Actually, the policies were updated some time ago in text form. They just never got updated on HERE.
User Guidelines:
1 - No spam. The staff reserves the right to determine what constitutes spam, but we all pretty much know what it is. Don't spam the board.
2 - No adult material. This includes nudity and bypassing the profanity filter (including such words in images themselves). If you have to ask, either don't post such material at all or post it in the NHB forum.
3 - No flamewars. People disagree, and that's cool. However, personal attacks because of a difference in opinion are just lame, and things can quickly get out of hand on an online forum because of them. Don't flame. Play nice, and use lots of smileys, or something...
5 - Keep the forums on topic. We tried to set up forums that cover broad enough categories for whatever Descent topics you might have. When in doubt, go to the DBB Announcements / Feedback Forum and ask. Crossposting is not permitted.
4 - No links to multiplayer cheats or dicussions of cheating will be allowed on the DBB. This includes URL's, hyperlinks, files, or any other type of discussion about cheating on this board. Also please do refrain from posting of IP's of subspected cheaters or or finger-pointing. You can try talk about multiplayer cheating in principle, but if a flamewar starts, the mod in charge will close it and we'll blame you.
6 - Limit your signature. All signatures should be limited only to 3 lines and no more. A blank line is also considered a line, so please remember to keep this in mind when using the signature feature on this board. Images and religious content are also not allowed in signatures.
7 - Image Guidline. All images that are posted should be at the most 100k, if the image exeeds the 100k limit, link the image. Images should also not force the user to scroll horizontally at 1024x768. Also it is polite to not steal bandwidth, so if the image is hosted on a server that is not your own, please link.
8 - Malicious content. Don't mess up users browsing experience. This includes all webpages that lock up a users computer, embedded sounds, messing up the table tags in the forum, or other such maliciousness.
Moderator Guidelines:
Every one we asked to be a moderator is someone we felt is already a contributor in the Descent community, has a lot of experience in the subject matter of their forum, loves the game, likes to write about it, and from what we've seen is mature enough to handle whatever situations that come up with good judgment. This means that the forum you're given is yours to run: just do what you normally do and the board will work out great for everybody.
We made the forums and set up some simple descriptions of the subject matter; these should be pretty straightforward. We probably exchanged e-mails with you, talked with you online or otherwise discussed any details specific to your forum by now. If we haven't, or you have questions/suggestions/concerns, get ahold of us and we will trade ideas.
Ideally we would like you to check the board at least once a day; if you can't always do that no big deal, but try and be consistent enough to keep touch with what's happening. If you won't have computer access for an extended period of time (more than 5 - 7 days or so) just drop us a line so we know to keep an eye on the forum for you. How often you check / participate in your forum is a matter of judgment, but again, because we asked you if you'd like to be a moderator, it means your probably into the topic enough for this to be fun and not a hassle for you anyway.
Moderators have rights to edit messages, delete messages / entire threads and close threads, from forums where they are granted rights. These functions should be self explanatory. Anything beyond that will be privatly discussed with the you and the member, if you have any other problems direct the case to Sickone or Xciter.
Moderators should follow the rules like any other user. Moderators in any case should not needlessly delete, edit messages posted by members, abusive behavior will not be allowed.. Abusive behavior could cause you to have your privladges removed.
We're hoping that the format of the board, and the caliber of the people on it will keep conversations more or less 'civilized', productive, and fun. We want everyone to be able to be free enough to express themselves within the limitations of the rules.
If you haven't done so already, we would like you to post a message to your forum welcoming everyone, describing what topics the forum more or less covers, and mentioning your experience.
If / when the time comes that you don't think you'll be able to continue moderating your forum, we'd appreciate it if you'd let us know in advance. That way we can line up somebody to take over.
Ok, if by chance you happen to get into a disagreement with a DBB moderator, we ask that you follow the following procedure:
1. E-mail the moderator in question. Their e-mail addresses are visible at the very top of the thread listing in each forum. PLEASE try to stay civil. Remember, your objective is to SOLVE your disagreement, not keep it going.
2. If you cannot resolve your problem with the moderator in question, then contact an administrator. Be sure to be as descriptive as possible WHILE remaining civil. Bashing the moderator in question will not look good in your defense and only hurts YOU. If need be, include your conversation(s) with the moderator in question so that the Administrator can make as fair a judgement as possible.
Finally, the Descent BB really is for the benefit of the community. We're the admins for the board, and take responsibility for setting everything up, design issues, final policy decisions, staff coordination etc.. but from that point on it belongs to everybody. Think of it as a big anarchy game, you guys are the refs, and we're just the poor suckers that have to do all the legwork and take the heat when things get lagged. Thanks for all your efforts guys: we know great things are gonna happen because you're a part of it.
- Koolbear, Sup, Sickone, Xciter, GAvotte, Tetrad, Ferno, and MD-2389.
