ProBoard Guidelines

[Admin]

As per ProBoards:

By posting on this site, you agree to follow the www.proboards.com/community-guidelines.

Proboards prohibits content that:


Infringes the rights, including without limitation the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights, of any third party, or violates any agreement between you and a current or former employers concerning the intellectual property you create or created during your employment;
Is libelous or defamatory, or violates the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
Consists of or contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, malicious code or other harmful or destructive content;
Is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or pornographic, that may constitute child pornography, or that may solicit personal information from or exploit in a sexual or violent manner anyone under the age of 18;
Depicts excessive violence, contains comments or images that are offensive, abusive, threatening, harassing or menacing, or that incites, encourages or threatens physical harm against another;
Promotes or glorifies racial intolerance, uses hate and/or racist terms, or signifies hate towards any person or group of people;
Advocates the violent overthrow of the government of the United States or other conduct that could constitute a fraud or other criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or foreign law or regulation;
Glamorizes the use of illegal substances and drugs;
Promotes gambling or casinos;
Promotes the buying, selling, or trading of firearms or weapons;
Violates in any way applicable laws or regulations, including without limitation laws designed to regulate unsolicited email or other electronic advertising, in any jurisdiction where the Website or Services are marketed or provided;
Violates any provision of this Agreement or any other ProBoards agreement or policy;
Has a detrimental effect to the goodwill and good standing of ProBoards or any of its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, contractors or representatives; or
Is generally offensive or in bad taste, as determined by ProBoards.


For more information, please read the ProBoards TOS: www.proboards.com/tos

Other than that, go for it!

[jenn314]

Reporting posts/Bannable offenses:

Admins have the power to ban users. If users feel another user should be banned, they should report the post and add a note that they feel the user should be banned.

The offending user shall get a warning that their posts are inappropriate. Unless the post is grossly inappropriate (ie - they posted a picture of a penis) the offending user with have the choice to correct/delete the post (or ask for it to be corrected/deleted for them if they don’t know how). There will be a three strike rule (third strike and you’re out).  Please note that ProBoards tells warned users their warn "percentage".  We do not use a percentage, we use a strike rule.  So 1% is really one strike, 2% is two strikes, and for a third strike you will be banned.

If it’s deemed that the offending user is in the clear, the reporting member will be notified of the decision and it will be explained. Unless it’s excessive, no warnings will be given. Excessive would be if someone reported all of User1’s posts from the past 24 hours to try to prove a point and none of the posts are actually flag worthy.

All warnings will be noted in “Staff Notes”. If one of the admins feels a warning was inappropriately given, it shall be voted upon by the admins. If a user feels they have been unfairly warned, they can ask for an appeal.

Bannable offenses include:

1. Posting someone’s personal information
2. Spamming the boards (Spam is excessive multiple posting, the repeated posting of a message (or substantially similar messages). Bumping threads that have no responses is also considered "spamming". So if you post a thread and nobody responses, please don't just post "Bump". It's going to be considered spam and you'll get a warning.)
3. Seriously abusive personal attacks
4. Excessive trolling (An excessive troll continuously posts extraneous or off-topic messages to this community with the deliberate intent of disrupting normal on-topic discussion.)
5. Seriously offensive language (such as racial slurs or other derogatory language directed at a particular community)
6. Impersonation of any other poster

Multiple Accounts

AEs (alter egos) are allowed.  You may create as many accounts as you would like.  Only one account per person may be used in administrative voting.  Also, warnings travel between accounts.  So a user with two warnings on another account may create a new account, but if they receive another warning, they will be banned across all accounts.

Other Admin Responsibilities

Admins can also delete double posts (when a user posts the same exact thing twice - usually a glitch from mobile), or at a user’s request (User2 can’t delete for some reason so asks that their post be deleted). Admins can delete posts that clearly break the overall ProBoard guidelines after discussion with other admins. If this happens, an explanation will be given to the offending user and the community as a whole.

There will be no more approvals so admins will not have to approve accounts.

The only locked threads shall be “voting” threads to ratify administrative changes, nomination threads after the poll has gone live, or threads with administrative guidelines (like this one). Admins will not lock discussion threads.

Admins can sticky posts.

If other boards are requested, there is to be a change in color, or any other forum setting changes, admin making the change will PM other admins and unless there is an objection, will follow through with action in 24 hours or after the majority of admins have weighed in on the matter. Objections will be settled with majority rule. Major forum changes MUST be put to members. Privacy setting changes count as major forum changes.

Current Admins

Admins are voted on by the community. There will be no more than four admins at any given time. If one admin steps down or has not logged in to the Treehouse in more than a month without reaching out to the other admins, there will be a call for volunteers/nominations and then members will have a choice to vote on it in an announcement poll.

Admins are:
jenn314
snippet17  
LINGERLONGER

[jenn314]

I moved a few things around to try to make things a bit more clear. As always nothing is set in stone so if you'd like clarification or want to discuss changing anything, please feel free to start a discussion and tag the admins!

[jenn314]

We'll have a few questions about AEs so we want to make sure we're all clear.

The admins don't tell on AEs. We track them when we find them (as in when we get a new account and I check the IPs - but if we have a flood I'm less likely to check because I don't have the time). The only reason we track them is so that if we warn one account, we can warn the other one. But the admins have access to IP information and we really don't like to do anything with that info because people have a right to privacy. So should someone come back as a AE, we wouldn't tell anyone.

We have a few AEs that float around from time to time. Some of them are more obvious than others.