A Friendly Reminder, for the new folks here

Games Other Halo
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Take a look just in case it slipped your mind, this is what you agreed to when you registered.

• Do not flame or attack fellow forum members.

Do not defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights (such as rights of privacy and publicity) of others. Attacks against administrators, moderators, and members are not allowed in the public forums or in private messages. You can read more about flaming by clicking the spoiler button below.

What is flaming?
Flaming is hostile, insulting, and aggressive interaction between forum users. Flaming includes but is not limited to name calling, insults in regard to skill level (also known as stat-flaming), and personal attacks.

What is flamebait?
Flamebait is a post intended to provoke an angry response. Flamebait includes but is not limited to purposely posting inflammatory images and text.

Both flaming and flamebait are bannable offenses. Offending posts will be removed or edited, and offending users will be subject to both temporary and permanent bans.

• Do not post spam.

Spam is a post that does not contribute to the topic at hand. If you want to discuss something unrelated to the original post, search to see if there is already a thread discussing your topic before creating a new one. You can read more about spam by clicking the spoiler button below.

What is spam?
Spam is a post that does not contribute to the topic at hand. Spam includes but is not limited to single word responses, petitions, non-English posts, posts containing all-caps, and bumps (replies purposely made to move the thread to the top of the active thread list). Below are some examples of posts that are not allowed on our forums. It is not a complete list, and administrators and moderators reserve the right to determine what constitutes spam at their discretion.

Adapt.
Not sure if trolling.
LOL(anything).
U mad, bro?
Cool story, bro.

Posting spam is a bannable offense. Offending posts will be removed or edited, and offending users will be subject to both temporary and permanent bans.

• Do not discuss or post links to inappropriate content.

This includes profane, defamatory, infringing, obscene, indecent or unlawful topics, names, material or information. This also includes -Yoink!-, content that promotes cheating or griefing, information about hacking or modding content on an Xbox console, spoilers (whether it be about Halo or any other game), magazine scans, and leaked content, real or fake.

• Do not post comments that are discriminatory in nature.

This includes posts that incite discrimination, hate or violence towards one person or a group because of their belonging to a race, a religion or a nation, or that insults the victims of crimes against humanity by contesting the existence of those crimes.

• Do not create posts that single out or ridicule individuals.

This includes administrators, moderators, members, and non-forum members.

• Do not impersonate others with your posts, profile, or username.

This includes 343 Industries employees, Bungie employees, administrators, moderators, members, and non-forum members.

• Do not engage users who are trolling.

If you find a post that you feel breaks the rules, please report the post and refrain from responding.

• Do not create multiple forum accounts.

Each person is allowed one account only. Alternate accounts will be permanently banned, and offending users will be subject to both temporary and permanent bans.

• Do not repost content a moderator has removed, repost a topic that has been locked, or post about forum moderation decisions.

If you have a question or concern about a forum moderation decision, please private message the applicable moderator.

• Do not file false reports.

Only report posts that do not abide by our guidelines. Reporting posts for any other reason will be considered an abuse of the report button.

• Do not use profanity or attempt to bypass the profanity filter.

• Do not discuss things unrelated to Halo or video gaming.

• Do treat all forum members with courtesy and respect.

• Do report posts that do not abide by one or more of the above guidelines.

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Think you need to make the part where everyone is entitled to their own opinions in giant bold words.

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Forum rules are already posted, this is now spam.

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> Forum rules are already posted, this is now spam.

No, those are this sections’ guideline, these are the entire forum rules. If most you had read them, then you wouldnt see the word troll nearly as much as you see every first response to a thread with it =.

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This post has been edited by a moderator. Please refrain from making posts that do not contribute to the topic at hand.

*Original post. Click at your own discretion.

Lmao
This is funny.

The Waypoint cop giving out reminders.

Those flamers thoooo.

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This post has been edited by a moderator. Please refrain from making posts that do not contribute to the topic at hand.

*Original post. Click at your own discretion.

Reported

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This post has been edited by a moderator. Please refrain from making posts that do not contribute to the topic at hand.

*Original post. Click at your own discretion.

Backseet modding and trying to get thanks. LOL reported.

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You should add

“Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but that doesn’t mean the right to abuse and enforce your opinion on everyone.”

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This will get interesting but I back it 100%, I seriously doubt a lot of the new members even looked at these

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I actually asked for the entire section to be locked. Reporting this should be a waste of time since Jess, said to do it.

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No, none of the above. I am merely trying to bring order as a concerned forum goer, evidently you dont understand. I will ask that no one thank me for this because its what everyone should be abiding by anyways.

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this thread wasn’t necessary. :confused:
this job is for the mods and staff and they’ve made it clear several times.

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I think this a great reminder for EVERYONE that comes in here, not just the new people.

And yes, people, the rules are posted on this board somewhere but be honest, how many of you have actually read them enough to realize what’s allowed and what isn’t? Especially if you’re brand spankin’ new.

Call the OP a “forum cop” or “backseat moderator” all you want but it doesn’t change that without you guys helping to police each other, it makes our jobs a LOT harder.

If you guys see stuff that breaks the rules, report it and we’ll get to it as we can. :slight_smile:

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So as forum goers we can’t help promote peace and adherence to the rules?

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Good job on putting out the rules and keeping the community up to date.: )

Keep it Clean and Respect other forums users.

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> And yes, people, the rules are posted on this board somewhere but be honest, how many of you have actually read them enough to realize what’s allowed and what isn’t? Especially if you’re brand spankin’ new.

I try to never make one-word posts that are blatant spam, but still some people report what I write and call it “flaming”. Sometimes I feel that if someone gets reported for something, you just hit the “ban” button without actually looking into what was said, and people just report something because they find it provocative and disagree with it.

Been banned 5 times already, so either I’m purposefully breaking these rules or people need to lighten up and take what you read with a pinch of salt, and slightly less seriously. -_-

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> So as forum goers we can’t help promote peace and adherence to the rules?

What? Where did anyone say that?

Au contraire my friend, by all means! Please feel free to remind people what the rules are (in a respectful way, of course) if you see people breaking rules. :slight_smile:

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> I think this a great reminder for EVERYONE that comes in here, not just the new people.
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> And yes, people, the rules are posted on this board somewhere but be honest, how many of you have actually read them enough to realize what’s allowed and what isn’t? Especially if you’re brand spankin’ new.
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> Call the OP a “forum cop” or “backseat moderator” all you want but it doesn’t change that without you guys helping to police each other, it makes our jobs a LOT harder.
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> If you guys see stuff that breaks the rules, report it and we’ll get to it as we can. :slight_smile:

Thanks for helping out my friend and keep up the good work as being a mod.

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> > And yes, people, the rules are posted on this board somewhere but be honest, how many of you have actually read them enough to realize what’s allowed and what isn’t? Especially if you’re brand spankin’ new.
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> I try to never make one-word posts that are blatant spam, but still some people report what I write and call it “flaming”. Sometimes I feel that if someone gets reported for something, you just hit the “ban” button without actually looking into what was said, and people just report something because they find it provocative and disagree with it.
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> Been banned 5 times already, so either I’m purposefully breaking these rules or people need to lighten up and take what you read with a pinch of salt, and slightly less seriously. -_-

As a general rule, name calling or bashing large groups widely will fall under “flaming.” If you have specific questions, feel free to PM me, or any of the other Monitors. I promise you that at the very least, I’m pretty reasonable and open to conversation. :slight_smile:

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> As a general rule, name calling or bashing large groups widely will fall under “flaming.”

I never did that. Ever. Damn casuals!