10-13-2014, 11:20 AM
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Moderation in all things...
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Calgarypuck Forum Guidelines
General Guidelines
These are the guidelines for all forums on Calgarypuck. The guidelines are listed in this post, and more details about each can be found further in the thread. There may be additional guidelines for each sub-forum.
1. Obey the Moderators.
2. Respect the other posters. Don't be a jerk, be civil. Don't harass or bully others.
3. Address the topic, not the poster. Having your opinion, claim or argument challenged, doubted or dismissed is not attacking you.
4. Make a positive contribution. Stay on the thread's topic, don't intentionally derail or otherwise assassinate a thread. If you don't like a thread, don't post in it. This isn't a forum for trash talking and flame wars.
5. Race, Gender, Sexual Preference, Religion, Political Views
6. Keep your posts at a PG level. Posts that are/contain nudity, porn, obscenity, gore, death, or extreme violence are not allowed. This also includes profanity; there is a profanity filter that should not be intentionally circumvented.
7. Don't post anything that could be considered illegal or considered to incite or further criminal activity. This include posting copyrighted material (quote an article and post a link rather than copy/pasting the whole article for example) or linking to pirate sites.
8. Don't post anything harmful or dangerous to another poster's welfare. This includes posting personal information, viruses or malicious links, and posts designed to abuse or threaten the mental or physical welfare of the other poster.
9. Do not post just to self-promote. No advertising, no posting of affiliate links, and no posting personal links to games where generating traffic is involved in winning. If you want to pay to advertise a business or site, contact Bingo. Putting a link to your site in your sig is ok. If in doubt, ask first.
10. Duplicate accounts are not allowed. If you are temporarily suspended, do not register a new account to circumvent the suspension.
11. Be considerate of others when posting, both with text and images. Keep images of a reasonable size, and posts readable and not disruptive.
12. Requests for poll hijacking are generally not allowed.
Sub-Forum Specific Guidelines
Additional guidelines are posted for the subforums that have them:
Fire On Ice Sub-Forum Guidelines
Buy/Sell Sub-Forum Guidelines
Ticket Buy/Sell Sub-Forum Guidelines
Power Ring Sub-Forum Guidelines
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10-13-2014, 11:22 AM
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Moderation in all things...
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1. Obey the Moderators.
All communication with moderators is expected to be civil and polite. Moderators volunteer their time; insults or other abuse will not be tolerated.
If the Moderator PMs you or posts in a thread looking asking for something, it's a good idea to pay attention. They're trying to keep the peace, not pursue a personal vendetta against you.
Don't make threads or off topic posts about Moderation issues. If you have a problem or question about a moderator's actions, contact the Moderator account to discuss things.
If you get a temporary suspension and create an account to get around it, you WILL be perma-banned. If you wish to argue/defend your case, email boardadmin@calgarypuck.com. At least one moderator will read it, and if there's a compelling case, it will be brought to the attention the rest of the moderators.
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10-13-2014, 11:24 AM
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Moderation in all things...
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2. Respect the other posters. Don't be a jerk, be civil, don't harass or bully others
Treat others as you would want them to treat you. Your post should be designed to communicate, not to incite a response in others. Discussions may get heated, but repeated poor behaviour won't be tolerated.
Harassment and bullying is defined as when one poster or a group of posters specifically and regularly target another poster with defamatory, insulting or posts irrelevant to the discussion of the given thread. The moderation team will take against a poster who shows a pattern of drawing another poster into an argument.
Threads that degrade into personal attacks or constant bickering will be locked. Don't bait people into arguments. Respect that other teams' fans feel as passionate about their team and hate your team as much as you love yours and hate theirs.
In disputes, a long time poster with a known good history will probably get the benefit of the doubt. A new poster coming in with both guns blazing, not so much.
Use of the word "troll" is becoming far too pervasive, it is an insult just like any other. Only in the most obvious of circumstances would calling someone a troll be acceptable, and even in those cases please just report the post rather than contributing to the mess.
This can be subjective and at the moderator's discretion.
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10-13-2014, 11:25 AM
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Moderation in all things...
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4. Make a positive contribution.
Make a positive contribution. Stay on the thread's topic, don't intentionally derail or otherwise assassinate a thread. If you don't like a thread, don't post in it. This isn't a forum for trash talking and flame wars.
Stay on topic. This is not to stifle thread drift, short asides, jokes, or similar things, but to prevent intentional derailing of a topic.
Don't register just to trash talk. We want discussion and interaction, not brainless trash talk. If two regulars get into a heated battle that's one thing, but if you register just to tell us how much we suck you'll be banned.
Thread Assassination. A good thread can be destroyed by flame wars, personal attacks, and posting of clever images. We don't want to stifle anyone's acid wit or neuter those who love to make fun of dumb threads, but this should be done constructively. Unfortunately, identifying this problem is highly subjective, which makes it hard to say exactly not what to do. Here are some guidelines:
- Don't be a jerk for no good reason. An obvious failure thread that deserves mocking should receive it, but before the mocking begins someone should explain why.
- Don't willfully derail a thread that has a purpose, or has already generated several on-topic posts.
- Don't willingly inspire a flame war.
- Everyone here is entitled to make threads. If a topic has a reason to exist, then either contribute or don't. People less savvy than you are not here for your amusement and derision.
- In other words, don't be a troll
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10-13-2014, 12:44 PM
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Moderation in all things...
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5. Race, Gender, Sexual Preference, Religion, Political Views
Calgarypuck strives to be an inclusive community that welcomes members and input from all hockey fans.
We will not tolerate posts that express or advocate derogatory or harmful attitudes/actions, discrimination, objectification, prejudice, violence, or stereotyping based on race, ethnic or national origin, gender, sexual preference, age, or mental or physical disability.
We recognize that at times members post things in the heat of a discussion, or to be humorous. Excluding instances where posts are clearly hate-filled, moderators will give community members warnings and opportunities to adjust their behavior before resorting to more severe actions, which include infractions, suspensions and banning. The moderation team reserves the right to immediately ban any members who post severely offensive comments.
Religion and politics regularly lead to some of the more passionate arguments on our site. It is important that the opinions of others are respected in the course of such debates. Members should strive to not be inflammatory when discussing these topics. Having your idea questions does not count as inflammatory. Inflammatory posts will be removed and discussed with the community member who made the post. In threads where religion and politics are not the subject being discussed, religion and/or political leanings of posters will be considered irrelevant and subject to site moderation.
Posters should are encouraged to "discuss the topic, not the poster" and avoid personalizing any discussion. In addition, posters should across an entire group (e.g. "all Christians are...", "All Liberals feel...", etc) as this is often more inflammatory and informational.
At times posters will be asked to bow out of certain discussions if they are demonstrating they are being abusive or inflammatory. When necessary moderators will close specific threads temporarily or permanently when discussions get out of hand.
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