Discussion forum rules [transcipt]

[DarthZeth]

ima just gunna copy the rules fomr the old discussion forum to here.

Originally Posted by Mashuren

Originally I wrote: "Y'all seem to be a little confused about what goes where, understandably, so here we go: generally, if it's not an issue you might see on the news, it's not a Discussion topic. Things like 'what's your favorite kind of cheeseburger' go in Random, things like 'is the use of physical force ever justified except in cases of self-defense' go here.

Nobody's going to yell at you for misplacing things, but on the other hand, nobody wants to have to move five threads in an hour or anything, so please think before you post. If you want to start a topic and are totally paralyzed with indecision, you can always private message one of us mods and ask us where we think it should go."

...But now it looks like I'm going to have to start yelling. Look, I know you can read, otherwise you wouldn't be using a text-based online forum. So please -- stop posting stuff that doesn't belong here in this folder. Do it more than three times in a week and I'm going to start handing out one-week temp-bannings. The other mods and I have better things to do than dealing with moving ten threads a day because people are too lazy to think for five seconds before squirting out another topic.

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Originally Posted by Kurosen

I hereby declare an end to religious discussions in this sub-forum. They inevitably degenerate into flame wars, attempts at mass evangelization to one person's perspective, go around and around in circles that end up nowhere, or some hellish combination of all of the above. So, y'know, no more. None. Ever, ever again.

Complaints will be kindly ignored. Feel free to start up your own boards for theological discussion.

This doesn't mean you can't talk about your religion at all--just that no more theologically-based discussions of any kind are going to be permitted, and that any thread we see veering heavily in that direction is either going to be nudged in another direction or closed.

This isn't some weirdo anti-religion conspiracy. In an odd twist of fate, despite the fact that I remain religiously unaffiliated, most of my closest friends were the sons of ministers (or whichever ones are allowed to have families, I don't know :B), so religious debate is nothing new or frightening to me. It's just that 'round these parts it doesn't seem to go anywhere.

there yah go