secondlife » ISTE SL Community Code of Conduct

We'd like to come up with some general guidelines about community conduct for ISTE Island. Please use the space below to make suggestions and comments.

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The purpose of ISTE Island is to foster learning, networking, and educational exploration among ISTE's membership base and the wider educator community. In the spirit of this open exploration, the group sponsors presentations and other educational activities, social networking occasions, and resource sharing. A robust volunteer corps supports these activities, introduces new ideas and initiatives to the community, and welcomes new and returning visitors to the island.

These are our fundamental rules for anyone visiting the island:

- Respect: It is expected that group members and visitors will be respectful of differing opinions and backgrounds. Healthy disagreement is encouraged. However, anyone making insulting or personally disrespectful comments will be asked to leave.

- Selling: The purpose of ISTE Island is for the generous exchange of information among members. Culturally, hard selling is discouraged by the group. Visitors who would like to leave information about a product or who would like to schedule a time to talk to interested group members about a product must first make arrangements with an island manager. Visitors who fail to do so may be asked to leave.

- Building and placing objects: In keeping with the spirt of ISTE Island's collaborative intent, the island allows building by visitors provided it is not of an inappropriate or destructive nature. This means that you may share a resource with a group or practice your building skills. Please be aware that all objects are auto returned after 90 minutes. Types of objects that are considered destructive or inappropriate would include distracting or noisy scripted objects, objects that do harm to other avatars (weapons or pushing tools), anything that is mature/adult/sexual in nature, or any type of object that causes the sim to become extremely laggy due to the object's memory demands, etc.

- Appropriate behavior: ISTE Island is a PG island, meaning that all mature/sexual behavior is prohibited. Avatars that proposition or make suggestive remarks to other avatars on ISTE Island will be banned. Please also use good judgment when unpacking freebies as many free items in SL contain mature attachments, clothing, etc.