Boards o' Magick Rules - Update

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There haven't been any major changes or additions to our rules in several years now, so the recent change warrants an announcement here.

Only one of our rules has been expanded, and that is rule #11, which now states:

(11) Criticize and discuss to your heart's content, but do it constructively. No attacks, insults, or flames - be it on someone's person, religious beliefs, race, national background, sexual orientation or whatever. This is one of our most important rules. If you have a problem with somebody, do not flame them on our boards. No flaming of ANY kind is welcome here, neither in public posts nor in private correspondence via our message boards. The quickest way to get banned from our boards is to break this rule.

NOTE: Every member has the right to manually decline the receiving of private messages or reputation (with or without comments) from any other regular member for any reason. If a member directs you not to communicate with them via PM or to stop giving them reputation, they will only be expected to ask that of you ONCE, via a separate PM. You are required to abide by their wishes and cease such communication with them immediately, but you have the right to request the same of them (i.e. that they should not PM or use reputation on you again). Your counter-request should be in the form of a SINGLE response the original PM.

To report violations of this rule, please click on the Report Private Message icon in the top right corner of the PM in question. This will send a copy of the unwanted PM to our moderators and they will deal with the offender. To report the receiving of reputation hits from someone after you have notified them that you don't wish to receive reputation from them, please PM Taluntain.

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I may change the wording slightly in the future if anything is unclear, but the gist of the rule will remain the same. This rule is not retroactive so any breaking of it in the past is irrelevant, but it does come into effect as of this posting. From this point onwards, everyone will be expected to abide by it.

If anything about the rule is unclear, please post here or PM me for clarification. Thanks!

 

People can also sign their username in the rep comment manually, which is often the case.

 

Should members also be able to ask other members not to comment on their blogs?

 

Good question... this hasn't come up yet, but it might make sense to include blogs here as well. The blogs do have a few comment-leaving permissions that everyone can set, though. For instance, you can disallow comments altogether, limit them to people on your contact list only or disallow those on your ignore list to post comments.

I could also set the permission that would allow people to moderate comments within their own blogs, but that's a very powerful permission that's currently disabled.

 

If there's only one person that's bothering you, it's obviously not a good solution to have to disable reputation completely to avoid their hits. The same goes for PMs... ideally, there'd be an ignore system that would allow for putting individuals on PM/rep ignore, but until that becomes available, this should do.

It's not something that I expect more than 1% of people will want or need to use, so it's really not a big deal.