Newsnet Scotland retains the right to moderate comments, and will remove a comment from chat rooms, electronic bulletin boards, user nets or electronic open forum debates for any of the following reasons:
* Use of abusive or offensive language.
* Personal attacks on other posters.
* Revealing personal information about other posters such as name, private address, phone number, email address or other details.
* ‘Trolling’, spamming, 'flame wars' and/or deliberate attempts to disrupt or derail a thread.
* Comments which are defamatory or which could result in Newsnet Scotland facing legal action.
* Commercial advertising of any kind not previously approved by the Newsnet Management Team.
* Comments which advocate or incite criminal behaviour.
* Comments which are abusive or which incite hatred on the basis of a person’s race, religion, gender, nationality, sexuality or any other personal characteristic. This specifically includes both anti-Scottish hate language and anti-English hate language. This also includes sectarian comments of any kind.
* Comments which link to sites containing offensive or illegal material.
* Comments which are in a language other than Gaelic, Scots or English and whose content cannot be checked by a moderator.
* If you are under 16 your comments may be removed unless you have parental permission to participate on this site.
For the first few days after they start to post comments, those with newly registered IDs will be pre-moderated by our moderation team. Pre-moderated comments will only become visible once they have been checked and approved by a member of the moderation team. Once a week we update our membership lists and newly registered IDs whose comments have been approved will be transferred to post-moderation.
When comments are post-moderated they become visible to the public immediately they are posted. These comments are reviewed by our moderation team after they have become public. Comments which fall foul of the guidelines given above will be removed and the person responsible for the comment may be excluded from all future participation in Newsnet Scotland chat rooms, electronic bulletin boards, user nets or open forum debates.
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