BALLOT FOR REVIEW
(Items will not be numbered in the Charter. They are numbered here so that people can object to them by number.)
1. Be the Admin you want everyone else to be.
2. Prioritize functioning as an Admin. You can still post as a normal poster yet your priority should lie in keeping the board running smoothly, attending to requests, helping to work on any pending agendas and generally strive to make Board 77 a better place for all members
3. Read the Administrators' Handbook, observe all the by-laws of the board, and enforce them uniformly. If you are unsure of your authority to take a particular action, use your best judgment and confer with another admin as soon as it is possible to do so. Act as a model poster in accordance with all the rules laid out for board 77
4. Keep the other Admins updated regularly in a dedicated thread in the Admin forum.
5. If you are going to be absent from the board for more than 72 hours, notify the other admins by posting in the management forum and delegate any pending tasks
6. Assign priority to answering business-related PM's and emails. If you cannot handle the request of a member yourself, let them know that you have given it to another admin.
7. Don’t ‘hide’ being online. Having volunteered as an admin you have agreed to be available and members need to know which Admins are online.
8. When posting references to other threads, insert them as clickable links naming the full thread-title to make the posting experience an easy and pleasurable one for everyone.
9. If you have to edit someone else’s post, note this in the post with your name and the date.
10. Help the admins-in-training to the best of your abilities
11. Treat all posters the same. When editing posts, answering requests, or enforcing by-laws, be courteous and do not try to intimidate posters with your office.
12. Please don't try to influence the behavior of our posters on other boards, either by discouraging them from posting or encouraging them to post certain things, or by telling them that what they do on other boards will have consequences for them on B77.
13. If you are going to be absent for two full weeks or more, you must notify the other admins in the management forum and arrange in advance for a temporary admin to take your place.
14. If you find you must be absent for more than four full weeks, we ask you to resign because a temporary admin cannot be appointed to replace you. This will not affect your future eligibility, although you will return to the bottom of the roster as if you had served your term.
15. If you are asked to set up and oversee an Arbitration or a Hearing on a Ban, do so promptly.
16. Try to face criticism from posters calmly and not take it personally.
17. If you receive a warning because of a violation of the Code of Conduct, please accept it with good grace. You will always be given a chance to explain your side of any issue. Warnings are not made public, and if they do not accumulate into a Formal Complaint, no record is kept of them.
18. There are certain things which might result in your removal from office, and by agreeing to the Code of Conduct you are agreeing to these terms as well:
• You will not deliberately or maliciously ban posters who are entitled to a hearing or suspend posting rights without due process, except in the course of exercising Extraordinary powers
• You will not reveal private information to which you have access because of your office, such as profile information that members have made hidden or the contents of secret ballots cast by PM or email
• You will not give another poster access to the admin panel
• You will not boast on the board about criminal activities or encourage other posters to engage in them, such as use of illicit substances, activities forbidden to minors, obtaining bootleg films or CDs or other violations of copyright law.
19. If you have been accused of any activity that would result in your removal from office, you have a right to a hearing.
Please Select A or B:
A. I accept all 19 points in the Code of Conduct
B. I would like to exclude point(s) [# ] list all numbers you want excluded