engaged
in any inappropriate behavior? - This remains a difficult issue to
resolve. We never automatically “log” any conversations and
cannot “see” private messages between members. Therefore, we
can only respond when you make a direct complaint by following the procedures
listed in the “How do I report a problem?” section below.
- If
a problem arises in the #SLAA Online Group meeting room when you see an trusted
servant (operator) present, please make them aware of the problem immediately.
- While
we do not allow “logging” of meetings, we encourage you to log any
troublesome conversations with other member(s) — whether in the main room
or in private messages — for the review of our room’s trusted servants.
Someone
is being a problem for me. What should I do? - The
first step is to be clear with the other party about boundaries. If that
isn't sufficient, please seek out one or more of the Trusted Servants in the chat
room (the one's with the “@” by their nickname). If none are
there — or you prefer — please forward any logs and details
to the Trusted Servants at our regular slaaonline@yahoo.com
address. You can also type: /ignore nick in mIRC and this will silence whomever
you do not wish to see, whether in private chat or in the main channel.
How
do I report a problem? If
inappropriate behavior is reported, what action will occur?
A)
Offender breaching the behavior guidelines need to be directly confronted in pm
by and op or officer and issued a warning ( logging is allowed in this situation)
B)
If the offender continues, de-voice them for a period of time up to a period of
10 minutes maximum, and post a written verbal warning in the main room
C)
If the behavior continues kick them from the room with another written verbal
warning in the main room
D)
If the offender continues to breach the behavior guidelines after all the above
actions have been taken, they are to be asked to come over to slaa2 with a minimum
of two other ops or officers and confronted. They need to be told they had been
warned and are now going to get a one day ban, and then issue a one day ban. A
one day ban may be issued twice, and then a one week ban is put in place. After
a one week ban a one month ban may be issued if needed. Two officers must be present
in slaa2 upon the issue of a one week ban or more. Make sure to always report
any ban in an email to slaaonline@yahoo and send any logs as well.
E)
When a persons ban is expired an email needs to be sent to all ops informing them
that the ban on the individual is up. This will prevent any conflicts or misunderstandings
in the room.
F) If a person
is found to be evading a ban, then and only then should channels become involved,
as noted below
*When
an Operator should go to Channels: °When
a person is found or suspected to be evading a ban or a G -line set by Channels
°When
an Op is having trouble with technical issues °For
anything having to do with C-Star commands, such as fixing someones mask, etc.
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