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Old 12-14-2005, 04:49 AM   #1

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I am wondering what some of your rules are in your community? I just wrote some rules for my community and was wondering what you thought of them? And was wondering what you put in your rules and what you do to your members if they break them

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People break the signature rules more than anything else...that's why you see that they are so specific here. Obnoxious signatures can make a forum look like trash quickly, especially in a more proper forum like AF...Next most broken is probably advertising rules...Never seems to amaze me how many people will register, plug their site, and never come back again...I've tried to deter this by limiting these kind of sections to 10 post members, but some people will just post their ads in any section they can. As far as handling violations, right now all we do is PM them when we see a violation and ask that they stop or change it depending on the violation. We dont have a formal banning system in place, as right now it is on a situation by situation basis.

As far as your rules - you have a LOT of holes in them...I could go post pornography, warez, spam, or advertisements and not break any of your rules...You should probably add quite a few rules...and one of the things I'm always sure to include in mine is some sort of "elastic clause" - This is something that says "the staff has the absolute right to do whatever they want whenever they want...this means that even if you are not breaking one of the previously listed rules, we can punish accordingly" ...Something like that...that way you can make rules on the fly, and none of your members can complain about what they did "not being in the rules"

Another thing I do, which is more of a personal preference...Is include a "last updated" note at the top so that people know whether or not anything has changed since they last looked over the guidelines.
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Your rules are good but there is atleast 2 spelling mistakes and as ryan said your signature rules need to be improved, like you say one image but theres no sive limit so the user could put a desktop screen shot in there signature with would be giant and they wouldnt be breaking the rules and i suggest you put something like this at the bottem
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this is so if someone had exploit the rules and put a giant image in there sig you could change you rules so you could stop them from breaking the rules without notify them or anyone
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I have made a few changes to my rules and am always changing them, luckily my community has just started out. Also Ryan, your rules are very well written and set out
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Ryan,

Great TOS, I guess I should have read them first.

They are complete and leaves no question on what can and can't be done. Great Job
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I think it's interesting to look at the TOS from different sites because it can tell you so much about the problems that site has had! Some of the specific rules might seem odd at first but it's got to be there for a reason.

Here are mine:

http://www.webmaster-forums.net/faq....=twf#faq_rules

As you can probably tell, our biggest problem is with spamming. We also have separate rules for our Market Place and Website Critique forums.
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I really like how you have divided your TOS into things that you CAN and CANNOT do...it helps clear things up a lot...Might have to consider doing something similar here at AF
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yeah, the TOS here at AF is very well written , thumbs up Ryan.
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Megan,

Yours are fantastic also. After looking at both of AF and TWF I need to change mine up a little. Also Megan I like you About TWF. I may have to add that also. Great Job!!
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That About Us page really needs to be rewritten! A lot has changed over the past few months.

Glad you're finding our rules to be helpful. I think some of these things just come from experience. Once you know the kinds of things people try to get away with you can make sure it's all covered in the ToS.
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