OLOMORO TELESCOPE (OLOMOTEL) HOUSE RULES

WHEREAS the members of Olomoro Telescope (hereinafter the “Forum”) have agreed to be governed by Rules for the smooth administration and functioning of the group;
AND WHEREAS the members of the Forum have willingly and unanimously agreed to be bound by the provision of the Rules.
We the members of the Forum have now made for our goodselves the following Rules to bind us as members of the group:

OBJECTIVES OF OLOMORO TELESCOPE
The Forum seeks primarily, to afford members the opportunity of discussing issues pertaining to Olomoro (Town and Villages) in the following areas, amongst others:
1. Her History;
2. Her Festival;
3. Her Market/Market days;
4. Her custom/tradition, as it relates to Marriage and attendant ceremonies;
5. Burial of her indigenes, and non-indigenes domicile in her land;
6. Security/vigilante in and around her vicinity;
7. Her industrialisation;
8. Skills acquisition/training of her indigenes;
9. Monitoring of projects sited on her land;
10. The state of existing public facilities in her domain- i.e Schools, Hospitals/Healthcare Center(s) etc;
11. The role of politics in her quest for development.
These objectives are achievable upon strict adherence of the following:

RULE 1
MEMBERSHIP
(i) Membership of the forum is open to primarily indigenes of Olomoro, and indigenes of other communities in Nigeria and beyond, who identify with the objectives of this Forum and willfully agreed to be bound by these Rules.
(ii) Members must have well updated facebook account disclosing their true identities, to wit: sex, home town, occupation and personal photographs. Failure to comply with this rule will lead to the deletion of all comments made by that pseudo user identity.

(iii) Where it is alleged that an account is fake, such user identity will be referred to an adhoc committee to be set up by the Administrator as soon as such issue is raised.
(iv) The adhoc committee shall cause to investigate the genuineness or otherwise of such user identity. Where the user identity is found not to be genuine by the committee, the administrator shall report to the Forum the findings of the ad hoc committee with the purpose of seeking the consent and approval of the Forum before any removal of such member from the forum.
(v) The number of vote needed to delete a member from the forum upon the findings of the committee shall be simple majority of members who comment on the ad hoc committee’s request for removal. Comment for and against the removal of an alleged fake member shall be valid for one clear day upon which comments for and against will be counted.

RULE 2
APPLICATION
(i) The Rules shall apply to media submissions such as images, video and audio clips etc.
General Rules Principles.
(ii) It shall be unlawful for Forum member(s) to use Names which contain:
a) website or email addresses, contact information (i.e. phone numbers, postcodes etc), appear to impersonate someone else;
b) vulgar or swear words;
c) considered likely to disrupt, provoke, attack or offend others;
d) elements of racism, sexist, homophobic, sexually explicit;

(iii) It shall be unlawful to:
a) advertise products or services for profit or gain;
b) include contact details such as phone numbers, postal or email addresses;
c) post or comment in anything in any other language(s) than English or Isoko;
d) advertise products or promoting products or websites;
Notwithstanding the provision of Rule 2(iii)(d) above, a member may be allowed to post or add any link which may be relevant to a debate.
iv) Members shall be allowed to post or add links to websites that sell albums or book if same is aimed at helping another member or recommending something they would like. However, posting or adding up links to your own band’s album or trying to drive buyers to your Products or fundraising site may result in your post or comment being removed.
v) Where a member intends to post or add any work which is authored by another person, such author’s permission shall be sought or the author properly acknowledge, failing which, same shall be deleted.
vi) Unintelligible languages such as codes are not allowed as this may disrupt the natural flow of conversation.

vii) Post or comment containing potentially defamatory, derogatory, disrespectful, distasteful or abusive statements are prohibited, and thus liable to be expunged.
Without prejudice to sub (vii) of this rule, truth contained in the comment(s) of a member may be an absolute defence.
viii) Comments that are unrelated to the subject of the lead post entry are considered ‘off-topic’. Such
comments shall be expunged.

RULE 3
FEEDBACK
Olomoro Telescope welcomes feedback, both positive and negative, about our programmes and services, however comments must be guided by the House Rules.

RULE 4
SANCTION
i) Member(s) who contravene the Rules shall be liable to various forms of sanctions, comprising the following:
(a) warning;
(b) suspension;
(c) outright removal/expulsion; and or
(d) compelled apology.
(ii) The administrator of the Forum shall at any time notify the forum to appoint an adhoc committee comprising himself and other 2 members to determine whether a post/comments/word(s) used contravenes the Rules, and thereafter recommend appropriate sanction(s).

RULE 5.
INTERPRETATION
In this rule
“Ad hoc Committee” shall mean a body of not less than 2 members of the Forum of a temporary nature with a specific assignment.

“Post or Lead Post” shall mean the lead write up that opened the discussion.

“Comment” shall mean sub-post under the lead post.

DISCLAIMER: The views expressed in Olomoro Telescope are the views of the individuals posting or making them. Neither the administrator(s) nor members of the forum will be held liable for any individual’s opinion(s) or any form of inaccuracies or impersonation.

Dated September 20, 2012