(August 7, 2015 at 8:20 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: Some boards I post on have explicit rules about 'not starting a war' with another message board. Usually, the rule is implemented via simply not allowing any direct mention of another message board in a posting. Members can use euphemisms for other sites (like 'Auction site' instead of 'Ebay') and are allowed to directly name in the PM system.
If this has never been a problem here, I could see not having a rule posted, but maybe having one 'at the ready' or just being aware such things might occur would suffice.
Also, on another topic, I appreciate the inherent honesty of specifically noting the PM system is monitored. Another site I post on makes a big deal of stating their PM system is 'inviolate'. Of course, since mere humans are running that board, it didn't take long for me to note that information that could only be gleaned from a PM I had sent was common knowledge among the mods there. LOL, I extracted a frightful vengeance on them (undetected and untraceable), and have never assumed a PM system was 'inviolate' again.
Nothing online is inviolate.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
