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While the Discussion List has only a few rules, we vigorously enforce them. We monitor the discussion for respectful usage. When a subscriber violates our guidelines, our list administrators issue a warning. If the abuse continues, our list administrators removes the subscriber from the list.

The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) sponsors the Discussion List to provide a forum for the discussion of interaction design issues, best practices, and methods among practitioners, teachers, and students of interaction design and others who are interested in interaction design. All discussions on this list must relate to interaction design. While discussions may encompass disciplines such as user-centered design, information architecture, or visual design as they relate to interaction design, please keep the primary focus of your topics of discussion on interaction design. For example, a discussion of color theory would be out of place here, but one about the best highlight color for required values would be perfectly appropriate.

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JOB (as a prefix)

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Please do not use the Discussion List to let the community know that you are a candidate seeking a job. This is true for individuals, as well as for recruiters or agents acting on behalf of others. Of course, you are encouraged to reply privately to any job ads posted by members who are hiring.

We expect professional courtesy from subscribers who actively participate in discussions. Please refrain from using profanity. Our list administrators do not tolerate any sort of harassment of list subscribers. Flaming, name-calling, insults, taunts, or other behaviors that inhibit the free expression of thought on the Discussion List are cause for the offending subscriber's being permanently banned from the list.

Our Discussion List exists so members of the interaction design community can easily communicate with one another. Excessive posting by any one subscriber tends to inhibit others' participation in the discussion, and it becomes difficult to maintain a plurality of voices. If an individual subscriber consistently makes excessive postings to this list (more than 10 messages a day or 50 messages a week) the list administrator will warn that subscriber. If this pattern of behavior continues, the list administrator will remove that subscriber from the list.