Stay On Topic - No Trolling - Be Excellent to Each Other

[knapplc]

2013 was a contentious season in many ways. People are not tremendously pleased with the way things are going, and there's obviously plenty of things this team could fix or do better. There are obvious criticisms of the Administration, coaches & players, all the way from Harvey Perlman to the water boy.

Thing is, all of those criticisms don't belong in all threads. Some threads deservedly should be reserved for praise and celebration of this team. So we're going to try to keep those things separate, so people have plenty of opportunity to discuss the team the way they see it.



With that in mind, we're going to implement a more-strict enforcement of our Three-Strikes policy. For those of you not familiar with that policy, it goes like this - everyone read and agreed to abide by The Rules when they joined HuskerBoard.

 

Those rules include, but are not limited to, prohibitions against trolling. Specifically this line is being bent all out of shape lately: There is absolutely no reason to verbally attack another user (aka flaming), and/or posting a message for the express purpose of generating a negative response (trolling).

• As we see posts like this, members will get a warning to stop this kind of behavior. All warnings are logged and visible to all Moderators.
• Another such warning will result in a suspension based on the severity of the infraction.
• A third warning for this behavior, without exception, will result in your account's permanent ban from HuskerBoard.

The takeaway from this - keep your posts on topic, don't let someone else get under your skin, and if someone pisses you off, walk away from the thread or take it to the Woodshed.

Use the report function on offending posts.


If you want to criticize the coaches, players or team, that's fine. Just create a thread to do so. Same goes for praise of the coaches and team. Just don't derail existing threads in such a way that it will devolve into bickering.