New Rules & Guidelines and Romper Room Description

[TimBone]

As you guys all know, Daface mentioned changes were coming. Behind the scenes, we have all been discussing the future of Chiefsplanet. Please note that any changes being made are being done so for the sole purpose of making Chiefsplanet a better place.

One topic that continued to come up in the discussions was transparency. Overall, we believe transparency is a good thing, and we will take measures to be as transparent as possible with most decisions made by the moderators. We will also make attempts to openly discuss and ask for the opinions of the user base throughout the process of change. Which brings us to the first topic of discussion:

The Terms of Service needed a bit of an update. Below you will find the proposed updated TOS along with the associated punishments for breaking those TOS. There is also a description at the bottom of how we envision the Romper Room.

Please read over the new Rules & Guidelines and the description of the Romper Room.Then feel free to share your opinions and suggestions.

Lastly, we've also been discussing alternative names for the Romper Room, and a few of us thought it would be a great idea to see what you brilliant people could come up with. So, feel free to throw out name suggestions based on the description.

Thanks, guys.

Punishable Offenses

The Douchebag Rule:

CP's #1 rule: Don't be a douchebag for the sole purpose of ruining everyone's enjoyment of the board. This rule is subject to the interpretation of the moderators.

Opinion Spamming:

There is nothing wrong with having unique opinions. It is part of what makes Chiefsplanet great. However, spamming the same opinion day after day and throughout multiple threads, to the point of thread derailment, is a punishable offense.

User Stalking:

Users stalking other users around the board, specifically to incite rage and reaction from that member is not allowed. Cross-thread humor and occasionally poking fun at other members is fine. However, if a poster asks you to stop and you do not, or it is deemed you are going out of your way to harass them, you will be punished.

Real-Life Crossover:

Reaching beyond the internet and affecting any user's personal and professional lives will not be tolerated. This includes (but is not limited to) contacting family members, employees, employers, making unfounded claims about any user's personal lives and businesses, and falsely accusing any user of real life crimes. Basically, leave people's real lives alone. Breaking this rule will result in an immediate ban.

Spam:

If you are a longtime regular, there is no problem with you posting links to your website. However, if your main reason for posting to Chiefsplanet is to sell stuff or to direct traffic to your own website, your thread will be removed and it may result in a ban.

NSFW Links and Images:

Links and images that contain any grotesque or other NSFW content must be posted within NSFW Tags. There are no exceptions to this rule. NSFW images may not be posted using IMG tags or as attachments. Lastly, posting NSFW links and pics within normal spoiler tags will not suffice.

Overloading front page with Threads:

Posting an extraordinary amount of threads or bumping too many old thread within a small time period is not allowed.

Physical Threats:

Physical threats deemed by the moderators to be serious in nature will result in an immediate ban.

Rude Comments in Prayer/Thoughts Threads:

Prayers/thoughts threads are not normal threads, and will be treated as such. Be respectful. If you don’t have anything positive to add, move on to another thread.

Word Filter Evasion:

Word Filters are in place. Do not add spaces, symbols or anything else with the intention of bypassing these filters. Do not post images containing words that are filtered by the system.

Disrespectful Treatment of Moderators:

Moderators are users first and foremost. The moderating job is a voluntary position, and the mods are acting in the interest of what they think is best for the forum. All that is asked is that, if you are going to dispute a mod decision, do so in a respectable manner. Lastly, and obviously, do not threaten the board with legal action. This will result in an immediate ban.

False News or Thread Title:

Many users come to Chiefsplanet for Chiefs news and updates. Posting false news stories or misleading thread titles (even as a joke) are prohibited.

Multiple accounts and banned users:

If any user has multiple active accounts, any and all accounts can be banned at any time. If a user has been permanently banned and come back under a new account, that user can be banned at any time at the moderators’ discretion. Posting on the behalf of banned users prohibited. This includes any text, photos, or videos.

Possible Punishments:

Physical threats and other severe actions will result in immediate bans. For the most part, though, the moderators will try and handle things at the lowest level possible, and move to more severe punishments as more infractions occur.

- Warnings (via PM, in the thread, or the infraction feature), and reporting of the post in the mod forum for visibility
- Daily post count limit
- Temporary kick to the Romper Room
- Permanent kick to the Romper Room
- Short Term Ban
- Long Term Ban
- Permanent Ban

Single Thread Bans may occur due to the following reasons:
- Highjacking threads with no thought given to the OP
- Derailment of threads due to personal feuds
- General derailment of threads
- Rude or insensitive comments in a prayers/thoughts thread
- Constant trolling of a single thread

Romper Room Guidelines

The Romper Room is a sub-forum designed to house Chiefsplanet’s more problematic posters. The posters restricted to this forum have proven that they need, at the very least, a temporary break from posting in the other sub-forums. Also, banned posters that are allowed back on a trial run will begin their return here. All users are more than welcome to visit the Romper Room and visit with their ill-behaved buddies. The Romper Room will be more lightly moderated than the Lounge. The top two forum rules (The Douchebag Rule and Opinion Spamming) will be more lightly moderated within this sub-forum, but all other forum rooms will be moderated as they are in other forums.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by kccrow

Not particularly. Too much open to interpretation shit in that for my liking.

Staying on topic part isn't that bad. It's the rest of it.

If a mod "feels" you are being whatever a "douchebag" is, then they have free reign to do whatever they want? That's Bob Dole shit right there in a nutshell. So yeah, I don't like it.

User stalking? Nah. If a user posts in a topic and someone replies to that users take, then it isn't exactly stalking. For instance, Tigger posts dipshit comment 1 in thread A, Crow responds with proof that Tigger is said dipshit. Tigger then posts dipshit comment 2 in thread B, Crow responds with proof that Tigger is said dipshit. That isn't stalking, that's' responding to two separate instances of dipshittery with legitimate rebuttals. Leaving mods to decide what is and isn't in this case is highly subjective. Don't trust it.

Opinion Spamming, this is the only one I partially agree with. If there are 8 threads about Alex Smith and I post Alex Smith sucks total ballsack in every one of them, oh ****ing well. They are ALL topics about Alex Smith. If I'm posting Alex Smith sucks a giant sack of taters in a thread about Dontari Poe, well then that's inexcusable and someone should smack me and say hey, get on topic.

Obviously the User stalking and Douchebag Rule are going to be, at least a bit, subjective. However, they needed to be added for certain cases.

For example, I don't know if you remember the old Frazod-KCNative feuds. But it got to the point where Frazod couldn't post in any thread without KCNative showing up and posting something like, "Hey Frazbob, just wanted to let you know that you're a blah blah blah blah..."

That's user stalking. I could have worded it as harassment, but that would be subjective to moderator opinion as well.

You will have to trust the mods on that one. If your engaging in normal football talk, making solid posts, and not intentionally seeking out a user, then that rule should never apply to you.



As far as the Douchebag Rule, that was a special request from a mod that has been doing this job very well for a long time, and basically said, "Look, sometimes people will find a way to **** things up without actually breaking any of the posted rules. You know it when you see it." We have to trust his word, because he's been doing this job for a long time, is level-headed and respected, and knows wht he's talking about.

Once again though, my guess would be that it's for extreme cases. Based on your posts, I don't think you would ever have anything to worry about.

There will be some mod trust required, of course. But I think all of the mods are looking to do a great job, and are more than capable of making level-headed decisions regarding these issues.

[Nickhead]

now, i personally don't take too much stock in others trying to undermine ones station in e-life, find it quite funny but...

according to the new rules would this be considered harassment?

[DaneMcCloud]

Originally Posted by Nickhead

now, i personally don't take too much stock in others trying to undermine ones station in e-life, find it quite funny but...

according to the new rules would this be considered harassment?

You're such a woman

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by kccrow

Not particularly. Too much open to interpretation shit in that for my liking.

Staying on topic part isn't that bad. It's the rest of it.

If a mod "feels" you are being whatever a "douchebag" is, then they have free reign to do whatever they want? That's Bob Dole shit right there in a nutshell. So yeah, I don't like it.

User stalking? Nah. If a user posts in a topic and someone replies to that users take, then it isn't exactly stalking. For instance, Tigger posts dipshit comment 1 in thread A, Crow responds with proof that Tigger is said dipshit. Tigger then posts dipshit comment 2 in thread B, Crow responds with proof that Tigger is said dipshit. That isn't stalking, that's' responding to two separate instances of dipshittery with legitimate rebuttals. Leaving mods to decide what is and isn't in this case is highly subjective. Don't trust it.

Opinion Spamming, this is the only one I partially agree with and only in the sense of "stay on topic." If there are 8 threads about Alex Smith and I post Alex Smith sucks total ballsack in every one of them, oh ****ing well. They are ALL topics about Alex Smith. If I'm posting Alex Smith sucks a giant sack of taters in a thread about Dontari Poe, well then that's inexcusable and someone should smack me and say hey, get on topic.

If 3 or more of the 5 mods think you're being a douchebag, you probably are being a douchebag. As far as the stalker rule, were you around when KC Native was stalking Frazod all over the board? Don't be like KC Native was and you'll be fine.

[kccrow]

Originally Posted by TimBone

How so?

Not being sarcastic. Seriously wondering.

See my response to Sauto.

You need to be more definitive.

If you consider douchebaggery to be "Making personal insults toward a specific user, such as Crow saying Tigger is a bumbling reeruned idiot," then you need to define it. You actually have to put a bit more thought into what things it is that you want to curtail. These rules are entirely too vague and far too subjective. They literally invite Dole behaviors by moderators.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by Bugeater

If 3 or more of the 5 mods think you're being a douchebag, you probably are being a douchebag. As far as the stalker rule, were you around when KC Native was stalking Frazod all over the board? Don't be like KC Native was and you'll be fine.

Sheesh. You said the same thing I said in so few words. Maybe I'm long-winded.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

Dude it was awesome. Did you see how I got him? Totally

Oh yeah, I was here. It was ****ing brilliant.

But he still should have been whacked.

[Nickhead]

Originally Posted by DaneMcCloud

You're such a woman

now be careful, if i post something in another thread, and you reply, you will have to pay the troll toll

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by JASONSAUTO

I had that happen personally, clowned the ****er. Totally outsmarted him and let him stay.

That was one of the all time hilarious threads of this season place. But yeah, I'd have lost my shit.

Originally Posted by Nickhead

now, i personally don't take too much stock in others trying to undermine ones station in e-life, find it quite funny but...

according to the new rules would this be considered harassment?

12 or so negs in 4 months? Probably not.

You need to dig up some of the old rep wars.

[Frazod]

Originally Posted by Buehler445

12 or so negs in 4 months? Probably not.

You need to dig up some of the old rep wars.

Seriously.

Shit, I'd do that to Wickedson in a day sometimes.

[Dartgod]

Originally Posted by Nickhead

now, i personally don't take too much stock in others trying to undermine ones station in e-life, find it quite funny but...

according to the new rules would this be considered harassment?

Most definitely. Marcellus would be banned under the new rules.

[srvy]

Originally Posted by TimBone

[lewdog]

Originally Posted by Nickhead

now, i personally don't take too much stock in others trying to undermine ones station in e-life, find it quite funny but...

according to the new rules would this be considered harassment?

Not at all.

Be a better poster. You won't get harassed.

Easy.

[Bugeater]

Originally Posted by Nickhead

now, i personally don't take too much stock in others trying to undermine ones station in e-life, find it quite funny but...

according to the new rules would this be considered harassment?

No. That is funny.

[TimBone]

Originally Posted by kccrow

See my response to Sauto.

You need to be more definitive.

If you consider douchebaggery to be "Making personal insults toward a specific user, such as Crow saying Tigger is a bumbling reeruned idiot," then you need to define it. You actually have to put a bit more thought into what things it is that you want to curtail. These rules are entirely too vague and far too subjective. They literally invite Dole behaviors by moderators.

You may be right about being more definitive regarding the Stalker Rule. I'll look at it as well.

It's still gonna be a moderators' discretion type thing, though. You just can't have a sentence for every possible situation in there.

Just know, though, that it is gonna be blatant stalking that is a problem. For example, I've already seen the post where Tiger accused you of stalking him after he read the rules. You were posting normal football talk. That's not stalking.