Bean Bandit
10-11-2005, 04:49 AM
Now that I have your attention..
Effective immidiately there will be no more quizzes posted in Misc. forum.
Please use your signatures to advertise them in and post your results in your journals. Lets all help to keep AF clean from spam.
Any new quizzes that do show up will be deleted.
Repeated violators besides getting warnings, will have to deal with long explanations from me why they cant do it. Others here can testify that you do not want me to go on and on about something. It probably is the worst punishment you can get. If that doesn't work, then you will be warned.
While were at it, lets cover this..
Spam:
There may be some confusion over the SPAM rules of the Board. So we will attempt to clear it up for you so you don't have to scream SPAM until you're blue in the face. This is how the Misc. moderators will determine what SPAM is:
SPAM generally follows under one of the following categories:
Website Promotion:
The promotion of a personal website on multiple threads or forums. It doesn’t matter if its a great site - its SPAM.
Generally if a guest of any kind posts a website - this will always be considered SPAM because it's obvious why they came on the board. If its a more established member who wants to share their website so they can share with the community - this is NOT considered SPAMMING - understand this crucial point, that a more established member can have their website in their signature. However if they go to multiple forums here and say - go to my website under my signature- then guess what? That's Spam! - make sense?
Questions:
Asking the same question in several forums is considered SPAM because there is no way that your question fits the purpose of each forum. There is a forum for questions reguarding the site. Use it.
Celebration posts:
DO NOT make idiotic posts saying how many posts you have done.
One Word Posts:
DO NOT make one word posts just to raise your post count. Post to add to the discussion of a topic. Making a post that just says "OK" or "lol" adds nothing.
Off-Topic Posts:
Keep your posts on topic. Random discussion belongs in the chatroom.
Other members need to also stop posting to tell members of the above rules. That’s a moderator's job and often it's only adding to the mod's work load.
Violation of any of these rules can result in being warned or having your reputation lowered. These decisions are taken at our own discretion.
Spamming will get you warned and multiple spamming can get you banned eventually - not just your screen name, not to mention a good talking to from the Administrators
Please remember that there are some members of this board who are minors and as such may not fully understand the implications of some actions. Also, at a younger age you are far more influenced by peer pressure, etc. As a community, we have a responsibility to look after each other - please remember that. If you are unsure whether you should post on a topic, pm a moderator beforehand - use us as a guide - afterall, that's what we are here for.
So the key is to check it out if in doubt - or better yet - let us do our jobs and check it out. If a mod is not responding to a Spam or a jerk - ask him or her or pm one of the Misc. mods. Please use the report post buton. It is why it is there.
If you have any questions please feel free to message any one of us.
p.s. The bottom line is just use common sense, and everything will be fine.
Most people do not read pinned topics, so here it is for all to see with no excuse.
You can respond in here if you wish. But be for warned most replies will be deleted. There is no use attempting to argue over things. You will just be beating a dead horse and have your reply deleted.
Effective immidiately there will be no more quizzes posted in Misc. forum.
Please use your signatures to advertise them in and post your results in your journals. Lets all help to keep AF clean from spam.
Any new quizzes that do show up will be deleted.
Repeated violators besides getting warnings, will have to deal with long explanations from me why they cant do it. Others here can testify that you do not want me to go on and on about something. It probably is the worst punishment you can get. If that doesn't work, then you will be warned.
While were at it, lets cover this..
Spam:
There may be some confusion over the SPAM rules of the Board. So we will attempt to clear it up for you so you don't have to scream SPAM until you're blue in the face. This is how the Misc. moderators will determine what SPAM is:
SPAM generally follows under one of the following categories:
Website Promotion:
The promotion of a personal website on multiple threads or forums. It doesn’t matter if its a great site - its SPAM.
Generally if a guest of any kind posts a website - this will always be considered SPAM because it's obvious why they came on the board. If its a more established member who wants to share their website so they can share with the community - this is NOT considered SPAMMING - understand this crucial point, that a more established member can have their website in their signature. However if they go to multiple forums here and say - go to my website under my signature- then guess what? That's Spam! - make sense?
Questions:
Asking the same question in several forums is considered SPAM because there is no way that your question fits the purpose of each forum. There is a forum for questions reguarding the site. Use it.
Celebration posts:
DO NOT make idiotic posts saying how many posts you have done.
One Word Posts:
DO NOT make one word posts just to raise your post count. Post to add to the discussion of a topic. Making a post that just says "OK" or "lol" adds nothing.
Off-Topic Posts:
Keep your posts on topic. Random discussion belongs in the chatroom.
Other members need to also stop posting to tell members of the above rules. That’s a moderator's job and often it's only adding to the mod's work load.
Violation of any of these rules can result in being warned or having your reputation lowered. These decisions are taken at our own discretion.
Spamming will get you warned and multiple spamming can get you banned eventually - not just your screen name, not to mention a good talking to from the Administrators
Please remember that there are some members of this board who are minors and as such may not fully understand the implications of some actions. Also, at a younger age you are far more influenced by peer pressure, etc. As a community, we have a responsibility to look after each other - please remember that. If you are unsure whether you should post on a topic, pm a moderator beforehand - use us as a guide - afterall, that's what we are here for.
So the key is to check it out if in doubt - or better yet - let us do our jobs and check it out. If a mod is not responding to a Spam or a jerk - ask him or her or pm one of the Misc. mods. Please use the report post buton. It is why it is there.
If you have any questions please feel free to message any one of us.
p.s. The bottom line is just use common sense, and everything will be fine.
Most people do not read pinned topics, so here it is for all to see with no excuse.
You can respond in here if you wish. But be for warned most replies will be deleted. There is no use attempting to argue over things. You will just be beating a dead horse and have your reply deleted.