Rules

Do:

1. Make generally on-topic, substantive and cleanly organized contributions to threads.
2. Minimize the following in your posts:
• Chatspeak
• Text in ALL CAPS, bright colors, or sizes larger than 3
• Non-English language outside of the Writing and Languages section
• Errors in spelling and grammar
3. Because members use a variety of browsers and forum layouts, standard formatting is encouraged.
4. Restrict discussion inappropriate for minors to the Mature Topics section.
5. Keep one and only one active account, unless given explicit permission by staff.
6. Abide by staff decisions and directives pertaining to individual cases, provided they do not conflict with the stated rules.

Don't:

1. Use the forum to disseminate indecent, obscene or pornographic material.
2. Use the forum to violate or conspire to violate United States federal law.
3. Attack or provoke another member or group of members by means of insult, ad hominem, rudeness or button-pushing.
4. Disturb the peace of the forum via hostile advancement of religious, political, ethnic, sexual or other agendas.
5. Violate privacy or compromise anonymity of other members without their permission.
6. Use the forum to advertise for personal gain.
7. Display vulgar or garish signatures, avatars or profile fields.

Policies

As a general rule guiding enforcement of those listed above: we moderate in order to promote coherence, legality and friendliness in discussion. Actions taken by staff seek to preserve all three of those qualities to the greatest possible degree. Consequently, items that disrupt coherence, compromise legality or poison the friendly atmosphere are to be edited, deleted or moved as necessary.

Moderating Users

Established users who repeatedly violate the rules will be administered infractions. See here (link) for the details of our system.

New Users

Users who have made fewer than 42 posts may be subject to more immediate consequences following rule violations. Those who begin by making questionable posts (be they inflammatory, spamming, off-topic or incoherent) will be placed in the "moderation bin" — meaning their posts will be displayed only pending approval by staff. Users dealt with in this manner will also be messaged, and depending on their replies, may be restored to full privileges or banned without further ado. These procedures are intended to prevent obvious trolls and spammers from inflicting rapid damage while infractions and other, slower measures are being taken.

Member Requests

In addition to maintaining the quality of the forums, staff perform various tasks at member request. Some common requests are routinely granted; others are routinely denied; some require case-by-case discussion. Below are guidelines for the two categories of requests:

Your Account

• We do not delete user accounts. You may, however, receive a voluntary temp-ban (displayed as “On Holiday”) for up to six months at a time.
• You may have your username changed. We are quickest to grant changes of small magnitude that result in minimal identity confusion. Members are asked to avoid requesting frequent changes, and to consider their choices carefully.
• In exceptional cases, we may allow a member to register a new account. Only one active account may be held at a given time, but those who wish to leave behind old identities may be given that opportunity depending on the circumstances.

Threads and posts

• You are able to edit or delete your own posts for up to 72 hours after posting. After that time has passed, we will grant edit requests at our own discretion. Edits are typically not made to content that has already been quoted. Only urgent reasons (such as pressing privacy concerns) will compel us to alter third parties’ posts without their specific permission.
• Threads of a personal nature (e.g., blog and interview threads) will be closed upon request by those primarily concerned. Blog threads in particular come with special privileges: the threadstarter has the option of having the thread closed or even deleted, and is able to have other members banned from the thread on request.

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