Rules to SHW: Read or Risk getting BANNED - StupidHomework.com

www.last.fm/user/shmads/ · 02:22 PM

The Rules of SHW

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

*There are 5 general ways you can be banned. Advertising, Flaming, Racism, Spamming, and Stupidity.They will all be described below.

-Advertising

Pretty self explanatory. You can not post links to any site that will benefit you. This includes making threads about the site, slipping them into posts, and links in your sig. This, however, excludes posting links that are related to the topic, and that are actually helpful to a member. If you have a useful resource for a paper someone is doing, then you can post it without risking a ban.

-Flaming

Flaming is directly insulting a person, and doing it harshly. This will NOT be tolerated at SHW. If somebody posts a question, and you simply put them down for no reason, or make fun of them: Banned for 3 days. Profuse swearing within a flame is another way to get banned for longer. The angrier you are and the heavier your flame is, the longer the ban time will be. You can, however, express your opinion through the ways of constructive criticism. This means telling the person the pro's and con's of their essay, in a nice and orderly fashion. Pretty much: If someone is out of line, correct them in a polite, reasonable way. The second you flame them: You are in trouble.

-Racism

Once again, pretty self explanatory. If you directly insult another persons race, religion, beliefs, or way of living, you will be banned for 3+ days, depending how bad it is. A simply "n" word or anything of the sort will get you 3 days. Anything more and the time will increase. Racism is not tolerated here at SHW. Try to be especially careful about this in the Debate section.

-Spamming

SPAM stands for "Stupid, Pointless, Annoying Messages." It basically means posting too often, or just posts that have nothing to do with the topic. Posting gibberish like 'fklghfdgns' in multiple threads will get you a 5+ day ban. Creating nonsense threads with gibberish above will get you at least a week. We can also ban you for posting too often. There's a difference between being active and spamming. Spamming is getting 50 posts a day. Being active is 8 helpful posts. Also, do not try to get your post count up by spamming to create a new thread. If you want to get your post count up, make posts that actually relate to the topic. Repeating "wow that's cool" and "good job" 50 times to be able to create a new thread will get all of your posts deleted, and will get you banned, and then you won't be able to create that new thread, and you've just wasted your time. When in the "Forum Games" section, take a look at the "Guidelines" posted there.

-Stupidity

It's just that. Stupidity. You know what is stupid and moronic, and if you are a complete moron, we will ban you. Misleading a member purposefully when they ask a question, posting anything "NSFW", posting fake sources, being unhelpful and "in the way" when someone makes a thread: all bans. Just use your common sense. Would your mom be annoyed if you posted this? (Well, maybe your mom is a bit extreme, but you get the picture).

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Other Things You Should Know About Bans...

-Do not dispute your bans. Unless you are 100% sure that somebody banned the wrong person, or that you followed all rules accurately, do not disupute your bans. If you're going to disupute one, do it in a nice, orderly fashion. If you come at us swearing and with an attitude, it will probably only increase your ban time.

-Do not create a second account when you are banned. If you create a second account and post maturely like a normal member, your second account will only be permabanned. If you then go on to create a 3rd account, all your accounts will be permabanned, and you might be IP banned (Meaning all accounts are banned forever and you cannot create any new ones). If you create a second account and act like an idiot, you may be IP Banned as well.

-We as moderators have the right to ban you, and we will do so if needed. Never will we just ban a random person out of the blue, so don't accuse us for that. If we banned you, there was a reason somewhere.

If you have ANY questions or concerns, feel free to contact us via Private Message or AIM. The moderators are the ones with the Gold Colored names. My screen name is "Shmads".

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Notes:

-Some of your are pretty comfortable with each other. That does NOT mean you have the right to break any of the rules. Just be careful what you say.

Thanks!
-SHW Staff