: Your post will be deleted or edited, and you will recieve a warning after you break this rule 5 times. 3 warnings, you get a temporary ban.
: Your post will be deleted or edited, you will recieve a warning after you break the rule twice. 3 warnings, you get a temporary ban.
: You get 1 warning only, and if you break the rule again you will get a temp-ban. 3 temp-bans, you get permabanned.
: You will not get a warning, and you will be temp-banned. 2 of these and you will be permabanned.
: Breaking this rule results in instant permaban without warning.
Music: Music can cause arguments. If someone posts music, do NOT argue over it in your opinion of music. Everyone, everyone, is entitled to their own opinion and should not be told to change it. Topics in which music arguments develop will be locked.
Topic Titles: Topic titles should have something to do with the topic, not just "OMG" or "CHECK THIS OUT!!" Topics whose titles are pointless will be locked.
Moderators: MODERATORS MUST DO THEIR JOBS! If you don't, you'll be fired from modship. You'll also lose your job if you do anything level or higher. The last forum's mods rarely did their jobs, and often broke some of the most important rules.
Cursing: NO cursing! Very bad! Except for "Crap," and "Freaking," you're not allowed to curse. I know some people believe that "Crap" and "Freaking" are curses, but they're not in my book and are okay to say. Acronyms such as "WTF", "OMFG", and "LMAO" are not okay to say. Level: to , depending on the curse.
Suggestiveness: Absolutely NOTHING suggestive. This is of ZERO TOLERANCE! Words, phrases, images, jokes, NOTHING. Level: to , depending on how suggestive.
Scams to Get Personal Info: If you are scammed for personal info, such as via PM, let me know who tried to scam you! I'll ban them, probably forever.
Name Calling/Hurtful comments: None of these, kay? This includes racism, racial jokes, and anything racist. Level: , or , the latter if racial.
Reports: If you see a post that breaks any rule, report it so the mods and I can get to it faster.
Fun: HAVE FUN! It's a rule, so you better do it!
If I forgot anything, I'll add it later.
hmm.....nothing against posting violent flash movies.....is there?
I understand you've rewritten the rules now, which is cool and all, but here are my suggestions!
You forgot the G rule, so as long as this video of his does not Curse, Cuss, Swear, or whatever you choose to call it, it technically would fall under these new rules. We are all mature enough, as is well, to extend the rule to PG. I think we are capable of atleast that.
PART TWO!!I believe "WTF" should still be a legal acrononym. Now I understand the other two, yes you can't replace the others, but atleast use WTF. In my book, my speacil little book of words, WTF stands for What the FUDGE. A perfectly, harmless acronym. LMAO and OMFG can go. They can easily be replaced with OMG and ROFL.
Lastly! You can't really find a "funny" flash out there that lacks those violent words. I believe if you add the warning level (If it's a movie like "PG-13" or if a game like "Rated T for Teens"), then the person knows "Hey! I don't want to see/play that!
All in all though, nice change! I think adding punishments will make the rules seem more enforced and effective!
As a final pleed, I am saying the "forbiden acronyms" in this as a plead to my case, and hope you can find the common decency to let it slide for the sake of the arguement.
Part One: The G rule was overused in forums created after mine. I found that since this was the new forum, the rules should be written from scratch, and I did so. I think I covered that pretty thoroughly in suggestiveness and cursing.
Part Two: I HAVE, indeed, been taking into consideration some changes to the cursing section. The DCForums, though designed to accommodate all ages, allows "Hell," "Damn," "WTF," AND "LMAO." In observing the DCForums' policy and your suggestions, I hope to make some reasonable changes to the rules soon.
Part Three: As with the DCForums, this forum is designed to accommodate all ages. A warning in the topic title that there is cursing or whatever MAY suffice, but I don't believe I would tolerate a moderate to high level of suggestiveness... And certain curse words are a lot, a LOT worse than others. I will take this into consideration, but for now the policy will not change.
Part Four: These are great ideas. There SHOULD be a rule about topic titles. And... Maybe I was a little harsh in taking away music. I think the rule could be lessened to "no arguments about music" or something similar. And I likely will add a rule about topic titles.
Roco's Edit: Coulda sworn that was already in there, will need to add that.
MY edit: Have updated the rules with Gore and Blood, Topic Titles, and Music sections.