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All About TUS => Announcements => Topic started by: DarkOne on February 24, 2010, 06:42 PM

Title: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: DarkOne on February 24, 2010, 06:42 PM
There have been a few threads so far about people's behaviour in the forums and during league games.
So far, all we've done is encourage good behaviour and hand out a couple of warnings.
So far, it hasn't changed much in how people behave towards each other, so it's time to have some consequences!

We're going to be starting with a penalty system on TUS. Moderators will be handing out warnings and penalty cards from this day forward. If people are caught misbehaving, mods will have the option of handing out a card. There are 3 cards you can collect: the yellow card, the orange card and the red card.

The yellow card is the first warning card. This will not have any consequences.
Same goes for the orange card, which comes after the yellow card. However, we will be watching you more closely after this.
The red card means a temporary ban; 2 weeks sound for the first time, a month for the second time and an entire season for the third time they get a red card.
Should you get temporarily banned, you'll come back without penalty card.

Every penalty also causes your karma to go down by 10 points.

How do you get rid of your penalty cards, you say?
If we don't have to warn you for an entire month (including minor warnings), you will step down (i.e. if you have an orange card, it will be changed to a yellow card and if you have a yellow card, you will no longer have it after a month)

There will be seperate penalty cards for leagues and forums; if people behave in league games, they should not be banned from playing league games if they're only misbehaving on the forums.

Please note that we are not interested in any feud you may have with other people on the forums! If you're baiting people for a flamewar, that's a penalty card.
If you take the bait, that's also a penalty card, no exceptions!
The forums are not for personal squabbles and if you really want to settle things, we suggest you use the PM function or msn or other messengers (or a motel room).

We won't be handing out warnings to people for disagreeing. Just be polite :)

Basically, on the forums, it boils down to this:

In the leagues, it boils down to this:
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: MonkeyIsland on February 24, 2010, 06:50 PM
As we stated many many times, we want a very bigger community and the key to that is to create a friendly atmosphere. We are NOT suggesting you to fall in love with the people you dislike, but to ignore and leave them alone, at least on TUS community. You are free to kill each other anywhere but TUS, that's your personal life.

Thanks to DarkOne for posting this, our new leagues moderator. :)

Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: beer on February 24, 2010, 06:56 PM
thats the way. gj
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Ray on February 24, 2010, 07:02 PM
That is a useful step, I really like the idea itself! Nicely written post.

Question: will these warnings be shown in one's profile? I would like if they were shown on the forums, like removing these (in my opinion) pointless ranks like Full Member, Hero Member and the stars, and instead putting a Status or Warnings text there and showing the status of warnings.
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: pr on February 24, 2010, 09:29 PM
Add points penalty to this. This could motivate at least.
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Ray on February 24, 2010, 09:41 PM
Add points penalty to this. This could motivate at least.
True, at least I know what I forgot to mention in my post. :P
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: zippeurfou on February 25, 2010, 05:20 PM
I really like the thing a lot also !
But just 10 point to the karma is not so many imo :p
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: HHC on February 25, 2010, 05:31 PM
Gj darkone.


One minor question: if you're banned from the forums, how do you make a complaint about a league game ???

p.s. I hope you guys manage to cleansweep the SB, that's the worst part of the site..
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: WookA on February 25, 2010, 06:37 PM
One minor question: if you're banned from the forums, how do you make a complaint about a league game ???

i think the best thing to do in that situation is to send a pm to all of the mods
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Ray on February 25, 2010, 06:46 PM
Or simply banned people could still reach the Complaint board? ;)
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: WookA on February 25, 2010, 07:37 PM
maybe that wouldnt be such a great idea, complaints contain just as many flames as other boards
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Chicken23 on February 26, 2010, 04:06 AM


p.s. I hope you guys manage to cleansweep the SB, that's the worst part of the site..

i think removing the SB would be a good thing. It mainly contains flames and anything worthy of a topic avoids getting posted in the forums!
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Dub-c on February 26, 2010, 04:46 AM


p.s. I hope you guys manage to cleansweep the SB, that's the worst part of the site..

i think removing the SB would be a good thing. It mainly contains flames and anything worthy of a topic avoids getting posted in the forums!

Is everyone made of glass? People need to toughen up a bit.
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Ray on February 26, 2010, 05:43 AM
Neither do I like SB, gives the site a bad name.
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Dub-c on February 26, 2010, 05:48 AM
Neither do I like SB, gives the site a bad name.

What is wrong with the sb?
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Ray on February 26, 2010, 06:21 AM
Well, people keep flaming on it or posting pointless material imo.
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Dub-c on February 26, 2010, 06:47 AM
Well, people keep flaming on it or posting pointless material imo.

So all posts are suppose to be meaningful? I thought it was suppose to be fun
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Ray on February 26, 2010, 02:17 PM
beer: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ZiPpO: rofl bitch
vaguener2: PLEASE MESSAGE ME HOW I CANCEL MY ACCOUNT

So much fun. :)
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: beer on February 26, 2010, 02:18 PM
beer: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ZiPpO: rofl bitch
vaguener2: PLEASE MESSAGE ME HOW I CANCEL MY ACCOUNT

So much fun. :)

hi?
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: chakkman on February 26, 2010, 02:53 PM
Well these are all nice... ideas and stuff... we dont need any more words though, you should let action speak. While you still discussing this your proposed courtesy rules are broken in nearly every thread on this forum. Really you can propose a 1000 rules on how certain stuff is getting punished, if you dont actually do something they are worth nothing at all. To be honest i also dont rly see a way how you should enforce the people here to act like you would like, i mean you can't ban 90% of the guys here :).
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Ray on February 26, 2010, 04:33 PM
Every business consist of two kinds of people: visionary and operations. This is just like that, with the tiny difference that we are only able to discuss things here, but we cannot take steps ourselves.

About how to enforce players to act the way we would like: in my opinion point penalties, ban from PO participation could work.
Title: Re: Proposed courtesy rules
Post by: Random00 on February 26, 2010, 08:45 PM
hm, well I think its basically a good idea, but there should also be room for trash talk, cause this is just fun sometimes. Of course there should be not too much spam in topics and lately there defintely were too much worthless posts in a lot of threads.
I just think of the FB times when really a huge amount of people were banned. This just shouldn't happen here. :/