The New Rules (Currently in Beta)

[DaGuru]

Were it so easy.

Right now, I'm incredibly broke so I can't pay for any advertising whatsoever. Our second option would be to start getting the word out on other sites that we exist but... Well, let's take things one at a time. I just finished up with some big changes.

Are regs still closed? Why advertise if the place is boarded up for business? For that matter, isn't it better to hire exterminators and get rid of the pests before trying to open the doors to the public? Gotta lot of closets to clean out, and if you are sending a mixed/double message to people that have already been here for a few months....how do you think all of this confusion and hypocrisy will come off to someone that just found the place 5 minutes ago?

[Slave of the Beast]

_Once...

How you manage to avoid getting infracted for this shite I do not know.

[RisiR]

_Once...

How you manage to avoid getting infracted for this shite I do not know.

_Once...

How you manage to avoid getting infracted for this shite I do not know.

Because nobody on the mod team has a spine.

I like Lanny and I don't give a shit about his nonsense but I'm sure if Sploo or bling would do sort of stuff in every thread they would get banned and the function would be taken away like it did with Constantinople and font sizes.

Double standards all over the place.

[DaGuru]

if Sploo or bling would do sort of stuff in every thread they would get banned and the function would be taken away like it did with Constantinople and font sizes.

Double standards all over the place.

^^^Most definitely THIS! ^^^

Lanny won't get infracted or banned because Lanny is Zek's frieeeeennnnnndddd.

And since they both are adamant that the purpose to this forum is just shitpost, mess around and have fun like a stupid child....then this IS the culture we are all having to deal with. I bet we can't wait to see the quality(?) of noobs if this place ever does attract other users, huh?

[BallsDeep69]

Sploo for mod also post above me ^^^

[-SpectraL]

Quantity over quality. That's always been the way since the switch over from Telnet BBS to the WWW. Never works, always leads to site closure, a constant denial, but they just keep trying it again and again anyways.

[Umbrella Corp]

Mormonism: Life in the key of Beta

A story by Arnox

[starvingniglet]

Double standards all over the place.

I am glad I am not the only one who noticed this

[Σ]

I have seen a lot of bitching about the rules in this thread but I have seen no legitimate points from any of you as to how the below set of rules can be used by the moderation and admin team against the userbase.

Just tell us why these rules dont jive. As far as I can see they minimally infringe in your freedom of speech in order to keep the site on solid legal ground. Other rules protect the site from defacement and malicious users. All of the warning offences are designed in a way that unless you are making the decision to be an asshole you have no worries.


What isnt tolerated and results in a Ban:
1. Flooding/Spamming
2. Child Porn
3. Bestiality
4. Posting personal information without consent of all parties involved
5. Advertising your own site, service or product without talking to site administration
6. Breaking into, attempting to deface or posting links to malware or harmful software on this site
7. Ban evasion

What isnt tolerated and results in a Warning:
1. Blatant derailment of a thread
2. Perpetually harassing other users
3. Illegible or incoherent posts
4. Phony post reports

Essentially I am asking you, the users, to pick apart everything on my ban and warning list and tell my why its unreasonable.

Protip: you cant

[starvingniglet]

I have seen a lot of bitching about the rules in this thread but I have seen no legitimate points from any of you as to how the below set of rules can be used by the moderation and admin team against the userbase.

Just tell us why these rules dont jive. As far as I can see they minimally infringe in your freedom of speech in order to keep the site on solid legal ground. Other rules protect the site from defacement and malicious users. All of the warning offences are designed in a way that unless you are making the decision to be an asshole you have no worries.


What isnt tolerated and results in a Ban:
1. Flooding/Spamming
2. Child Porn
3. Bestiality
4. Posting personal information without consent of all parties involved
5. Advertising your own site, service or product without talking to site administration
6. Breaking into, attempting to deface or posting links to malware or harmful software on this site
7. Ban evasion

What isnt tolerated and results in a Warning:
1. Blatant derailment of a thread
2. Perpetually harassing other users
3. Illegible or incoherent posts
4. Phony post reports

Essentially I am asking you, the users, to pick apart everything on my ban and warning list and tell my why its unreasonable.

Protip: you cant

arnox already said that his staff will rely on a 'case by case' basis to determine whether something is an 'offense' or not.  If you can't see how pretty much each and every rule there could potentially be twisted into something that a moderator with a 'grudge' could use against a user adversary, then you are even more of a fucking retard than I thought.  And I was already beginning to suspect you are quite the retard, even among this crowd.

[Σ]

So there are no rules you can pick out that have been or could easily be subject to abuse?


Interesting...

I made my post because I legit cannot see where the problem is with any rules. When you say that each one of the rules could be used by a moderator with a grudge I dont see it. I truly dont. Maybe you can help me see it.

[starvingniglet]

So there are no rules you can pick out that have been or could easily be subject to abuse?


Interesting...

 If you insist, here are the biggest ones

harassment: self-explanatory...a mod claims 'he/she is harassing her/him/me'
derailing, as above, a mod claims 'he/she is derailing the thread'
ban evasion (how can you even enforce this without an IP checker I will never fathom)
incoherent/contentless posts....again, the mods are the arbiter of what is or is not content, and can use this power as they see fit

A mod can choose, on a 'case-by-case' basis, to enforce these rules...and they do: on the same people over and over....look at the banlist....while certain other posters do the same things and nothing ever, ever happens to them, not even a warning.

Funny how the posters who are always infracted for this stuff are the ones that staff here find annoying or don't get along with.

[Lanny]

I have seen a lot of bitching about the rules in this thread but I have seen no legitimate points from any of you as to how the below set of rules can be used by the moderation and admin team against the userbase.

Just tell us why these rules dont jive. As far as I can see they minimally infringe in your freedom of speech in order to keep the site on solid legal ground. Other rules protect the site from defacement and malicious users. All of the warning offences are designed in a way that unless you are making the decision to be an asshole you have no worries.


What isnt tolerated and results in a Ban:
1. Flooding/Spamming
2. Child Porn
3. Bestiality
4. Posting personal information without consent of all parties involved
5. Advertising your own site, service or product without talking to site administration
6. Breaking into, attempting to deface or posting links to malware or harmful software on this site
7. Ban evasion

What isnt tolerated and results in a Warning:
1. Blatant derailment of a thread
2. Perpetually harassing other users
3. Illegible or incoherent posts
4. Phony post reports

Essentially I am asking you, the users, to pick apart everything on my ban and warning list and tell my why its unreasonable.

Protip: you cant

How about you read any of the 16 pages of this thread and tell us why someone's objection to the rules doesn't go through. For instance you could look at my posts explaining how the PI rule doesn't actually help anyone yet has potential to (and historically has) caused a great deal of strife.

P.S. your posting style has changed since you became of mod and so far it hasn't been for the better

[starvingniglet]

P.S. your posting style has changed since you became of mod and so far it hasn't been for the better

this ^....the more this guy posts the more I see his terrible personality and lack of intelligence manifested

[Spectre]

P.S. your posting style has changed since you became of mod and so far it hasn't been for the better

this ^....the more this guy posts the more I see his terrible personality and lack of intelligence manifested

there's a reason hansen was never a mod on &T2 not that he was a bad poster but he never really came across as someone that could handle any modicum of power