O-Zone BBS Policies
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Here is a brief explanation of the policies that will be
enforced on this board:
Focus and Purpose
The purpose of this board is to be a discussion area for Ohio
State fans. Posts to this board should be relevant to that topic.
Opposing viewpoints are welcome, but non-OSU-fans are expected to
respect the fact that this is "our house." Those
wanting an entirely open free-for-all are encouraged to take it
to a neutral forum.
Inappropriate Posts
Inappropriate posts include:
- Flames ("you suck!"), personal attacks, and
profanity.
- Politics or religion of any sort.
- Spamming the forum with multiple identical (or nearly so) posts.
- Chest-beating by fans of other teams ("Ohio State
sucks!").
- Off-topic posts ("The SEC is God's own
conference").
- Factually false posts, particularly of a personal nature
with regards to players and coaches.
People have been sued for making false and malicious posts on message
boards.
- Playing games with handles. For example, using
someone else's name (e.g., "Lloyd Carr"),
using multiple handles to appears as multiple people
(e.g., conducting an argument with yourself).
Now that the forum has gone to registration, creating
multiple registrations for a single person is not allowed,
and all accounts are subject to termination if his happens.
- Registering with a handle whose intent is to cause confusion
with an existing poster's handle is not allowed. At the
discretion of admins, such accounts will be terminated.
- Post promoting products, services, web sites, or anything
else.
- Obscenity, either in the title or in the body of text.
- Posts which obviously incite others to post outside our
rules, whether the original post is within the rules or
not.
- Off-topic posts, including meta-discussions (for example
admin actions). If you have a problem with moderation policy,
take it up with the
forum owner, offline.
- Ticket scalping. You may not offer or solicit tickets on the-Ozone.
- Copyright violation. You may not paste other sites' content here,
beyond small snippets that constitute fair use.
Actions Taken
Inapproprate postings are subject to deletion from the forum.
At the discretion of any of the volunteer administrators, an
offending post will be removed, usually with the entire thread
(all responses) under it.
If a given person develops a history of attempts to
disrupt this board, action will be taken to remove their posting
privileges entirely.
What if I have a problem?
All actions by the volunteer administrators are logged.
Deleted messages are archived under the name of the administrator
that marked them for deletion. If you have a problem with a
particular act, please notify john@the-ozone.net.
Be sure to include the date/time/content of your posting.
Volunteer administrators who abuse their administrative
privileges will have their administrative privileges revoked.
Comments
Comments and suggestions on these policies are welcome to this
site's owner.
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