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Old 17-05-2005, 06:55 PM #1
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To all new members:

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i) We do not allow 'text speech' to be used on the forum. Text speech was designed for mobile phones, not online communities. Please read http://www.thisisbigbrother.com/forum/topic29297.htm which will give you more details. Also, we do not allow posts written solely in CAPITAL LETTERS. Not only is it annoying to read, it disrupts the flow of the forum.
It's a small thing to ask, please do not use text speech on the forum
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dat, wot, y, fink, u etc.
If members continue to ignore this and post like it all the time, your ability to post will be revoked for a period at our discretion.

CAPITAL LETTERS are something which are also mentioned in the rules. We don't allow posts/topics to be consisted of all capital letters. Of course you can use them to enhance the odd word, but there's no need for a whole post to consist of them.

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j) Posts which insult or direct profanity towards another member, will immediate be deleted, or edited out. This may lead to a ban.
I know people don't agree on certain subjects, we don't live in a perfect world - but there are ways and means to expressing your feelings.
Also posts which insult the housemates are not allowed. I understand that people dislike housemates, and of course you can post that if you want - but the profanity and aggression being posted will not be tolerated.

Please abide by these rules or we will take action, either by removing your ability to post - or by banning you.

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Old 29-06-2005, 01:15 PM #3
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Please pay particular attention to what it says above about insulting or disrespecting other forum members. This even includes calling another member, for example, 'an idiot' or 'a fool'. Dismissing another post by saying something like 'that's complete rubbish' counts as not treating a forum member's opinion with respect. If you disagree with a post it would be better to explain why you disagree. Don't automatically assume because you disagree with someone's viewpoint that it is wrong.

Insulting posts are simply not allowed and these type of posts will be edited or deleted from now on and more warnings will issued.

The housemates do put themselves up for criticism when they enter the show. But that does not mean anything goes. You can express an opinion about a housemate but don't go over the top. That means not using very strong and aggressive language to describe housemates. These types of descriptions only lead to more arguments and insults being exchanged between members and a generally negative vibe on the board.

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If you think that any post breaks any of the above please use the report button. If you don't use the report facility then a moderator might not get to see it.

We may not allow in the future 'I hate X' threads. These threads are incouraging too many arguments among members.
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If you have a problem with a user's posts relating to the above rules and guidelines please use the report button rather than having an argument with the particular person on the forum.

Taking a thread off-topic in that way spoils it for the majority of users.

A forum moderator will be able to deal with the reported issue as quickly as possible.

(The report button is at the top-right of every post and looks like this if you use the default theme.)
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There's an awful lot of new threads being started.

It would help if you add to existing threads wherever possible unless the topic is actually diffferent to one's already on the forum.
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Old 09-08-2006, 05:30 PM #6
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Please read the above about respecting other forum members' opinion.

Spent ages there reading arguments, give warnings and bans.

Instead of keeping arguments going it's better to report offending posts and consider using the Ignore feature.
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Well, I've spent enought time on this so I'll keep it pretty brief...

The last couple of days have been pretty miserable on the forum with arguments left, right and centre on the forum.

This is spoiling the forum for a lot of people and the moderators have been unable to keep up with it. So...

We have decided to change the warning system:

From now on the first formal warning a member receives will result in an automatic 24 hour ban from posting.

The second warning will mean a 48 hour posting ban and the third will result in a 7 day ban.


(these lengths of bans might be changed later)

Hopefully the immediate bans should act as a 'cooling off' period.

Any pre-existing warnings you have are carried over and will last the usual 7 days until they expire.

A couple of extra guidelines...

If you have issues with another forum member don't carry out an argument with that person on the forum. These type of comments should be dealt with by u2u and any posts like these are liable to be deleted from the forum.

Try and post constructively about Big Brother and the housemates instead of just posting the same old comments over and over again especially in threads where these comments are off-topic.
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Need to point out a couple of things...

I don't think many people here are interested in reading personal feuds between members, so if you have a problem with another poster please deal with it privately using the u2u messenger system and not on the public forum.

It has been suggested that posts have been made simply to increase a member's post-count number. Not sure if it is true or not but hopefully we can all agree that this isn't really a great thing to do. Not least because everyone else on the forum has to read a series of pointless posts that are of no interest to anyone.

Post-count numbers don't measure quality of posts and high post-count values don't have any significance or status on the forum other than to show that a lot of posts have been made. If the need arised the post-count number could be hidden on the forum...
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