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- Aug 6, 2003
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WELCOME!!!!!
Wow there are a lot of new people on the boards now. I just want to welcome all of you. This is more for the new people because the old posters already know most of these rules.
There are a few rules, but not too many.
(Copied from WebmasterKathy)
First- Travis (Soccercruiser87), and Lauri (MeanLaureen) are the Moderators of the Teen Forum. They keep this forum a friendly place, and they have the not always pleasant task of enforcing the board guidelines when necessary. They have the full authority of the Webmasters and the owner of the DISboards (WebmasterPete). When they speak, be *sure* to listen.
Next- Everyone agreed to the Guidelines for Posting when they signed up here. The guidelines are really not too complicated, and I don't think anyone will have trouble with them. The ones you probably are most interested in are pretty basic: No fighting, no profanity, no personal messages. The posting guidelines apply to all of the forums on the DISboards.
Fighting
Profanity
is pretty much self-explanatory, and includes using bad words that you try to disguise with creative spelling or substituting symbols or spaces for letters- just substitute polite words or leave it out if you're tempted to use bad language.No personal messages
If you see a post that is a real problem and the moderator needs to know about it, look for the
If there's a problem with a post, Travis, Tara or one of the Webmasters will do whatever is appropriate to clean it up. That could mean editing or deleting the post, deleting the whole thread, or locking the thread so no more posts can be made. Depending on the circumstances, the poster may or may not be notified of the reasons for the action.
Once in a while, we have a poster who won't or can't follow the rules. When that happens, we sometimes have to close their account, banning them from posting here. This is usually because they attack other posters or insist on using profanity.
These rules are here to keep the DISboards a friendly place where everyone is welcome, and where you can post and have fun.
If you have any questions, please ask us! We're here to help. You can PM any of the moderators listed above, me (WebmasterKathy) or any of the other Webmasters. (You'll recognize us- we all have "Webmaster" in our names.
) Or you can post your question right here on this thread!We're glad you've found the DISboards- hope you enjoy it here!
**Signature Guidelines**
Our signature rules were written a few years ago. Back then a lot of our posters used dial up connections and the VBulletin software did not have the functionality it does now.
The old rules were difficult to understand and they took a lot of moderator time to enforce. We have developed all new rules that should be much simpler and much easier to enforce automatically.
1. Your signature will be limited in length. The program will do this
automatically and anything over the allowed length will be cut off
Explanation- the biggest complaint we recieve is that signatures are too long and it takes too long to scroll through threads. We are going to start with a height of 250 pixels, you'll see what that means when we roll this out. We may add an additional option so that a signature only appears once per page.
2. You will be limited to a total of 25 images and smilies The program
will handle this automatically
Explanation- That should be PLENTY considering the amount of space
3. All content and links must meet DIS board posting guidelines.
Signature have the same content rules as any post on the boards
Explanation- Pretty obvious I hope, this includes commercial link, links to innapropriate sites (MYSPACE), etc etc
4. You may not have a signature that is so wide it causes the page to
expand
Explanation- This is something the software can't control. Basically the only way to do this is to have a really really wide picture. If your signature means people with a normal resolution monitor need to scroll from side to side you'll be told to remove the picture causing the issue
5. We reserve the right to remove or modify signatures that cause
issues with the boards or slow page loading. Please make sure any images in
your signature are hosted on a reliable site. Any signature that contains
malicious or harmful code will be removed immediately and the poster
sanctioned
Explanation- Most of this should be pretty obvious. One thing people might not realize is that when people complain about the boards being "slow" it may not be us at all. When the boards load a page, if it can't find an image, it can make the boards appear slow.
We will roll this out in a few days, probably Wednesday. You don't need to take any action now, but you probably will want to check your signature after this goes into effect to see how it was affected.
If you have any questions on this please post on this thread on the tech support board, I will monitor those.
The Webmasters believe that these new, simplified rules will make the boards a better place for our posters and moderators.
Thank you for being a DIS boards member!
Alex
Okay so now that the rules have been stated I again want to say welcome to the boards and I know you'll enjoy it. I do.
Tara
The Dis is awesome! Hope you have a great time here!
Thanks Bye !! 
