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General => Off-topic Chat => Topic started by: Dr_Grinch on November 14, 2006, 05:13:26 AM

Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Dr_Grinch on November 14, 2006, 05:13:26 AM
1) No illegal or money making posts(if the point of your post is either to help distribute copyrighted material/harmful software, or to put money in your pocket, it's not allowed).

2) No posts that are intended to cause server stress or otherwise prevent other users from accessing this site.

3) Porn/Gore/Disturbing Material belongs in NSFW.

4) If you are going to post some kind of short or generic vid, whether it be humorous or whatever, use the Vid Dump Thread (http://www.theisonews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=142852). For the more news-worthy or profound/lengthy material, you can make a separate thread. And no, you won't be banned if you screw up, so don't wet yourselves. Threads will just be locked and the post moved to the Vid Dump. Same applies for pictures. If you find a funny pic of a monkey wearing a dress, or you need help deciphering a letter on some sign in the background of a pic, well we really dont need whole new threads for this type of thing. Just post it in the Picture Dump Thread (http://www.theisonews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=148984).

5a) Apparently people need this written in stone as well. YES, NO REQUESTING APPLIES HERE TOO. Actually, it applies GLOBALLY. Most know this, but people try getting around this by requesting invitations to torrent sites. That too, IS NOT PERMITTED, SO QUIT MAKING THREADS AND ASKING PEOPLE HERE. Go to that sites forum or irc channel and ask them. If you can't because its private, well tough, that isn't our problem. This site doesn't exist to help with that kind of thing whatsoever. If you are caught asking/requesting about this, you are banned. Don't say you weren't warned.

5b) Dont link to sign-up pages either, intended to inform people about some new and hot, alabama-slammin-jammin torrent site. People can find them on their own, so dont advertise them here.

Ask any intelligent questions in this thread.
Serious discussion only please.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on November 15, 2006, 02:10:25 AM
first \o/

Good to see you guys relaxing the rules. OT seems nicer now (after the spammers had their fun).
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Dr_Grinch on November 15, 2006, 02:21:53 AM
Quote from: "ixon"
first \o/

Good to see you guys relaxing the rules. OT seems nicer now (after the spammers had their fun).

Well some users (mostly the worst spammers initially) were also unbanned today (cause we're FUCKING NAZIS AND WE HATE EVERYONE) in the hope that people will get along.
The reality is that we have relaxed it in the hopes that people don't ruin it for themselves. We expected a shit-show when we stopped moderating and it was partly the case, but once it leveled off it wasn't so terrible. Hopefully we don't have to moderate much in the future and we can focus on making other parts of the site better.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on November 15, 2006, 02:46:47 AM
that's cool good job guys.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on November 15, 2006, 03:13:31 AM
Quote from: "rado__907"
that's cool good job guys.

qft
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: SkiLLz on November 15, 2006, 05:30:44 AM
Excellent
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: ViRuS_PW on November 15, 2006, 09:37:08 AM
Quote from: "rado__907"
that's cool good job guys.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on November 15, 2006, 05:12:20 PM
much better now
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Peralph on November 16, 2006, 02:02:36 AM
wut about bumping old-ass threads
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Amaruak on November 16, 2006, 02:19:10 AM
does this make SIP obsolete? also, what about misleading tinyurl links like that HOTSISTER thread?
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Dr. Van Falk on November 17, 2006, 03:27:51 AM
Quote from: "Amaruak"
does this make SIP obsolete? also, what about misleading tinyurl links like that HOTSISTER thread?

Collateral damage from the time before the rules.

If they upset you, just watch them a few dozen times and you'll get desensitized.


And, Jotaro, try reading the rules. It says nothing about bumping old threads. If someone bumps 50 of them in a row, that arguably falls under the preventing someone from accessing the site clause, as the site they're accessing is more or less useless at that point.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Peralph on November 17, 2006, 11:14:02 PM
yah of course this i figured out, i just wondered about people randomly bumping jurassic threads, seeing as i guess some people could abuse this to deceive and piss off members... all's cool though
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: acidrock69 on November 26, 2006, 08:29:59 PM
Quote from: "Dr. Van Falk"
And, Jotaro, try reading the rules. It says nothing about bumping old threads. If someone bumps 50 of them in a row, that arguably falls under the preventing someone from accessing the site clause, as the site they're accessing is more or less useless at that point.

psh, that didn't stop the ass that temp banned me for 5 or 7 days because i bumped an old thread. no warning, no PM, never went on a spam/SIP/dupe thread-starting spree, nothing. i've been here for over 6 years and that was my only temp ban which is a pretty good indicator that i'm not here to fuck things up and make things difficult for mods.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on November 26, 2006, 10:50:58 PM
I would never temp ban you Acidcock <3.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: acidrock69 on November 28, 2006, 08:17:23 PM
lol, was it you???
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on November 28, 2006, 09:14:58 PM
I don't remember banning you.

According to the logs, it was TheVirus. You can go kill him now if you want.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on November 28, 2006, 10:11:06 PM
Nice to see that there no longer is a long list of really specific and gay rules.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: SkiLLz on November 28, 2006, 10:15:37 PM
5 day ban for posting a nsfw tagged goatse link makes me wonder what the point of this thread is...
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: acidrock69 on November 29, 2006, 04:30:33 PM
/shakes fist at TheVulture
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: jeef on December 02, 2006, 03:49:17 PM
Yeah there's still some unwritten rules, I picked up a day ban.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Dr_Grinch on December 02, 2006, 09:47:12 PM
Quote from: "jeef"
Yeah there's still some unwritten rules, I picked up a day ban.

Not that it was me who banned you (twasn't) but we hope that users who have been here for several years would use some common sense. There's also that 10% +/- factor if you've caught one of us who's had a shit day and the tban seems easier than sending a PM. The new robot moderators should be operational by early 2015. Until then suck it up.
At least we have Tbans... when Fro ruled with an iron fist those didn't exist.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: 6Jones on December 03, 2006, 05:40:16 AM
So I can call Horrordee a stupid Jew in the off-topic section but not in the other sections?

That's stupid.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: jeef on December 03, 2006, 12:17:44 PM
Quote from: "Dr_Grinch"
Quote from: "jeef"
Yeah there's still some unwritten rules, I picked up a day ban.

Not that it was me who banned you (twasn't) but we hope that users who have been here for several years would use some common sense. There's also that 10% +/- factor if you've caught one of us who's had a shit day and the tban seems easier than sending a PM. The new robot moderators should be operational by early 2015. Until then suck it up.
At least we have Tbans... when Fro ruled with an iron fist those didn't exist.

I knew what would happen, I just had to make sure the new rules are more or less a farce.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on December 03, 2006, 04:08:21 PM
Robot moderators would be neat.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Dr. Van Falk on December 05, 2006, 03:25:33 AM
Quote from: "jeef"
I knew what would happen, I just had to make sure the new rules are more or less a farce.

They're real to me. I don't care what any of you do. If any of you can figure out how to actually set fire to the board, knock yourselves out.

However, it should be noted that I felt that way prior to the rule change.
Title: Re: New Off-Topic Rules now in place
Post by: on December 22, 2006, 10:36:43 PM
Quote from: "Dr_Grinch"
3) Porn belongs in NSFW.


Quote from: "SkiLLz"
5 day ban for posting a nsfw tagged goatse link makes me wonder what the point of this thread is...

Was it so hard to understand?
Title: Re: New Off-Topic Rules now in place
Post by: SkiLLz on December 29, 2006, 06:19:32 AM
Quote from: "Uncle_Mart"
Quote from: "Dr_Grinch"
3) Porn belongs in NSFW.


Quote from: "SkiLLz"
5 day ban for posting a nsfw tagged goatse link makes me wonder what the point of this thread is...

Was it so hard to understand?
It was tagged NSFW and its not porn!
Title: Re: New Off-Topic Rules now in place
Post by: on December 30, 2006, 03:46:01 PM
Quote from: "SkiLLz"
Quote from: "Uncle_Mart"
Quote from: "Dr_Grinch"
3) Porn belongs in NSFW.


Quote from: "SkiLLz"
5 day ban for posting a nsfw tagged goatse link makes me wonder what the point of this thread is...

Was it so hard to understand?
It was tagged NSFW and its not porn!
It is to me, uuuuuuuuhhhh!
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: SkiLLz on January 31, 2007, 11:12:48 PM
http://www.theisonews.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=145929
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Peralph on February 02, 2007, 08:02:06 AM
add a rule that forbids incoherent/unsubstancial threads that mean nothing then
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: jeef on February 03, 2007, 06:52:36 PM
We the people with life liberty and the pursuit of dongs.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on June 14, 2007, 07:24:58 PM
Could you please add "don't make pointless threads" to the list of rules.

No, I don't support the locking of pointless threads, but if you keep locking threads for the mere fact that they're lame/stupid/pointless, why did you remove the rule in the first place?
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on July 08, 2007, 05:04:02 AM
Quote from: "JayRoe"
Could you please add "don't make pointless threads" to the list of rules.


Isn't the "Ask any Intelligent question. Serious discussion." good enough? If there are idiots rigorously making pointless threads ignore them and they will fuck off eventually.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on August 22, 2007, 03:42:44 AM
A<3B
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on March 12, 2010, 09:55:15 PM
just wanted to see my name at the top of forum...where it belongs
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: on March 17, 2010, 02:12:49 AM
Quote from: "Bustanut"
just wanted to see my name at the top of forum...where it belongs

:( freakish's name looked better there.
Title: Forum Rules
Post by: Shwaggy on March 17, 2010, 01:45:29 PM
Now my name is at the top. Shut up, both of you.