The New Rules (Currently in Beta)

[RisiR]

I think you should just give me the max score right now because, hey, I'm the best.

Uhhh.. I don't know. I'm pretty sure 9 from 10 scientists agree that I'm the GOAT. 

[Umbrella Corp]

More like the GOATSE

[Arnox]

Alright guys, this is last call. Here's the final draft of the rules. Is there anything else anyone wants to discuss with them?

Welcome to the Sanctuary. By signing up for this forum you agree these rules listed below. In addition to the rules below. Anything you post on this forum is hypothetical and the site administrators do not condone and are in no way liable for anything that is posted or is a result of something that has been posted on this site. Do not post evidence of any crimes or incriminate yourself.

We do not have a solid set-in-stone list of rules because of the nature of this forum. The rules below have been developed to address issues that commonly arise in the forum. This is not a catch all and is meant to be used as a guideline. Please use common sense when posting. We may let minor violations slide if they are not disrupting the operation of the forum. If in doubt, Private Message a member of staff for clarification before making your post.

We encourage proper forum etiquette when posting or making a new thread. When posting please use the multi-quote feature or edit your post to avoid multiposting. Proper spelling and grammar is also strongly encouraged.

We use a combination of warnings and bans to deal with rule violations. For small violations we give out warnings. For more severe or reoccurring violations we will ban users based on the severity of the violation. When a user here is warned, they have three days from the time they have been warned in which they cannot violate any rules again. If the three days pass without violation, the users warning level is reset completely. If three days have not passed though and they violate the rules again, they will be banned with the length determined by the member of staff who bans them.

Attention New Users:
Until you have at least 20 posts, you will not be able to use img BBCode tags. This has been done to prevent some types of very nasty spam from being posted by someone with throwaway accounts on here. We're sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.

Account Deletion:
We will not delete your account by request. What you post here is, for the most part, permanent and is backed up frequently.

The Seven Deadly Sins of Sanctuary:
You will be automatically banned and, if applicable, the offending posts will be removed for the following.

1. Flooding, a form of spam, which is posting the same images and/or text repeatedly. It can also include posting incredibly long posts without any substantial content.
2. Child porn, (CP) which can be defined as images, videos, or links to such of anyone nude and under the age of 18, no matter what the context and sexually suggestive images, videos or links to such of anyone under the age of 18 with partial clothing. (Bikinis, etc.)
3. Links to or images and videos of IRL bestiality.
4. Personal information (PI) of any users on Sanctuary, which is anything that can be used to identify a user or their family members IRL. The only exception to this is if someone posts their own PI publicly on the site. That is it.
5. Advertising your own site, service, or thing unless publicly cleared to do so by an admin or global mod. This also includes people affiliated with the creation, maintenance, or advertisement of a site, service, or thing.
6. Breaking into and/or attempting to deface and/or damage the site or its host in any way.
7. Ban evading, which is making another account in order to circumvent your ban and continuing to post on the site. If you are caught ban evading, your alt account will be permabanned and length of the ban on your original will be increased if it is a temporary ban.

You may be warned for the following:
- Blatantly derailing a thread and going completely against the conversation flow or derailing with the purpose of harassing another user.
- Bumping a thread that is old unless you legitimately have something to add or contribute.
- Completely illegible or incoherent posts or threads.
- Making phony post reports.

Other Rules & Info:
- If you post a thread that is not fitting in a sub forum, it may be locked and/or moved by a member of staff.
- If something could be considered CP according to the above rules, but clearly isn't treated that way culturally, get mod approval first.
- Use the report post feature to let the moderation team know of issues with users.
- Signatures must be reasonably sized and any profile elements must also conform to the rules of Sanctuary. If offending users keep having such elements in their profile after they have been told to change it by a member of staff, they will lose their profile customization privileges completely for an indefinite period of time.
- If you repeatedly violate a rule you may be banned for a long time or permabanned.

If you feel you've been punished unfairly, you may contact an admin about it by email. (fakeout0@yahoo.com) HOWEVER, keep in mind that most, if not all of the time, an admin (me included) will stand by a global moderator's decision. We pick our staff VERY carefully and hold them to a rigorous standard. For more information on this subject, please see the stickied topic on Staffing Policies.

[1337]

http://meansheets.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/nirvana-nevermind-album-cover-lp-cd.jpg

You gonna ban me? COME AT ME BRO.

[stdio.h]

Almost all of that is draconian and Arnox should be stripped, raped and strangled.

[Arnox]

Almost all of that is draconian and Arnox should be stripped, raped and strangled.

Mhm. And what do you propose for the rules?

[BITCH TITZ]

Almost all of that is draconian and Arnox should be stripped, raped and strangled.

Mhm. And what do you propose for the rules?

Are you really a practicing Mormon? If so, no one should ever post on this site again.

[equanimity]

To be clear, are these bits:

You may be warned for the following:
- Blatantly derailing a thread and going completely against the conversation flow or derailing with the purpose of harassing another user.
- Bumping a thread that is old unless you legitimately have something to add or contribute.
- Completely illegible or incoherent posts or threads.
- Making phony post reports.

strictly handled with warnings, and never bans?  I would prefer if we didn't ban for "innocent" derailing (people just messing around), necrobumping (except in cases of spam obv), or making false post reports.  On the other hand, harassment and making illegible posts seem to be more serious offenses and it'd make sense if we could ban in those cases.

[BallsDeep69]

To be clear, are these bits:

You may be warned for the following:
- Blatantly derailing a thread and going completely against the conversation flow or derailing with the purpose of harassing another user.
- Bumping a thread that is old unless you legitimately have something to add or contribute.
- Completely illegible or incoherent posts or threads.
- Making phony post reports.

strictly handled with warnings, and never bans?  I would prefer if we didn't ban for "innocent" derailing (people just messing around), necrobumping (except in cases of spam obv), or making false post reports.  On the other hand, harassment and making illegible posts seem to be more serious offenses and it'd make sense if we could ban in those cases.

The following users say "It's so good to hear it!" BallsDeep69

[DaGuru]

  I would prefer if we didn't ban for "innocent" derailing (people just messing around), necrobumping (except in cases of spam obv), or making false post reports.  On the other hand, harassment and making illegible posts seem to be more serious offenses and it'd make sense if we could ban in those cases.

No, and this is why you are unfit to be a moderator and don't belong here in general. "People just messing around" IS the textbook definition of trolling/derailing, and its what makes the threads irrelevant and eventually chases people away that DO come here for some sense of adult and controversial discussion. You wanna "just mess around"? Go post in HB. Go post in NIMF. Better yet, go find another forum completely, because again YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE if you can't understand most people want to have quality discussion without your constant trolling and interference.

Funny how you call all the other derailing as "innocent".....but then the stuff you want to infract for (flaming) you use the overly dramatic victimization verbiage of "harrassement". You are backwards and confused. On here and IRL. Go away, because until you do....this forum will continue to spiral into obscurity. No matter how much Arnox protects you and ignores the obvious.

[Spectre]

  I would prefer if we didn't ban for "innocent" derailing (people just messing around), necrobumping (except in cases of spam obv), or making false post reports.  On the other hand, harassment and making illegible posts seem to be more serious offenses and it'd make sense if we could ban in those cases.

No, and this is why you are unfit to be a moderator and don't belong here in general. "People just messing around" IS the textbook definition of trolling/derailing, and its what makes the threads irrelevant and eventually chases people away that DO come here for some sense of adult and controversial discussion. You wanna "just mess around"? Go post in HB. Go post in NIMF. Better yet, go find another forum completely, because again YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE if you can't understand most people want to have quality discussion without your constant trolling and interference.

Funny how you call all the other derailing as "innocent".....but then the stuff you want to infract for (flaming) you use the overly dramatic victimization verbiage of "harrassement". You are backwards and confused. On here and IRL. Go away, because until you do....this forum will continue to spiral into obscurity. No matter how much Arnox protects you and ignores the obvious.

fucking this

you are so hellbent on the ability to make the conversations about you there are sections to "mess around" in take that shit there Zek your peace love and happiness shtick doesn't belong in every god damn thread.

I also can't wait to see the massive misuse use of the "harassment" rule while I don't think people should be taking vendettas into informational threads I know that's not the real reason this rule was implemented seeing as Arnox had no desire for a rule like that till his shit decisions made him a target

[equanimity]

  I would prefer if we didn't ban for "innocent" derailing (people just messing around), necrobumping (except in cases of spam obv), or making false post reports.  On the other hand, harassment and making illegible posts seem to be more serious offenses and it'd make sense if we could ban in those cases.

No, and this is why you are unfit to be a moderator and don't belong here in general. "People just messing around" IS the textbook definition of trolling/derailing, and its what makes the threads irrelevant and eventually chases people away that DO come here for some sense of adult and controversial discussion. You wanna "just mess around"? Go post in HB. Go post in NIMF. Better yet, go find another forum completely, because again YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE if you can't understand most people want to have quality discussion without your constant trolling and interference.

Funny how you call all the other derailing as "innocent".....but then the stuff you want to infract for (flaming) you use the overly dramatic victimization verbiage of "harrassement". You are backwards and confused. On here and IRL. Go away, because until you do....this forum will continue to spiral into obscurity. No matter how much Arnox protects you and ignores the obvious.

Oh, sorry.  By "not ban" in that list I meant those would still be offenses, but people would receive warnings for them.  Apologies, DaGuru.  Was not very clear about that.

[Lanny]

No, and this is why you are unfit to be a moderator and don't belong here in general. "People just messing around" IS the textbook definition of trolling/derailing, and its what makes the threads irrelevant and eventually chases people away that DO come here for some sense of adult and controversial discussion. You wanna "just mess around"? Go post in HB. Go post in NIMF. Better yet, go find another forum completely, because again YOU DO NOT BELONG HERE if you can't understand most people want to have quality discussion without your constant trolling and interference.

Funny how you call all the other derailing as "innocent".....but then the stuff you want to infract for (flaming) you use the overly dramatic victimization verbiage of "harrassement". You are backwards and confused. On here and IRL. Go away, because until you do....this forum will continue to spiral into obscurity. No matter how much Arnox protects you and ignores the obvious.

Lol, no, this is why you're unfit to give commentary on the community. You're so out of touch with what this community actually is that you think banning people for having fun is a good idea. This community isn't about trading stupid text files, it hasn't been for a long time. There are like a grand total of 5 posters who want the whole site to be srsbsns all the time. The rest of us just want to shitpost with people we've known for what seems like forever.

It's funny that you whine endlessly about "hiding behind a control panel", yet when equiminity tries a gentler approach you get this butthurt.

[Lanny]

Oh, sorry.  By "not ban" in that list I meant those would still be offenses, but people would receive warnings for them.  Apologies, DaGuru.  Was not very clear about that.

Don't bother trying to apologize to him, he's not upset about anything you said, he just needs to cry about something and your post was close at hand. Some posters aren't brain dead belligerent shits who you can make peace with, DaGuru is not one of them.

[equanimity]

equiminity