Staff have discussed at length two rules based on recent events on the forums, and have voted to do the following:
1) The "Overwhelmingly Negative Influences" rule has been removed. it was originally conceived to help us with disruptive members, but ever since we expanded our definition of trolling to include "disrupting normal discussion", we now feel that this rule is redundant and also possibly confusing. The staff feel like the current trolling rule is enough to ban members who aren't contributing to discussions properly.
2) The "Doxing" rule has been updated to the following:
We feel that this strengthens the doxing rule whilst allowing people to discuss events relating to famous people (e.g. politicians, celebrities, etc.) who are already in the public eye.
- Atheist Forums Staff
1) The "Overwhelmingly Negative Influences" rule has been removed. it was originally conceived to help us with disruptive members, but ever since we expanded our definition of trolling to include "disrupting normal discussion", we now feel that this rule is redundant and also possibly confusing. The staff feel like the current trolling rule is enough to ban members who aren't contributing to discussions properly.
2) The "Doxing" rule has been updated to the following:
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Doxing is not allowed. We consider doxing to be the act of posting private or personally identifiable information about any person, whether they are a member of these forums or not. Private or personally identifiable information includes but is not limited to: real names, ages, locations, details about personal lives and relationships, unless this information has been shared by the person in question via a publicly accessible post, or on their profile page. Further exceptions will be made to information which is already deemed "public knowledge" such as information regarding famous people. Staff reserve the right to determine whether the information is public knowledge or not.
The punishment for violating this rule will be a permanent ban.
We feel that this strengthens the doxing rule whilst allowing people to discuss events relating to famous people (e.g. politicians, celebrities, etc.) who are already in the public eye.
- Atheist Forums Staff
