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DiO'Bolic

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Might I suggest the Debate Rules and Suggestions for Hot Topics. When you click on them an 'Error 404 - Not Found' comes up:

Here goes:

RULES FOR POSTING IN HOT TOPICS (after the basics)

Comment on the post not the poster.

Responding to someone's point with personal attacks, regardless of how "witty" you think they are, is not big or clever. It just comes across, at best, as being an ass and at worst a bully with a small doodah (we mean “mind” of course).

It’s much better to stay on the topic of their post, not on the person who posted it. People will respect you for that, take your opinion more seriously and you put the ball back in their court to answer your points.

Abuse is tantamount to saying "you have beaten me with your argument; I can only resort to name calling".

If someone abuses you, don’t respond in kind. Report the post and a moderator will swing by to review it. Abusing them back simply drops you to their level and will not be pretty.


Respect/manners go a long way.

Being respectful, mannerly and even occasionally acknowledging that someone has made you consider something in a different light, is going to win friends and influence people a lot more than being yet another rude "anonymous" internet keyboard warrior. No one wants to be around that guy.

(* except note that Dio'Bolic is always right)

No freedom of speech.

This is a private website owned by Stephen King. There is no "right" to freedom of speech here. The moderators and administrators DO want to promote discussion but will not allow screaming matches between children. We believe that rules of etiquette should be applied. Shouting about how we have infringed your "freedom of speech" on a privately owned website is silly. You can start a blog to say what YOU like, what you aren’t entitled to is access to the community we have built here without abiding by the community's rules, as decided and enforced by us.

Enjoy yourself and enjoy the site.

Don’t take everything too seriously, so someone on the internet disagrees with you. Ok, *shrug*. You don’t have to argue with them until everyone agrees that you are superior to them you know .

These are broad brushstrokes of what we here at SKMB want for the part of the internet we call home.

If these aren’t to your liking there are other websites perhaps better suited to your needs and tastes but we believe these form a reasonable, rational, mature basis for adults to chat, discuss, laugh, debate, joke, banter, interact, and sing praises to Stephen King.

The boards.ie rules of etiquette are as follows:

Be Civil (Don't be a dick!)
Don't post porn
Don't advertise anything for sale
Don't abuse people personally
Don't backseat moderate
Not reading the rules is against the rules
Discretion of the moderators are absolute
Don't post stuff that is not safe for work [NSFW]
Don't publish private messages
Don’t post memes, cartoons or pictures that disparage people
Good grammar is important... Remember the Grammar Nazi is watching you

And oh, yeah... KA IS A WHEEL!
 

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