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Citadel Code of Conduct

Started by Strolen Nov 15, 2005 10 posts Locked

  1. Citadel Code of Conduct

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    Draft - Intentended to be posted by the end of the week. Once we agree on the Code ( and confirmation that all this domain crap is finally sorted out) I will send out the final mass email to all current members of the forum inviting them back to the new Citadel. It is my hope that people like Ylorea and others who ran in disgust will find a reason to give us another chance. Lets quickly iron these out, agree to them, sign your name in blood (either yours or somebody else's, doesn't matter) and get on with what we do.

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    Welcome to Strolen's Citadel! This site is here to provide you with a friendly environment where you can share and discuss your own ideas as well as comment and view what your friends have submitted. This works out best when we treat each other with the respect and courtesy that you would appreciate for yourself. Therefore, we ask that you conduct yourself in a civilized and mature manner in all your correspondence to maintain this friendly, sharing atmoshphere.

    In the spirit of this we have established a relatively straight forward Code of Conduct to help us maintain the site's integrity and ensure it remains a quality resource.

    I will always respect the opinion of my fellow Strolenite.
    -We are each unique and we cannot control each other's opinions. The best we can do is strive to understand them so that we can better accept them. There will be NO flaming or rude personal attacks against each other. We are very liberal with discussions but, if it gets personal, the comments will be instantly deleted by the moderators, no questions asked or explanation given. These are one of the few times that we will edit anything on the site. We take this VERY seriously. If somebody can't feel safe airing their opinion then all the work gone into the site is useless. We will strive to maintain a cordial and friendly environment at all times.

    That said, this does not mean you cannot disagree, we expect that. It is very easy to be be critical of something without being rude. Make the comment productive and helpful while saying what you feel needs to be said. Simply saying something sucks or is cliche or some other scathing remark will be considered 'rude' and will most likely be removed. Tell how you feel, but do it in a constructive, friendly manner.

    I will always vote the way I feel and not be swayed by popular opinion.
    -Your vote is your own and you've earned it, use it how you wish. If everybody loves a submission that you think is just OK, then vote it just OK, that is your prerogative but understand that you will have explain yourself. Just voting and saying "Eh, it is ok" without explanation is not helpful and will stir up the ire of the Strolenites. If you explain yourself then at least we can agree to disagree, probably after a flurry of polite discussion.

    I will not Plagiarize and will give credit where credit is due.
    -We expect you to use ideas and concepts on the site. We do not expect you to submit something to the site (or elsewhere) and take credit for it if you have not written it. If you use somebody else's idea from somewhere on the site (which is fine) then put a link back to it and explain where the idea came from. We love when people use our ideas, as long as we get credit for them.

    I will use proper punctuation and grammar to the best of my ability.
    -It is understood that a good deal of people posting are from different countries and English is their second (third or fourth) language. It would not hurt to let us know this in your intro or in your profile's homepage. Spellcheck is available and there are many (including myself) that would be happy to give anything a quick read and correct any blaring mistakes. This Code is more for those that insist on using l33t or refuse to capitalize anything. I am hardly an English major but there is a difference between trying to write a good submission and being lazy. Remember, there are few things that harm a post as much as improper spelling,capitalization, paragraph formatting, and bad grammar.

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    Additions/changes welcomed and encouraged. I will require a response from EVERYBODY at some point this week on this.

  2. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

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    I am hardly an english major but there is a difference between trying to write a good submission and being lazy. Remember, there are few things that harm a post as much as improper spelling,capitalization, paragraph


    I think maybe you should capitalise the word "english" in the last paragraph...just a matter of context.

    Apart from that I think it's an eminently sensible set of guidelines. You have captured all the essential "unspoken rules" without adding unnecessary extras. I'd like to think it's a code most users have always tried to abide by, so I don't think it's unreasonable to formalise it like this.

    (Ooh, just another typo: "prerogative", not perogative.)

    ephe!

  3. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

    #3
    I think that the code is good and certainly valid.



    Here's my John Hancock for what it's worth.

    Scras

  4. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

    #4
    The Code is great and necessary.

    Only so much on the topic.

  5. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

    #5
    All I am looking for is confirmation and agreement from all Admins before I implement it.

    If there is something else to add or change, then good, otherwise we will just run with it.

  6. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

    #6

    I hereby wholeheartedly endorse the previous event and/or idea.

    Steve

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    Seriously though, I agree that the idea of this code of conduct will be great. Also, let me take this opportunity to formally apologise for my constant absence:
    I work strange hours with a fairly physical job and it takes up a lot of my time. When I come home I don't often want to sort through various forums and posts and give my opinion on them all - And I know it's a bit selfish, especially when the likes of Moonhunter manages to be the most common poster in the site AND works full-time as well, but that's the way it is. Even still, in the odd occasions that I DO log on, I will try my best to put my adminning to use and clean up a bit and still post in a thread or two! :P But I also completely understand if you would like to remove my admin status. Anyways - Apologies for hijacking the thread, and by all means, get back to your signing of this code of conduct! :P

  7. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

    #7
    Time for a bump on this perhaps?

    More to come.

  8. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

    #8
    Solid concept, It gets my seal of approval!  :up:

  9. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

    #9
    Follow up thought:

    Edit: After getting a migraine trying to read some of Axle's subs that are a solid wall of text, I think it'd be helpful to mention in the spelling area of the code to use line breaks between paragraphs.

    While I'm not one to subtract vote points for poor spelling punctuation, when I can't even read the sub without needing some ibuprofen, the urge to drop it a point or more becomes rather strong.  :wink:

  10. Re: Citadel Code of Conduct

    #10
    Though shalt use line spacings appropriately

    ;)

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