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Zero tolerance for 'scumbags'

  • 06-10-2010 12:15AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,283 ✭✭✭✭


    Many of you have called for a policy of zero tolerance for scumbags, and here it is.

    This is a Politics forum, not Liveline. Certain standards of debate are expected, and will be enforced. Your posts must contribute to debate, not derail it or drag it into mob chanting. There's been a serious decrease in the signal to noise ratio in the forum recently, and that trend requires reversal.

    Some specifics:

    1. If you find you absolutely cannot post without using the term 'scumbags' or 'scum', don't bother to post, because you'll find yourself infracted, or, in case of persistent offenders, banned. Those terms are now in the same penalty box as 'beards', 'teabaggers' etc.

    2. If your posts consists of little more than a statement that some group of people or other are bad people and/or deserve prison/execution as traitors, think long and hard before pressing "submit", because we'll be treating that as trolling from here on in.

    3. If your OP consists of nothing more than a two-line thought that just popped into your head, don't start a thread. Again, that will be treated as trolling - the thread will be deleted, and you'll be banned or infracted, depending on how egregious the example is.

    4. Thread derailing will be treated particularly harshly. If there's more than a couple of examples of a poster taking an unrelated thread and turning it into a public-versus-private / unionists-versus-nationalists / us-versus-them contest, that poster will be permabanned.

    5. Scatological references are not appropriate - keep them for the barstool and your mates.

    Those are specific examples, but the general rule is "contribute to debate or GTFO". If what you're doing isn't discussing politics but competing for the top slot on Joe Duffy, you're in the wrong place.

    moderately,
    Scofflaw et al


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