Welcome to iVisit! Our video conferencing community can be lots of fun! We'd like to help you have an enjoyable and fulfilling experience while you're exploring iVisit, so we offer you some basic rules of internet etiquette, or 'netiquette, to explain generally accepted expectations and procedures.

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Some common rules of etiquette in iVisit

• It is considered good manners to show your face on your cam in public areas of iVisit.
• It is considered good manners to say hello when you enter a Home > Chat room, to pay attention to the kind of conversation already occurring, and to contribute when you can.
• Using a still picture is often not allowed because it seems that the picture may be false, not showing who is really using that account.
• Entering a room with your private body parts showing on your cam is almost always unacceptable.
• Broadcasting audio in a room without permission is usually unacceptable. Wait to see if others are using audio before you begin to use it.
• Using profanity and making demands of people are usually not acceptable.
• Nudity is never acceptable in public rooms.
• Rules for homes are either posted outside the chat room area or visible in the chat window as you enter the chat room. You should read those rules and be ready to abide by them so the home owner or the designated moderators will have no reason to remove you, ban you, or prohibit you from the area.

Removing or banning from a room

Sometime you may be Removed or Banned (sometimes called "booted") from a chat room in someone's Home.

• Removed = 15 minutes prohibited and then you will be able return
• Banned = either 5 days or 60 days prohibited and then you will be able to return

The Home owner always has the ability to remove or ban someone. Users who have been made Home moderators also have that ability. Typically someone is booted for breaking one or more of the Home rules, which are usually posted and seen as you enter the room. Sometimes in a user's Home, someone is removed to make space for a good friend, and sometimes someone is removed accidentally. It is not common for someone to be removed or banned from a Home without a reason, but occasionally it happens.

If you are removed or banned from a Home:

1. You may be able to find out why you were removed or banned if you can chat with the Home owner or someone who was in the Home. You may be able to do this if you see them in another Home where you are not banned. Otherwise, you may need to simply accept the ban and spend your time in other areas of iVisit.
2. Helpers in the Help Desk cannot reinstate you. They have no power to do that.
3. Realize that if you have been REMOVED, you may try to re-enter the room in 15 minutes.
4. Home owners and moderators do have the ability to unban you. If you have been banned in error, they have the option to unban you almost immediately.