Occasionally controversy can arise over the comments of an individual or the publication of an article. At this point, the web site administrators will need to think about what should be on the web site, and it is much easier to arbitrate between opinions if you have already done the thinking before controversy arises.

You can define an Acceptable Usage Policy for your site that describes your organisation's editorial policy. A link to this is given when posting a message to the forums or when submitting an article for publication.

You should write this policy to define what is acceptable content, so that editors and forum moderators have a set of guidelines to work by. The policy should be:

• Clear and understandable to all users of the site.
• Not subjective, try and define content in terms of fact not opinion to avoid disputes.
• Simple, consistent and easy to apply in practice.

The Acceptable Use Policy for your site can be written by Site Administrators, using the link under the Settings section.

As a starting point for adaptation, your web site has been created with a default Acceptable Usage Policy. To view and edit this policy see "Editing your site's Acceptable Usage Policy".