Local Moderator Forum Rules

Local Moderator: Khelvan

Local Moderator Forum Rules
This board is moderated in large part by local moderators who have been given their positions by reason of their involvement with this project rather than their contributions to TWC. Local moderators are given considerable leeway in moderating their boards, but there are limits to what they're permitted to do—they are not permitted to suppress dissent, for instance, if it does not violate forum rules. If you believe you've been wronged by a local moderator, feel free to contact a TWC moderator and ask him to review the local moderator's decision. Be aware, however, that the TWC moderators will usually not interfere with local moderators' decisions.

TWC moderators can be identified by their user rank images, which include the name of their rank and a shield design.

All General Forum Rules apply as normal in this forum:

General Forum Rules
These are the latest rules, compiled on 24th June 2005

1) The twcenter.net site gives you the ability to be member of the forum community completely free and without any obligation. You should consider this ability of becoming a member a privilege and one which should not be used improperly. Any improper usage of this privilege against other members or this site will result in its permanent removal.

2) Personal or not, attacks against this site or its members are illegal. Keep the conversations with the utmost level of civility. Insults and improper behaviour will lead to the increase of the warning level and eventually in suspension or banning from the forum depending on the circumstances.

3) Try to be as clear as possible in your posts and answers. Don't double/triple/ etc-post if instead you can put all your sayings in a single post. If you forgot to say something in your post, then don't post a new one, just edit your previous post using the edit button.

4) Bare links or images with no supporting discussion should be avoided. Start off a discussion in your own words and use links as supporting references.

5) Never include material not your own without attribution to the original source. Do not post duplicate complete copies of information that exists elsewhere on line when a link to the existing source and a well chosen excerpt should be used.

6) Stay on topic for a thread. Open a new thread for new topics. Even if a side topic is valid or exciting, do not take the bait to derail the discussion from its central focus. Report these detours to a moderator by using private messages and then just try to stay on topic with the original purpose of the thread.

7) Think about what you want to say in your messages before you begin typing and hitting the reply button. Read the whole thread down to its end before you respond to an issue that may already be addressed later in the thread. Do not post multiple posts back to back in the discussion when all of your points should be well thought out and framed in a single message added to the discussion. If you forgot to say something in your post, do not post a new one, just use the edit button to revise and add to your existing comments.

8) Spamming, flaming, and off topic remarks in any Forum will not be tolerated. Same goes for product or site commercials, unless permitted by the administrators or by a Forum section (i.e. Useful links). Members that obviously spam and fill the forum with trash only to raise their rank will be punished with 0 post counts.

9) Create new topics in the right section. If you see a topic that belongs in another section, just report it to a moderator to move it to the right section.

10) Respect the moderators. The moderators reserve the right to close, re-title, split, or otherwise adjust the format of the discussion topics to help keep them on track and within the expected rules of conduct for the TWC community. Moderators are here to help ensure that all topics remain open to support participation by all site users.

11) Never create a topic to contact with another member. Use the Personal messages for this.

12) Do not make posts on this forum in languages other than English. Discussion in other languages is an issue currently being reviewed by the staff. This rule extends to posts that make use of significant numbers of cryptic internet notations or ALL CAPITAL LETTERS.

13) Respect fellow members and remember what your mother taught you, thank people for favours...or else

14) Do not make posts promoting racism or social/religious intolerance. You may discuss the implications and causes of these issues but do not allow discussion of other topics to be sidetracked by inserting comments on these sensitive issues into other topics. Discussions in these areas that fail to remain civil and on topic will be closed by the moderators with considerably less latitude than might be given to other topics.

Much of this list of rules is adapted from the concepts presented at http://www.evcforum.net/ (thanks to Rand Al Thor for this suggested source) as well as other sources.

Have fun and enjoy your discussions with fellow members of the TWC site.

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Rules updated, see link below - Van Zandt 7/8/2019

GENERAL FORUM RULES