July 20th, 2008 News (New "No Tolerance Policy")

Cleod9 · Joined: 04 Dec 2005 Posts: 8706 Location: NJ 310168 0

Many of you know that the forums are not the fun place they once were. This place has become a place to just hang out and discuss games and such, and now it's just turning into hierarchy of bullies and noobs. I for one, as well as many other higher ups are getting sick of this, and it's really disrupting SSF2's production severely every time I have to come here and deal with users complaining about eachother. So today I am announcing the new policy related towards banning, demerits, and users under 13:

No Tolerance Policy

The no tolerance policy will be as follows:

1) If your demerits reach 100, your will be permanently banned, and your account deactivated on the spot

2) Users under the age of 13 who do not exhibit any sort of maturity whatsoever, WILL be banned. These forums are mainly for kids 13 and up, and for your safety and well-being you should not be allowed on these forums.

3) If you are caught bullying a user or flaming, you WILL get demerits.

4) If all you do is complain about every little thing someone says to you, you WILL get demerits. If you can't get along with anyone here just leave

5) If you are caught holding alternate accounts without a good reason, you WILL be permanently banned.

6) Moderators who disobey the rules on a consistent basis or somehow express their inability to do the job will be demoted to a normal user with a set amount of demerits depending on the offenses, and from then on all the above rules will apply. Depending on the offense, it's possible for a moderator to be perma-banned immediately.

Fine print:

- Users with already existing demerits WILL retain their demerits until the new forums are created, after which demerits will be removed automatically on a daily basis

- Users currently severing their bans who are not perma-banned will be allowed back on after the ban ends with 50 demerits, and will follow the above policy after that point

- Creating topics about users in a negative context counts as bullying, and you WILL receive demerits for it

Now guys, if you don't like this policy I am sorry but that's the way it's going to be from now until I say so. The forums are not friendly place to be anymore for many of our users, and I nor any other other moderators should have to deal with some the garbage that gets posted here.

All you have to do to not risk getting banned is get along, that's all. So just behave.

(On a side note, you guys will be lucky if you see any SSF2 Updates this week at all, the forums are really starting to waste a lot of my time, and I should be able to enjoy myself when I come here)

SquareEnixFlash · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:44 pm

Wow.

SeaLegend · Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Posts: 2161 Location: noitacoL 14 0

Cleod's finally cracking down.

Maniacmario64 · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:46 pm

this may end ALL the flaming

NintendoFlash · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:47 pm

I feel sorry for Blade and Hakker....

_joejoeman_ · Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 2470 2933 0

Maniacmario64 wrote:

this may end ALL the flaming

Please, oh please...

whimskull · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:48 pm

...a little rough now? Maybe the forum will have discipline for once...

Maniacmario64 · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:48 pm

NintendoFlash wrote:

I feel sorry for Blade and Hakker....

what happeen?

pauzle · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:48 pm

I'm surprised and a bit happy about this..

iluvpudding4eva · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:50 pm

finally

i was waiting for you to do this cleod!

RyanKajito · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:51 pm

So in other news, Cleod basically just tricked me and DT.

SquareEnixFlash · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:51 pm

NintendoFlash wrote:

I feel sorry for Blade and Hakker....

They'll be back. Right, Cleod?

N30Chaos · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:52 pm

RyanKajito wrote:

So in other news, Cleod basically just tricked me and DT.

What do you mean?

spikeman · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:52 pm

Yes!
Finally, we have some order, and modship will matter.

NamcoFlash · Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 3:52 pm

Just one question. On the new forums, if demerits get removed on a daily basis, how can anyone get banned? It's not often someone goes from 0 to 100 demerits in a day. Unless I read it wrong, I don't understand.