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(A) General policy statement.
It is the policy of PrisonPlace.com to maintain an information and support environment which is free from all forms of unlawful harassment, including sexual harassment. This commitment applies to all PrisonPlace operations, programs, and activities. All members and guests. Share responsibility for avoiding, discouraging, and reporting any form of unlawful harassment. This policy applies to unlawful conduct occurring on PrisonPlace.com.
PrisonPlace will vigorously enforce its prohibition against harassment based on sex, race, color, national origin, religion, disability or handicap, age, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other unlawful basis This policy shall be applied and interpreted in accordance with existing legal standards. Complaints of unlawful harassment will be dealt with on a case by case basis taking into consideration the totality of the circumstances. Individuals who are found to have engaged in unlawful harassment will be subject to appropriate action.
(B) Other violations of the unlawful harassment policy.
PrisonPlace will also take immediate action in accordance with Website policies on individuals engaged in any of the following prohibited acts:
(1) Retaliating against a person who has made a report or filed a complaint alleging harassment, or who has participated as a witness in a harassment investigation.
(2) Filing a malicious or knowingly false report or complaint of harassment.
(C) Definitions
(1) Sexual harassment
(a) Pursuant to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, “sexual harassment” is defined as:
Unwelcome sexual advances, requests for sexual favors, and other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature, when:
(i) Submission to such conduct is made either implicitly
or explicity a term or condition of an individual's
employment, or status in a class, educational
program, or activity;
(ii) Submission or rejections of such conduct by
an individual is used as the basis for employment or
educational decision afffecting such individual; or
(iii) Such conduct has the purpose or effect of interfering with the individual’s work or educational performance; of creating an intimidating, hostile, or offensive working, and/or learning environment; or of interfering with one’s ability to participate in or benefit from a class or an educational program or activity.
Sexual harassment may involve the behavior of a person of either gender against a person of the same or opposite gender.
(b) Prohibited acts that constitute sexual harassment may take a variety of forms. Examples of the kinds of conduct that may constitute sexual harassment include, but are not limited to:
(i) Unwelcome sexual propositions, invitations,
Solicitations by posts, emails or private message;
(ii) Physical assault;
(iv) Unwelcome verbal expressions of a sexual
nature, including graphic sexual commentaries
about a person's body, dress, appearance, or
sexual activitites; the unwelcome use of sexually
degrading language, jokes or innuendoes;
unwelcome suggestive or insulting sounds or
whistles; obscene telephone calls;
(v) Sexually suggestive objects, pictures, videotapes,
audio recordings or literature, placed in posts, emails
or private messages, which may embarass
or offend individuals;
(vi) A pattern of conduct, which can be subtle in nature, that has sexual overtones and is intended to create or has the effect of creating discomfort and/or humiliation to another; and
(vii) Remarks speculating about a person’s sexual
activities or sexual history, or remarks about one's
own sexual activities or sexual history placed in posts,
emails or private messages
Not all behavior with sexual connotations constitutes unlawful sexual harassment.
(2) Other discriminatory harassment.
Other prohibited discriminatory harassment includes intimidation, ridicule or insults that unreasonably interferes with an individual’s comfort on PrisonPlace.com; creates an intimidating, hostile or offensive environment; or otherwise adversely affects an individual’s opportunities.
This type of discriminatory harassment applies to such conduct, which is based on an individual’s race, color, national origin, religion, disability or handicap, age, gender, sexual orientation, veteran status, or any other legally-protected characteristic. It includes actions such as repeated verbal abuse; the circulation of written material that demeans or exhibits hostility or dislike toward an individual or any of the aforementioned groups of persons; or inappropriate jokes or slurs.
(D Flaming and Trolling Flaming and trolling are two linked terms that refer to types of behavior on the Internet, and most notably derive from Usenet and BBS (bulletin board systems) systems. This type of behavior is still fairly common in IRC (Internet Relay Chat) and at sites such as Slashdot.org.FlamingThe term 'flaming' is defined slightly differently depending on which site you're on, but generally it means the same thing wherever you go. h2g2 defines it thus:Flaming means posting something that's angry and mean-spirited - the online equivalent of flying off the handle.... whereas, according to the Jargon Dictionary, the term 'flaming' originates at MIT1 from the phrase 'flaming ***'. The definition of 'flame' on this site goes on to define flaming in the following four ways:To post an email message intended to insult and provoke. To speak incessantly and/or rabidly on some relatively uninteresting subject or with a patently ridiculous attitude. Either of senses 1 or 2, directed with hostility at a particular person or people. (n) An instance of flaming. When a discussion degenerates into useless controversy, one might tell the participants 'Now you're just flaming' or 'Stop all that flamage!' to try to get them to cool down (so to speak).TrollingIt defined 'trolling' in three ways:... a posting designed to attract predictable responses or 'flames'; or, the post itself. Derives from the phrase 'trolling for newbies' which in turn comes from mainstream 'trolling', a style of fishing in which one trails bait through a likely spot hoping for a bite. The well-constructed troll is a post that induces lots of newbies and flamers to make themselves look even more clueless than they already do, while subtly conveying to the more savvy and experienced that it is in fact a deliberate troll. If you don't fall for the joke, you get to be in on it.... an individual who chronically trolls in sense 1; regularly posts specious arguments, flames or personal attacks to a newsgroup, discussion list, or in email for no other purpose than to annoy someone or disrupt a discussion. Trolls are recognizable by the fact that the have no real interest in learning about the topic at hand - they simply want to utter flame-bait. Like the ugly creatures they are named after, they exhibit no redeeming characteristics, and as such, they are recognized as a lower form of life on the net, as in, 'Oh, ignore him, he's just a troll.'... [Berkeley] Computer lab monitor. A popular campus job for C[computer] S[tudies] students. Duties include helping newbies and ensuring that lab policies are followed. Probably so-called because it involves lurking in dark, cave-like corners.Trolling is generally recognized as being an occupation rather than an occurrence, i.e. while people can (and do) flame for the sake of flaming, flaming can often simply be a manifestation of someone's overreaction to something someone else said. It is for this reason that while flaming is, almost without exception, frowned upon, trolling is more looked upon with scorn than its erstwhile counterpart. The website Slashdot.org, mentioned above, even goes so far as to have a method of forum moderation which allows postings to be classified as 'troll' (as well as such other labels as 'interesting', 'funny', and 'irrelevant'). Users who troll in situations like this generally troll for bait, as mentioned in the definition above.
GENERAL
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The administrator, harassment officer and moderators take a dim view if any member deliberately breaks these rules. This forum is to be enjoyed by ALL and rules are there for your protection.It would help in answering your questions if we knew where your location was, as different areas of the world have different laws and regulations concerning fish and water parametersThank you for observing the rules.
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