Agri-ville Guidelines and Responsibilities

[joedales]

Hi Everyone:

I respond to all of the complaints that are sent to me regarding the posts on Agriville and use my best judgement on how to handle them.

The complaints range from swearing and inappropriate language which I some times remove while leaving the rest of the message...repeat offenders have been warned once in a while and they usually clean up the language.

I also get more serious complaints about personal attacks and threats aimed at individuals which have legal consequences and I address them - often removing the inappropriate materials.

We also have to watch posting of copyrighted materials on Agri-ville...

I hope this helps you understand how and when we might be involved with the postings on Agriville.

I have added in the Use Guidelines again for everyone.



Community Centre Guidelines

Agri-ville.com is built around an online community setting. The fifteen discussion forums are what make Agri-ville.com unique. It is here that you can ask questions, connect with other producers across Canada, and get assistance in finding timely and credible answers to your farm and agri-food problems.

We have added rooms and updated a few to further enhance your Agri-ville.com experience, including dairy, crop production/forage, livestock/fur/sheep, pork/poultry production and horticulture.

We encourage reading and/or contributing to the many discussions taking place. It is extremely important to Agri-ville.com that we respect the privacy and the opinions of our members. By offering you the ability to post information, ideas and opinions using aliases we create an opportunity to participate without fear of personal attack or prosecution.

To ensure you and the other Agri-ville members get the most out of Agri-ville we have a few guidelines for you to follow.

Meeting Room Guidelines

Following these simple and easy guidelines will help keep the discussion/debate interesting and worthwhile for all Agri-ville.com members.

· Check the Meeting Room before posting a question; just to ensure you're not asking a question someone else already has posted.

Keep your questions and comments related to the subject

Participate! Don't be shy, answer or comment on a posting that interests you.

Do not dominate a conversation. Allow others the ability to express their views and opinions.

Revisit Agri-ville.com frequently to keep up with the newest postings.
Non-Acceptable Postings -The following types of postings will NOT be tolerated in Agri-ville.com:

Remarks that personally threaten any Agri-ville.com participant, including members and moderators.

Remarks that are slanderous or defaming in any form.

Remarks that use profanity.


Censorship

The operators of Agri-ville.com will not act as a content censorship group. Therefore, we ask you to use your own good judgment when posting in the forums on whether your message creates an environment that encourages learning and strong debate. Agri-ville.com is for all to share, learn and grow.

Thank you for participating in Agri-ville.com.

If you have questions or concerns, please contact me at 877-438-5729 x5013 or joe.dales@farms.com

Thanks again,

Joe Dales

[checking]

Maybe its time to go back to only writing letters to the editor of major credible newspapers. There you stick your neck out and clearly identify where the authorship lies. I've always had great respect for all those people; regardless of there opinions.
It wasn't just vaders post that was removed; it was also all the other replies to his post. As was pointed out in those replies; one of the lapses in judgement is to not clearly identify who and for what purpose you are using another persons words.
"Hiding behind aliases" can be viewed as a cowards way of expressing your opinion. If only we could respect another persons right to their opinion; and let the debate rage freely; then even the alias system would work credibly.
We all have written words we would like to take back. Vader isn't the only one who should have that ability. There's also a post back about Jan 26 that was totally offensive to "the few rich farmers"; "raging masses' etc. etc.
I also can't find a very recent post about 130 truckloads of grain purportedly sold into the USA for seed. Did it get censored too; or is my blood pressure just too high this morning.
Censorship invovles more that just covering up mistakes; errors and lapses in judgement. It deserves a full debate in itself.

[TOM4CWB]

Checking,

You mean this one?

Agstar77; What are you doing at seeding?

"If you are the seed grower Who has exported 130 loads of so-called seed wheat, you might be in court. Apparently a an American trucking firm was hired and wheat was shipped as seed to the U.S. for 24 a Bus. and bought for 16, from local farmers."

Checking... I believe Joe and the moderators have done a reasonable job... and I thank them for spending the time and energy to allow us to think through things... on line... if you really like a post you read... cut and paste it into a word document... and that way you can save it for yourself for as long as you like!

Again... thanks to farms.com... and all those who make this a great privilege... it is not a right to have this Agriville 'blog'... it is a privilege.

Happy 'checking'!

[melvill]

It's important that Agri-ville users remember that Charlie and I volunteer as moderators. We do this with the full knowledge or our manager even though some or the work is done during work time.

Our gain is learning what a group of producers is thinking about marketplace policy and marketing strategies. We think the trade off between time spent and what we learn makes it worthwhile. However, I will confess that at times we feel very frustrated with the negativism of some of the posts. If I were to take the late Ken Logan's advice - my wife's uncle but now deceased and a very successful farmer and past president of South West Terminal - who always said 'Don't waste your time around negative people' - I'd have stopped being a moderator long ago.

Tom4cwb, thanks for your kind words. Your freshly printed $50 bill is in the mail.

[melvill]

Lee, I respect what your're saying, but I think unless you are an ACTUAL PRODUCER, it is hard to undestand what we the producers go through.

Lots of people on this site are very smart on what the farmer needs to do to make money, and yet they don't grow one bushel of grain.

I get very passionate about CWB discussions, no different if I were talking to the person face to face, because it's MY MONEY paying for Agstar, and Vader to sit on their computer to write on this website.

Until it's your money they're screwing with....... Tough to have an opinion.

[Burbert]

This WAS a free country, the last time I checked. Maybe something changed overnight, the internet censorship law, what a joke. Banishment, cause of swearing and joking around, yeah right. What next, no racy pics on the interweb, no missinformation allowed. The missinformation highway, will come crashing down, the end is near. Forget global warming. Canadian/comedian censorship, is the real threat to the free world oops sorry about that another useless rant! Attempt to be funny, that got me banned too, a while ago. What a farce, Angriville at its worst, censorship, in the hands of a private entity! Farmers angry at one another, not likely to happen, cause we country folk all git along sooo well......

[agstar77]

You have never and will never pay me to post on this site, snappy, I do it because I am concerned for the future of our industry and country. Whether I am right or wrong at least we can have the discussion.