These guidelines have been drawn up by your friendly moderators so that everyone understands what is and what is not acceptible as far as posting in the Australia/Asia/NZ/Middle East Social forum is concerned.
Hopefully these guidelines will prevent this forum from getting out of control as it did when it was first introduced.
1) Threads must stay on topic.
The topic of the thread is clearly stated in the Australia/Asia/NZ/Middle East Social forum page. This topic, which should be elaborated upon in the topic starter's first post, is generally what the subject of the discussion should be. Please make sure that what you add to the thread is valid, and please make an effort to keep the thread on topic. If there is something important you forgot to add, just click the edit button to add more to your post.
2) Do not post multiple threads on the same topic.
If there is already a thread running which is on the topic of something you want to post about, use the same thread! If you're not going to go completely off topic, don't start a new thread. For example, any threads about reviews of a recent party are also good for posting photos in, there's no need for a new thread.
3) This is not a chat site.
Though it is tempting to be social, chat cannot be accepted. Too many people are making personal posts which only bear relevance to one or two other people. That's what email and ICQ is for. To a small extent it will be tolerated, but its in the interests of all Bluelighters, particularly those who have just joined Bluelight that we leave chat out.
4) Keep posts simple.
It might look cool to you, but excessive html can be quite annoying to other people. Please try to keep html to a minimum.
On a similar note, if you want to use colours, make sure they add to the post and are not simply an eyesore. If it gets over the top, sadly html will have to be banned in this forum. This goes for smilies too, don't over-use them.
And so what's acceptable in this forum? Well basically anything that is inoffensive and above a certain level of maturity. An example of something which is below the acceptable level of maturity is the <a href=http://www.bluelight.ru/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000072.html>Mu(x)ke vs Piglet</a> thread, although that thread is under heritage protection and will not be closed.
As long as it's not something which you know people may find offensive, and it's something people can actually contribute to, then it will be acceptible.
No personal attacks on other bluelighters or flame wars are acceptible.
This forum is for everyone and everyone should be made to feel they are welcome.
Now here's a few other things to keep in mind:
As everyone should be aware, the server is under a huge load and isn't holding up too well, and while I'm sure most of you are doing what you can to not make it any worse, there are still too many who are forgetting a few things and quite a few of you who are new and just don't know, so I'm going to go over a few points which I want everyone to read and understand...
[This message has been edited by Tarsarlan (edited 05 May 2001).]
[ Edit: changed the title to say "Old" cos they're out of date ]
[ 27 May 2002: Message edited by: Pleonastic ]
Hopefully these guidelines will prevent this forum from getting out of control as it did when it was first introduced.
1) Threads must stay on topic.
The topic of the thread is clearly stated in the Australia/Asia/NZ/Middle East Social forum page. This topic, which should be elaborated upon in the topic starter's first post, is generally what the subject of the discussion should be. Please make sure that what you add to the thread is valid, and please make an effort to keep the thread on topic. If there is something important you forgot to add, just click the edit button to add more to your post.
2) Do not post multiple threads on the same topic.
If there is already a thread running which is on the topic of something you want to post about, use the same thread! If you're not going to go completely off topic, don't start a new thread. For example, any threads about reviews of a recent party are also good for posting photos in, there's no need for a new thread.
3) This is not a chat site.
Though it is tempting to be social, chat cannot be accepted. Too many people are making personal posts which only bear relevance to one or two other people. That's what email and ICQ is for. To a small extent it will be tolerated, but its in the interests of all Bluelighters, particularly those who have just joined Bluelight that we leave chat out.
4) Keep posts simple.
It might look cool to you, but excessive html can be quite annoying to other people. Please try to keep html to a minimum.
On a similar note, if you want to use colours, make sure they add to the post and are not simply an eyesore. If it gets over the top, sadly html will have to be banned in this forum. This goes for smilies too, don't over-use them.
And so what's acceptable in this forum? Well basically anything that is inoffensive and above a certain level of maturity. An example of something which is below the acceptable level of maturity is the <a href=http://www.bluelight.ru/ubb/Forum29/HTML/000072.html>Mu(x)ke vs Piglet</a> thread, although that thread is under heritage protection and will not be closed.
As long as it's not something which you know people may find offensive, and it's something people can actually contribute to, then it will be acceptible.
No personal attacks on other bluelighters or flame wars are acceptible.
This forum is for everyone and everyone should be made to feel they are welcome.
Now here's a few other things to keep in mind:
As everyone should be aware, the server is under a huge load and isn't holding up too well, and while I'm sure most of you are doing what you can to not make it any worse, there are still too many who are forgetting a few things and quite a few of you who are new and just don't know, so I'm going to go over a few points which I want everyone to read and understand...
- When you hit the submit button to post a message, consider it posted regardless of what comes up next...
So if it comes up with some weird error message, your message has been posted. Even if you check the thread and you don't see your message, it is there... You might have to wait 6-24hrs to see it, but it is there...
If you don't see it after 24hrs, add another reply with "test" or something. The missing reply will pop up. You can then delete the "test" message. And who knows, someone else may rescue your message with a reply before you do.
Waiting 6 hours is better for traffic than repeating three or four duplicates immediately.
So if you get a piss-off message from your browser, the chances are the message got there. Check the reply counter. - Check the thread after you post and delete any multiple posts... Even if you hit submit once, just check the thread to make sure only one post has appeared... If there are more than one, delete the rest...
- Use the back button, don't refresh! Or even better, open the forum thread listing in a new window and leave it alone until you've read all the threads you want to
- Don't repeatedly refresh every five minutes! If you're a bluelight addict like me, find something else to calm your nerves while you wait for people to post, don't just keep refreshing the thread listings...
[This message has been edited by Tarsarlan (edited 05 May 2001).]
[ Edit: changed the title to say "Old" cos they're out of date ]
[ 27 May 2002: Message edited by: Pleonastic ]