Draft for the rules:
- No discrimination.
- No (links to) sexual explicit or morbid contents.
- No spambots.
- No warez or other illegal matters.
- No hotlinking to pictures of other sites without permission of the owner. These pictures can be removed.
- No publication of (your own or someone else's) private address information. Exceptions are your own email address and your location, but it's fully your own decision to make them public.
- No stealing of someone else's name, identity or avatar.
- Keep the board tidy.
- Private matters should not be handled on this board.
- If you want to comment to someone, use his/her given alias.
- Having multiple guest names is allowed. Multiple profiles (registrations) should stay limited.
- Make up a clear title for new topics. The moderators can change them if they're not clear.
- Don't quote too much. Quote only the text you're replying to, if that's necessary anyway.
- Moderation happens afterwards. In problem situations the forum can go off-line until further order.
- If you have a question about the forum, search the answer in '
About this forum'. If there's no answer and no suitable existant topic, make there a new topic with your question.
Added rule is "No spambots."
Rule on the Dutch McDuck board, excluded here: "Houd het gezellig."
http://forum.mcduck.nl/misc.php?action=rulesIt means something like "Keep it cosy/nice." My objection is that this term is debatable. I've replaced this rule for "Keep the board tidy."
As moderator I'd rather canalize discussions, instead of being preachy about someone else's behaviour. Practically this means that (for example) a flame war can be refered to a flame war topic, so that topics won't get derailed by it. Otherwise the moderator would have to watch and judge who can say what and how, and that would become a disaster for sure.
Another excluded rule: "If you don't obey these rules, you can temporary be banned from the board."
My objection is that this is a threat. ("If you don't obey...") And practically, banning doesn't have much effect on real humans, as they can find ways to avoid the ban under different IPs and names.
So far, only spambots have been banned.
I will try to sort out the rules into hard rules and netiquette. "No discrimination" is a hard rule by the European law, from a different degree than a rule like "Don't quote too much".
*EDIT* boardlinking updated to McDrake