| Page 2 of 6: Please read the following and click on one of the two links below. When clicking on "I accept", you accept to follow the rules of cluster.dk - and 1. that you have understood the previous page 100% 2, that you have understood this page 100% 3. that you will fill out the following pages of this wizard with trustworthy data The rules below are not nessassary newly updated. A fully updated set of Rules are always found at cluster.dk - click "Info" - click "Rules" The rules found at "Info" / "Rules" are always the correct set of Rules. Rules at cluster.dk (by 19/08/2003): 0. Your profile Your cluster.dk profile is personal - you are responsible for your profile. Your password is personal, therefore do not give or tell the password to anyone. We strongly recommend: - use a password mixed by letters and numbers - change your password on a regular basis - never use a password that is used anywhere else - emmidiately change password if anyone might know your password (or parts of it). Only you are responsible for the profile and password. 1. Behaviour Please behave at cluster.dk as this cluster was YOUR cluster - and use this cluster as all other users are using the cluster. If you feel someone are abusing the system, please contact Administrator emmidiately. Do not try to solve problems yourself. 2. Spots A: It is totally prohibited to send testspots at cluster.dk. We do not accept testspots at all. If you believe that there are problems with cluster.dk system, please write a short e-mail to Administrator! If you have to test your own e-mail address, you must use our Test Center. To find the Test Center: click on the Test Center-buttom on "Report new spot"-page. Testspots sent as normal spots are not accepted! B: Please only spot stations, that are truely active at the time you make the spot. Do not make spots like "worked 30 minutes ago". C: Please do not spot stations, that you believe are "fake stations" (for instance transmitting from another DXCC than they claim to be in). D: Please never spot yourself, neither your personal callsign nor your activation callsign. E: Please do not use spots for "general info" (general info examples: "I am active now", "Bad propagation today", "When will xxx be active?" etc). Spots are only to tell friends about an stations active on air right now. For "general info": Use the Message Board. F: "NIL"-spots are only for reporting stations active on air right now, that you cannot hear. 3. HAM related info cluster.dk is for 11-meter community only. Do not write about HAM-related activity, do especially not write about HAM-activations, and do never write about HAM-activations, if this team also is involved in 11-meter band. The spot-section is only for 11-meter spots. 4. Respect Please respect that this cluster is no weapon to run wars at all. I.e. between single individuals or DX-clubs. It is absolutely prohibited to use the cluster for abuse purposes. This cluster is a neutral cluster. Abuse will cause abandoning from cluster.dk and related sites emmidiately. Therefore: be neutral. Make only true spots and use only objective text in the comment-field. In this way no one will feel harmed or hurt. 5. Comments Do not write personal comments, jokes, questions, greetings etc. in the comment-field at ”Report new spot”-page. The comment-field is only for objective text regarding the spotted station. All text must be written in clear and understandable English language and must be 100% valid. Do not make a spot at ”Report new spot”-page or a message at the MessageBoard if the intention is not clear for you - and will be 100% clear to all other users of cluster.dk. Do not use text at cluster.dk, that might hurt other users. It is totally prohibited to swear (to use words like "fu**", "sh**" etc.) 6. Validity Only 100% valid information (i.e. e-mail addresses, spotted callsigns, frequencies etc) may be used in the system (e-mail address fields at “Change user info”-page, information at ”Report new spot”-page, at the MessageBoard etc.). Please only report stations, that actually are _active right now_ . 7. Callsigns It is compulsory to use our defined standard for writing callsigns (QRZ) in the system. The defined system must be used for both own QRZ and reported QRZ. The system is:
For unitnumbers with 4 digits: 47TR1268. Please also see the help text and examples at "Report new spot"-page. 8.Information It is not allowed to use information from cluster.dk in other clusters, mailinglists etc., without written permission from cluster.dk. It is not allowed to change format, colours etc. at cluster.dk Iframes (spot-windows and banners). Do not subscribe to cluster.dk, if you plan to abuse information from cluster.dk. 9. Commentfield The comment-field must be filled with only objective information. Use the commentfield for relevant information about the spottet station only. It is A: use other languages than English (only English language is accepted). B: use the commentfield to ask questions in any way (do never ask questions - use the MessageBoard) C: report stations, that are not active right now (only active stations on air right now must be reported) D: use words like "Bingo", "at last in log", "Finally", "Thanks Mr. X" (please only use objective and informative text, do not write personal comments!!) E: send personal greetings (do not write "Thanks Mr. X, "Thanks for nice activation" etc.) F: write the same signs/letter several times (do not write "!!!!!!!!", "Proggiiiiiiiiiiie", "5/9+++++++++++++" - instead write e.g. 5/9+40) G: Write longer text than needed (keep text as short as possible - write all interesting information, but nothing more than that.) 10. Bouncing mail Usages of fake, invalid or bouncing e-mail addresses - or invalid information in any way is not accepted, and the profile will be deleted emmidiately. Usages of more than one profile pr. user is not accepted. Abuse will cause expulsion from cluster.dk and related sites immediately, without warning and without explaining information. 11. PR - Public Relations It is prohibited to use cluster.dk for reporting spots / use the MessageBoard only A: for fun B: to make PR for a specifik radiostation, clubstation or activity station C: to make PR for a specific club D: to make PR for a specific internetsite All spots made must be made in order to share the information with all users, not with other intentions. In case you like to have general information at cluster.dk, please contact Administrator in order to arrange a banner. Blindpostings (general postings, addressed to all users) are not accepted. 12. Patience Mail to cluster.dk will normally be answered within 2-3 days. Before writting to cluster.dk, please read cluster.dk FAQ. 13. Acceptance In case you cannot accept the terms of using cluster.dk, please delete your profile emmidiately. 14. Other Rules A: You can have only one (1) profile at cluster.dk. B: Only clear written text with European characters set is allowed (no cw, no China-letters etc.) Specific Rules for MessageBoard 15. English All text must be written in English language. Messages in other languages might provoke other users and is thereby not accepted. 16. Spots All spots must be sent via the spot-section (the buttom "Report new spot".) t is not acceptable to use the MessageBoard for spots (A spot is received by up to several thousand users - a message at the Messageboard is only read by the users reading messages online at the cluster). As we have a very good cluster-section, this has to be used for questions. 17. General usage A: All text must be positive and friendly. B: Fights in any way is not allowed. C: Patronized writing is not accepted. D: Negative words and/or provokations in any way are not accepted. E: Jokes and/or irony are not accepted. F: Do not discuss other users, other radiostations, other groups or clubs, politics, sports etc. G: Do not discuss HAM-activities related to 11-meter - or 11-meter activities related to HAM-bands. H: It is totally prohibited to swear (to use words like "fu**", "sh**" etc.) cluster.dk does not want to hurt any users. 18. Discussions Discussion and irony might be understood by some users in a negative way, and is thereby not accepted. 19. Acceptance Abuse will cause expulsion from cluster.dk and related sites immediately, without warning and without explaining information. The Rules of cluster.dk can be changed without any warning. Now, please click at one of the 2 links: | |
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