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HV: Journals Rules ONLY
Every member may make only ONE journal thread each. You need no mod permission for this. Your journal will always be locked at 50 pages and archived, to avoid excessively large journals. Every member may make their own rules for their own journal with regards to posting, which must always be listed in their first post. You should respect these journal rules. If you, the journal owner, has anyone breaking your rules for your journal, then you should PM a community mod about it.
General Rules
These rules apply to ALL forums on HV. Most forums will also have additional rules, which will be announced if so in an additional rules thread. When posting in any forum except for Nonsense, make sure that there are no extra rules added.
1. Respect Other Members
No flaming - Do not seek to insult or deride other forum members. We have a zero tolerance policy towards this conduct. Also the excuse that they started it will not be taken into consideration. Simply put, being flamed first does not give you a license to flame them back. If you are flamed, then contact a mod and they will deal with it, not you.
No baiting - Do not treat people in an unkind manner to get them to flame you. This is essentially another form of flaming, abeit more subtle.
No Drama - Keep the drama to an acceptable level across the boards. If you get into a huge arguement with someone, try and make sure it does not publically spill over into the community as a whole. Try and be open minded and approach debates or differences of opinions as that... And not the start of World War III.
No Harrassment: Usually this is where a member will continue to PM or shadow (ie: post in the same places they are deliberately) another member despite being told to stop. Note that if you continue to reply, this is not harrassment. Harrassment can cover aim, yahoo, email and msn, if they get your instant messenger names/emails off the boards.
No Neo-Flaming/baiting Another form of flaming whereupon the user flames or insults the other member, but usually disguises it to make it not look like a flame, insult or baiting. 'It's just a joke' does not wash if we suspect that you are doing this.
2. Respect the Boards.
No Flooding: Defined as either posting more than five new threads in the same forum in an one hour period without staff permission, bumping a load of dead topics which causes the previously active threads to drop off the first page, or posting repetitively in the same thread in a manner which ruins the previous subject of discussion.
No Incorrect use of Media Any media used must be used keeping into consideration that not everyone has broadband access. So, do not post music into a thread unless you place a warning in the thread title. Likewise, if you post any media which total more than 1mb in size, then a warning must go in the thread title. No music or huge images can be placed in signatures whatsoever. Any use of media must be PG13 or below. Topics with adult content media must contain a thread warning.
No incorrect use of html tags You may use any html tag, but you must NOT leave tags open, otherwise these tend to break threads.
No neo-trolling Posting or interacting with the community with the intent of degrading the boards for others is seen as neo trolling. This can include exploiting loopholes in rules, deliberately and publically trying to show members of staff up, and so on. This can also include actions off site, such as aiming or msning a lot of people to deride how the boards are run, making numerous and highly unproductive attacks against the boards on journals, and so forth.
No Hacking: Considered one of the very worst offences someone may commit. Hacking kills sites; enough said.
No Advertising commericial sites or message boards: Do all that in sigs. DO NOT PM other members with such links either. We do not pay for the bandwidth to advertise other sites.
3. Respect the Staff
If a mod closes a thread, or tells you to quit doing something, then please listen to them. Mods are there to help control this forum, and stop it being degraded. While what they ask for may not make sense to you, it will make sense to everyone else who want what's best for the forum. If you are unhappy with a mod, then do not make a public protest thread, but PM an admin with the complaint and we will deal with it if necessary. While mods are not these all powerful beings who you can not question, you should have enough respect for them and the time which they put in to be able to trust their judgement and the job that they do.
We will NOT accept the excuse that 'it's not in the rules so therefore I have not broken the rules'. If we warn you it is usually for very good reason. Not every infringement can be tightly put into this rulebook; we are not legal specialists... Just use common sense, and don't seek to take the piss, and you will get on fine.
Punishments for rule breaking.
The following actions can be taken by staff depending on how badly you have infringed on the rules.
Official Warnings: Should be taken very seriously if you recieve one. You should speak to the staff member and make sure that you do not repeat your mistake again, lest you get something more serious next time. This is to be taken seriously, and not as a simple slap on the wrist. Warnings can be issued by any staff member.
Probation: Your last chance warning, so to speak. Sometimes we can issue these without ANY warnings being sent out prior if we judge your actions to be bad enough. Only admins can issue probations. This would be when you'd have to seriously question what you are doing wrong and definately try and listen. Members on probation can not be on staff or in any position of authority on the boards.
Purgatory: Purgatory can only be enacted by a h/mod or admin. Purgatory is where your posting ability on the boards is suspended, but you can still view the boards for up to three days. During this time you can still PM staff over the boards to put your case to them. The minute you are put on purgatory, a vote and evidence thread is put up in staff, and staff vote on whether you should be banned or not.
Banning: Bannings are specified at the time of being banned, and can range from 3 days, to one week, to one month, to indefinate (undetermined). In normal cases a banning will only be done after three days in purgatory (which in itself can only be done after a probation). All bannings have the staff vote announced, with a short summary given (sometimes with evidence if it still exists) as to why they were banned.
Permanent Bannings:These are very rare. Usually something terrible would have had to have been done to warrant this, such as a successful hacking attempt which devasted the boards, stalking, or various other serious illegal activities conducted over the boards (warezing obviously not included). Also SEVERE cases of neo-trolling can be included.
New Additions
Locking journals at 50 pages
This has come from a few reasons. Firstly the amount of people requesting that their journals be locked earlier. Secondly sorting through and opening 50 page journals is faster than those that are larger. This however would not affect people with journals larger than 50 pages until they start a new one.
Providing a reason to lock a journal
Several times this month I have had requests to lock journals that there has been no reason to lock. If there is a reason to lock a journal I.e. reaching 50/100 pages, flaming/baiting or a falling out between persons sharing the journal then thats fine however "I wanted to start a new one" is not acceptable.
Placing Original username/journal title in First post
After a request from a user we are considering this as a rule. If you are one of these people that often changes your username or journal title then we ask that you put your original username or journal title in the first post.
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