Forum Rules and Guidelines

Forum Rules and Guidelines
shadow Administrator Posts: 20 12/31/2015	shadow Administrator Posts: 20 CPG Message Board Rules and Notes Update March 30, 2008 CPG Message Board General Rules CPG Message Board Private Message Rules Reporting a Violation Disciplinary Actions (the warning system) Moderator Rules The CPG Message Boards are here for the enjoyment of the online comic book community. The CPG Message Boards are a free service, and by using this service you agree to abide by the rules and policies noted below. The CPG Message Board's goal is to offer a friendly, family-safe atmosphere, relatively free of the flame wars that bring so many message boards to a standstill. Because of this goal, you may notice that the CPG Message Board rules and policies are strongly enforced. Please respect the forums and the members when posting on the boards. Most of all, just have fun! -------------------------------------------------- CPG MESSAGE BOARDS GENERAL RULES 1. This is a family safe forum intended to build community conversation, so we don't allow obscene, racist or sexually explicit language. Personal attacks are not permitted. We reserve the right to remove posts that are abusive, hateful, or defame or insult anyone in any way. We also reserve the right to remove posts that are off-topic or posts that try to repeatedly move the conversation away from the current topic. 2. It's a comic book forum, not a bar. Do not threaten, intimidate or attempt to make another poster uncomfortable with hints towards personal action of any kind (including but not limited to: physical harm, meeting in the 'real world', other inappropriate contact). Your account will be deleted. 3. No solicitations or advertisements are allowed. This includes advertisements for your business, your own online endeavors or online auctions (other than CPG Auctions/Sales). 4. You may link to other informational web sites when relevant to the discussion, but links to commercial sites are generally not allowed. (The exception is for posting links to images or specific information. Also moderators are permitted a subdued link to a website that is related to their own business. Since moderators serve here in a volunteer capacity, they are allowed this perk as compensation for their time. 5. Choose a username carefully. You may not use names that are offensive, that suggest illegal activities or that are meant to imitate other users. Any such names will be blocked from posting on our message boards. Do not activate multiple accounts; one username per member. 6. You must respect the privacy of individuals. This means no posting of phone numbers, addresses, social security numbers or any other private information. We discourage users from posting such information even about themselves, as we cannot control how that information may be used beyond our message boards. 7. Don't broadcast your post. Do not post the same (or even cleverly re-worded) topic of conversation in more than one thread. 8. One thread per topic. Don't post more than one thread about what could generally be considered the same topic. Example: if COMICBOY has a thread going about graded comics, don't create a new thread to talk about graded comics. If the topic is clearly about something else, fine, but this rule will be not be dissected so try and keep same-type topics on one thread. 9. Signatures. Please keep signatures in the body of your posting to no more than three or four short lines to ensure that the thread's content remains eminently readable. Signature content falls under the same rules and policies mentioned here. 10. This is a comic book and related forum, there are thousands of forums on the web that support conversation for a wide variety of topics (politics, religion, etc.), this is a forum for the discussion of comic books, comic related material, and material that could be of interest to the general community. 11. Don't help the bad guys. If you encourage, support or otherwise aid someone else in violating the rules of the board, you may be 'grouped into' the action taken. If somebody's starting a flame-war, the best thing you can do is stand aside and let them be dealt with. 12. Remember the house. The CPG Message Board is a free service for the comic collector's community, please respect the house by not posting messages that are disparaging to the CPG, it's staff or moderators. If you have a complaint about a moderator or administrator, please private message mballard or bneely. 13. You participate at your own risk on the bulletin boards, and in private messages. You take responsibility for postings under your username and use the information provided here at your own risk. ComicsPriceGuide.com takes no responsibility for the content or opinions posted here. 14. We reserve the right to remove any post or user from our message boards - although we have no duty to do so. When posts are deleted, it's usually because they violate one or more of our house rules. Repeated violation of these rules may result in the suspension of your posting privileges. The moderators help maintain a fun and free flowing board (see Moderator Rules below). The moderators act under supervision of the CPG Message Board Administrator Mike Ballard (mballard), who operates directly under Bryan Neely (bneely). -------------------------------------------------- CPG MESSAGE BOARD PRIVATE MESSAGE RULES The private message function is provided for the convenience and enjoyment of the CPG Message Board members. ALL OF THE ABOVE RULES AND POLICIES ARE TRUE FOR PRIVATE MESSAGE CONVERSATIONS. However, the private message feature is intended for private discussion between members, so the rules are dependent upon the attitude of the conversation and it?s participants: 1. You may use the private message feature to discuss topics not related to the message board community. 2. You may use the private message feature to continue a conversation that has drifted away from a forum topic. 3. Discussing your own commercial site, advertising your product or online auction or discussing other advertisement/selling activities is allowed, as long as the other user has openly expressed interest in the discussion or topic. Unsolicited advertisements will be considered spam and may disrupt your CPG Message Board membership. -------------------------------------------------- REPORTING A VIOLATION If you notice a violation of the above rules on the board, please private message a moderator or Shadow with a link to the violation (or the category and topic name). If someone has violated the rules in a private message, please private message a moderator or Shadow with a copy of the violation. -------------------------------------------------- DISCIPLINARY ACTION Although on violations are different, please be advised of the following theory of warning and action: 1. A moderator will inspect the thread or private message where the violation occurred. 2. If the violation is considered offensive (name calling, foul language/image, etc.), the moderator will immediately edit the post and send the violating member a copy of the violating post with a statement regarding the policy that was violated. The violation and action taken will be forwarded to Mike. 3. Violations not immediately edited by moderators will be discussed by the moderator group and the appropriate action will be approved and taken. The violating member will be contacted as per the process in #2 above. 4. While not all violations are immediately excusable and not all violators will enjoy the same warning system process (depending on the violation), please remember the following items: a. The standard process of warning will be based on the three strike rule: first warning (private message or email), second warning (private message or email), third warning (locking of membership pending discussion) b. Not all violations are equal, and some can get you booted right away. Depending on the severity of the violation, the above three warning system may not be appropriate. c. Violators will not be reprimanded on the boards. You may not see evidence of warnings and actions taken and we do not discuss the particulars of the situation with other members (even reporting members). Please be assured the all posters are handled equally and fairly, but the action taken may not always be noticeable by all members. -------------------------------------------------- MODERATOR RULES The moderators are the people who make sure that users are following the CPG Message Board rules. They are here to help members by answering questions about CPG and to protect members and the forum itself, fro. Their job is not an easy one, so I have to thank them all for offering to help me run this site. The rules below are established in order to make their life and member's life easier. 1. The moderator's role is to enforce the CPG Message Board rules among the forum members. This is an administrative task, not a law enforcement task and should be treated as such both by the moderators and the members. 2. The moderator acts as a role model for the rest of the members. The moderator's behavior has to set an example to how other members should behave in the forum. 3. The moderators actions should not change depending on his/her relationship with the member: all members should be treated the same by every moderator. A moderator should not allow his personal feelings to influence his judgment about the content of this forum or the behavior of the members. These are defined by the forum rules and the moderator's personal feelings have nothing to do with them. 4. Moderators are allowed to: a) delete a post if it contains foul language, threats or insulting language towards another members or if the post contains a clear attempt at spam, b) edit a post if contains any of the items in the previous statement, and c) move a conversation to the appropriate thread. If you are subject to an edited or deleted post, you will be notified by the moderator via private message or email explaining the action. If your post is moved to an appropriate location, a relocation message will be left behind if possible. 5. When a moderator participates in a discussion, he should do it in accordance with rules (2) and (3) above. In no case, should a moderator use his moderation role as a weighting factor in such a discussion. When participating in a discussion, the moderator is treated just as any other member and is subjected to the same rules that apply for the members (and even more closely). 6. If you have a specific complaint about a moderator, please consider the moderator as a fellow forum member and contact him/her directly about the problem. Direct contact can go a long way in mending fences and getting each other?s point across, and may possibly provide a better result than the standard forms of complaint. If this form of troubleshooting is either not appropriate or does not achieve the desired results, contact mballard (CPG Message Board Administrator) by private message or email
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shadow

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CPG Message Board Rules and Notes
Update March 30, 2008

CPG Message Board General Rules
CPG Message Board Private Message Rules
Reporting a Violation
Disciplinary Actions (the warning system)
Moderator Rules

The CPG Message Boards are here for the enjoyment of the online comic book community. The CPG Message Boards are a free service, and by using this service you agree to abide by the rules and policies noted below. The CPG Message Board's goal is to offer a friendly, family-safe atmosphere, relatively free of the flame wars that bring so many message boards to a standstill. Because of this goal, you may notice that the CPG Message Board rules and policies are strongly enforced. Please respect the forums and the members when posting on the boards. Most of all, just have fun!
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CPG MESSAGE BOARDS GENERAL RULES
1. This is a family safe forum intended to build community conversation, so we don't allow obscene, racist or sexually explicit language. Personal attacks are not permitted. We reserve the right to remove posts that are abusive, hateful, or defame or insult anyone in any way. We also reserve the right to remove posts that are off-topic or posts that try to repeatedly move the conversation away from the current topic.
2. It's a comic book forum, not a bar. Do not threaten, intimidate or attempt to make another poster uncomfortable with hints towards personal action of any kind (including but not limited to: physical harm, meeting in the 'real world', other inappropriate contact). Your account will be deleted.
3. No solicitations or advertisements are allowed. This includes advertisements for your business, your own online endeavors or online auctions (other than CPG Auctions/Sales).
4. You may link to other informational web sites when relevant to the discussion, but links to commercial sites are generally not allowed. (The exception is for posting links to images or specific information. Also moderators are permitted a subdued link to a website that is related to their own business. Since moderators serve here in a volunteer capacity, they are allowed this perk as compensation for their time.
5. Choose a username carefully. You may not use names that are offensive, that suggest illegal activities or that are meant to imitate other users. Any such names will be blocked from posting on our message boards. Do not activate multiple accounts; one username per member.
6. You must respect the privacy of individuals. This means no posting of phone numbers, addresses, social security numbers or any other private information. We discourage users from posting such information even about themselves, as we cannot control how that information may be used beyond our message boards.
7. Don't broadcast your post. Do not post the same (or even cleverly re-worded) topic of conversation in more than one thread.
8. One thread per topic. Don't post more than one thread about what could generally be considered the same topic. Example: if COMICBOY has a thread going about graded comics, don't create a new thread to talk about graded comics. If the topic is clearly about something else, fine, but this rule will be not be dissected so try and keep same-type topics on one thread.
9. Signatures. Please keep signatures in the body of your posting to no more than three or four short lines to ensure that the thread's content remains eminently readable. Signature content falls under the same rules and policies mentioned here.
10. This is a comic book and related forum, there are thousands of forums on the web that support conversation for a wide variety of topics (politics, religion, etc.), this is a forum for the discussion of comic books, comic related material, and material that could be of interest to the general community.
11. Don't help the bad guys. If you encourage, support or otherwise aid someone else in violating the rules of the board, you may be 'grouped into' the action taken. If somebody's starting a flame-war, the best thing you can do is stand aside and let them be dealt with.
12. Remember the house. The CPG Message Board is a free service for the comic collector's community, please respect the house by not posting messages that are disparaging to the CPG, it's staff or moderators. If you have a complaint about a moderator or administrator, please private message mballard or bneely.
13. You participate at your own risk on the bulletin boards, and in private messages. You take responsibility for postings under your username and use the information provided here at your own risk. ComicsPriceGuide.com takes no responsibility for the content or opinions posted here.
14. We reserve the right to remove any post or user from our message boards - although we have no duty to do so. When posts are deleted, it's usually because they violate one or more of our house rules. Repeated violation of these rules may result in the suspension of your posting privileges.
The moderators help maintain a fun and free flowing board (see Moderator Rules below). The moderators act under supervision of the CPG Message Board Administrator Mike Ballard (mballard), who operates directly under Bryan Neely (bneely).
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CPG MESSAGE BOARD PRIVATE MESSAGE RULES
The private message function is provided for the convenience and enjoyment of the CPG Message Board members. ALL OF THE ABOVE RULES AND POLICIES ARE TRUE FOR PRIVATE MESSAGE CONVERSATIONS. However, the private message feature is intended for private discussion between members, so the rules are dependent upon the attitude of the conversation and it?s participants:
1. You may use the private message feature to discuss topics not related to the message board community.
2. You may use the private message feature to continue a conversation that has drifted away from a forum topic.
3. Discussing your own commercial site, advertising your product or online auction or discussing other advertisement/selling activities is allowed, as long as the other user has openly expressed interest in the discussion or topic. Unsolicited advertisements will be considered spam and may disrupt your CPG Message Board membership.
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REPORTING A VIOLATION
If you notice a violation of the above rules on the board, please private message a moderator or Shadow with a link to the violation (or the category and topic name).
If someone has violated the rules in a private message, please private message a moderator or Shadow with a copy of the violation.
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DISCIPLINARY ACTION
Although on violations are different, please be advised of the following theory of warning and action:
1. A moderator will inspect the thread or private message where the violation occurred.
2. If the violation is considered offensive (name calling, foul language/image, etc.), the moderator will immediately edit the post and send the violating member a copy of the violating post with a statement regarding the policy that was violated. The violation and action taken will be forwarded to Mike.
3. Violations not immediately edited by moderators will be discussed by the moderator group and the appropriate action will be approved and taken. The violating member will be contacted as per the process in #2 above.
4. While not all violations are immediately excusable and not all violators will enjoy the same warning system process (depending on the violation), please remember the following items:
a. The standard process of warning will be based on the three strike rule: first warning (private message or email), second warning (private message or email), third warning (locking of membership pending discussion)
b. Not all violations are equal, and some can get you booted right away. Depending on the severity of the violation, the above three warning system may not be appropriate.
c. Violators will not be reprimanded on the boards. You may not see evidence of warnings and actions taken and we do not discuss the particulars of the situation with other members (even reporting members). Please be assured the all posters are handled equally and fairly, but the action taken may not always be noticeable by all members.
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MODERATOR RULES
The moderators are the people who make sure that users are following the CPG Message Board rules. They are here to help members by answering questions about CPG and to protect members and the forum itself, fro. Their job is not an easy one, so I have to thank them all for offering to help me run this site. The rules below are established in order to make their life and member's life easier.
1. The moderator's role is to enforce the CPG Message Board rules among the forum members. This is an administrative task, not a law enforcement task and should be treated as such both by the moderators and the members.
2. The moderator acts as a role model for the rest of the members. The moderator's behavior has to set an example to how other members should behave in the forum.
3. The moderators actions should not change depending on his/her relationship with the member: all members should be treated the same by every moderator. A moderator should not allow his personal feelings to influence his judgment about the content of this forum or the behavior of the members. These are defined by the forum rules and the moderator's personal feelings have nothing to do with them.
4. Moderators are allowed to: a) delete a post if it contains foul language, threats or insulting language towards another members or if the post contains a clear attempt at spam, b) edit a post if contains any of the items in the previous statement, and c) move a conversation to the appropriate thread. If you are subject to an edited or deleted post, you will be notified by the moderator via private message or email explaining the action. If your post is moved to an appropriate location, a relocation message will be left behind if possible.
5. When a moderator participates in a discussion, he should do it in accordance with rules (2) and (3) above. In no case, should a moderator use his moderation role as a weighting factor in such a discussion. When participating in a discussion, the moderator is treated just as any other member and is subjected to the same rules that apply for the members (and even more closely).
6. If you have a specific complaint about a moderator, please consider the moderator as a fellow forum member and contact him/her directly about the problem. Direct contact can go a long way in mending fences and getting each other?s point across, and may possibly provide a better result than the standard forms of complaint. If this form of troubleshooting is either not appropriate or does not achieve the desired results, contact mballard (CPG Message Board Administrator) by private message or email

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