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phonics
21-09-2015, 12:35 PM
House Rules - Please Read Before Posting

1. Post in the right forum

Please find the correct forum for the topic you wish to discuss. Similarly, please use the board’s search function to find relevant threads before starting your own one; this helps us to prevent duplicates and spam.

2. No abusive posts

Abusive posts shall result in punishment which will vary depending on the seriousness of the offence. For more information, please see Rule 12.2.

3. No post-boosting

This is self-explanatory. Do not post spam, superfluous threads, or unnecessary smiley posts. For further information as to the punishments post-boosting will incur, see Rule 12.2.

4. Use common sense

Internet message-boards are often places which contain irreverent, direct humour which can cause offence. However, please try to respect other people’s feelings and beliefs. This does not preclude healthy debate or the ridiculing of stupidity, particularly in The Third Half.

5. Piracy

You are permitted to discuss clients and file sharing as a phenomenon. However, discussion, linking or other publicising of files or sites that index files is forbidden. This will be met with the award of points and a possible ban, depending on the frequency and seriousness of the offence. See Rule 12.2.

6. Sexually explicit content

Breasts are allowed in the appropriate threads, which should be labeled NSFW (Not Safe For Work). Anything beyond that will be punished. See Rule 12.2.

7. Posting Images

Use w (http://www.imageshack.us/)ww.imgur.com (http://www.imgur.com) to upload your image. This helps to maintain the readability of threads, and it also enables those on slower connections to read the forums easily.

8. Signatures and Avatars

Animated signatures and avatars are prohibited. Avatars must be 120 x 120

Your signature can be one from the following three options:

1. An image with a maximum size of 400x100 pixels
2. 1 Quote which may not exceed one line of 980 pixels width and 3 lines of text below it (this also includes open spaced lines).
3. 5 text lines (including open spaced lines), excluding quotes.

Violation of the rule above will result in a removal of your signature and possibly the removal of your ability to have a signature and avatar.

9. No text talk in posts

The Dugout severely discourages users from the use of l33t or text speech on the forums. We ask users to contribute using English to the best of their ability, and for those who do not know how to paragraph to learn to do so. Exceptions shall be made to those using a Braille keyboard.

10. Aliases and ‘Loan Accounts’

Each user is allowed one account. Any user found to have more than one account on The Dugout will be deemed to have an alias. The alias account will be banned and punishment for the original account will be at the discretion of the staff.

People who are found "loaning" their accounts to other posters will be banned for one month. Persistent offenders will be permanently banned.

11. Use of proxy services

Use of proxy servers as in those of known proxy server sites and hosting companies like layeredtech, ev1servers and others is prohibited. Although we respect your privacy, those we find hiding behind a non-normal proxy server (normal being for example NTL, AOL, BT, etc) will be permanently banned from The Dugout.

12. Warnings, punishments and bans

12.1 Discretionary Bans

Discretionary bans are given out to members who are a continually disruptive and divisive influence. Members who are deemed to fall in this category are given a permanent ban on the agreement of 3 members of staff. (Point of no return ban)

12.2 Points System
Code:
Warning Type Points
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Do not use TXT speech in posts 0
Signature/Avatar Infraction 0
Post boosting 1
Nagging 1
Abusing the tagging system 1
Being an immature arse 1
Insults/useless banter 1
Ignoring Mod/Admin request 2
Posting on Behalf of a Banned User 2
Continually reporting posts 2
Abusing the embedding of videos 2
Offensive behaviour 3
Repetitive use of Text Speak 3
Creating alias account 5
Pirated software 5
Offensive PM's 5
MP3 linking 5
Promoting pirated software 5
Attempting to log in as another user 5
Racist comment 5
Heavy Offensive behaviour 8
Extreme Offensive behaviour 10
Porn (XXX) 10
Alias 10
Permanent Ban 10
2 Day Temporary Ban 10
4 Day Temporary Ban 10
7 Day Temporary Ban 10
12.3 Incremental banning system

Previously, an incremental ban system was in place, whereby each ban earned the user a further week's ban additional to the length of his previous ban.

From now on, a user's first ban (regardless of bans up until this point) will last 1 week. His second will last two weeks. If he receives a third ban within a 12-month period (excluding time spent banned), he will be banned for 1 month and will also be automatically eligible for a permanent ban, at the discretion of the staff.

If no further bans result after the second, the first two will be wiped off after twelve months.

13. Enjoy the forums

The staff here do a very good job in what are often very trying circumstances. Try to make their job easier by respecting them, and the house rules.

However, we are here to help. If you have a problem, please feel free to contact an admin or a mod. If you think the forums can be improved, please post your ideas in the suggestions thread (http://www.www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/showthread.php?25-Can-we-put-all-suggestions-fix-requests-in-here-please/), or contact @phonics (http://www.thethirdhalf.co.uk/member.php?u=1)

John Arne
21-09-2015, 12:41 PM
Just out of interest - what's the reason for the piracy rules? Is it illegal in the UK to even provide third party links?

phonics
21-09-2015, 12:44 PM
If you link to a piece of pirated material then that company could put a DMCA strike against us and the site would be down until the link is removed. 3 total and the entire site would be deleted off the servers.

John Arne
21-09-2015, 12:48 PM
Thanks.

I'm not arguing here - genuinely interested.
What if someone in Vietnam shares a stream being hosted in Thailand on a webpage in Mali - how is that even covered by DMCA?

Or is it just a case of 'it's not worth the potential hassle', which is fine, of course.

EDIT- ah, I guess it where the forums servers are hosted - that makes sense.

SvN
21-09-2015, 01:21 PM
What's the reason for no porn?

Pen
21-09-2015, 01:24 PM
You'd image the porn thing is an age thing. People would have to confirm they're over 18 to enter if there's porn about.

phonics
21-09-2015, 01:31 PM
What's the reason for no porn?

Because this place is enough of a seedy den without Magic posting dogging videos left and right. Just makes it easier to blanket it.

In the real world I just copy/pasted the TD rules.

SvN
21-09-2015, 01:42 PM
I assume the TD rules were due to advertisers.

Magic
21-09-2015, 01:44 PM
Are 'faggots' still a race on this forum as per your racism warning on the old TD? :D

Magic
21-09-2015, 01:44 PM
Because this place is enough of a seedy den without Magic posting dogging videos left and right. Just makes it easier to blanket it.

In the real world I just copy/pasted the TD rules.

Tag me bitch. Auto-tagging would be a good feature, so if I typed phonics it would give me the option rather than having to @ it first.

Toby
21-09-2015, 01:51 PM
House Rules - Please Read Before Posting

1. Post in the right forum

Please find the correct forum for the topic you wish to discuss. Similarly, please use the board’s search function to find relevant threads before starting your own one; this helps us to prevent duplicates and spam. (E.g: site advertisements go into FM/CM Scene)

Err...

http://i.imgur.com/5KTRJuR.png

leedsrevolution
21-09-2015, 02:11 PM
Err...

http://i.imgur.com/5KTRJuR.png

Some people will fuck it up.

Mike
21-09-2015, 05:10 PM
Are 'faggots' still a race on this forum as per your racism warning on the old TD? :D
I'd hope so.

Disco
21-09-2015, 06:26 PM
In the real world I just copy/pasted the TD rules.

The 'particularly in The Third Half' left in rule 4 gives you away there. :D

Lewis
21-09-2015, 07:06 PM
Do we really need all these rules? No porn, no piracy, don't be Harold... Who the fuck is going to get warned for 'abusing the tagging system' or 'being an immature arse' on a lifeboat for people desperate to make the community work? I think we would all be fine with just letting the FAGGOT staff use their discretion.

Lewis
21-09-2015, 07:07 PM
Unless I get warned for that, in which case I'm going to precedent the fuck out of you all and start releasing the screenshots I have of that Supermods and Admins only 'Super Office' you used to make the big decisions in.

Pepe
21-09-2015, 07:38 PM
I want to see.

Lewis
21-09-2015, 07:43 PM
They're on my old hard drive. I'll look later. I could have won World War Faggot with those, but Harold and Zimidy ballsed it up.

Magic
21-09-2015, 07:56 PM
Can we have a Room 101 but changed to something more topical and current. Like Islamic State or Libya.

Yevrah
21-09-2015, 08:41 PM
They're on my old hard drive. I'll look later. I could have won World War Faggot with those, but Harold and Zimidy ballsed it up.

Were you "Harvey Danger" then?

Lewis
21-09-2015, 08:42 PM
They were as well. You forget how fun CAUSING TROUBLE was. They bring that Demosthenes quote to mind.

http://i57.tinypic.com/11v4acx.png

The greatest deception since Operation Mincemeat. :cool:

Magic
21-09-2015, 08:44 PM
:D

Also 3 points for f$$$$t. :(

Lewis
21-09-2015, 08:53 PM
Were you "Harvey Danger" then?

Nah.

My plan was to force a split between those of you who didn't want to enforce ANTI-HOMOPHOBIA (you and Floyd) and those that did until you were either sacked or Ital made good on his threat to quit if nothing was done, at which point IJ would have made it all ten times worse by locking the board down in a state of PANIC and CRISIS (I was going to say Wedge was providing the information, because you know how paranoid he was about Wedge).

Pretty great scheme right? Unfortunately the idiots (Harold, Magic, Zimidy) turned my thread into a complete shitfest and forced you into the pro-zink camp, and it all collapsed around me like the Third Reich.

Pepe
21-09-2015, 08:56 PM
Zimidy had a proper 'mare on that one. Don't remember Harold and Magic, but they're always having 'mares so I am not surprised.

Magic
21-09-2015, 08:57 PM
It wasn't our fault you surrounded yourself with partisan members. Also if you hadn't bottled it we'd be riding a sea of homophobic abuse right now.

Yevrah
21-09-2015, 08:59 PM
In threads from the office, my favourite was always Ian's "Let's close TTH at night".

Lewis
21-09-2015, 09:04 PM
For some reason I've got the thread where you're (Super Office) deciding who replaces Ledley and Ital blackballs John (the 'Pongo-esque Scottish troll') twice in the space of about ten posts, so IJ does likewise to his suggestion of Luca ('too in with the idiot crowd' and 'Lewis in another timezone') until nobody could find a reason not to give it to Spav (you were *this* close GS mate).

What a fucking waste of our lives.

Samadini
21-09-2015, 10:34 PM
Tell us another story.

I'm loving it.

Luca
21-09-2015, 10:51 PM
Too in with the idiot crowd. :D

IJ was clearly jealous of us being BIG MATES.

Spoonsky
21-09-2015, 10:57 PM
For some reason I've got the thread where you're (Super Office) deciding who replaces Ledley and Ital blackballs John (the 'Pongo-esque Scottish troll') twice in the space of about ten posts, so IJ does likewise to his suggestion of Luca ('too in with the idiot crowd' and 'Lewis in another timezone') until nobody could find a reason not to give it to Spav (you were *this* close GS mate).

What a fucking waste of our lives.

ffs. :D

Good to see that smiley is fixed.

Lewis
21-09-2015, 11:18 PM
'Club Lewis' did have them on the run for a while. That's why it was so fun. You only had to make about three posts goading the right people and the secret forums would be on fire accusing me (and the people I controlled) of ruining the board and seething about the fact I was sitting on nine points for weeks without giving them any opportunity to ban me. :cool:

AE
21-09-2015, 11:55 PM
When it rains it fucking pours :drool:

SincereTheRebel
02-08-2016, 10:57 AM
I want to put a request in for different variation of colored smileys. I would give you a dark thumbs down, but its not available.

Magic
02-08-2016, 11:01 AM
https://forum.encyclopediadramatica.se/attachments/gtfonigga-gif.55222/

niko_cee
02-08-2016, 11:06 AM
That's class.

:sincere:

SincereTheRebel
02-08-2016, 11:10 AM
https://forum.encyclopediadramatica.se/attachments/gtfonigga-gif.55222/

:D

surch0306
24-03-2023, 02:18 AM
:joy: