Moderation Policy

‘Moderation’ is the practice of:

  • Facilitating online discussions to ensure that everyone can take part in the conversation, get their views across and that the engagement meets its objectives
  • Maintaining the flow of the discussion by checking all posts in relation to the terms and conditions of the site.

A selection of external facilitators have been chosen to regularly visit the forum discussions and where appropriate submit posts to encourage discussion.

This forum will be facilitated by:

  • Roanne Dods, Co-director of Mission Models Money, dancer and former Director of Jerwood Charitable Foundation (facilitating Creative Practitioner)
  • Lucy Mason, freelance arts management consultant. Previously Chief Executive of Dance Base, Scotland's National Centre for Dance and Administrative Producer of Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre.  From 2007 - 2009, Performing Arts Advisor to the Scottish Government (facilitating Accessibility)
  • Katrina McPherson and Simon Fildes, independent media artists (facilitating Participation)
  • Marc Lambert, CEO Scottish Book Trust (facilitating International)

 

The facilitators always aim to be fair and objective. Facilitators are concerned with the quality of the discussion, not the interests of one individual, group or idea over another. They are responsible for ensuring that the forum discussion rules are respected and reserve the right to remove inappropriate posts and comments at any time.

Commenting/Discussion/Posting Rules
By registering with this site you agree to abide by the following rules.

  1. Debate should be lively but also respectful.
  2. Stay on-topic. Please don’t post messages that are unrelated to this online forum.
  3. Don’t post material which is offensive on grounds of race, religion, gender, nationality or sexuality or other personal characteristics.
  4. Don’t swear, use hate-speech or make obscene or vulgar comments.
  5. Don’t break the law. This includes defamation, condoning illegal activity and contempt of court (comments which might affect the outcome of an approaching court case).
  6. Please don’t post personal information: addresses, phone numbers, email addresses or other online contact details either relating to yourself or other individuals.
  7. Don’t engage in ‘spamming’. Please don’t add the same comment to more than one forum.
  8. Don’t advertise. You can mention relevant products and services as long as they support your comment.
  9. Don’t impersonate or falsely claim to represent a person or organisation. Please don’t mislead other users by abusing our registration procedure.
  10. Don’t post in a language other than English. We hope in the future to be able to support translation.
  11. Avoid being party political – this site is about consensus-building, not party political point-scoring.
  12. If you are aged 16 or under, please get your parent/guardian’s permission before participating in this online forum. Users without this consent are not allowed to participate or provide us with personal information.

If a comment contravenes the discussion rules it will be removed from the forum.