SABRE's statements of practice outline the general working procedures relating to the day-to-day running of the Society and its online facilities. The ultimate authority remains the SABRE Constitution, last updated 26 March 2020, which underpins many of the protocols outlined here.
The word "user" refers to any Discussion Group Member or Voting Member with an account on any of SABRE's online facilities.
These statements of practice are not exhaustive. If you are in any doubt about what to do, please do not hesitate to contact the President or Site Management Team.
SABRE is a site for discussion, education, and research about roads, as per its Mission Statements. The Society, through its Discuss forums and other online presence, aims to foster an ethos of reasoned, open, and constructive discussion and debate among people of all ages, occupations, and backgrounds, with strong and widely varying opinions. SABRE is neither pro- nor anti-roads, and the Discuss forums are not intended for campaigning on minor issues.
SABRE's User Guidelines illustrate the things users should keep in mind when posting, to uphold this ethos. We expect all users, regardless of rank or role, to follow these guidelines whenever they engage with any of the online facilities operated by SABRE.
Where users fail to follow these guidelines, and thus reject the ethos of fair and constructive debate, they are liable to moderation action from the Site Management Team as per the Moderation Policy.
The Site Management Team (SMT) are ultimately responsible for the running of SABRE and its online facilities. The President usually also appoints Social Media Admins, Wiki Admins, and the Maps Team to assist the SMT in those specific areas. All of these officers monitor the facilities for which they are responsible, to ensure users are abiding by the User Guidelines, and other regulations where applicable (such as our Copyright Policy, outlined below).
There are various actions the SMT can take to deal with an infraction of the guidelines. Each will be dealt with individually, and the moderation action taken will depend on the nature of the infraction.
The moderation actions outlined below are generally sufficient
A ban refers to the termination of a user's SABRE membership. The Constitution sets out the limited scenarios where a user's account may be liable to termination, and this policy outlines in more detail the processes which must be followed in each of these scenarios.
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SABRE is legally bound by intellectual property protection legislation, including copyright.
Uploading images and other media to SABRE (including Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki, the Photo Gallery, or uploaded as an attachment on the Discuss forums) that you have found elsewhere on the Internet can infringe copyright laws. The Site Management Team will therefore be obliged to remove any such media.
We appreciate that this media may well play a role in discussions that take place on SABRE. To avoid copyright infringement, for which SABRE or its Site Management Team may be held legally responsible, we ask you to provide a link to the original source of the media rather than re-uploading it.
Copyright law also provides for a grey area of "fair use", where copyrighted material is used in a transformative manner as a basis for original work. A limited fair use policy applies to small map extracts uploaded to Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki. These map extracts must be tagged with the {{ newmap}} template so that they can be easily identified.
Some images have Creative Commons licenses, which allow re-use under certain conditions. If you wish to upload such images to the SABRE Wiki, then please ensure that information about the original source and its Creative Commons re-use licence is included. This is done for you with the automated Geograph and Flickr upload form that is available for use.
All maps scanned and uploaded to SABRE Maps must be within the public domain. We cannot accept any maps that are still subject to copyright.
SABRE's statements of practice outline the general working procedures relating to the day-to-day running of the Society and its online facilities. The ultimate authority remains the SABRE Constitution, last updated 26 March 2020, which underpins many of the protocols outlined here.
The word "user" refers to any Discussion Group Member or Voting Member with an account on any of SABRE's online facilities.
These statements of practice are not exhaustive. If you are in any doubt about what to do, please do not hesitate to contact the President or Site Management Team.
SABRE is a site for discussion, education, and research about roads, as per its Mission Statements. The Society, through its Discuss forums and other online presence, aims to foster an ethos of reasoned, open, and constructive discussion and debate among people of all ages, occupations, and backgrounds, with strong and widely varying opinions. SABRE is neither pro- nor anti-roads, and the Discuss forums are not intended for campaigning on minor issues.
SABRE's User Guidelines illustrate the things users should keep in mind when posting, to uphold this ethos. We expect all users, regardless of rank or role, to follow these guidelines whenever they engage with any of the online facilities operated by SABRE.
Where users fail to follow these guidelines, and thus reject the ethos of fair and constructive debate, they are liable to moderation action from the Site Management Team as per the Moderation Policy.
The Site Management Team (SMT) are ultimately responsible for the running of SABRE and its online facilities. The President usually also appoints Social Media Admins, Wiki Admins, and the Maps Team to assist the SMT in those specific areas. All of these officers monitor the facilities for which they are responsible, to ensure users are abiding by the User Guidelines, and other regulations where applicable (such as our Copyright Policy, outlined below).
There are various actions the SMT can take to deal with an infraction of the guidelines. Each will be dealt with individually, and the moderation action taken will depend on the nature of the infraction.
The moderation actions outlined below are generally sufficient
A ban refers to the termination of a user's SABRE membership. The Constitution sets out the limited scenarios where a user's account may be liable to termination, and this policy outlines in more detail the processes which must be followed in each of these scenarios.
If
SABRE is legally bound by intellectual property protection legislation, including copyright.
Uploading images and other media to SABRE (including Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki, the Photo Gallery, or uploaded as an attachment on the Discuss forums) that you have found elsewhere on the Internet can infringe copyright laws. The Site Management Team will therefore be obliged to remove any such media.
We appreciate that this media may well play a role in discussions that take place on SABRE. To avoid copyright infringement, for which SABRE or its Site Management Team may be held legally responsible, we ask you to provide a link to the original source of the media rather than re-uploading it.
Copyright law also provides for a grey area of "fair use", where copyrighted material is used in a transformative manner as a basis for original work. A limited fair use policy applies to small map extracts uploaded to Roader's Digest: The SABRE Wiki. These map extracts must be tagged with the {{ newmap}} template so that they can be easily identified.
Some images have Creative Commons licenses, which allow re-use under certain conditions. If you wish to upload such images to the SABRE Wiki, then please ensure that information about the original source and its Creative Commons re-use licence is included. This is done for you with the automated Geograph and Flickr upload form that is available for use.
All maps scanned and uploaded to SABRE Maps must be within the public domain. We cannot accept any maps that are still subject to copyright.