Post by Katty on Mar 3, 2009 13:42:35 GMT 10
Rules
Members
- You are expected to treat fellow members with courtesy and respect. Rudeness, disrespect, threats, harassment and other offensive behaviour towards other Goldenlake members will not be tolerated.
Newbies
- Rudeness or hostility towards new members of the board, simply because they are new, will not be tolerated by any of the Goldenlake staff.
Content
- Please ensure you always use proper spelling, punctuation and grammar when posting on the board or participating in chat. Posts with excessive ‘chatspeak’ and/or bad spelling and grammar will be edited or deleted by a moderator.
- Please refrain from excessive profanity. Goldenlake has users of all ages, and there are better ways to express yourself. I have chosen not to engage the profanity filter, but I will if it appears that a blanket ban is necessary.
- Try not to load your posts with smileys and graphics. Posts will be edited if yours is deemed too graphic-heavy, at the discretion of the forum moderator.
- Conduct discussions in their appropriate forums. Off-topic discussions will be moved by the moderators – there are forums like General Chatter and Entertainment for non-Pierce discussions.
- Confine book spoilers to their own forums, to prevent other readers from being unwillingly spoiled. However, if the forum comes with a spoiler warning, all posts in there are fair game for spoilers. Consider yourselves warned.
- Discussions containing major spoilers for recent books require appropriate *SPOILER* warnings in their thread title and again at the beginning of each thread. In the case of new books (e.g. Mastiff in 2011, and future Emelan books), discussion belongs only the specially created forums for the relevant book/series. New book/series content may not be posted or referenced in the Tortall or Emelan forums until one calendar year after their conclusion/worldwide release.
(This also applies to Entertaiment, as other countries may not receive shows/books/movies until months or years after the inital release.)
- Don’t resurrect threads that have been long-inactive – if it hasn't been touched in a few months and you have something to add to the discussion, start a new thread.
- Poll creation is restricted to staff in most forums. However a couple of forums like General Chatter also have poll creation open to registered members – do not abuse this or it will be taken away.
Spam
- Goldenlake has a zero-tolerance spam policy. Spamming includes things like: constant linking to external sites, constant pointless posting, and flooding the chatroom.
Trolls
- Goldenlake has a zero-tolerance troll policy. (Trolling involves posting provocative messages to the board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument – things like attacking or flaming other members for no reason).
Adult Material
- No explicit adult material (such as pornography, excessively graphic content, or explicit sex-fic – NC-17 rating type stuff) is allowed to be posted or linked to on the board. R-rated stuff is allowed at the discretion of moderators, providing there is a "warning" in the subject line of the thread.
Graphics
- Avatars/icons should be no larger than 100x100pixels in total
- Graphic signatures should be a maximum of 150x500pixels in total.
- Images posted generally on the board which are larger than 300x300pixels should be posted as a clickable thumbnail.
- No hotlinking of images.
By posting on the Goldenlake board, you accept ALL the above rules and conditions.
As such:
I reserve the right to warn, or even ban (temporarily or PERMANENTLY, for the worst offenders) members who violate any of the above rules, at my own discretion, and on the advice of the moderators.
Thanks for your co-operation. Happy posting!
Kat
Members
- You are expected to treat fellow members with courtesy and respect. Rudeness, disrespect, threats, harassment and other offensive behaviour towards other Goldenlake members will not be tolerated.
Newbies
- Rudeness or hostility towards new members of the board, simply because they are new, will not be tolerated by any of the Goldenlake staff.
Content
- Please ensure you always use proper spelling, punctuation and grammar when posting on the board or participating in chat. Posts with excessive ‘chatspeak’ and/or bad spelling and grammar will be edited or deleted by a moderator.
- Please refrain from excessive profanity. Goldenlake has users of all ages, and there are better ways to express yourself. I have chosen not to engage the profanity filter, but I will if it appears that a blanket ban is necessary.
- Try not to load your posts with smileys and graphics. Posts will be edited if yours is deemed too graphic-heavy, at the discretion of the forum moderator.
- Conduct discussions in their appropriate forums. Off-topic discussions will be moved by the moderators – there are forums like General Chatter and Entertainment for non-Pierce discussions.
- Confine book spoilers to their own forums, to prevent other readers from being unwillingly spoiled. However, if the forum comes with a spoiler warning, all posts in there are fair game for spoilers. Consider yourselves warned.
- Discussions containing major spoilers for recent books require appropriate *SPOILER* warnings in their thread title and again at the beginning of each thread. In the case of new books (e.g. Mastiff in 2011, and future Emelan books), discussion belongs only the specially created forums for the relevant book/series. New book/series content may not be posted or referenced in the Tortall or Emelan forums until one calendar year after their conclusion/worldwide release.
(This also applies to Entertaiment, as other countries may not receive shows/books/movies until months or years after the inital release.)
- Don’t resurrect threads that have been long-inactive – if it hasn't been touched in a few months and you have something to add to the discussion, start a new thread.
- Poll creation is restricted to staff in most forums. However a couple of forums like General Chatter also have poll creation open to registered members – do not abuse this or it will be taken away.
Spam
- Goldenlake has a zero-tolerance spam policy. Spamming includes things like: constant linking to external sites, constant pointless posting, and flooding the chatroom.
Trolls
- Goldenlake has a zero-tolerance troll policy. (Trolling involves posting provocative messages to the board with the intention of causing maximum disruption and argument – things like attacking or flaming other members for no reason).
Adult Material
- No explicit adult material (such as pornography, excessively graphic content, or explicit sex-fic – NC-17 rating type stuff) is allowed to be posted or linked to on the board. R-rated stuff is allowed at the discretion of moderators, providing there is a "warning" in the subject line of the thread.
Graphics
- Avatars/icons should be no larger than 100x100pixels in total
- Graphic signatures should be a maximum of 150x500pixels in total.
- Images posted generally on the board which are larger than 300x300pixels should be posted as a clickable thumbnail.
- No hotlinking of images.
By posting on the Goldenlake board, you accept ALL the above rules and conditions.
As such:
I reserve the right to warn, or even ban (temporarily or PERMANENTLY, for the worst offenders) members who violate any of the above rules, at my own discretion, and on the advice of the moderators.
Thanks for your co-operation. Happy posting!
Kat