Rules of the Hawthorn Forum

[RustyHawk]

See discussion thread if you wish to comment or ask a question

Rules of the Hawthorn Forum:

Due to an spate of recent trolling on the Hawthorn Forum in recent times, the Moderators of the Hawthorn Forum thought it was best that Rules were issued to state the otherwise bleeding obvious to those fans who previously thought it ‘fun’ to troll this forum.

If you are an opposition supporter and ‘feel like a troll’, then Bay 13 is the place for you, not this forum.

Hawthorn Forum – First and foremost, this a Hawthorn Forum which is for the most part, generally where Hawthorn supporters can post. Fans of other clubs are more then welcome to get involved in debate and discussion on this Board, but keep it sensible and constructive; otherwise you can easily be banned from the forum.


Constructive Posts – As touched upon above, keep the debate on this board constructive and don’t resort to personal abuse when discussing a particular matter. If you don’t agree with the views of someone on this board, try and resolve the matter in a fair and sensible manner.


Respect – Everyone is entitled to their opinion (heck Wars have been fought over this). There will always be times when people present points that you disagree with both in principle and in fact. If you disagree with them, sort out the matter peacefully and preferably without making snide/sarcastic/belittling remarks. That said, if you make a completely stupid remark, you can’t expect to hide behind the rule afterwards when people rib into you!


Bumping old threads – It’s great to hold people accountable for the stuff that they post. However if you make it your sole objective on a forum to continuously bump old threads and generally ‘make a goose of yourself’, then you’ll be shown the door, at least on a temporary basis.


'SMS' Talk – Abbreviations here and there are more than fine. But when people start talking like ‘I wuv hwthaorn’ then it gets a little annoying. When composing threads, try to appreciate the importance of using capitals for Proper Nouns because otherwise, why do we bother speaking and reading this beautiful language?!


Rumours – This isn’t Bay 13. If you’ve got a rumour of some sort to tell the general ‘Hawk community’, add a link to the URL you read it on or mention the source that you heard it on (e.g. the radio network SEN).

In addition to this, please note that all posters must anyway adhere to the rules outlined by the ‘BigFooty 10 Commandments’ which can be found

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/faq.ph...aq_forum_rules

Finally, all the Moderators for this forum are reasonable people who are more than willing to take time to listen to what anyone has to say. If you’ve got any queries concerning the Hawthorn Board, feel free to PM any one of us and we’ll be more than happy to help out.

If anyone has any queries about these rules, or feel that another rule needs to be added, feel free to post your queries in this thread and one of the Moderators will be more than happy to answer any questions you may have.

Go Hawks!

Gary Shadforth, Binxy, RustyHawk and Philhawk
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[RustyHawk]

From Gary Shadforth re treatment of trolls.

Phil's heading containing the words 'Zero Tolerance' indicates that, from now on, the mods in this place will make application to have offending trolls banned should they ignore just one warning. That includes the likes of geelong_crazy26 who comes onto the Hawks' board with a facade of reasonable discussion and debate when actually his motive is to cause mischief. He has been given three warnings about his poor behaviour.

What exacerbates the control of trolls' bad behaviour is Hawks' posters taking their bait. Such has happened many times before I have personally come across an offending thread/post or received a reporting e-mail. Within any given hour an offending thread may have had a rush of replies and people can be just as quick querying why the thread hasn't been locked or deleted. One cannot be online 24/7. However, I believe three moderators will alleviate that somewhat.

[RustyHawk]

By Gary Shadforth 21.10.07 #23 rules discussion thread

Define Troll

"Troll ? As I see it, a word used rather loosely here on BF. I suppose we can custom define the word for BF as a visiting poster, mostly of mischievous intent, who thread starts or posts an outlandish statement such as a personal insult directed at other BF members or having some ridiculous notion about or assessment of the status quo of the Hawthorn Football Club."

[RustyHawk]

28.05.08

Hawthorn Moderator rules regarding: Thread Titles.

Your Hawthorn Board Moderators have discussed and agreed a policy regarding the titles of threads posted on any Hawthorn Board.

Essentially we have agreed that titles that show disrepect to a person or even another club will not be acceptable.

The result will either be
1) The title of the thread is Edited; or
2) Thread deleted.

Examples of non acceptable thread titles
Zac the Hack

Possible changes include Zac Dawson discussion thread.

The posts in the thread will have to conform to the Hawthorn Board rules.

(phil / Gary - you want to clean this up - Gary you had a good point in PM)

[philhawk]

Criticism of Players, Coaches and Admin at the HFC

Let it be know, that as a forum, we encourage both positive and negative feedback of the above mentioned personnel.

As long as your criticism is done in a productive manner, there are no problems whatsoever with with you've written.

For example,

Acceptable:

Player X has been really down in form over the past few weeks. He looks tired and perhaps is taking the easy options rather than doing the hard stuff. Maybe a few weeks for BH?

Not Acceptable:

Player X is the most useless, insipid player to ever pull on a Hawthorn jumper.

[philhawk]

Opposition Supporters:


Whilst we certainly do encourage opposition supporters to post on this board, at the same time it must be noted that Hawthorn supporters are given alot more leeway when it comes down to what they are allowed to post on this Board.

Whilst other Boards may be more tolerant in regards to what constitutes as 'trolling' by opposition supporters on their board, the Hawthorn Board has sa zero tolerance policy and opposition supporters who find themselves overstepping the line will quickly find themselves infracted/banned from this board.