I've got two Zs, but mine just add up to 15 so I've got less to worry about.

Now Guidelines for terms of service.

Guidelines on using this site

When you use this site your usage is governed by the Terms of Service
for the site. This underpins the relationship between you and the site,
but like all legal documents is designed to cover 'worst case'
situations. For day to day use you are entitled to know how we will
interpret that document and how we expect you to conduct yourself in
accordance with it. With a common understanding we can make
DPRevived.com a comfortable and rewarding space for everyone. This
document takes you through the provisions of 'acceptable use', why they
are there, and how we'd like you to shape your site usage in response.

Content standards

1. You may not post or upload any material which is illegal in the
   jurisdictions of the federal United States of America, the European
   Union or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

   This should go without saying. If you post material that might cause
   the forces of the law to come down on this site, you have done the
   whole community a huge disservice. Moreover, if you do it, we'll
   report you to the law enforcement agencies, so you'll have done
   yourself a huge disservice.

2. You may not post or upload content which is liable to cause harm or
   distress to other people, including personal abuse and offensive
   discourse targeting a group or an individual based on inherent
   characteristics (such as race, religion or gender) and that might
   threaten social peace.

   This is much more complex. The last part is the UN definition of
   'hate speech', which must very definitely be kept off the site under
   all circumstances. Content that is liable to cause harm or distress
   is clearly more of a judgment. As a site, we will make that judgment
   and remove material that we believe falls the wrong side. We would
   much prefer it if our members make an appropriate judgment for
   themselves, so we don't have to. Here are some guidelines.

   • Be empathetic. Something that would cause you distress would be
     likely to cause others distress -- so don't subject others to
     behaviour that you would not want inflicted on you.

   • Be aware of the medium. In face to face interaction we get cues
     that give us feedback about how other people are reacting to
     what we say. We don't get that over the web. So, one person
     might think they are making a joke, whilst the other might find
     what is said is insulting. Err on the safe side.

   • Be culturally aware. What people find distressing differs, and
     this is an international site. Profanity, nudity and content of
     a sexual nature can all fall foul of this difference. The Web is
     not short of places where these types of subject can be
     indulged, so don't use this one. All it will do is make this a
     place where a lot of people don't want to be.

   • Don't be nasty. There is no real reason to descend to abuse and
     name calling, so don't do it. In the end it weakens your side of
     the argument.

   • Argue constructively. Robust and interesting discussions are at
     the heart of the reason people come to this kind of site, but
     let's keep them constructive. If you disagree with someone,
     state why you disagree, don't just keep contradicting -- that
     just results in your interlocutor becoming irritated. Don't
     resort to ad-hominem arguments. They are always fallacious and
     don't improve the tone of the conversation. Don't take umbrage
     because your opinion is disputed, that's what discussion is
     about. Show respect for the other party -- you might think you
     have more experience and know better, but you could easily be
     wrong.

   • Don't participate in bullying. We know how it works in the
     school yard, the gang picks on the guy with the unpopular
     opinions. Don't do it here.

   • Be sympathetic. All types come to this forum, including people
     from different backgrounds, different cultures, the
     neuro-divergent and people with different life histories who
     have been through traumas you don't know about. You may think
     that their behaviour is unreasonable, but there may be many
     reasons for it. Don't make the situation worse by picking
     disputes even if you feel that the other party is.

3. You may not post or upload material containing malicious computer
   programs or codes intended to activate such programs or that
   provides them with data.

   It's obvious why you shouldn't be doing this, so don't do it.

4. You may not use the Site to disclose information that you do not
   have the right to disclose.

   If you disclose such information you might be sued or prosecuted.
   If you use this site to do it, we might be sued or prosecuted.
   Obviously we will not allow that.

Acceptable use

1. You must not engage in any activity on the Site which is contrary
   to the federal laws of the United States of America or the laws of
   the European Union or the United Kingdom of Great Britain and
   Northern Ireland.

   Clearly, the site nor its owner cannot operate if it is used for
   illegal activity. In many parts of the world things are illegal that
   shouldn't be. We have chosen to take a view of 'legality' based on
   some of the major liberal democracies in the World. If your activity
   is illegal in these jurisdictions, we really don't want you doing it
   here.

2. You must not use or attempt to use another person's account without
   their express permission, nor must you impersonate other people when
   using the forum.

   Impersonating other people is extremely dishonest and damaging.
   There is no valid reason to do it, so don't.

3. You may not upload any material to the Site in breach of the
   owner's copyright, nor remove any marks showing proprietary
   ownership from any uploaded materials.

   Photographers typically value their own copyright to their work, and
   we expect people to operate on the bases of treating other people as
   they would wish to be treated themselves. Moreover, the site really
   doesn't want to be embroiled in copyright disputes. Note that the
   terms say 'in breach of copyright', which means that you may post if copyright
   law allows usage, such as for instance 'fair dealing' provisions, or
   if the copyright owner grants an open licence, for example Creative
   Commons. When posting material under these provisions please comply
   with all and any of the licence provisions. If posting under 'fair
   dealing', you should comply with English law, see
   www.gov.uk/guidance/exceptions-to-copyright

4. You may not link or show any part of the site containing members'
   copyright materials to other websites in a manner that causes those
   materials to be separated from the context of The Site without the
   members' express permission in writing.

   Following on from the above, it's possible to unknowingly cause a
   breach of someone's copyright by 'hot linking' on another site,
   which results in the persons work being displayed on that site
   without anything to indicate whose it is, or what are the licence
   terms. To prevent this we simply don't allow hot-linking.

5. You may not use automated means to access the Site for the purpose
   of 'web crawling' or copying material on the site, unless it is for
   the purposes of a publicly available search engine or similar
   resource.

   This is to stop bad actors using search bots and other malware to
   breach copyright and gather personal details. The presumption is
   always that anyone using these tools is up to no good.

6. You may not falsely claim or imply affiliation with or endorsement
   by the Foundation or the Site.

   You don't have authority to speak on behalf of the foundation unless
   expressly authorised to do so, so please don't do it.

7. You may not circumvent, disable or avoid any security or access
   restrictions of the Site.

   Should go without saying. Don't hack us!

8. You may not conduct trade in user names or other unique identifiers
   on the Site.

9. You may not use the Site for advertising, chain letters or other
   solicitations, nor to gather personal data for these purposes.

   Taken together it means please don't use the site to conduct dodgy
   business practices.

10. You may not encourage or aid anyone else to violate these terms.

    We're in this together. Let's keep together.

Our role

Our role is to keep this place welcoming and interesting for all. Unless
your activity is such that it threatens the well-being of the forum,
such as illegal posts or posting malware, we will try to find solutions
to issues through mediation and agreement. In the case where sanctions
are needed to restore order they will be as minimal as is needed, for
instance, we might use a short (hours) forum ban to allow disputants to
calm down. Extended bans and account deletions will only be used as a
last resort, or in the case of illegal or malicious behaviour.

Bob - section 4 above has this - is the backslash after 'members' supposed to be there?

Alan

It isn't now 😉

Certainly, but so can just about everything in this document. That's the very nature of talking about this kind of subject.

I don't see the point. If someone is predisposed to be argumentative, isn't it not a good thing if they, or the other party, are encouraged to discuss constructively?

Isn't that more a comment on the briefing of moderators rather than the principle itself? And there is a presumption there that 'moderators' will intervene in a negative way. It also says nothing about 'adding value to the conversation. Moreover, these are not rules which someone should be sanctioned for not keeping to, they are guidelines as to how to keep the place civil.
There will also be guidelines for moderators (which I prefer we call 'facilitators', because it denotes a different emphasis in their role) which will be open and published here in the same way that these guidelines have.

There are many countries in the world, and many of them have laws which I wouldn't want members to have to adhere to - so it can't just say 'don't do anything illegal', so I went for Western liberal democracies. The same applied to US state law, so it's federal law that applies here.

That will be in guidelines for facilitators, which will be next. Shouldn't be in guidelines for users - but guidelines for facilitators will be public.

In the thread, select the text you want to replay to, a little 'quote' flag will appear. Press that and you go into the post editor with just that text quoted. Subsequently you can do the same with other pieces of text (from ant post) and those quotes will be added to your post - very clever.