- Don't use foul language.
Don't try to inflate things by spewing out fire off your mouth. Unless it's literally needed in a conversation, don't try to be over-smart by using foul words as it'll only add disgrace to your credibility and subtract respect for you in everyone's heart here. Try to remain calm (I'm not saying that you need to be in anybody's shoes, maintain your self-respect as well be nice to others if you expect kindness from others as well because you're being watched just like anyone on the forum and they see your posts to determine the type of person you are).
Whilst I agree with everything else you have written, this is a load of horse shit - how someone chooses to express themselves is nothing to do with the shitposts we have here. For instance I could classify you as a smelly used tampon for the way you are advising people not to swear.
sorry mate, but other than that your posts is bob on, the fact you have put that makes your post pretty shit
Technically swearing and shouting is against the rules. But I haven't seen it being moderated.
The policy to not remove anything worked when the forum was small. Now that we have thousands of posts a day, we can't afford 50% of them being junk. The moderators are now instructed to be less tolerant of low-value posts.
Some guidelines:
1. Free speech - you can say anything as long as it is relevant and presented in a calm and polite manner. Swearing, SHOUTING etc. make your post more likely to be removed.
2. No zero value posts or threads, like "SELL SELL SELL"
3. No pointless or uninteresting threads.
4. No referral code spam
5. No NSFW content
mPrep clarified it more:
Low quality posts:
1. Such posts like "SELL SELL SELL", "I agree", "+1", "Support", "Watching", "Interesting", "LOL", "SCAM", "LEGIT", "FAKE", other one word posts, posts consisting mostly of swearing, quote pyramids,useless introduction threads, threads about a topic already recently discussed in several other threads.
Insults:
Q: Someone insulted me. Why aren't you deleting his post/thread?
A: Possible (since we don't have the time or resources to check) insults are also allowed as long as they contain any kind of constructive opinion, info or something else substantial and aren't off-topic. For example, posting something like "you are dumb" will be deleted as it contains no meaningful content. However, if the post is somehwere along the lines of "You are dumb. This is wrong because this website/thread/etc. has explained it's not right", it's in most cases accepted.
Insults and swearing is not likely to get removed if it has context. Even some pretty dumb stuff doesn't tend to get removed. Growing some thicker skin is recommended if it offends you.
If swearing was totally moderated it would quickly become a very boring forum.
[For admins] A request for a page belonging to BAN related information only:
- I just need this information (and some more additional one if you can add) to be added to a ban-related-info page. As well, I wish there should be a table where we should get stats like:
Total banned (which defines total number of users ever banned)
Currently banned (total number of users who are currently banned)
Average (from least timeline to permaban with either a graph or number)
(This is optional) List of usernames who are banned with their timeline as for how much time they're banned
Reason for their ban (so to set example for others to see what not to be done to stop themselves from getting banned)
Ban-evasion (anyone who evaded the ban should be shown here with a Yes/No added in this box)
Not likely to happen. Many people have asked for the same before you.
It is more likely to become available through the
https://bpip.org/ project.