How do I view the Community Guidelines?

[Morten Saether]

The Community Guidelines can be accessed directly from this forum. To view, click the Home forum menu and select Community Guidelines.

 

[kitekrazy]

More political crap keeps showing up and the mods whoever they are are either biased or doing a shit job.

[Sylvester]

Cover photo or Avatar image blocking:

Some member's cover photos  or avatars I find irritating and distracting - especially animated gifs.  Can animated images be band please?  This does not work in account setting:

"Ignored Users.  Ignoring a user allows you to block some or all of their content from showing.   Add new user to ignore list.  Enter a member's name to set ignore options."

A message stated I could not block that member.

[Glenn Stanton]

as well meaning as the rules are, like most social media (and do not mistake it - forums are social media) the definitions are purposely vague to allow moderators flexibility (i'm one of the John Sayer BB moderators so i appreciate the work people have to do) but it does allow for incorrect application of a moderator intervention. for example "do not post fake or false information" - as determined by who? we should remember the impact of Facebook, Google Search, Amazon hosting etc on their moderator actions being extreme when, with a little research on places where it's not banned, we find experienced scientists, medical professional etc disagreeing with the government lines re: COVID safety, origination, lockdown effectiveness, government abuses leading to mass deaths in nursing homes, etc are being suppressed for political or other nefarious reasons. this is bad bad bad. 

so, in short, hopefully the moderation taking place here will be moderate and based on fact and not fear, or political bias etc. then again, if you or your family are threatened by the powers-that-be, sometimes there is little a moderator can due if a large organization decides to trash your life or business online.

Edited April 21, 2021 by Glenn Stanton

[oneofmany]

Triggered much? 

[RobertWS]

3 hours ago, oneofmany said:

Triggered much? 

Heavy handed 'moderating' is the equivalent of burning books.

Everyone should be triggered by it.

[oneofmany]

Apologies. Was responding to post prior to the one it seems I replied to. Still have my copy of Fahrenheit 451.

[User 905133]

6 hours ago, Knox Mills said:

You can usually find the Community Guidelines by scrolling to the bottom of the page or in the menu under “About” or “Help.” If you're having trouble finding them, try looking for a link titled “Community Guidelines” or something similar. Let me know if you still can't locate them!

The link in the Original Post from 2019 still works. 🙂  

 

Edited 21 hours ago by User 905133
added a smiley face

[Amberwolf]

That is probably a spammer that just hasn't put their links in yet.   Spammers post like that all the time in the forum (endless sphere) I mod/admin at.   

 

They used to jsut copy/paste from other posts in the thread, or other sites, but nowadays they often have some "ai" type of post that sounds like a response to the thread, but only if you are not reading or comprehending any of it.

[User 905133]

14 minutes ago, Amberwolf said:

That is probably a spammer . . . 

Not sure if you noticed, but my post was carefully worded to allow for this possibility while at the same time leaving room in case the 3 years later... post was done by a human being.  My first draft was a bit on the subtly insulting side, but I felt the way I revised it displayed a politeness appropriate to the holiday season.