Post by Scruffy on Aug 8, 2008 13:06:44 GMT -5
Welcome to the Rihanna-Lounge. We hope you enjoy your stay on the site. Below are several rules that we ask you to abide by. Please note, if rules are broken certain disciplinary actions will be taken.
Rule 1: No direct personal attacks (i.e. Person X is an idiot). That means no insults in posts or in private messages.
Rule 2: No indirect personal attacks (i.e. I dislike Person X's idiocy).
Rule 3: Discuss the issue and not your opponent. Discuss what your opponent has said, not the opponent him or herself. You may discuss and criticize a posters opinions, preferred policies or the actions that the poster has said they have taken. No speculation about the personal lives of other posters.
Rule 4: No trolling. Trolling is defined as baiting or provoking another poster with rude, disrespectful, or condescending remarks. Trolling also includes posting up comments that de-rail thread topics with nonsense.
Rule 5: No commenting on moderation in public, or mouthing off to moderators upon receiving a warning or penalty from them in private.
Rule 6: Moderators keep discussions civil, enforce forum rules and are also bound by forum rules. They give their own political opinions, and their opinions are not the opinions of the forum. Moderators maintain the quality of political discussion and therefore moderators are empowered to edit and delete posts as well as to ban posters who they deem as degrading the civil atmosphere of the forum. The final interpretation of the forum rules rests with the moderators.
Rule 7: Personal aggression, condescension, rudeness, racism, bigotry, are banable offenses. The forum does not tolerate personal drama pushed into political discussions and forum business. Posters who make their own membership an issue for discussion open themselves up to the possibility of a moderator closing their account for them.
Rule 8: Low quality posting including but not limited to the following, are bannable offenses: misrepresenting or distorting another poster's comments or actions, nonsensical and illogical remarks, or general stupidity. Moderators can issue bans for insults, trolling, low quality posting, spam and remarks or actions which moderators feel are beneath the standards of the forum. Low quality posters may be banned at the moderators discretion depending on the severity of the individual comment, post, or thread.
Rule 9: Do not create more than one account.
Rule 10: Insults conveyed over private messages are treated the same as insults on the forum. When infractions are awarded, a private message is automatically sent to the offender. Mouthing off to the moderators will result in additional penalties.
The private message system is intended for the benefit of the members of this forum to share personal things with each other which they are not comfortable sharing with the forum at large or to develop bonds. It is a privilege provided by the moderators of the forum for the enjoyment of the members. Members should not use the private message system to form factions to gang up on other posters or moderators. In the past, this has resulted in all members of the gang being banned.
Rule 11: Using the private message system to bash moderators or the forum is an offense subject to a permanent ban for ALL participants involved.
Rule 12: The forum takes no responsibility for any of the views expressed or the information released by people who join this forum and express opinions or post information.
Rule 13: Do not create threads or posts designed to advertise for your site or webpage. If you want to display a link or image of your webpage, add it to your signature in the User CP options. It will show up every time you make a post.
Rule 14: Do not link to other political forums or consumer goods or services in your signature. You may link to political blogs and non-political forums in your signature.
Rule 15: You may display one image that refers to your site in your signature. The maximum size of a text link image in your signature is restricted to 250 Width pixels x 50 Height pixels.
Rule 16: All signatures (which do not link to a site that you own) are allowed to have images that have a 200 pixel height, which is as large as the picture.
Rule 17: All threads and posts that copy and paste an article as a new thread MUST be accompanied by an ORIGINAL COMMENT by the thread starter that poses a question or says why the article is important or makes a commentary on the article he/she is presenting. Threads that copy and paste an article must be accompanied by a link to that article where possible.
Rule 18: Do not post the same thread in multiple forums
Rule 19: "Goodbye threads" are only allowed if they state a personal reason for leaving the forum and they are not used to violate other forum rules, like making accusations against the forum staff.
This forum is managed and owned cooperatively by the forum moderators. The forum expenses are funded by advertisements and contributions from its members. Broadly speaking, the forum moderators have three goals: to keep the average quality of posts at a reasonably respectable level, to promote an atmosphere and environment that maximizes the growth of the forum, and to keep the forum ideologically balanced. This last part means that the moderators do not wish to see any one political ideology become over-represented. Sometimes these three goals come into conflict with one another and in situations like those moderators rely upon their judgment to strike the appropriate balance
Rule 1: No direct personal attacks (i.e. Person X is an idiot). That means no insults in posts or in private messages.
Rule 2: No indirect personal attacks (i.e. I dislike Person X's idiocy).
Rule 3: Discuss the issue and not your opponent. Discuss what your opponent has said, not the opponent him or herself. You may discuss and criticize a posters opinions, preferred policies or the actions that the poster has said they have taken. No speculation about the personal lives of other posters.
Rule 4: No trolling. Trolling is defined as baiting or provoking another poster with rude, disrespectful, or condescending remarks. Trolling also includes posting up comments that de-rail thread topics with nonsense.
Rule 5: No commenting on moderation in public, or mouthing off to moderators upon receiving a warning or penalty from them in private.
Rule 6: Moderators keep discussions civil, enforce forum rules and are also bound by forum rules. They give their own political opinions, and their opinions are not the opinions of the forum. Moderators maintain the quality of political discussion and therefore moderators are empowered to edit and delete posts as well as to ban posters who they deem as degrading the civil atmosphere of the forum. The final interpretation of the forum rules rests with the moderators.
Rule 7: Personal aggression, condescension, rudeness, racism, bigotry, are banable offenses. The forum does not tolerate personal drama pushed into political discussions and forum business. Posters who make their own membership an issue for discussion open themselves up to the possibility of a moderator closing their account for them.
Rule 8: Low quality posting including but not limited to the following, are bannable offenses: misrepresenting or distorting another poster's comments or actions, nonsensical and illogical remarks, or general stupidity. Moderators can issue bans for insults, trolling, low quality posting, spam and remarks or actions which moderators feel are beneath the standards of the forum. Low quality posters may be banned at the moderators discretion depending on the severity of the individual comment, post, or thread.
Rule 9: Do not create more than one account.
Rule 10: Insults conveyed over private messages are treated the same as insults on the forum. When infractions are awarded, a private message is automatically sent to the offender. Mouthing off to the moderators will result in additional penalties.
The private message system is intended for the benefit of the members of this forum to share personal things with each other which they are not comfortable sharing with the forum at large or to develop bonds. It is a privilege provided by the moderators of the forum for the enjoyment of the members. Members should not use the private message system to form factions to gang up on other posters or moderators. In the past, this has resulted in all members of the gang being banned.
Rule 11: Using the private message system to bash moderators or the forum is an offense subject to a permanent ban for ALL participants involved.
Rule 12: The forum takes no responsibility for any of the views expressed or the information released by people who join this forum and express opinions or post information.
Rule 13: Do not create threads or posts designed to advertise for your site or webpage. If you want to display a link or image of your webpage, add it to your signature in the User CP options. It will show up every time you make a post.
Rule 14: Do not link to other political forums or consumer goods or services in your signature. You may link to political blogs and non-political forums in your signature.
Rule 15: You may display one image that refers to your site in your signature. The maximum size of a text link image in your signature is restricted to 250 Width pixels x 50 Height pixels.
Rule 16: All signatures (which do not link to a site that you own) are allowed to have images that have a 200 pixel height, which is as large as the picture.
Rule 17: All threads and posts that copy and paste an article as a new thread MUST be accompanied by an ORIGINAL COMMENT by the thread starter that poses a question or says why the article is important or makes a commentary on the article he/she is presenting. Threads that copy and paste an article must be accompanied by a link to that article where possible.
Rule 18: Do not post the same thread in multiple forums
Rule 19: "Goodbye threads" are only allowed if they state a personal reason for leaving the forum and they are not used to violate other forum rules, like making accusations against the forum staff.
This forum is managed and owned cooperatively by the forum moderators. The forum expenses are funded by advertisements and contributions from its members. Broadly speaking, the forum moderators have three goals: to keep the average quality of posts at a reasonably respectable level, to promote an atmosphere and environment that maximizes the growth of the forum, and to keep the forum ideologically balanced. This last part means that the moderators do not wish to see any one political ideology become over-represented. Sometimes these three goals come into conflict with one another and in situations like those moderators rely upon their judgment to strike the appropriate balance