All the Mods got together this weekend and hammered out these new policies for the forum.

READ ALL OF THESE POSTING RULES! Breaking any of these will lead to your immediate dismissal

Under 3 Word Posts: If you post short one word, two word, or three word posts or some other single-word reply in a thread like "what?" "hi" "i'm gay" or smileys :-) etc. you will be banned. These posts are an obnoxious waste of server space, essentially announcing that the poster has nothing worthwhile to contribute. Poor posts are annoying and they add nothing to the thread whatsoever.

"Hi, I am new here" Posts: If you are a new member we ask that you don't make a post telling everyone you are new. We have 100's of people join here daily so if everyone did this it would get clogged up quick. Make sure your first post is a good one!

No Double Posting: No double posting. This is when you make a post, and then make another post right after. If you need to revise something that you wrote use the edit button.

Flame Wars: Try to refrain from participating in flame wars. Publicly putting down other members has been done 1000 times before and it is old news. It is a real turn off to everyone else in the forum. We know how tempting it may be to publicly humiliate someone on here but we ask that you keep it private. (IM, Email, or PM)

No Illegal Content: We consider any of the following illegal. Nudity/Porn, Kiddie Porn, Warez, Hacking Files, Cracks, Pirated Software, Viruses.

No Spamming: Do not link to your site and tell people to go there. Unless your link is pertinent to a discussion already in progress, any external link posted will be deleted and your account will be banned.

Causing Drama: If you continually stir up obnoxious drama of any kind in the forum you will be banned.

Conclusion

If you don't like the rules here then please go someplace else because we don't want you here. All we ask is that you act responsible and respectful. Try to add to this place and get along with everyone.

Nice.

But I don't think many here are stupid enough to believe this.

Say "bye-bye" assclown

:)

That's it. You're banned too!

:)

Crap! That was a typo... noooooooooo......

Puppet has been banned from the off-topic forum for violating his own rules.

muppet has been banned from ?off for not really bein muppet.

"The muppet that is knowable is not the real muppet." Well, at least in this case.

Is this for real?

You're lucky that you had four words in that last post...

Where the hell is an edit button?

*Searches frantically for the edit button*

Wait.

Maybe...

Just maybe.. this puppet is no real authority here, and didn't even realize that there is no edit button. And that this message board doesn't have a lot of 'hi im new' posts. And also, this is not the ideal medium for crackers to distribute their cracks.

No. Really.

>> Puppet has been banned from the off-topic forum for
>> violating his own rules.

In a monty pythonesque way at that.

* What's your favourite colour?
o Red? No.. wait, it's blue!
* - Points -
o Weaaaaahhhh! - thrown into the ravine -

Just for clarification puppet didn't reallly break his own rules. I didn't write the first couple of puppet's, but I decided to have some fun with this thread.

Anybody who listens to an unverified user as an authority over this forum is dumb or naive in some way. Especially when the rules that he describes don't really fit this forum's culture.

Now if the moderators did decide that we wanted to create some set of rules because everybody here is complaining about some things getting removed while others aren't they have the right to do that. However, it will probably just spawn a whole bunch of slashdot-like trolls who want figure out exactly what the line is that determines what is acceptable.

"Anybody who listens to an unverified user as an authority over this forum is dumb or naive in some way."

Unless they are listening to me. My word is like Gospel. No really, it is.

And when it's not, I admit I'm wrong.

Like now.

"Edit" is a four letter word, you're all banned.

Nudity is illegal? I'm in trouble every time I go to sleep.

So, "You probably didn't want to know that.", do you ever fall asleep at work?

I refuse to answer that question on the grounds that I may criminalise myself :-)

"Banned"? Who gets "Banned" on an open forum? Now your posts may be deleted, sure, but "Banned"?

Ok, the OP must be a troll, or a newbie, or both. Still, it can be looked at as funny.