New Babbage Ning Posting Guidelines

[Doctor Obolensky]

Activities that could get your posts deleted and/or get you banned:

1) Violating the Ning Terms of Service.

2) Trolling, which is the posting of intentionally inflammatory messages.

3) Ad hominem and personal attacks. "Criticize the ideas, not the people".

4) Posting pornographic, sexually offensive, sexually explicit, or objectifying material.

5) Posting Real Life information about others without their explicit permission. Respect the privacy of others.

6) Using foul language in thread subjects.

7) Spamming.


Activities that could could get your posts deleted:

1) Using deceptive or deliberately false subject lines.

2) Posting information that has already been presented. Scan the discussions before posting.

3) Posting in the wrong forum. There are three clearly defined forums, pick the one that fits your subject.

4) Excessive use of foul language.

5) Non-response or inflammatory responses to moderator decisions.


Things that could get your slideshow photos deleted:

1) Posting images that are not related to New Babbage or RL steampunk.

2) Posting advertising images. Those go in the Newsroom forum or your blog.

(These restrictions only apply to images posted in the slideshow section, *not* the forum or blog areas)


Things that could get your event deleted.

1) Listing an event that occurs outside New Babbage. Those should be placed in the Parlour forum.


Suggestions:

Read what you've written before you post it. Twice.

If you're angry while you're writing a message, take some time, relax, and read it again before you post it.

There are plenty of words out there that aren't cuss words that will still set people off. Avoid using them.

It's okay for people to disagree with you, and you with them. Really. Just keep it civil.

Avoid deleting posts that have replies.


Additional notes:

We have just three tools for moderation.... your cooperation, deletion of posts, and banning. The latter two we don't like to use, but certainly will if warranted.

The Blog section is not moderated on a post-by-post basis. However, be aware that we may have a chat with you if your blog posts continually violate the above standards.

Many things are judgement calls by the moderators, that's just the way things are.
If you have issues with moderation, we want to hear about them. However, the thread where the moderation took place isn't the place.

Send private messages to any of the mods, and do so in a calm, reasoned manner.