Heads up fellow denizens of RF,
The RF staff are in the process of updating the current rules and various other "official" pages around the site to better reflect how the staff moderate on a day-to-day basis. Most of the changes will be for clarification, not significant changes to our rules, but if we do make any significant changes, we will post a more eye-catching announcement to make sure you are all aware of the change. In this thread, we will keep you updated about what we've been doing as we make the updates. The main rules page will be updated as well, but you can keep abreast of things here as well.
Rule 1 and Rule 2 updated and clarified to read as follows. The parts you guys will want to be aware of that have we have highlighted in red. These are all things that the staff have done behind-the-scenes as a matter of course, but we figure it's about time the text of our rules actually reflect that:
The RF staff are in the process of updating the current rules and various other "official" pages around the site to better reflect how the staff moderate on a day-to-day basis. Most of the changes will be for clarification, not significant changes to our rules, but if we do make any significant changes, we will post a more eye-catching announcement to make sure you are all aware of the change. In this thread, we will keep you updated about what we've been doing as we make the updates. The main rules page will be updated as well, but you can keep abreast of things here as well.
3rd August 2015 Updates
Rule 1 and Rule 2 updated and clarified to read as follows. The parts you guys will want to be aware of that have we have highlighted in red. These are all things that the staff have done behind-the-scenes as a matter of course, but we figure it's about time the text of our rules actually reflect that:
1. Personal Comments About Members and Staff
Personal attacks and name-calling, whether direct or in the third person, are strictly prohibited on the forums. Critique each other's ideas all you want, but under no circumstances personally attack each other or the staff. Quoting a member's post in a separate/new thread without their permission to challenge or belittle them, or harassing staff members for performing moderation duties, will also be considered a personal attack.
2. Discussion/Dispute of Moderation
To ensure that members respect and abide by moderation decisions, and to respect the privacy and reputation of our members, there must be no discussion of the moderation of content or members in public areas. Furthermore, members whose content was acted upon (either edited or deleted) may not re-post the content anywhere on the forum without staff permission.
In all cases of dispute, members are to create a thread in the Site Feedback forum and politely discuss their case with the staff team, rather than with individual staff members. Threads in Site Feedback will only be visible to the member who created the thread and the staff team. Site Feedback discussions are considered part of moderation between members and staff and may not be discussed in public areas. General issues and concerns about moderation can also be directed to Site Feedback.
We can't give you an exact timeline for our roll-out of additional clarifications to site rules and policies, but we are working on it. In the mean time, do abide by the currently listed rules and policies of the site. Personal attacks and name-calling, whether direct or in the third person, are strictly prohibited on the forums. Critique each other's ideas all you want, but under no circumstances personally attack each other or the staff. Quoting a member's post in a separate/new thread without their permission to challenge or belittle them, or harassing staff members for performing moderation duties, will also be considered a personal attack.
2. Discussion/Dispute of Moderation
To ensure that members respect and abide by moderation decisions, and to respect the privacy and reputation of our members, there must be no discussion of the moderation of content or members in public areas. Furthermore, members whose content was acted upon (either edited or deleted) may not re-post the content anywhere on the forum without staff permission.
In all cases of dispute, members are to create a thread in the Site Feedback forum and politely discuss their case with the staff team, rather than with individual staff members. Threads in Site Feedback will only be visible to the member who created the thread and the staff team. Site Feedback discussions are considered part of moderation between members and staff and may not be discussed in public areas. General issues and concerns about moderation can also be directed to Site Feedback.