Talk Elections

OK, it's time we set down some guidelines in writing.

First - profanity.  The following swear words are not allowed:
- The c-word
- Both f-words
- The s-word
- The n-word

If you have any doubts about what any of those words might be, PM me.

Second - Excessive Hyperbole.  Enough referring to the mods as Nazis.  The Nazis were responsible for the deaths of countless people.  None of the mods have killed anybody.  Constructive criticism of the mods is fine, but if you're obnoxious about it, it's not gonna fly any more.

Third - Personal Attacks.  Don't attack other forum posters.

If you have any doubts about what you're about to post, don't post it, and PM me or Mikado first.  The "It's easier to ask for forgiveness than permission" line won't fly here.

Everyone can consider this their official notification, and nobody should be claiming lack of knowledge for the rules of the board.

Haha, nice try, l.h. Inks!

I guess the term fascists is off limits too? 

HE'S USING A "F" WORD!

You guys might consider adding following words:

F words:

Fascist

N words:

Nazi

H words:

Hitler
Himmler
Hermann

G words:

Gestapo
Goering

L words:

Luftwaffe
Lindsay Lohan

M words:

Mikado

Fascism doesn't necessarily equate to murderers...so that's ok... I just lose respect for people who misuse the word.

You mean like when Al called you one, and posted it in his signature?  :)

You guys are bunch of Keitels.

Rules? In my off topic board?

OP is a fascist.

Hm, let me guess...


Cannabis?


Fascist and footlicking?


Sarah Palin?


An African-American?

Don't quit your day job kid... comedy is not your forte.

Kal hasn't grasped American humor.......nor will he ever.

Don't try to chalk this up to Europe. We have way better humour than that. In fact some of the funniest people I've met have been Polish.

F**k you, King.

Go and f**k yourself, you worthless hog.

New Mikadorule: this board can have one and only one thread for the discussion of the Gen 3.5 incarnation of My Little Pony.  If someone wants to start a proper discussion thread/bump the old one, that's fine.  No polls, no  threads about who they'd vote for, and posting about your desire to bone Fluttershy will get you a big infraction.

^^^ support with everything I have

Here is a new rule that will apply to everyone from this point forward: If you start a new account for any reason other than you got accidentally locked out of your regular account (such as the e-mail address you use to reset your password is no longer valid), you will not be allowed to post on the Off Topic and Forum Community boards.

If you decide to quit the forum and come back, you must talk to Dave to get your old account restored before posting on these boards.  Failure to abide by this rule will result in 10 point infractions for each post you post on these boards (I removed all of jmfcst's posts without infraction since this rule is new).

I'm sorry, but it's a bad precedent for us to start allowing multiple accounts based on bi-polar attitudes of hate and addiction to this forum, and we are going to nip this in the bud now.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBCq8XDgrP0

As asked in the other thread, what if Dave tells you otherwise?

Dave's rules and directions obviously trumps all.  That goes with ANY rule.  I'm not sure why you're singling this one out to question.

That was asked a while ago actually, and I was supposed to delete that post if you answered it in the other thread first.

I did answer it in the other thread...

And I was supposed to delete the above post...

What's a usergroup?

The little thing under your user name.  My user group is "Moderators".  Nym is a Modadmin.  Some people are Wikieditors (I am also in that groupo, but the "moderator" group trumps that in terms of precedence for listing).  Your user group is YaBB God.

Banned is a usergroup too on some forums. They allow you to do things like, but not limited to...
View hidden forums
Have Moderator Powers
Have Administrator Powers
Post topics
Post polls

I'm not certain but I'd presume that being "on review" is just a usergroup that requires approval before you post topics or polls. You can get your own forum at http://www.invisionfree.com/ and while it does not use the same software as this forum, it can certainly teach you as to some of the options available to dave.

edit -
http://download.simplemachines.org/index.php?archive;version=35
this is the software this forum uses.

there were plenty of rank-and-file Nazis who never killed anyone.  just as there were plenty of fascists who did.

Please read this from Dave:


Therefore, we will be implementing a standard that when a thread reaches ~2,000 posts, it will be locked and a new one started.  This isn't going to be a hard line rule, and I'd encourage posters to do this on their own.  When a thread gets to 2,000, I'm not going to find it and lock it, and if a conversation in a particular thread is ongoing, it will be allowed to continue.  But if I notice that a thread has over 2,000 posts, it'll eventually be locked (going forward - there's no point doing this to old threads.

Sounds good, anything that helps! Thanks, Inks.

wait, you mean the last name of "the one who should not be named"? If not, was he some Japanese person?

I would seriously like to add something,

Do not use profanity in signatures. Because I have been offended on some people's sigs. I'm serious about this one. Maybe some people's sigs that already have profanity, could be up for debates to the mediators, or someone like that.

Your signature is pretty profane though, Jack.

like~

thanks for the tips

I have a question.

I am doing a assananation TL.  Where do I put it?

Timeline, I assume, would go into Election What-ifs?, while interactive timeline, I assume, would go in Election Games.

Ok thank you.