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Hi Everyone,

I've been trying to put this off, but with the exciting week we've just had it looks like my hand has been forced.

Beginning tonight, we are going to be implementing FG's new infraction system. The infraction system follows our simple rules as listed above.

As it stands now, most infractions are worth 1 point and have a 30 day expiration. Three infractions will result in having your account either banned or terminated.

Here are the details:



Spammed Advertisements.

3 points - Banned Account



No "Flaming": Please do not post any messages that harrass, insult, belittle, threaten or flame another member or guest.

1 Point - 30 Days expiration

No "Trolling": Please do not post any topic that disrupts the peace and harmony of this board. Don't create meaningless threads with the sole purpose of starting a dispute. This includes messages in profiles and signatures.

1 Point - 30 Days expiration.

Inappropriate Language

1 Point - 30 Days expiration

No "Spamming": Please do not double post or cross-post the same message in multiple forums. You will not mass-PM or mass-email multiple members of this site the same message. You will not post for the sake of increasing your post count.

1 Point - 30 Days expiration

No "Offensive" Posts, Links or Images: Please do not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, racist, sexist, discriminatory, or otherwise violative of any local or international laws. This includes links in your signature, profile, bookmarks as well as posted images, photos and avatars. Staff will ultimately decide if something is appropriate or not.

1 Point - 30 Days expiration



All infractions will handled by ForumGarden.

and...

everyone is starting with a clean slate. Infractions levied will only be for posts and threads from this moment forward.

Merry Christmas!

Forumgarden;481249 wrote: and...



everyone is starting with a clean slate. Infractions levied will only be for posts and threads from this moment forward.



Merry Christmas!


Can i quote this............LO

Thank You

Patsy

Thank you TS the new rules should do it.

THANK GOD.

You know it's serious when ForumGarden posts it.

I am glad that the rules have been changed, things were really getting out of hand and so its right that FG have decided to do this. I hope that this will provide everyone with clear guidelines about how to conduct themselves in future and how to handle personal disagreements or personality clashes. Well done FG, now its time for some shameless self-promotion, wait thats no on either is it? Oh well.

thankyou Tombstone.

Wonderful news.

Thank you ForumGarden and Tombstone.

Hey rules are great by me

I can't get in to the compost pile does anyone know the password .



edited to add ; i have the password now .

Thank you FG.

oh i might have to be a bit more carefull on the joke contents but other that i'm fine i think :p :p

if there is any one i've offended pm lets all start again afresh and as adults well except me but i'll be as adult as i can

Galbally;481296 wrote: I am glad that the rules have been changed, things were really getting out of hand and so its right that FG have decided to do this. I hope that this will provide everyone with clear guidelines about how to conduct themselves in future and how to handle personal disagreements or personality clashes. Well done FG,


I second that!

Thanks, TStone, for trying to run this joint right :-6

Sounds like a plan to me. Happy Holidays to everyone.

Novelty;481481 wrote: May i be exempt?
:wah:



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I like it. Rules loose enough for decent folk to move around unfettered.

Looks like I will be seeing ya'll about every thirty days. Keep me in your thoughts.:-4

YZGI;482439 wrote: Looks like I will be seeing ya'll about every thirty days. Keep me in your thoughts.:-4


probably every 60 days if they let me back in at all :sneaky: :wah:

How will you know when you a point? Will some one throw a flag at you?

I'm gonna find out real quick ain't I.

Will points be displayed?

Just so I get this right.If you get 1 point,you are out for 30 days Right?

Shweet tatersalad;482555 wrote: How will you know when you a point? Will some one throw a flag at you?

I'm gonna find out real quick ain't I.


You will receive a PM and it will show in your "My Settings" area.

Uncle Kram;482562 wrote: Will points be displayed?


Points will be displayed to the user and the administrator. Points may be viewable by moderators in the future.

Shweet tatersalad;482564 wrote: Just so I get this right.If you get 1 point,you are out for 30 days Right?


No. 3 points and the account is terminated or banned. Points expire in 30 days so think of it like your driver's license.

Accountable;481526 wrote: :wah:



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I like it. Rules loose enough for decent folk to move around unfettered.


hey if your walkoing around loose and unfettered can that be seen as obscene....:sneaky:

I have one thing to say about this:



'BOUT DAMN TIME!!! :yh_bigsmi :yh_clap

Forumgarden;482573 wrote: No. 3 points and the account is terminated or banned. Points expire in 30 days so think of it like your driver's license.
So every 30 days I can make 2 personal attacks and not worry about getting banned? YAY! :wah:

This sounds fair.

Forumgarden;481249 wrote: and...



everyone is starting with a clean slate. Infractions levied will only be for posts and threads from this moment forward.



Merry Christmas!


Why I never ! :-5

For the love of Jesus Joseph & Mary this is preposterous ! An outrage !!

Im contacting my congressman...who the hell is my congressman ?!!

@#!*#!@....this wont be the last you've heard of me #!@*#!

Nomad;482725 wrote: Why I never ! :-5

For the love of Jesus Joseph & Mary this is preposterous ! An outrage !!

Im contacting my congressman...who the hell is my congressman ?!!

@#!*#!@....this wont be the last you've heard of me #!@*#!


tsk tsk tsk, please leave the room and come back again with a new 'ttude:wah:

venus;482596 wrote: hey if your walkoing around loose and unfettered can that be seen as obscene....:sneaky:
But in the winter it's only one point. :yh_blush

Forumgarden;482572 wrote: Points will be displayed to the user and the administrator. Points may be viewable by moderators in the future.


we have moderators? who are they? i know spot's got a debate thing going but i thought that was just in that area, is the whole board moderated now?

buttercup;483603 wrote: we have moderators? who are they? i know spot's got a debate thing going but i thought that was just in that area, is the whole board moderated now?


I think TStone means that we may have moderators in the future, and if we do, they will have certain privileges



Am I right here? :p

I think Tombstone made it quite clear somewhere (where?) that these 'moderators' would not be 'moderating' in the way we all understand and most of us very much dislike the term, but would have clearly defined powers to deal only with legitimate spam (defined) and multiple posts.

The new Infraction System hopefully should make other moderation now unnecessary, anyway.

Well Done Tomb, good going, you've got the reins back!:)

Just bumping this up for peoples' review. Take a look--might surprise you.

thanks lulu ..

Thanks Lu i haven't read that yet .

You're welcome. They're well-written and well-intended. I think we should study them as they apparently were meant to apply to all of us.