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Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
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Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
March 19, 2014 at 12:54 am (This post was last modified: March 19, 2014 at 1:04 am by Cinjin.)
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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
March 28, 2014 at 1:43 pm (This post was last modified: March 28, 2014 at 1:49 pm by GirlyMan.)
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I am as Large as God, He is as small as I.
He cannot above me, nor I beneath him be. - Angelus Silesius

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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
April 30, 2014 at 10:12 pm
Odd... was there no (non-staff) discussion of this? I'm just this side of the fence, of course... if it was ever discussed, can I have a link to the thread? (There is neither a link to it in the staff log or here)
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Where the dear and the strangers can play
Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
April 30, 2014 at 10:30 pm
(April 30, 2014 at 10:12 pm)Alice Wrote: Odd... was there no (non-staff) discussion of this? I'm just this side of the fence, of course... if it was ever discussed, can I have a link to the thread? (There is neither a link to it in the staff log or here)

There was not. It was a staff decision based on numerous examples of stepping over the line of existing Introduction forum rules.
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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
April 30, 2014 at 10:33 pm (This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 10:34 pm by Whateverist.)
It looks like this thread is available to vent or discuss the rule change if anyone wants. No objections here. Carry on.
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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
April 30, 2014 at 10:44 pm
(April 30, 2014 at 10:33 pm)whateverist Wrote: It looks like this thread is available to vent or discuss the rule change if anyone wants. No objections here. Carry on.

Absolutely. Its not so much as a rule change as a change in enforcement. FWIW, we're not about to let people take refuge in Introductions - threads that wander into other topics will be split to the appropriate forum.
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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
April 30, 2014 at 10:46 pm
Naturally I immediately thought of a concern. I notice that occasionally there is a post in that forum which doesn't at all sound like an introduction. Recently there was a thread "wondering about religion in America". I wouldn't have recognized this as an introduction. If someone obnoxious posts here with no clue in the title or first paragraph, it might be more appropriate to move the thread than to hand out an automatic penalty to anyone who gets drawn in.

That's it. Not a big concern really.
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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
April 30, 2014 at 10:47 pm
Lol. I love you guys I really do. Sometimes though...lol nevermind.
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Hammy Wrote:and we also have a sheep on our bed underneath as well
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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
April 30, 2014 at 10:49 pm (This post was last modified: April 30, 2014 at 10:50 pm by Violet.)
Please give me a home where cloud buffalo roam
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Where sometimes is heard a discouraging word
But the skies are not stormy all day
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RE: Introduction subforum rules and enforcement policy - you need to read this.
April 30, 2014 at 10:52 pm
(April 30, 2014 at 10:49 pm)Alice Wrote:
(April 30, 2014 at 10:30 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: There was not. It was a staff decision based on numerous examples of stepping over the line of existing Introduction forum rules.

Doesn't that strike you as kind of fascinating? Usually there's a right an proper uproar over these things.

Honestly I expected some drama over it. I figured nobody read it. Big Grin
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