Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

In my bit of the world it is now 15th August. Well into 15th August, in fact. Which by my reckoning means we now Haz Rulz, or words to that effect.

I would like to draw your attention to the following:

Posts ranting about Nokia or the community which contain unsubstantiated claims are "solely intended to incite controversy or conflict". This is the definition of trolling, and should incur 15 infraction points, once the poster has been given a reasonable time to provide evidence and failed to do so.

Posts which accuse other members of 'attack' when other members have merely offered 'challenge' are "Abuse, insults and personal attacks directed at any member, person, or group" and should be flagged as flaming (15 infraction posts) unless they are so severe as to constitute 'personal attack' (in which care they incur 20 points).

Repeatedly posting the same issue (one could think of MfE provisioning as a good example) in several different threads is spam. (20 points)

The sooner these nice new shiney rules are followed the better, IMHO.

Thank you. :)

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

Well, I am glad I had problems reflashing on wednesday. I crossposted, I confess. I'd have been with a -20 handicap.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

I'm pretty sure that circumstances like that would be looked at pretty compassionately by the mods if it was a 'first offense'. ;)

This is more about people who make a habit of such things.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

You have six rows in your signature which equals 5 infraction points.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

Looks like 3 to me, and they're the official greeter sig. I removed all the personal items that were there as well when the rules were announced in order to conform. If the rule is interpreted to disallow the spacing in the greeter sig, I'll remove that too.

I did raise in the rule discussion that the sig length could possibly include an exception to allow those of us using the greeter sig a single line of personal sig, but no comment was made. I'll happily take those infraction points to see the rules enforced boardwide tonight.

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No looks like six to me. A [CR] is also for all points and purposes a 'text' otherwise you could have 20 rows of spaces.

I don't see a reason for an exception either as that would just set a bad example.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

Before posting on this site, we should have a class on the rules and be forced to learn them backward and forward before we can post! The rules are MUCH more important than what we post about.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

The exception would be because those acting as greeters are doing the community a favour which the community has specifically asked for. But since none was forth-coming, the point is moot.

If a mod wishes, I will remove the spacing from my sig and receive my 5 points. I look forward with enthusiasm to the rules being enforced thusly.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

I'm pretty sure you can continue that favour AND following the guide-lines at the same time. But yes, it would be interesting to learn if spacing is included in the 5 rows-rule or not.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

oh dear god, lets just throw all common sense out the window and have some crazy infract-a-thon for a few days until no-one wants to post anything without double checking the rules, sending them to a lawyer, having them signed in triplicate, lost, recovered, buried in soft peat for a few months and finally forgotten about.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

On one hand RevdKathy knows I value the help provided by her and others who chose to include resource links in their signatures.

On the other I think that can be accomplished without skirting the current limit on signature lines.

RevdKathy, could you just move the last line next to your Maemo Greeter intro, right after the smiley? Should do the trick.

As for infraction points, I think some of the suggestions for the thread in question are a bit much, but I'll try to look through it later and see. I was hoping members could just self-moderate after knowing the rules. Ah well.

*sigh*

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

I've already removed the spacing from my sig. I'd hate to be considered in breach of the rules. ;)

My point was that there is yet another thread going over the same old rants, the same old FUD, the same old unsubstantiated claims, and dare I say it, the same people rising to the bait. But now we actually have a method for dealing with the stuff.

I seem to remember saying that the rules could make T.M.O. a nice place to be again.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

Wouldn't the correct response/action be to click "Report" in that thread and report it for what you feel it violates - instead of creating a thread about it where there is not even a link to the thread or naming "the same people"? I don't quite see the value in generic posts like that.

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Ultimately, hopefully. But first they'll be the cause of more rancor. Like we're seeing in this thread.

Next: moderators get accused of being Nazis for doling out infraction points. Youtube video at 11.

Re: Dear Moderators: please check the date.
 

I think that T.M.O. has been a fairly nice place recently. I think that the problem is that the powers that be can't recognize success and don't know when to stop.

Having big threads on the actual meaning of the rules and how important they are can't be a good way to proceed. Maybe you should just dispatch assassins and take out the worst infractors? Whatever, the rules should be as invisible as possible.

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I knew I could count on you to fill the hyperbole quota, geneven. Just glad I didn't bet Nazis versus assassins.