The Acceptable Use Policy

Purpose

The Acceptable Use Policy is a simple set of guidelines determining
behavior in eglug. The intention is not to restrict, but rather to
provide the barest possible protection for members in order to provide
a respectable and constructive working environment for the site. The
AUP is as follows.

The Policy

The following kinds of speech will not be allowed on the eglug.org website:

1. No content violating the laws of Egypt.
2. No Hate speech against individuals or groups.
3. No personal attacks.
4. No Profanity or sexualy explicit content.
5. No off topic content.

Topic

The JUG is created to promote the Java technologies and support the Egyptians developer. Also one of the main objectives is the OpenSource promotion. It is understood that the line between on-topic and off-topic is
sometimes not too clear, and the benefit of the doubt will be given as
often as possible. Only clear violations of this rule will be
considered a violation of the Acceptable Use Policy.

Blogs

Blogs are a special area of the eglug.org website, their goal is to
foster community and to enable social interaction between members.

The rule about off topic content is relaxed fully when it comes to blogs, blog writers can write about anything they want as long as they don't violate the rest of the rules.

When it comes to religion and philosophy, you have the
right to express your believes even if it contradicts other religions
as long as it doesn't insult/attack them, there's a very fine line
between both.

Moderation

It is moderators duty to ensure that content published on the egjug.org website does not violate the rules stated above.

Moderators are to avoid editing members posts, they should instead
unpublish the post and ask the author to edit the post till it complies
with the rules.

Moderators shall not delete content from the website
permenantly, posts violating the rules shall be unpublished and moved
to a locked location, any member has the right to request monitoring
moderation descisions and looking at moderated posts.

A public trail of the moderation descision citing the
author of the violating post, the name of the moderator and the reason
for moderation shall be provided, failure to do so will be considered
violation of the moderators mandate.

Any moderation descision can be revoked through the consensus of 3 moderators or by the EGJUG Leader.