1-1-07: New and revised Site Rules

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The Site Rules are now preceded by this disclaimer:

These site rules are now user guidelines, and are controlled by this information: New Site Rule #1: Permanent Martial Law, this is no longer a democracy

These site rules have been added or modified today:

A. Porn: Never post or link any “not safe for work” or “NSFW” image on this site, especially any pornographic, obscene, fetish, or explicit medical pictures, photos, or other images. Examples of what you will get immediately banned for posting on this site include any picture showing human genitals, a female nipple, or an animal penis, or any picture where it is obvious one of those things was blacked out to avoid violation of this rule. This is a game site, do not post or link pictures here that would not be published in mainstream magazines.

B. Real Life Information: Don't post any photo of another person on this site without that person's consent, unless you can also prove that same photo is viewable from another publicly accessible URL. Do not post any RL information about another person on this site, if that information tends to reveal the person's RL name, address, place of employment, social security number, phone number, or similar identifying information, unless you can also prove that same informaiton is viewable from another publicly accessible URL.

I. Spam and Harassment: Do not make a new thread if there is already an existing, current thread on the same issue. Do not make a new complaint thread on any issue arising from or related to any Admin decision on this site, when an existing open thread is related to your complaint in any way. Just use the existing thread, do not start a new one. Do not “spam” or make off topic replies in any post on this site if doing that will disrupt or derail any discussion or argument. Occasional off-topic social remarks are permitted, and should be expected in all threads, provided the effect of those remarks doesn’t unduly disrupt or derail the post. Purposeful derailment of discussions by any method will not be tolerated on this site.

J. Trolling: Trolling is defined on this site as “any attempt to be unduly annoying or violate a Site Rule while technically obeying the Rules." Just because the Site Rules don't use words that specifically prohibit something doesn't mean it’s allowed. Rules cannot be written to describe every possible violation that can ever be committed. Urinating in the coffee maker at work or having sex with a co-worker in your boss's office will get you fired, even though your employee handbook doesn't expressly forbid those things.

N. Necroposting: Admins may use their discretion to close any thread that has been open longer than two weeks, when the issues in that thread have been argued and developed by numerous posters, but the thread is still being revived and bumped by newcomers using essentially the same objections and questions as were used by previous posters. Do not bump or revive old posts on this site. Admins may use their discretion to close any post that was revived after having been dormant for longer than two weeks.

Feel free to ask any questions you want to ask in this thread about the meaning of the above rules.

But, if you want to argue about these rules in relation to incidents involving other current posts on this site, please ask your questions and argue your issues in those other existing posts.

Thank you