Moderators may delete posts that violate any of these rules. The authors of deleted posts will be notified via email. Gross offenders may have their accounts disabled to prevent further posting. - +Additional kinds of bad behavior (\"bugging\" posts to trap the +IP addresses of other participants, excessive thread creation to spam +the forums, etc.), while not listed in the formal rules, may still +lead to similar penalties.
If you think a post violates any of the posting rules, click the red X on the post and fill out the form; moderators will be notified of your complaint. +Please use this button only for clear violations - not +personal disputes.
We try to be as fair as we can when moderating, but in a large community of users, with many different viewpoints, @@ -24,8 +30,13 @@ there will always be some people that will not be happy with our moderation decisions. While we regret that this happens, please realize that we cannot suit all of the people all of the time -and have to make decisions based on what is best for the forum overall. - +and have to make decisions based on our resources and +what is best for the forum overall. +Please don't discuss our moderation policy on the forums. We aren't +a social engineering project nor are we in the business of creating +a perfectly fair system. So such discussions tend to be counterproductive +and potentially incendiary. If you have a legitimate claim, +send email to the address below.
This moderation policy is set by the ".PROJECT." project. If you have comments about the policy, email ".SYS_ADMIN_EMAIL.". diff --git a/html/user/moderator_instructions.php b/html/user/moderator_instructions.php index c420fd7e3c..fc373796c1 100644 --- a/html/user/moderator_instructions.php +++ b/html/user/moderator_instructions.php @@ -20,6 +20,9 @@ content might not exactly violate any of the rules above that may contain less offensive but still questionable material