FOXESTALK Posting Guidelines

[Mark]

FOXESTALK Posting Guidelines We feel these guidelines will be useful for the Mods in terms of managing the forums, but just as importantly, we hope they provide users a point of reference with which to understand the basic nature of Foxestalk and also to gauge why a post may have been moderated. The ultimate aim of it all though is to enable you to ENJOY contributing to Foxestalk and for others to ENJOY your contributions. BIG RULES: Things deemed to be totally unacceptable:

• Pornographic material
• Spam/Commercial advertising
• Overt personal abuse of other posters (unless it’s in jest of course!)
• Registering and using duplicate accounts whilst banned.
• libellous statements e.g unsubstantiated references to drug taking etc.

Guidelines: Things we'd rather you did not do:

• Creating duplicate threads. Before starting a new thread use the search feature to check that the subject of your intended post is not already covered by an existing thread. Post to existing threads wherever possible.
• Starting threads in the wrong forum. We believe the board descriptions on the index page are fairly self explanatory, but feel to ask a mod if you are not sure.
• Using 'Text Speak' in your posts. Please take the time to write replies in English (Don't worry if English is not your first language!).
• Thread domination. Do not try to bully someone into submission or disparage every comment they make, simply because their views may differ from your own. Write a coherent reply setting out your views and then let others have their say.
• Excessive/unnecessary swearing. We’re taking a liberal attitude to this (afterall, its something pretty much all of us do at the match!), but please do not go over the top. Keep it in context and do not use swear words on new thread titles in the main Leicester City forum.
• Anonymous Sourcing. If you copy and paste an article, piece of news or rumour about LCFC to the forum please include a link to the original website source or explain where and the context of how you heard the story. We discourage unsourced rumour and gossip.
• Capital letters. Do not use CAPITAL LETTERS nor excessively large fonts when making posts.

What to expect in terms of moderation: If you ignore any of the BIG RULES, you'll will find yourself being moderated in one of the following ways (depending on each instance):

• Temporary or Full access ban.
• Temporary posting ban.
• Moderator preview (members posts will be put into a moderation queue before appearing on Foxestalk.
• 'No New Topics' assigned to your account.

If you ignore any of the Guidelines, in the first instance you'll be notified by a moderator, who will let you know what it is they deemed to be inappropriate. Your post(s) are also likely to be edited/deleted or merged with others. If you continue to ignore the Guidelines, you'll will find yourself being moderated in one of the following ways (depending on each instance):

• Temporary or Full access ban.
• Temporary posting ban.
• Moderator preview (members posts will be put into a moderation queue before appearing on Foxestalk.
• 'No New Topics' assigned to your account.

The above may also apply to posts reported to the moderators. What Users can expect from the Mods:

• Where possible/applicable, new users will be given a polite pointer to these guidelines if we deem it necessary.
• An explanation as to why you have been temporally/permanently banned/had posting rights removed.
• We won't notify people of every little modification/deletion/merging activity. We're hoping that people will be able to find an answer in these guidelines. If however you can't, please feel free to ask why you have been moderated. Our preference would be for this to be done privately, but there is also the Support forum if you wish it to be a public discussion. Please note though, we're all volunteers, so if you do not receive an immediate response bear with us and wait for us to get back to you.

Right, well that's it we think. Moderators retain the right to change the above rules at any timeThanks and enjoy the forum. Regards, Foxestalk Admin.