Policy questions and discussion, lol whut?

Alright, I quit being lazy and set up a shiny new category at the top for the ten commandments thread, and anything else we eventually deem important enough to go up here. For the most part, I'd like to keep this subforum as free of clutter as possible, but the thread is open for suggestions on additions or changes.

I should totally get a mod edit color.

I noticed the forum names that MFD used out in the Commandments post are inconsistent with the actual names of the forums in question, Comic Discussion instead of Comic-by-comic, and whatnot. Nitpicky, but it seemed worth pointing out.

And the video game spoiler rule seems a little harsh. It's also worth pointing out whether or not spoiler rules are as strict in in threads devoted to a particular subject (Example: Game/Anime spoilers in the Pokemon thread.)

Other than those few things, everything looks pretty snappy.

If you want a mod edit color, you can make your own post about it in the RP forum.

Pick a color and you can have it, but you're sort of limited in range.

I'm not sure if spoiler rules are more than guidelines. Generally other discussion on the subject will tell you how to proceed with it. And if there isn't any it's probably new enough to warrant spoilertext.

He DOES have a mod color, it's [color=itty-bitty text][/color]

He only seems to use it to make those "This post was edited by Notty at *date/time*" lines, though.

Nah, I think we just didn't give him the ability to avoid that.

Because we're jerks like that.

*shakes fist*

The man's always tryin' to keep me down!

You know, when I originally saw that post about colors (way back when it was a GJ post, I think) I assumed it was some sort of Halloween thing.

Nope. Sorry.

Edited the "Creating a new account" thread.

Maybe it wasn't clear enough, or something. But interestingly enough, I've had "CenExenmVox" (the name I mentioned as an example of gibberish) attempt to register several times recently... I'm not sure if I happened to pick one particularly persistent spammer, or what...

Either that or lots of (real) people are registering under that name in an attempt to be cute.

Which is probably reason enough not to let them in. Coming up with a unique name is cake.

It at least shows an intelligent mind at work, though. Bent towards evil, but intelligent.

Or its a very persistant spam bot.

I'm guessing the latter. I know I've seen the same spammer name show up more than once

Due to a recent apparent problem with this rule, I am modifying it to more clearly convey its intention. This is not a punitive measure; rather, it is simply an effort to add clarity. The new version is as follows:

If you wish to engage in conversation in another tongue, please do so on a board that speaks in that language regularly.

Otherwise, take it to IM/PM.

So is the new rule that if you create an alt, it automatically gets banned and any posts regarding it get deleted?

Cause if that's the case, I think that's a big steamin' load of crap.

Indeed. I thought alts were only not allowed when they were used to circumvent banning, or when they actually did something annoying.

Where did you see anything like that? I've looked, and I can't find any rules regarding alts at all.