Let's work out some official rules for this forum.

[Kilkakon]

Compromise is the right word, yeah.

[Green1]

Some folks seem to go insane over a few words.

I think the occasional cuss word is okay as long as it is in context and (somewhat) on topic. There are many things out there that are best described with a cuss word.

Now, just cussing out a forum member is covered under other rules. Nor is it in context or on topic. That is flaming and should probably be dealt with if it is bad enough,

Still, I will leave the filter on. It is funny at times and we all know what was originally typed,

[Buster's Uncle]

I note that the swearing issue is something I take a conservative stance on, and am not very flexible about as a matter of decent public behavior, which is what we insist on on these boards - but I'm very pleased that I noticed the turnoff option lately while I've been working all the forum display stuff lately. 

Maximum happiness for the maximum people is the only real meaningful standard/goal/guideline for forming forum management policy,  -We DO listen to the people here, and what you want DOES matter.

[Valka]

Does anyone mind if I occasionally say the word "cowpies"? (it should be clear what word I really mean)


I don't anticipate having much reason to use it on this forum; I only use it when I'm really angry or annoyed, and I haven't been either angry or annoyed here.


Or maybe add a "censored" smiley?


This was the solution I came up with on my Doctor Who forum, which is mostly populated by nice ladies who worship Tom Baker:

[Buster's Uncle]

"cowpies"?

Jeeze, don't get carried away.

[Valka]

 


Okay, I won't use it.

[Buster's Uncle]

Nah, be a nasty lady.

[Geo]

Nah, be a nasty lady.

Or cheeky instead of chic?

[Buster's Uncle]

I'd like, at this juncture in time, to underline that all proposed policy/rules in this thread that I've not contradicted I consider rules/policy binding on me and you.  Pretty much everything's in this thread, if not in a neat list.

(Protip: somebody ought to make a neat list.  We'll discuss formalizing as we go, if anybody takes a run at it.  It's would be helpful to me to have it organized so I can consult and make sure everything's here.)

Keeping in mind that sisko and I retain veto power and will use our judgment in enforcing, the power is in YOUR hands to have a lot of say in what AC2 is and how it's run.  Personally, I LOVE that we're a community so mature, chilled out and well-behaved that we don't much need rules - but we may have a flood of unruly young people to assimilate later this year, and may very much need that organized Rules List to show them.

This might be a very good time for the Committee of Everyone Interested for Rules to resume interest.

[vv221]

If nobody take the task before me, I should have time to compile everything in here in a quasi-neat list next week.
(it will be a good time to read those rules too, I conform here to the "Friendly Arm's Inn" rule: « Common sense rules the day. »)

[Buster's Uncle]

Common sense is pretty much all you need.  You're our kind of people.

I'll just talk to you if there's any problem - you get to try to persuade me right back if that happens.


You'll be pleased to discover as you read that we don't have a lot of rules.  Haven't needed much specifics.

[SenniTreborius]

Hello this post probably shows what a noob at this I am, but here goes.
First I don't know if I'm posting this in the right thread. I'm a bit unsure of what goes where. I have accidentally conducted the same conversation on at least two threads.
Things I would like to now are WTFgoingon How to use this BB properly. Sorry there isn't an Icon for sheepish.
What I would like to do.
1. Get OBS to work recording SMACX on my laptop (easy if I have a desktop as OBS can direct capture and stream SMAX on desktops). But ever since I installed OBS I can't Alt-Tab out to run in windowed mode.
1a. Find out which forum I should be discussing this in, instead of wherever my email alert takes me.
2. Read some AARs by very proficient players. At the moment I don't know which are which.
3. Find out what a GotM is, how one loads and plays it. I unpacked one into a separate folder just to look and would probably have messed up my main install if I'd unpacked it directly into the Smacx root (lots of files that I believe should have went into a separate folder.
4. Pop my cherry in MP probably with a PBEM game, by first finding out how to.

Sorry again but I realise that I am careering about this BB like a mindworm in the rec commons. So I should get this under control, and at least post in the right forum in future.
Yours with embarrassed blushes
SenniTreborius husband of Deirdre
PS Free Scotland

[Geo]

PS Free Scotland

Welcome to the datalinksforums.
In case you didn't heard yet, the referendum to have Scotland independent failed last month.

[SenniTreborius]

Only until the next one. But let's not talk politics, the Free Scotland was a reference to Deirdre, who is from Free Scotland in the game.

[Geo]