What are our "community standards"?

MorganGrayson · 08-02-2005

The threads on data bases and spam caused my mind to take a little hop.
Many webmasters contain the sentence "You are responsible for knowing the standards in your community" in the warning pages for their free sites.

We are a community. What are "our standards"? All communities, i.e. groups of people engaged in a common endeavor, have standards, whether they are written down or not, or even spoken aloud or not. We all have things that we as individuals feel are the right - or wrong - way to go about conducting business.

What do we as a community believe? Is our community so diverse that there can't be a consensus of what we consider right and wrong?

I would appreciate any webmaster who choses to do so contribute to this thread with their ideas on "our community standards" or state their belief that there can be no such thing.

I tried to think of something small to start out.

Most webmaster boards have seperate forums for different purposes. Posts have to be put in the correct forum or the post is moved and the poster labeled a "spammer." A post on a new traffic source, for example, would not be announced in the Oprano Lounge. There is a forum for Traffic Discussions and it should be put there.

A small example of an "industry standard."

What are the others?

08-02-2005	#1
MorganGrayson None $100 for every ImLive sign-up Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 4,321	What are our "community standards"? The threads on data bases and spam caused my mind to take a little hop. Many webmasters contain the sentence "You are responsible for knowing the standards in your community" in the warning pages for their free sites. We are a community. What are "our standards"? All communities, i.e. groups of people engaged in a common endeavor, have standards, whether they are written down or not, or even spoken aloud or not. We all have things that we as individuals feel are the right - or wrong - way to go about conducting business. What do we as a community believe? Is our community so diverse that there can't be a consensus of what we consider right and wrong? I would appreciate any webmaster who choses to do so contribute to this thread with their ideas on "our community standards" or state their belief that there can be no such thing. I tried to think of something small to start out. Most webmaster boards have seperate forums for different purposes. Posts have to be put in the correct forum or the post is moved and the poster labeled a "spammer." A post on a new traffic source, for example, would not be announced in the Oprano Lounge. There is a forum for Traffic Discussions and it should be put there. A small example of an "industry standard." What are the others?