Announcement & Suggestions Posting Guidelines
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 3:33 am
I should've posted this a long time ago, but to avoid further confusion... here goes.
Please limit new topics to those relevant to Kevin's Watch or Stephen R. Donaldson. More personal announcements should be posted in General Discussion or The Summonsing (announcements concerning non-admin comings and goings, for example). Exceptions can be made, of course, but they will be few. 'Announcements' as opposed to 'announcements,' so to speak.
Any and all suggestions are welcome, even the frivolous, and even ones like 'Syl, why don't you shove these guidelines somewhere uncomfortable?' Off-topic posts are fine, too, but if they reach critical mass, they'll probably be split and moved.
I told Jay I had a pretty draconion view of A&S, and he still gave me the gig. So blame Jay. Of course, any resulting use of the Ban Sticktm is beyond my control... same reason you'll never see me move any of Jay's posts when he goes on one of his cat sniffing benders.
That's it. Feel free to send me a private message if you have any questions.
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Questions or concerns should be addressed to the moderator (me). If you feel like you can't ask me (I don't bite, I swear... not that I'd swear at you, either... probably), then they should be addressed to one of the administrators. Maybe it's just the sailor in me wanting to enforce the chain of command, but I imagine most other moderators would feel the same way about their forums.
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Despite the prodigious lengths that our admins and mods have gone to in order to stop or root out spam, it still happens. Until you hear from an admin (hint, not me), take this as advice, but...
Follow the old internet adage and 'Don't feed the trolls.' Look, it's not like email spam. They're not trying to get you to buy their products or even click on their links. They're trying to increase their search engine rankings. Responding to them, no matter how clever you think you are, only helps them. The more they're rewarded, the more it's worth their time to re-register and do it over again.
The registration should clue you in that these are people setting up the accounts, not bots. They get paid to do it (pennies, but it can add up) by small internet 'media' companies. The good ones can do it so well a normal poster wouldn't notice it's spam.
You want to help? Just PM the mod/s of the forum or other mods to let them know it's there. Beyond rewarding the spammers, adding posts to the threads makes it that much harder for the mods or admins to clean it up (unless they choose to just delete your post with it, which, unless it's a policy, still requires them to make that consideration.
Please limit new topics to those relevant to Kevin's Watch or Stephen R. Donaldson. More personal announcements should be posted in General Discussion or The Summonsing (announcements concerning non-admin comings and goings, for example). Exceptions can be made, of course, but they will be few. 'Announcements' as opposed to 'announcements,' so to speak.
Any and all suggestions are welcome, even the frivolous, and even ones like 'Syl, why don't you shove these guidelines somewhere uncomfortable?' Off-topic posts are fine, too, but if they reach critical mass, they'll probably be split and moved.
I told Jay I had a pretty draconion view of A&S, and he still gave me the gig. So blame Jay. Of course, any resulting use of the Ban Sticktm is beyond my control... same reason you'll never see me move any of Jay's posts when he goes on one of his cat sniffing benders.
That's it. Feel free to send me a private message if you have any questions.
____________
Questions or concerns should be addressed to the moderator (me). If you feel like you can't ask me (I don't bite, I swear... not that I'd swear at you, either... probably), then they should be addressed to one of the administrators. Maybe it's just the sailor in me wanting to enforce the chain of command, but I imagine most other moderators would feel the same way about their forums.
____________
Despite the prodigious lengths that our admins and mods have gone to in order to stop or root out spam, it still happens. Until you hear from an admin (hint, not me), take this as advice, but...
Follow the old internet adage and 'Don't feed the trolls.' Look, it's not like email spam. They're not trying to get you to buy their products or even click on their links. They're trying to increase their search engine rankings. Responding to them, no matter how clever you think you are, only helps them. The more they're rewarded, the more it's worth their time to re-register and do it over again.
The registration should clue you in that these are people setting up the accounts, not bots. They get paid to do it (pennies, but it can add up) by small internet 'media' companies. The good ones can do it so well a normal poster wouldn't notice it's spam.
You want to help? Just PM the mod/s of the forum or other mods to let them know it's there. Beyond rewarding the spammers, adding posts to the threads makes it that much harder for the mods or admins to clean it up (unless they choose to just delete your post with it, which, unless it's a policy, still requires them to make that consideration.
-jay
(I think you better do what they say! 
)
A right! And a left! boom, boom!
