Post by Ubermonkey on Aug 23, 2004 16:53:51 GMT
These are things that are done a particular way. Doing things some other way will get you smacked, or may get the offending posts moved, edited, or possibly deleted. In the case of excessive or repeated violations of these rules, the offender's account may be deleted, or the offender may be banned from Stirlingwargamers. We don't have a lot of rules, so please learn them.
In addition to the rules listed below, listen to our moderators and administrators when they make a request. Refusing to follow a request from them will most likely get you banned from the forums. While a decision can possibly be appealed by discussing it calmly with the Moderators or the Forum Administrator 99% of the time, a Moderator's decision will stand.
These are numbered for reference, but fall in no particular order.
0) First and foremost, remember this: Don't make personal attacks. You can attack ideas, but don't attack people. Additionally, if you attack a Forum Moderator or Administrator, that shows us a particular lack of regard for the rules, and will get you banned rather quickly.
1) Post in the appropriate forum. We have separate forums for various types of discussion for a reason. Please respect that.
2)If, however, you spam the forums or its members through posts, PMs or email, you are likely to get banned. This includes trolling of any sort. If you post or send spam about sites that don't allow spam advertising, you will be banned immediately.
3) Do not post a message in the wrong forum, and say that you know it's the wrong forum but you're posting there for greater traffic. That shows that you enjoy annoying people, since you are intentionally ignoring the system. Do not ask the Moderators not to move a post to the appropriate forum just because you want more traffic for your post. Not only are you being intentionally annoying, but you're asking for special treatment in return for being annoying, which makes you look even worse.
4) Messages which consist of slurs against people, or groups of people, based on race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender or sexual orientation will not be tolerated.
5) Impersonation of any other forum member (registered or not), or of any industry celebrity or Stirlingwargamers club member, will not be tolerated.
6) Any post that assists in breaking U.K. or U.S. law, including asking for "burned" copies or other pirated materials, will be removed. Messages attempting to convince other forum members to break laws will also be removed. Breaking the law includes reposting content from sites that do not allow such a thing. Users posting any unlawful messages may be subject to administrative action and/or referred to the proper authorities.
7) Pornography, whether images or links to adult websites, is inappropriate in the forums. Don't post it.
8) Linking to a site that punishes linking (such as Somethingawful.com, which replaces any intended link with an inappropriate picture) is not allowed. Don't link to such sites.
9) Posting a private email, message, or series of messages for public viewing is not allowed. The only exceptions will be when the permission of each person involved is given to the poster. Claiming to have the permission to post without having proof of such is grounds for immediate banning and possible legal action.
GUIDELINES
These are things we'd like you to try and do, and which will make everything go more smoothly here in the forums at Stirling wargamers. While these won't be enforced as strictly as the Rules above, egregious violations may be handled by any means that would be employed for a violation of the Rules.
These are numbered for reference, but fall in no particular order.
First a reality check: you are able to use these forums as a guest of Stirling Wargamers. If for any reason the forums staff decides revoke your right to participate here, Stirling wargamers is fully within its rights to ban your account.
1) Be nice. If you can't be nice, try to at least be polite.
2) Use profanity like a spice, not the main course.
3) Meta-discussion about Stirling wargamers should generally happen in General Discussion, where all concerned will likely see it. Problems with Stirling wargamers, especially of a technical nature, should go into Trouble Tickets.
4) Problems with posts or threads should be reported to the Moderators. There is a feature for that purpose provided by the forum software. Don't be frightened by the ominous red text, but please don't complain about a post just because someone used the word 'f**k'; see also Guideline 3.
5) Don't make a lot of posts to various threads just to increase your Posts counter or gain rank. There's a thread in General discussion specifically for that purpose, if you really must become GOD without actually posting constructive comments.
6) If you post a thread by mistake, or post duplicate threads, you can request a Moderator delete the duplicate. If people have already posted to a thread you started, however, it's unlikely we'll delete it, since the other people probably don't want their posts to disappear.
7) If you post in the wrong forum accidentally, you can report the post to a Moderator yourself, to have it moved to the appropriate forum. You don't have to wait for someone else to report the post.
8) Derailing a thread's conversation ("hijacking") is a good way to annoy the thread's creator. If you absolutely need to discuss something else, find an appropriate thread for your topic or start your own.
Keep in mind that Stirlingwargamers reserves the right to periodically purge unused account names from the system. At this point, we'll be looking to remove accounts that haven't been used for a year or more. If you want to keep your user name, post once in a while, or it'll be up for grabs again when we delete it.
Thanks,
In addition to the rules listed below, listen to our moderators and administrators when they make a request. Refusing to follow a request from them will most likely get you banned from the forums. While a decision can possibly be appealed by discussing it calmly with the Moderators or the Forum Administrator 99% of the time, a Moderator's decision will stand.
These are numbered for reference, but fall in no particular order.
0) First and foremost, remember this: Don't make personal attacks. You can attack ideas, but don't attack people. Additionally, if you attack a Forum Moderator or Administrator, that shows us a particular lack of regard for the rules, and will get you banned rather quickly.
1) Post in the appropriate forum. We have separate forums for various types of discussion for a reason. Please respect that.
2)If, however, you spam the forums or its members through posts, PMs or email, you are likely to get banned. This includes trolling of any sort. If you post or send spam about sites that don't allow spam advertising, you will be banned immediately.
3) Do not post a message in the wrong forum, and say that you know it's the wrong forum but you're posting there for greater traffic. That shows that you enjoy annoying people, since you are intentionally ignoring the system. Do not ask the Moderators not to move a post to the appropriate forum just because you want more traffic for your post. Not only are you being intentionally annoying, but you're asking for special treatment in return for being annoying, which makes you look even worse.
4) Messages which consist of slurs against people, or groups of people, based on race, religion, ethnicity, nationality, gender or sexual orientation will not be tolerated.
5) Impersonation of any other forum member (registered or not), or of any industry celebrity or Stirlingwargamers club member, will not be tolerated.
6) Any post that assists in breaking U.K. or U.S. law, including asking for "burned" copies or other pirated materials, will be removed. Messages attempting to convince other forum members to break laws will also be removed. Breaking the law includes reposting content from sites that do not allow such a thing. Users posting any unlawful messages may be subject to administrative action and/or referred to the proper authorities.
7) Pornography, whether images or links to adult websites, is inappropriate in the forums. Don't post it.
8) Linking to a site that punishes linking (such as Somethingawful.com, which replaces any intended link with an inappropriate picture) is not allowed. Don't link to such sites.
9) Posting a private email, message, or series of messages for public viewing is not allowed. The only exceptions will be when the permission of each person involved is given to the poster. Claiming to have the permission to post without having proof of such is grounds for immediate banning and possible legal action.
GUIDELINES
These are things we'd like you to try and do, and which will make everything go more smoothly here in the forums at Stirling wargamers. While these won't be enforced as strictly as the Rules above, egregious violations may be handled by any means that would be employed for a violation of the Rules.
These are numbered for reference, but fall in no particular order.
First a reality check: you are able to use these forums as a guest of Stirling Wargamers. If for any reason the forums staff decides revoke your right to participate here, Stirling wargamers is fully within its rights to ban your account.
1) Be nice. If you can't be nice, try to at least be polite.
2) Use profanity like a spice, not the main course.
3) Meta-discussion about Stirling wargamers should generally happen in General Discussion, where all concerned will likely see it. Problems with Stirling wargamers, especially of a technical nature, should go into Trouble Tickets.
4) Problems with posts or threads should be reported to the Moderators. There is a feature for that purpose provided by the forum software. Don't be frightened by the ominous red text, but please don't complain about a post just because someone used the word 'f**k'; see also Guideline 3.
5) Don't make a lot of posts to various threads just to increase your Posts counter or gain rank. There's a thread in General discussion specifically for that purpose, if you really must become GOD without actually posting constructive comments.
6) If you post a thread by mistake, or post duplicate threads, you can request a Moderator delete the duplicate. If people have already posted to a thread you started, however, it's unlikely we'll delete it, since the other people probably don't want their posts to disappear.
7) If you post in the wrong forum accidentally, you can report the post to a Moderator yourself, to have it moved to the appropriate forum. You don't have to wait for someone else to report the post.
8) Derailing a thread's conversation ("hijacking") is a good way to annoy the thread's creator. If you absolutely need to discuss something else, find an appropriate thread for your topic or start your own.
Keep in mind that Stirlingwargamers reserves the right to periodically purge unused account names from the system. At this point, we'll be looking to remove accounts that haven't been used for a year or more. If you want to keep your user name, post once in a while, or it'll be up for grabs again when we delete it.
Thanks,