Rules Update

[Nightmare]

For the good of Zero Virus, read every word of this announcement!

Alright people. I've made this announcement to bring attention to the update of the rules page. And there's a few rules we need to talk about.

First of all, reviving old threads:
This has become an issue, especially lately. When a thread has no recent posts for over two months (or in some recent cases, two years) it is a dead thread. Now, if you have something important to say, you may revive it, but please don't revive it with a stupid comment. Now, you won't be punished for violating this rule, unless you're warned and you continue to do it alot.

Next order of business, Page Breaking:
Breaking the page is when you post a message or image that is too big for the page to contain, and causes a horizontal scroll bar to appear at the bottom of the page. Now, some people have no idea how irritating this is to others, so please, use periods and spaces, and post large images as links.

Now, onto swearing:
I'm sure you're all aware that we have a forum censoring system active on Zero Virus, and alot of the time it works. But other times, it doesn't, and othertimes, people use strong language that is not recognized by the censor. Now, I'm going to explain this as clear as I can.
Zero Virus tries to maintain a family friendly atmosphere, and there are children who visit Zero Virus
That means that we don't want a child reading one of the posts on Zero Virus, and have a parent read over their shoulder and beat them. Swearing has become a big issue on Zero Virus lately, and I'm tired of warning people. I'm not going to show any mercy to those whio violate this rule from this point on. You can say anything you can get away with throu the private messages, but on the forum, you do not use strong language. You can say small things like ass and douche, but stronger words like sh*t and f**k need to either not be said or censored, and I don't mean censored by the forum, the forum shouldn't even have to do that. You should have enough class to censor it yourself, like I do. From now on, before you post something, be sure that you know that a 12 year old won't pick up any bad habits from your post.

Never thought I'd have to talk about this, but we're onto pornographic material now:
For the first time since I've become a staff member of Zero Virus, I had to enforce the no pornographic material rule. This is a very serious rule that can get you banned on the spot. Now, like mentioned before,
Zero Virus tries to maintain a family friendly atmosphere, and there are children who visit Zero Virus
If I see ANY form of pornographic material on Zero Virus EVER again, there will be banns, permenent ones.

And last but not least, flooding:
Flooding is making lots of unnecessary threads. Make sure to check and see if there isn't a living thread of the same subject before making a thread, otherwise you're wasting space and flooding the forum.


That is all for this post. You may post any questions or comments here, and I will do my best to respond accordingly.

And remember, you all have the power to make Zero Virus a good place.

[Fusion]

Why was the revival of the post-count thread thrown away? I don't see -why- it would be locked up like that. It was an old game we used to have fun with. Is there to be no fun any more? I'm all for the Pointless thread being a landmark, but does it have to be the -only- source of pointlessness?

[darkreaver]

If you ask me, yes. If you don't ask me, still (prolly) yes

There ARE few others left...

[Fusion]

It's just the matter bothers me, since I'm interpreting it as saying "this is the new Zero Virus, you do not talk about the old Zero Virus" to the oldbies like me.

I mean, if you're gonna just say "Don't post in threads 2 weeks or older" you may just as well lock threads older than 2 weeks.

What about people who just cuss for the heck of it? I leave it up to the people to choose what they read. If they want to screw over their life, I don't care. It's their life, not mine.

Also, it's called "Table Stretching" not "Page Breaking"

Why are you just re-stating rules that were already in place[/i] only saying that you'll enforce them to hell? I don't like that one bit. ZV doesn't strive to be family-friendly. If we did that, we'd all have Barney in our avatars somewhere. THAT is where you want ZV to be. The level of Barney.

I don't think Kreillian envisioned this forum to be a strict dictatorship, I think he envisioned the forum for people to just relax and have fun in an environment where they KNOW people are friends! Seriously, do you see anybody making posts about "I was grounded 'cause Mighty said a swear word in his post" here? No. Do we see "i had sex wif my GF" every day? No. (but if we do, it's vaguely implied by Vilex >> <<) ZV isn't THAT low yet.

You won't need to enforce the rules THAT hard already! I mean, at least it's not YTMND's Forums where every single member could be banned just for existing. Do you really want to start that kind of forum? I'm thinking not.

My advice would be to just lighten up a little.

[Nightmare]

Alright Fusion, I see where you're coming from. But we're not trying to "lock up the old Zero Virus." Personally, I think the whole no reviving old threads rule is stupid, but it's been a rule since before I joined, and I'm trying to respect the rules set up by the staff of Zero Virus before me. If you want to start a petition or something ao amend the rules to your liking or something, then go ahead, but I'm just trying to do my job. As for the family friendly thing, we're just saying to keep the swearing to a minimum, because there are children on these boards. We're not trying to make you people feel like this is a dictatorship, we're all friends here, right? We're just trying to make the board "friendly" enough to a point where everyone can be happy. Some people don't like excessive swearing, so we're saying to keep the dirty language to a minimum.

Also, you can call it "Table Stretching" or "Page Breaking" or whatever you want, they're all different terms for the same thing.

Now, we're not just restating rules that are already posted, we're explaining the rules that people have had trouble with lately. And like you said, ZV isn't "Striving" to be a family friendly place, but we try to keep a neutral atmosphere, so that people can feel comfortable if they don't like excessive swearing or don't like hearing about sex.

In a nutshell, our intension was not to make you feel like this is a dictatorship. Our intention is to make sure people abide by the rules and don't alienate others becasue they perfer to shout out every swear word or sex act they can think of. We're just trying to maintain peace, not cause a riot.

Now, I hope I've addressed every issue that was brought up. If there's anything else I can help you with, please let me know. Just try to remember that I'm your friend and I'm here to hear you out and make Zero Virus a better place, not shout commands at you.

P.S: I was unaware that the Revival thread of "Just wondering" was shut down. I will put it back in it's rightful place after I make this post.