Voting Booth Rules
                               Vote Booth Rules
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                           << Updated 20-Jul-1992 >>


        In addition to the rules that govern the Cleveland Free-net, as set
by the Cleveland Free-Net Administration, below are a list of additional rules
for the Atari SIG's Vote Booth:

        Vote issues submitted to this area must directly or indirectly affect
the Atari Community.  An example of an issue directly affecting the Atari
Community is: "Do you think the Falcon will be under $1000?"  An example of
an indirect issue is "The price of Japanese chips is ridiculously lower then
domestic chips.  Should the U.S. Government have tariffs on foriegn chips?"

        As you can see a direct issue is an issue dealing with Atari Corp,
the Atari User, or the Atari Community as a whole.  An indirect issue is
an issue related more to the computer industry, but an issue that can still
affect Atari and its users.  As long as the issue has a clear relation to
Atari Corp, its users, or community, the issue is valid.

        Next, deliberate attacks on computer brands will not be tolerated.
An example of such an issue could be "Do you think X brand Computer Sucks?"
This is an obvious attack that can lead to useless "computer waring."

        Furthermore, it should go without saying that offensive language
will not be tolerated at all.  Posts containing offensive language will be
immediately removed.  

        Lastly, because this vote booth is a new feature to the SIG, it's
an experimental feature.  Therefore, these rules are subject to change without
prior notice outside this text file.  It is the users' responsibility to
read this rule file on a regular basis to keep up to date with the rules.
Furthermore, the Atari SIG Operators reserve the right to edit or remove
issues not meeting the above criteria or otherwise unappropriate for this
vote group.  Any issues that have been changed will be re-posted as an
"edited issue."
        Because this new area is experimental and has never been tried by
the Atari SIGOps before, mistakes and difficulties may arise.  Please
direct and problems, comments, suggestions, gripes to the Atari SIG
Vote Administrator, Mark Leair, at aa338@po.cwru.edu.  

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