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TOS – draft 1
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Here’s some initial thoughts about terms of service. They are also the terms that are valid for now. Feedback please.

Terms of service, version 1, valid as of October 29 2009

For now, this service – diktuon.net – is provided by private person Tuomas Nurmi to private persons. If you don’t like it, complain to me. I reserve myself an irrecoverable right to be wrong and to change my mind.

Some of the services provided are social networking platform, email platform and blogging and CMS site management platform.

For now, I also reserve myself the sole right to invite people to the community. I do take suggestions.

There is a plan to organize an association to formally own and run services provided by diktuon.net. The purpose of the association is to maintain and develop the services and promote the values and goals of Project Diktuon. The members of the association are the registered users of diktuon.net

By registering to the service, you commit either to join such association or leave the service as it is formed.

Note, that as the project goals and the rules of the association are still being drafted, you have a chance to influence how they will turn out to be, before the association is formed. One of the things to be decided is the member acceptance policy for the association.

You reserve full copyright to any content you post. Make sure you have that in the first place. By posting it, you practise your copyright by giving diktuon.net right to store, reformat and distribute that content and agreeing that you wont restrict those rights later. For example, if you publish a public post, and later regret, diktuon.net is not responsible for removing all traces of it.

You are responsible for your use diktuon.net, for any content you post to here and for any consequences thereof. The content you submit, post, or display will be able to be viewed by other users of the Services. Some of it may be viewed by third parties, depending on various privacy settings. You should only provide Content that you are comfortable sharing with others under these Terms.

By registering to this site you state that you are committed to the values and goals of Project Diktuon as described under <a href=”http://diktuon.info>http://diktuon.info</a>.

Especially you
1) recognize that Holy Spirit has immersed you in the death and resurrection of Christ.
2) Commit to authentic and encounter other registered people as individuals who are in Christ, rather than any roles you or they may have e.g. as representatives of any organisations
3) Recognize due to being in Christ that you have a unity with other members of the service dispite all the differences you may have
4) You want to be obedien to God and do His will.

As a rule you should be here with your own name. There are some legitimate reasons why you should not do that. Technically, I don’t need to know your name, only your heart. So if you want to remain anonymous, convince me. Note however:
1) If you want to stay anonymous, you must make clear that you are being anonymous, e.g. by putting “Anonymous” in your screen name.
2) As this is essentially a social network, any anonimity is relative. Some will know who you are, and many will get a good clue.

While my vision is that people who love Christ can do whatever they like in this service, there are some topics I do not tolerate. The reason is that while it is possible to discuss about them in a constractive manner, in my experience the odds that your counterpart could do that too are so low that it is not worth the risk. Rather these tend to cause arguments, make people focus in rather irrelevant issues and deviate from Christ.

1) Discussion about the age of the world and how it was created. Includes topics about flood.
2) Discussion about how and when people should be baptized.
3) Discussion about accurate end time events. (Especially rapture.)*
4) Discussion about women as priests.

In addition:
1) Don’t speak evil of anyone behind their backs. This applies both to members and non-members.
2) Don’t spam in any way. Including comments and internal messages.
3) Don’t harvest visitors in unethical ways. E.g. using tricks to push your site up in search engine counts.
4) Do not give share username and password. Membership is personal. If you think someone else should have access, let them be members themselves.

Diktuon.net does not store personal information about you other than that you have provided in your profile. It is your responsibilty to see that that information is correct.

The server logs automatically some activities, like IP addresses. This information may be used to develop and protect diktuon.net and is in any case automatically deleted after a period of time, typically one week or month.

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October 29th, 2009 at 13:23


One Response to “TOS – draft 1”
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      Tuomas Nurmi (http://nurmenjuuritaso NULL.diktuon NULL.net/members/outolumo/) says:

    To my great pleasure I’ve already gotten some constructive feedback on these terms :-)

    I was pointed, that the ban on certain topics it to say the least outrageous. A topic pointed was that of women and the churh. And I have to say that I agree.

    Further, I believe the same applies to end-time discussion. The terms for both of these issues are overly draconic.

    The reason I suggested these limits in the first place is, that in my experience people tend to be strongly opinionated and unwilling to reconsider their opinions, resulting in fierce fights where the only thing that changes is mutual respect that turns into mutual hatred.

    However I was pointed, that rather than tell you to be responsible, I should actually give you the chance to be responsible, and trust that you can behave. Trust that you actually are both able and willing to put down your strong opinions, listen to other, and when need be, change your mind.

    Therefore, the portion of the text above that says: “While my vision is that… 4) Discussion about women as priests.” Will in the TOS be changed in the form:

    “My vision is that people who love Christ can do whatever they like in this service. I trust that as mature Christians you don’t abuse this trust by starting to quarrel about such secondary issues as the when or how the Earth was created or when or how we should baptize people. No matter what is the topic, quarrel is not the way of a Christian.”

    This change is effective immediately and is already reflected in the TOS registering people need to accept.

    I thank you for the feedback. Could I have some more?

    October 29, 2009 @ 20:33

 

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