Oh bother, it took me too long to collate this!
Also, Edited now because the proposed amendments have changed. The proposed amendment about Rape has been taken out. However the "Child" amendment is still in, although a specific reference to the Asylum and children of posters harrassment is not there any more. Which kind of leaves me confused as to if we're allowed to insult poster's children in the Asylum, under the new rules.
Because I know some people won't click the link, and a couple of these might actually be controversial:
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Hostile content directed at children of other forum members: At no point, in any forum is it allowable to target children of a forum member with harsh insults, harassment, or other deliberate provocations aimed at causing strife with another forum member. Such actions will be automatically considered excessive and persistent, and will be dealt with accordingly. There is a general exception allowed for good natured statements made in jest, that are recognized to be in jest by both parties, however in a dispute we will rule against the party who originates the statement.
Rape: Posts involving rape as content are a particularly sensitive and potentially traumatic topic to some, and will be considered excessive and persistent automatically, and removed.
I'm not sure I like the idea of any subject being automatically taboo in the Asylum. Context matters, and unsavory or excessively inappropriate harassing stuff can be rated down or adminned. Why rape in particular? Persistant or acute childhood Bullying, Parental abuse, Criminal assault, are all traumas that can be fully equivalent to Rape to a victim. Suicide and Self-Harm are topics usually automatically excluded from main-stream media, at least in Australia, because of concerns of pushing emotionally vulnerable people closer to taking such action.
And the probably not so controversial:
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Necroposting: The act of posting in an extremely old thread for the sole purpose of bringing it to the foreground of the forum to disrupt the existing threads is considered necroposting, and is prohibited. Extremely old is a subjective term, to be determined by the administrators. Threads that are legitimately, or accidentally necroposted in may be left at the discretion of the admin. Deliberately necroposted threads will be returned to the page from where they came, and may be locked if necessary.
Amendment 1. Posting Surveys
Survey posting by outside parties is allowed only for educational purposes. Commercial surveys, or surveys without an academic background are expressly prohibited and will be immediately removed.
Prior to posting any survey, you are required to contact one of the following Forum Administrators:
* kaolian@allakhazam.com
* darqflame@allakhazam.com
* wordaen@allakhazam.com
And to provide verified contact information and academic credentials, including a university associated e-mail address from which the request originates. A full, unaltered copy of the survey questions must also be provided.
All other survey posts will be removed and the originating account banned.
Amendment 2. Forum user names
Any forum name longer than 20 characters in length, or found to contain offensive references that were not caught by the filter will be immediately changed to something of our choosing. At the Administrator's discretion the account may be banned if the name is particularly offensive.
Amendment 3. Posting torrent sites, illegal content, or copyrighted material
Legitimate torrent sites, such as those hosting legitmate game patches, are allowed, but should be cleared with an administrator prior to posting if there is any question.
Sites hosting illegal downloads, "private" servers, or material that has been brought to our attention as being in violation U.S. law is not allowed and will be immidiatly removed. All copyrighted content, regardless of format, that is submitted to the forums will be removed at the request of the copyright holder.
Amendment 4. Reporting Forum Images
Forum images that have objectionable content should be reported, however excessive and persistant reporting of images that are not objectionable is considered a form of harrasment and will be dealt with as such. Currently the only way to prevent image reporting is a full ban.
Yeah we've been over that backwards illogic before...