Rules Post

[hertinkness]

Folks, it's about time that I posted some ground rules for this journal:

1) Be civil. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. This doesn't mean that you have to always get along, but treat people nicely. No ad hominem arguing, no straw men, and absolutely no derogatory name calling is allowed. You have the freedom to say these things in plenty of places. You do not in my journal.

2) Trolls, spammers, assorted nuts, and those who invoke Godwin's Law will have their comments screened and given one chance to mend their posts and their ways. If they refuse to do so, they will be immediately banned, and all their previous posts replaced with the text of Dr. Seuss' Magnum Opus, "Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go NOW!" Because I can.

3) I snitch. If you threaten someone, post child porn, murder or rape someone, or do anything more illegal than swap music online or collect rocks from federal land without a permit, I will report your ass.

4) No anonymous comments. This encourages trolls, and I don't know who any of you people are anyway, so what's the big deal?

5) I collect IP addresses. I know where you're posting from, so don't even try it.

6) Antiscience, bigoted, and generally asshole-ish posts that are not edited upon request will be Marvined. Religion discussions are OK, unless they break the asshole clause.

7) This is my courtroom, I am the judge, and rulings are final. I will follow these rules, and I expect all readers to do this as well.

Comments

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

Wow... obviously I missed something. Were there really offensive comments posted, and if so, have they since been deleted? Because a set of rules like this doesn't come out of nowhere.

And to be clear, I think they're good rules for any journal.

[doyenne08.livejournal.com]

wow. you sound like you had some bad experiences.

[angry-geologist.livejournal.com]

Nothing major- someone just Godwin'd my journal, and I want to come down hard on it so it doesn't happen again.

[cielamara.livejournal.com]

Sounds like someone was very badly behaved. How unfortunate.

[fledgist.livejournal.com]

Those are good rules. This is your living room after all.

[pompe.livejournal.com]

So, who did you ban? I don't want them to hang around either, if that was remotely likely to happen... ,-)

[angry-geologist.livejournal.com]

No one yet- he's got a warning, an ultimatum, and a cooling off period for invoking Godwin's Law. The banhammer is ready, though.

[isolani.livejournal.com]

I don`t allow anonymous comments in my LJ, presto. If you can`t be bothered to tell me who you are, you don`t get to talk on my board. Never regretted it.