Post by Traveller on Feb 17, 2006 18:21:32 GMT -5
How clean? Let's keep it down to a PG rating, nothing that you would hesitate to say in front of a group of (probably stunned) high school students.
A little intensity is OK. Telling stories about your sexual exploits is not. Mentioning that people were naked is acceptable. Putting up shots of those naked people is not. Asking somebody else if she IS naked is straight out.
Try not to use profanity, or even used "softened" swear words - that business where some of the letters have been replaced by asterisks, as if that fooled anybody. If you're getting so worked up that you feel the need to swear, step back and ask yourself if this little board is the place for what you want to talk about. As I've said, this is not an official Burning Man forum; community complaints are better handled through ePlaya, where the general public can see the discussion and the accused parties have a better chance of knowing if they need to defend themselves.
Conservatism is OK. Liberalism is OK. Opposition to affirmative action is OK, if off-topic on most of the boards. Support for racism or any other kind of real (and unprovoked) hatred is not OK, and is good for getting one bounced without a warning or any second chances, and that cuts both ways. "Reverse racism" isn't any better than the earlier version.
No advocacy of violence. Did I leave anything out? Probably, people can be so inventive when they want to do each other wrong, but I think that I've made my meaning clear.
A little intensity is OK. Telling stories about your sexual exploits is not. Mentioning that people were naked is acceptable. Putting up shots of those naked people is not. Asking somebody else if she IS naked is straight out.
Try not to use profanity, or even used "softened" swear words - that business where some of the letters have been replaced by asterisks, as if that fooled anybody. If you're getting so worked up that you feel the need to swear, step back and ask yourself if this little board is the place for what you want to talk about. As I've said, this is not an official Burning Man forum; community complaints are better handled through ePlaya, where the general public can see the discussion and the accused parties have a better chance of knowing if they need to defend themselves.
Conservatism is OK. Liberalism is OK. Opposition to affirmative action is OK, if off-topic on most of the boards. Support for racism or any other kind of real (and unprovoked) hatred is not OK, and is good for getting one bounced without a warning or any second chances, and that cuts both ways. "Reverse racism" isn't any better than the earlier version.
No advocacy of violence. Did I leave anything out? Probably, people can be so inventive when they want to do each other wrong, but I think that I've made my meaning clear.
