Site Policies, Usage Guidelines & Important Info

[Kipuka Theatre Admin]

Mission Statement: Kipuka Theater is the source for new beginnings. We are a company of artists dedicated to the alchemy of art through the sharing of ideas and skills that contribute to our work. We are a community's theater that aims to showcase an art form that is designed by inspiration, innovation and artist support; all for the purpose of igniting ideas and movements through our progressive theatrical forum.

Code of Ethics: Site members are expected to uphold an ethic standard as follows:

• Be honest and truthful
  
• Do not purposely say anything hurtful
  
• No insulting, antagonizing or personally attacking other users.
  
• No posting of anyone's personal contact information.
  

Content Guidelines:

• No promoting agendas that counter our Mission Statement.
  
• Positive energy should be used with content relating towards the achievement of our Mission Statement. Negative content should be approached with the goal of finding constructive solutions to existing problems.
  
• Controversial informational claims should include a verifiable source of the information or note that the information is "unverified".
  
• No rude, disruptive or disorderly behavior.
  
• Posts should not promote negativity in collectivist mindsets that view humans as members of groups rather than individuals. Such forms of collectivism include sexism, racism, antisemitism; they will not be tolerated here.
  
• Posts should respect the intent and desires of the Topic Starter.
  
• No posting of graphically offensive material, use links with warnings.
  

When starting new topics:

• Post topic in the best fit forum.
  
• Use relevant and descriptive topic titles.
  
• Topic titles should not include unverified information or vulgar language.
  

Moderation Process:
Users are welcome to report activity destructive to the community as specified in the guidelines by submitting a Private Message to one of the Forum Admins.

Topics starters are welcome to report violations or hijackings of their threads. As there is no grand consensus on what is offensive and what isn't, if you take exception to a personal remark someone has made towards you please use the Private Message facility of this forum to work out a resolution and understanding. It is understandable to publicly post a stated objection to the statement and indicate that the issue will be taken up in private.

Moderators will investigate reported posts and take appropriate action for guidelines compliance, this can include:

• Editing the post so it conforms to the guidelines.
  
• Deleting the post or moving it.
  
• In some cases, a user will receive a PM warning or "Warning" about a violation of the guidelines. These will be kept private and no other user knows they happened. One main purpose of these is for the site staff to leverage a forum feature that keeps two moderators from dealing with the same issue.
  
• For extreme violations a ban can be issued, such as for advocating violence or for obvious spam-bots.
  

If you would like to appeal the decision of a moderator send a PM to Kipuka Theatre Admin

If you were banned and would like to appeal the ban send an e-mail to [e-mail]

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