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The following is a cut and paste from "Quora", a question-and-answer website created, edited and organized by its community of users.
Something such as this could be adopted at the Piper Forum.
What is Quora's Be Nice, Be Respectful policy?
Overview
A core Quora principle ("Be Nice, Be Respectful") requires that people treat other people on the site with civility, respect, and consideration. Assume that others on the site are also trying to make it a great resource. Respect opposing or differing opinions, beliefs and conclusions. Try to listen to and understand others you may disagree with. Encourage others on the site to also be welcoming and respectful.
Attacking people or content
Personal attacks are not allowed on Quora, nor are disrespectful or insulting attacks directed at other people's content. People should be civil and respectful in disagreement with others and should not (1) make attacks or otherwise disparage other people, (2) refer to other people's content with insulting or disrespectful language, or (3) harass others on the site. These behaviors hurt the Quora community and deter users from helping to create a better resource.
Do your best to see the world from the perspective of the person who posted the question (the original poster ["OP"]) or answer. It is often not helpful to criticize or challenge the fundamental beliefs of the OP (in an answer) or answerer (in a comment). For example, in responding to the question "Is it OK to only go to church on Easter?", the following answer would be considered disrespectful and is not allowed: "There is no God and religious rituals are a waste of time." Use good judgment and be empathetic. Answers and answer comments that challenge the fundamental beliefs of an OP or answerer will be held to a very high standard re: Be Nice, Be Respectful.
Comment threads & how to disagree in comments
In general, comment threads on Quora are interactions among strangers. Given that another person on the site may be new to Quora and/or doesn't know you, we require a higher level of politeness than other interactive platforms where users know one another and/or where more adversarial social norms are established and tolerated. A key goal of the Be Nice, Be Respectful policy is ensure that comments do not discourage or intimidate other people on Quora.
Disagreement and debate on Quora is encouraged and is often important to making the page more helpful. It is OK to disagree as long as your comments are civil, respectful, and polite, and as long as you give the impression of assuming good will on the part of the person you are disagreeing with. A good way of framing this test is: "If I am new to Quora and / or don't know you, would it be reasonable for me to perceive your comment as hostile or disrespectful toward me or what I've written?" The answer should be no.
In multi-comment threads where there is significant disagreement among people, a person should stop commenting on the thread before creating the reasonable impression that they are harassing, attacking, and/or bullying another person.
Examples
Examples of behaviors that violate the "Be Nice, Be Respectful" policy include:
Personal attacks, including hurtful, insulting, or hostile comments.
Making unjustified accusations against other user(s).
Engaging in a pattern of behaviour that constitutes harassment of a targeted person or persons, e.g., by making threats, repeated annoying and unwanted contacts, repeated personal attacks, or posting personal information.
Racial, sexual, homophobic, ageist, religious, political, ethnic, or other epithets directed against another contributor.
Using someone's affiliations as a means of dismissing or discrediting their views (this does not include pointing out a conflict of interest of relevance to the discussion at hand).
Speculating on the real life identity of an anonymous user.
Harassment
Harassment is defined as a pattern of offensive behavior that appears to a reasonable observer to have the purpose of adversely affecting a targeted person or persons. The intended outcome may be to make using Quora unpleasant for the target, to undermine them, or to discourage them from editing and using the site. Examples of harassment: making threats, repeated annoying and unwanted contacts, or posting the personal information of another person.
Hate speech
Users are not allowed to post content or adopt a tone that would be interpreted by a reasonable observer as a form of hate speech, particularly toward a race, gender, religion, nationality, ethnicity, political group, sexual orientation or another similar characteristic. Questions and question details about generalizations in these topics should be phrased as neutrally and respectfully as possible.
Retaliation is not OK
It is never OK to violate the Be Nice, Be Respectful policy, even in response to another person who has violated the policy.
Please note that the Be Nice, Be Respectful policy covers content aimed at other users who no longer use Quora.
Consequences
Content that violates this policy may be removed by admins, and violations of this policy can result in a warning, comment blocking, an edit-block or a ban.
Block first before reporting violations
If you feel that another person is violating this policy with respect to you or your content, you should block them in addition to reporting them to moderation.
Racial and ethnic slurs
Using any of the words on Wikipedia's list of ethnic slurs is not allowed in questions, answers, or comments, unless the purpose is to ask a sincere question about the usage/background of the word.
Something such as this could be adopted at the Piper Forum.
What is Quora's Be Nice, Be Respectful policy?
Overview
A core Quora principle ("Be Nice, Be Respectful") requires that people treat other people on the site with civility, respect, and consideration. Assume that others on the site are also trying to make it a great resource. Respect opposing or differing opinions, beliefs and conclusions. Try to listen to and understand others you may disagree with. Encourage others on the site to also be welcoming and respectful.
Attacking people or content
Personal attacks are not allowed on Quora, nor are disrespectful or insulting attacks directed at other people's content. People should be civil and respectful in disagreement with others and should not (1) make attacks or otherwise disparage other people, (2) refer to other people's content with insulting or disrespectful language, or (3) harass others on the site. These behaviors hurt the Quora community and deter users from helping to create a better resource.
Do your best to see the world from the perspective of the person who posted the question (the original poster ["OP"]) or answer. It is often not helpful to criticize or challenge the fundamental beliefs of the OP (in an answer) or answerer (in a comment). For example, in responding to the question "Is it OK to only go to church on Easter?", the following answer would be considered disrespectful and is not allowed: "There is no God and religious rituals are a waste of time." Use good judgment and be empathetic. Answers and answer comments that challenge the fundamental beliefs of an OP or answerer will be held to a very high standard re: Be Nice, Be Respectful.
Comment threads & how to disagree in comments
In general, comment threads on Quora are interactions among strangers. Given that another person on the site may be new to Quora and/or doesn't know you, we require a higher level of politeness than other interactive platforms where users know one another and/or where more adversarial social norms are established and tolerated. A key goal of the Be Nice, Be Respectful policy is ensure that comments do not discourage or intimidate other people on Quora.
Disagreement and debate on Quora is encouraged and is often important to making the page more helpful. It is OK to disagree as long as your comments are civil, respectful, and polite, and as long as you give the impression of assuming good will on the part of the person you are disagreeing with. A good way of framing this test is: "If I am new to Quora and / or don't know you, would it be reasonable for me to perceive your comment as hostile or disrespectful toward me or what I've written?" The answer should be no.
In multi-comment threads where there is significant disagreement among people, a person should stop commenting on the thread before creating the reasonable impression that they are harassing, attacking, and/or bullying another person.
Examples
Examples of behaviors that violate the "Be Nice, Be Respectful" policy include:
Personal attacks, including hurtful, insulting, or hostile comments.
Making unjustified accusations against other user(s).
Engaging in a pattern of behaviour that constitutes harassment of a targeted person or persons, e.g., by making threats, repeated annoying and unwanted contacts, repeated personal attacks, or posting personal information.
Racial, sexual, homophobic, ageist, religious, political, ethnic, or other epithets directed against another contributor.
Using someone's affiliations as a means of dismissing or discrediting their views (this does not include pointing out a conflict of interest of relevance to the discussion at hand).
Speculating on the real life identity of an anonymous user.
Harassment
Harassment is defined as a pattern of offensive behavior that appears to a reasonable observer to have the purpose of adversely affecting a targeted person or persons. The intended outcome may be to make using Quora unpleasant for the target, to undermine them, or to discourage them from editing and using the site. Examples of harassment: making threats, repeated annoying and unwanted contacts, or posting the personal information of another person.
Hate speech
Users are not allowed to post content or adopt a tone that would be interpreted by a reasonable observer as a form of hate speech, particularly toward a race, gender, religion, nationality, ethnicity, political group, sexual orientation or another similar characteristic. Questions and question details about generalizations in these topics should be phrased as neutrally and respectfully as possible.
Retaliation is not OK
It is never OK to violate the Be Nice, Be Respectful policy, even in response to another person who has violated the policy.
Please note that the Be Nice, Be Respectful policy covers content aimed at other users who no longer use Quora.
Consequences
Content that violates this policy may be removed by admins, and violations of this policy can result in a warning, comment blocking, an edit-block or a ban.
Block first before reporting violations
If you feel that another person is violating this policy with respect to you or your content, you should block them in addition to reporting them to moderation.
Racial and ethnic slurs
Using any of the words on Wikipedia's list of ethnic slurs is not allowed in questions, answers, or comments, unless the purpose is to ask a sincere question about the usage/background of the word.
