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bd popeye
08-29-2005, 12:13 PM
Ten Things to Remember Before Posting
by Dongfeng, Sumdud, gollevainen & bd popeye.

1, This is a military forum. All non-military related topics belong to the Off-Topic forum.

2, Discussions should be concentrated on Chinese military issues. Issues regarding other countries can be discussed in the World Armed Forces Forum.

3, When posting a new topic, please check if the same discussion already exist

4, Please also avoid one sentence post when starting a new topic

5, The following posts will be deleted or edited;


Posts containing personal attack, swearing, political propaganda, and commercial advertisement
Posts that are offensive to any ethnic or religious groups or government. This isent political forum
Posts that prompt hatred between different countries or groups of people
Meaningless arguments and inappropriate provocation of other members
Any other posts that the moderators/administrator regard as inappropriate
Any post containing solely article of some others, without comments of the poster, this includes links also. You are responsible of the content of your links so do not post trash
Any post that violates universally authors moral right to his own text. So do not even think about plagiating. Always provide a source if quoting someone else
Political issues of any sort will not be discussed.


6, This is a place for professional discussion. Please do NOT get personal. Do not try to tempt your fellow member to behave nastly. We see quite well trough your attempts. Also its not allowed to post deliberatly false material or generally inpropriate comments. This isn't social chatt-room so members with only that in mind would be banned.

7, Please obey the instructions by moderators. If there is anything that you disagree, please contact the administrator Dongfeng

8, If a member is clearly just causing trouble, let moderators deal with him/her. Ignore all provocative posting, because it would only worsen the situation. For those who repeatedly violate the rules here, he/she will be banned. The banning of a member is carried out by Dongfeng, Sumdud, Webmaster, Gollevainen & bd popeye. So please contact them directly regarding this. Members getting banned usually follows the path of warnings If member is to recieve a warning, it will appear in the public warning list. After two warnings, member is to be banned for one week and permanetly if he still manages to aquire a third warning. Also super moderators and administrators have ability to ban members for undisclosed periods according to invidual cases.

9, Use only understandable English with out too much of slang that prevents someone with lesser language skills to understand. All rules of moderation apply to a foriegn languages as well. Also as we are international community, DON'T make points about someone's lack of English skills. This is a rule that requires patience from all of us.

10, Don’t forget the gollevainen's quiz of the week in the off topic forum.

Amemendements

A) If a moderator edits your post. So be it. Do not edit a moderators post!

If you do decide to edit a moderators edit of your post you will recieve a warning!

B) Multipile accounts are not permitted. Do not open a new account if you have been banned! If you have been banned for any period of time. Stay gone. You may still log in and read the forum.

C) Follow the instructions of the forum moderators. Wether you are corrected in the thread you are posting or by PM. Follow the instructions of the moderators.

D) Do not make another(multipile) post without someone responding to your previous post. If no one has not responded to a post you have made and you want to make another post simply edit your last post to include your lastest thought. That's what the edit button is for.

E) For clarfication ... Multipile posting is allowed in news threads and picture threads.

F) All members are NOT permitted to start a thread in which you are soliciting other members for MONEY. No matter what the charity or organization. Or threads selling any sort of items.I.E. Cell phones, Tvs, computers etc. These sort of postings are considered SPAM and will not be permitted in this forum.

ANY member who violates this policy will be banned instanly.

G) Accounts established for the sole purpose of spamming, flamming, trolling and delibertly disrupting this forum will henceforth be banned immediately.
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H) RED print is for the exclusive use of moderators. If you want to make a point use some other color or bold print.

I) Topics to compare Indian defence against Chinese defence are not allowed in this Forum!!!!




WebMaster
08-29-2005, 03:09 PM
Please CONSIDER THIS REQUEST!

-AVOID posting ONE LINER replies/posts. In fact, don't post one liners at all! It does not contribute to the maturity of the forum.

-KEEP discussions as Chinese Defence Specific as possible after all this is a Chinese Defence Forum.

Do not complain when your posts start disappearing because the rules will be enforced.

Gollevainen
12-10-2006, 09:14 AM
Due recent unclearness A another thing needs to clarifying...

Do not use slang or any other intentional misspelling of normal English grammar.
(This from directly DF rules: )[Its hrd 2 reed whn peple tipe poorly, its also trashy! This will make posts much nicer, neat and easy to read for fellow participants. This isn't done on most forums, its time you get use to it here.

We have members from all parts of the world and some of us (like the author) will make unintentional misspelling and some of us have even difficoulties to understand clearly written English so lets not make it harder by those who speaks English as native language intentionally writing it wrong.

Also it would avoid giving this forum an image of play ground for kids BS that unfortuanetly plagues many other forums in internet.

Gollevainen
02-04-2007, 01:27 PM
Also, I like to refress your memory a bit. A while ago, when this forum was in the edge of turing into turmiol and chaos (something we had have too large doze in the Ezboard days), We banned temperally some certain trouple topics that have proven to be too trouplesome.

Things have changed, and the annouchement of this buried in the mist of the archives, and lot of new members have came since. So I like to repeat once again and really clearly:

Topics to compare Indian defence against Chinese defence are not allowed in this Forum!!!!


Now, to a newcomer this migth seem that we are pro-india forum or trying to block opinions bashing Indian military complex, But I can assure this isent the case. We have no political agenda, nor any sides in any matters.

We do keep continue our crusade against BS, childish ranting, country bashing and flame figths that hampers other military forums in the internet.

Banning of this topic is simply due the fact that I have seen ten or so of those in my career as a moderator in SDF, and I have needed to close every single one of them, and all the mentioned disiases are practically infested in this topic. So in order to keep the forum clean and professional, We simply have decided not to allow it. In the end, We are CHINESE military forum of CHINESE military issues, we dont need india as a meassure of our own affection, intrest and pride towards chinese military that have taken us to come together as a community.

Indian military topics are allowed in the world armed forces forum, but the rule against penis contest apply there too.

Again I addres, This has nothing to do with bias or me beeing pro-Indian, Im just fed up with the childish BS that has marryed itself with the topic.

Gollevainen, Super Moderator

bd popeye
04-09-2007, 04:09 PM
The majority of this forums members happily abide by the forum rules.

However, it has come to our attention recently that some of the members of this forums have posted personal insults, country bashing remarks, racist remarks, immflamatory remarks(Flamming & trolling) & their own personal political adgenda.

This type of behavior while posting will not be tolerated in this forum. We want to maintain a level of dignity and respect in our forum so as not to insult or offend anyone reading sino defense forum.

This is a Chinese military forum. Our primary discusions are Chinese military matters. We have sub-sections for the Worlds other militaries. We offer a members Club room so just about any other topic may be discussed. Feel free to post in a respectful manner.

bd popeye super moderator

Gollevainen
04-10-2007, 12:56 AM
Also as a somewhat veteran of those "you moderated me becouse you dont like me" debates I can assure that SDFs moderation team never conducted such bias and we have really working method of making sure that moderation isn't used as personal vendetta against some members. When ever some moderator finds out that he doesn't like someone, he makes sure that to other mods and passes the possiple need of moderation of that member to another mod.

Our Moderation team is wide and I think it reflects all possiple political opinions ranging from honest and patriotic Americans through European left-wingers to patriotic Chinese memebers. If you have problems with moderation and complaint about moderation, PM directly it directly to Webmaster or the moderator in question or another moderator.

But as a general rule, If you feel the moderation against you has been personal insult, the problem might be in your ego, not in our methods.

Gollevainen , Moderator in charge

bd popeye
08-19-2007, 07:33 PM
Recently it has come to our attention that members are starting threads simply to ask a NOOB question.I have moved several thread starting questions recently.

Please do not do this. We have a FAQ thread for such questions..

Post your questions here;

http://www.sinodefenceforum.com/showthread.php?t=2053

Before you post there use our "search" feature to see if the answer to your question has already been discussed in our forum. Or research your question about the PLA here;

http://www.sinodefence.com/

Thank you.

bd popeye super moderator