CHARTER: ch.talk.moderated        Discussions in general. (Moderated)
  <moderation /at\ ch-talk-moderated.use-net.ch> (Moderated)

  This newsgroup will include discussions in general,
  and may cover the following topics:

    - Discussions about Switzerland and its inhabitants
    - Discussions about Swiss culture
    - Topics which are of interest for Swiss, other people living in
      Switzerland or people visiting Switzerland.

  Defamation of other users as well as recurring propaganda and 
  repeated posting of essentially the same content is off-topic.

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ch.talk.moderated MODERATION CHARTER

  1. The moderation acts as a team. Decisions except for the cases stated 
     below are taken by consensus or by majority vote if necessary.

  2. Every article is reviewed by a moderator. The moderator can make
     a final decision about a posting reviewed by him or her. However, a
     moderator should not decide on his or her own postings. The moderation
     is not allowed to alter articles in any way.

  3. An article may be rejected if it

     a) is not written in an official language of ch.ALL;

     b) does not meet a topic mentioned in the charter;

     c) contains flames (insults);

     d) is crossposted to groups where it is obviously off-topic;

     e) is crossposted to more than two other groups or is part of excessive
        multiposting (spam);

     f) contains mainly advertisement, including political or religious;

     g) has essentially the same content as other postings written by
        the same author within the last two weeks;

     h) the author tries to open multiple threads on the same topic
        within a short time period;

     i) the author has opened a lot of threads within the recent past 
        without participating in the discussion.

    An article will always be rejected if

     j) its content is likely illegal in Switzerland;

     k) other postings with substantially identical content from the same
        author have already been approved;

     l) it is larger than 50 kB;

     m) it is crossposted to another moderated group;

     n) it is spam.

     o) the author uses someone else's name or if the author tries to use
        several different identities ("sock puppets").


   An article will be cancelled if

     o) it has bypassed the moderation.


  4. Postings which are not rejected for any of these reasons are approved and
     posted to ch.talk.moderated.

     If the moderator rejects a posting, the author will be notified by email
     if this is possible, except if the posting is obvious spam. Authors will
     automatically be notified, if for any reason their article is pending
     for more than twenty-four hours.

     Authors who try hinder the moderation by writing an excessive number of
     articles might generally be blacklisted up to six months if a two thirds
     majority of the moderators decides to do so. Authors should be warned
     before such action is taken.

  5. The current moderators are:

    - Michel Graedel
    - Raffael Herzog
    - Felix Holdener
    - Joerg Lorenz
    - Felix Rauch
    - Priska Rubischon
    - Gabriela Salvisberg

  6. New moderators may be proposed by the moderation. The proposal must be
     published at least in ch.admin and ch.talk.moderated. If less than five
     people object the proposal within two weeks, the proposed moderators
     will
     immediately join the team. Otherwise, they will only join the team if
     an
     election is held over a period of at least twenty-one days and the
     number
     of accepting votes is at least twice the number of objecting votes.

  7. A majority of all present moderators may decide to exclude another
     moderator from the team.

  8. Ten people may request to hold a vote on the question if a moderator 
     should stay in the moderation. A moderator must leave the moderation if 
     more votes on NO than on YES have been given. If the moderator is 
     accepted in the vote, people may not ask for a new vote on him or her
     for 
     one year.

  9. The moderation is suspended, if less than three moderators are active. In 
     this case, articles are auto-approved.

END MODERATION CHARTER.