The 10 Commandments: questions and discussion
This thread is here for discussion and suggestions about our house rules, the 10 Commandments. Unlike the original 10 Commandments, our rules aren't chiselled in stone but are open for debate, although please bear in mind there are good reasons why we have the rules we do. They've been developed over several years by members of this community and reflect our experience in belonging to these forums.
Also see the 10 Commandments thread on our previous bulletin boards.
Also see the 10 Commandments thread on our previous bulletin boards.
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Can I post in All Saints about a local music festival I'm involved in or would that be advertising? I am a volunteer with this festival.
Similarly, can I post about a ticketed concert I'm singing in or is that advertising since it's costing money?
I'm assuming I'm ok to post about a free come and sing.
Cattyish, just checking.
Cattyish, drinking beer and chatting online.
They have them on Mumsnet, but they're all linked to the same account - so you'd have your account and just change your name (bit like on Twitter, i suppose, but you wouldn't see the user account), it means that there's that extra bit of anonymity if a user wants to post something that might "out" them, or that might need a bit more privacy.
But it also means that they can do fun namechanges, like seasonal namechanges or theme namechanges.
Admin and HQ would still be able to see who is who, because they have access to the central files.
I assume you have your own reasons for worrying about sock-puppetry, and the only reason I mention it at all is because I accidentally had two usernames on the old ship (I used the same email for both, but couldn't remember my original choice for username and picked a new one) - i only found out i had two when I lost my password and had to get a reminder.
so did I!
There may be a very small number of occasions when Captain Morgans rule might be useful, but not often enough for it to be something we wanted to be able to do. During the T'n'T boards we did introduce a method to do that, but even then it was very rarely used.
How did I manage to get two usernames with the same email address then?!
That's just weird!
Pretty obviously, you registered twice.
1. How does one submit an idea for a new thread?
2. Who assigns it, if it is approved, to the appropriate board? My idea could fit into a variety of boards.
3. I can't find any means of changing the font colour , though I notice other people do with alacrity. Help please.
4. If one initiates a thread, who monitors it? The instigator or the captain and his officers?
5. I am as I say an idiot, but I can't see how one inserts one's pithy signoff without doing it every time. Please help.
Now I see through a glass darkly. Maybe I should clean my specs.
Aliehs from Oz
1. If you're not sure where something you want to discuss belongs, feel free to send a private message to the hosts of the board you think most likely for advice. If a thread is on the wrong board it will be moved, but it's better for all if it's started on the right board and costs nothing to ask someone.
2. There are options for changing the font colour/size which the tech savvy will know. But, we didn't include any tools to make that easy because our preference is to keep the appearance of posts clean and simple - minimal different colours, minimal images etc.
I want to ask a question about what constitutes 'homework'. I've witnessed posters getting rapped over the metaphorical knuckles for starting 'Homework Threads' before, but given they're usually shut down pretty quickly, I don't know exactly what the parameters are.
I'd like to start a thread inviting responses from those who were resident in the United States on September 11, 2001, to get some first-hand accounts of, well, what it felt like. I feel I need to do this because, despite being a New Zealander, I'm attempting to write a book which contains some American characters, and the time-period of the book spans this event. I feel like there's no way, even as an imaginative individual, I can possibly put myself accurately in the headspace of a US citizen with regard to this event - it was gob-smacking enough on the other side of the world - and I don't want to mess it up.
But I can't pretend I wouldn't be asking other people to help me with a project I have going - that's exactly what I'd be doing. Is it homework?
?? Are you offering, maybe? Not quite sure, here...
I'll give the matter some thought. Trying to put myself in an admin's position, though, I can see why you might not want to risk opening the floodgates.
The new ship doesn't have sigs, and so seems to lack this avenue for publicity.
No-one seems to have noticed, but there's a blatant homework thread in Ecclesiantics currently. Maybe there could be some mileage for a homework thread - where people could ask for help with a project? And for Shipmates to get in contact by PM so that the discussion doesn't happen on the boards?
This is a tiny rant (maybe it should be ant and I crawl into a hole).
I have been categated today, for supposidly calling people names on the post about "Screw loose." I was really trying to bring to people's attention that the original post was about a horrific accident. I felt the thread was making light of it and it was getting out of hand.
I have been quite upset as I think this whole incident of the pilot saying he had a "screw loose" is not something to take lightly nor to make fun about. We don't know his whole story. I just think this thread is insensitive. I tried to change the direction earlier in the thread to take it off the incident, but was overtaken by a load of men going on about gaming and calling each other names. I just don't understand why some on these posts can say anything they want to others, while others of us get told off for trying to bring common sense into discussion and stopping the discussion being hogged by the same three or four people.
It might also be useful for me to say that my mum committed suicide, as others may have experienced too, so this kind of discussion on "screws loose" is not something to take lightly.
It happened once before on a thread and he went into Hell (which I rarely do) when one gentleman put some horrible things about me (I thought ths wasn;t allowed of SofF - personal comments!!!!!). We actually eventually sorted it out privately, he and I get on well now.
Is this really what SoF is about? Some seem to get away with all sorts of things while others even mildly correcting others can't? We need more women's voices of SoF (we have very few) yet when we try to partake men come down on us - it has happened a number of times, and not with me either! We need more women friendly discussion and not just on Heaven with "nice things" Please include our different points of view in discussions and please don't let the same few always be dominant.
I came off SofF for a while ago (actually over the years, on 2 occassions) because I got fed up with it always the same people who posted, some comments were quite nasty and intolerant of a different opinion and ecclesiology/theology rather than their own. But I came back on again because I felt, as a women (and other reasons) there should be more of a balance. So please be equitable in applying the rules.
And please note that many of us don't sit all day in front of the computer so don't have time to read hundreds of posts on a theme, we take up the argument from where it has been left off.
Will I stay on........help!
Everyone, please keep discussion of the above post on the new thread so as not to further mess up this one. Thank you for your cooperation.
Eutychus
SoF Admin
I know that the following are Admins:
- Alan Cresswell
- Eutychus
- Marvin the Martian
- Spike
- Tubbs
but am wondering if there's anyone else I've forgotten. (I hate listing things out, I always forget someone)Admin Emeritus
I can find the board hosts from the posts on the top of the boards (where they are at the top)
and then I know there are other people involved including:
Simon
Ancient Mariner
pease - who provides the technical support
(I'm deliberately not tagging everyone here)
All the crew know that chocolate is available if they want it. If they haven't posted, it just means more for me they haven't got round to it yet or don't feel the need.
As you can see, I just changed my photo from nothing to something. It's the covert of my novel. If that is considered too much of an "advertisement," I can change it to show only the bearded figure represented there.
That said, we have a tolerance for posters to put personal stuff in their profile, and your profile picture is in your profile, so...