/chat/ - Chat

Greetings everyone! Salutations. So, I was talking with Snake about it amd we've decided that it would be best if /chat/ had a home owner's association sort of approach when it comes to posting on ponychan.

We will now have a committee where users will be able to vote who is apart of the board and who is not. We feel this is the best way moving forward to ensure quality posts, and that everyone's need is key within the community!

In addition, there will be a new set of rules enforced in addition to our current set for ponychan's global policy:

Policy in the past has always been to err on the side of lenience. In so doing, however, we moved the goalposts too far, and have gone past lenience and into negligence. Effective immediately, a new enforcement policy will be in place: one that is simple and easy to understand.

Moderators will be given much more autonomy to act on the rules. The rules themselves will be vastly simplified, as you shall soon see. The first rules offense a user makes will generally be considered with a warning in thread, publicly visible. The second rules offense a user makes will generally be considered a short ban. And the third rules offense and after will invite any ban, up to and including a permaban, that a staff member feels is fit.

Please note that this is a guideline, and that a moderator will have leeway to even permaban on first offense, depending on the situation, from here on out. Moderators will be much more proactive in enforcing the rules, and though we shall still err in favor of leniency, we shall be taking more firm action towards rule breaking behavior.

The New Rules
We are proposing a new set of rules that are far simpler to read and comprehend. Instead of adding increasing complexity to the rules in an attempt to make them airtight, more responsibility shall be given to each user to act in accordance not only with the letter of the rules, but the spirit of the rules as well.

Please show civility and respect towards other users, towards their posts, and towards their threads;
Please do not post content which is of a trollishly poor quality typical of “sh*tposting”;
Please do not engage in or incite aggressive fighting, name-calling, or other dramatic behavior;
Please do not engage in or encourage spamming, raiding, or “doxing;”
Please do not post any sexually explicit content, gore, or extreme violence in any form or depiction. Risque or suggestive content is allowed in moderation;
All content that is considered illegal in the United States is expressly prohibited on Ponychan.co;
Content that is of dubious legality or ethicality may be removed at a staff member's discretion;
Rules are subject to change at any time, and may be enforced retroactively. The rules are guidelines to preserve the spirit of the site, and users are expected to behave in accordance with that spirit.