The updated Forum General Rules post

Started by Roy, 23 February 2015, 12:02:29 PM

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Roy

I see this topic has been updated today by Leon

http://www.pendrakenforum.co.uk/index.php/topic,1158.0.html

I did read it a couple of years back (that previous version, that is), but reading all the forum rules it's interesting to see how many I break.

One of the major points I would like clarification upon is this -

"Please refrain from posting meaningless threads like one word (or short) nonsense posts."

This being a wargaming/figure painting/hobby forum, what counts as meaningless threads?
What is a thread?
Is a thread the individual post made on a topic, or is the whole topic the thread?
Some areas of the forum promote off-topic banter, but then banter or none-wargaming topics also pop up in the general discussion thread of the wider wargaming sub-board.
In all honesty, I don't really know where to post, what to post, or what I can or can't post and so just go with the flow or what the others are doing.

By the way; I'm not trying to moan or make a complaint, I am genuinely confused.

Thanks. Roy
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Lister: "Oh God, aliens... Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it?

Rimmer: "Well, we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?"

Lister: "Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?"

getagrip

Does this mean we're no longer meant to "banter" like we have been? :-\
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Fenton

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getagrip

Buy plenty of Matron's sculpts now!

If he keeps using the chainsaw, the value of his work will soon go up.

getagrip

Sorry, please delete my last post.

I meant ho ho ho Fenton, that really amused me (big grin).

Steve; might want to delete your LOL; that's not allowed anymore (big grin).
Buy plenty of Matron's sculpts now!

If he keeps using the chainsaw, the value of his work will soon go up.

Luddite

Personally i try to avoid the forum equivalent of a 'facebook LIKE', and the 'banter' comes pretty close to that sometimes, but then who'd want to stop that?

I do think its always better to put a bit of a longer response together though.

Rather than 'cool', or '+1', explain why its cool or +1?

However, given that Pendraken's star is rising, and this is pretty much the most vibrant, friendly, and useful forum around - i'd say its going well despite the nettiquette 'breach'.

One feels, enforcing extended prose on wargamers would very much be like herding cats...   ;D
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getagrip

Quote from: Luddite on 23 February 2015, 12:32:47 PM
However, given that Pendraken's star is rising, and this is pretty much the most vibrant, friendly, and useful forum around - i'd say its going well despite the nettiquette 'breach'.


It would also be interesting to see how many of the 399 posts on Sunday (a forum record) wouldn't have met the new "criteria"  :-\
Buy plenty of Matron's sculpts now!

If he keeps using the chainsaw, the value of his work will soon go up.

Fenton

Quote from: getagrip on 23 February 2015, 12:08:37 PM
Does this mean we're no longer meant to "banter" like we have been? :-\
When is FSN's, Westmarchers Nobby's leaving do?
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

getagrip

Quote from: Fenton on 23 February 2015, 01:37:35 PM
When is FSN's, Westmarchers Nobby's leaving do?

He really is stuffed isn't he ;D.

I'll miss FSNMarcher :'(
Buy plenty of Matron's sculpts now!

If he keeps using the chainsaw, the value of his work will soon go up.

Luddite

http://www.durhamwargames.co.uk/
http://luddite1811.blogspot.co.uk/

"It is by tea alone i set my mind in motion.  It is by the juice of Typhoo my thoughs acquire speed the teeth acquire stains, the stains serve as a warning.  It is by tea alone i set my mind in motion."

"The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don't need any rules." - Gary Gygax
"Maybe emu trampling created the desert?" - FierceKitty

2012 Painting Competition - Runner-Up!

"I have become inappropriately excited by the thought of a compendium of OOBs." FSN

Fenton

Just one point


Someone apart from Roy has read the forum rules haven't they?

He isn't just having a bit of a laugh?
If I were creating Pendraken I wouldn't mess about with Romans and  Mongols  I would have started with Centurions , eight o'clock, Day One!

getagrip

Quote from: Fenton on 23 February 2015, 02:00:07 PM
Just one point


Someone apart from Roy has read the forum rules haven't they?

He isn't just having a bit of a laugh?

Of course...erm... :-[

Didn't actually know there were any :-/
Buy plenty of Matron's sculpts now!

If he keeps using the chainsaw, the value of his work will soon go up.

Roy

I only know about Leon's update due to it being mentioned (and linked to) in the latest Pendraken Newsletter.
I'd quite forgotten about the existence of them, previous to that.

I once did ask in the Top Totty thread if there was any rules for that topic (you see this is where I'm stuck, I want to call it a thread!), basically asking how much nudity was allowed. Nobody really knew, it was just taken that there would be no nudity - until someone quickly posted a topless woman (and Leon quickly replaced it with an edited version of the image with kitten's faces placed over each nipple).

Rimmer: "Aliens."

Lister: "Oh God, aliens... Your explanation for anything slightly peculiar is aliens, isn't it?

Rimmer: "Well, we didn't use it all, Lister. Who did?"

Lister: "Rimmer, aliens used our bog roll?"

Leman

Bit odd this thread has got this far and still no comment from Leon.
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Ithoriel

Quote from: Leman on 23 February 2015, 03:05:14 PM
Bit odd this thread has got this far and still no comment from Leon.

He tends to be around later in the day, more chance of a prompt response at three in the morning than three in the afternoon :)
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