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Old 01-06-2007, 04:50 AM   #1

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Need suggestions for rules for my board

My board consists of friends and people from other boards visiting and having an interest in the board. Mainly moms with kids. But I do get a male member once in awhile which is welcomed. Because I haven't stated that they are not allowed and it is for everyone.

Well, I have the basic rules so far: no profanity, no offensive material/photos, photo size rules(since we do post alot of picts of kids.) and respect others that sort of thing.

What rules do you suggest? How much is too much for rules? I don't want to be a "dictator" but I also don't want drama or problems of that nature.

Anyway, just asking for suggestions.
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My suggestion would be to look around at the rules of forums which are similar to yours. There are a bunch of general discussion forums out there and also quite a few parenting forums (which is somewhat related to yours).

Read through other rules and decide whether or not you think that are too strict or not strict enough, and then mold your own rules from this.

It's also important to realize that you can always change your rules as time goes on, whether that means adding, removing, or modifying something. If you have a particular problem in your forums that other forums do not have, then maybe you need to address this in your rules.
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You are more than welcome to Look at mine to get some ideas. I put my rules together after looking at other sites as well
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Thank you thinking of taking a look at your board anyway, love the banner/logo in your sig. Still working to get something together with my own board, but anyway yah I will do that.
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Keep it simple. There are some forums with pages of rules which will simply be ignored. I have a VERY simple rules set and it is pretty much perfect for my small community. Nobody breaks any of the rules because they know ALL of them.

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1. Treat others as you wish to be treated yourself. Do not flame or insult another member. Do not attack or victimise another member.

2. Please keep all spam in the forum labelled Spam. Off topic or pointless posting in any other forums may lead to posts being deleted or threads being moved.

3. Currently advertising is forbidden on Lurking Mastermind with the exception of links in signatures and profiles. Adverts for any type of product or service will be removed.

4. Discussion of warez and the posting of pornography is forbidden on Lurking Mastermind. Please do not engage in this style of posting.

5. Please respect the requests of the appointed staff for each forum. If you're asked to cease a particular type of behaviour it is because you are in breach of the rules above.

6. HAVE FUN!
You can't go far wrong if you have a very simple set of rules.
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