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BigFooty AFL Fantasy Team Board rules
If you think something is missing, and needs to be added, please let us know. We've ripped bits and pieces from SJ's rules and from ones written for other areas of BigFooty.
AFL Fantasy is a game. Fundamentally, we are all here because we love the game. The beauty of the game, is that everything is speculation and opinion. Whilst many use facts to back up a point of view, at the end of the day everything is guesswork. If you post on this board enough, there will be dozens of examples of where you are both right and also very wrong.
As such, it is important to acknowledge that people have differing opinions and viewpoints and just because someone doesn’t agree with you, doesn’t necessarily mean they are wrong. In here, as it is in face to face interactions, it is important that everyone has a mutual respect for each other. Arguments are fine, disagreeing with someone is fine and articulating that in a respectable manner is fine.
Generally speaking, the golden rule of thumb is that if what you post would be appropriate in to say to a colleague in the workplace, it’s okay to say here.
AFL Fantasy, as all boards are, are governed by the BigFooty Terms, located here : Terms and rules
As an extension, or more specifically:
Rule 1. We encourage rigorous debate as long as it stays on topic and subject. If you attack the man then you risk infraction; when responding, attack the argument not the poster.
Rule 2. Avoiding the swear filter by altering a letter or two even though the word is still obvious will be deemed deliberate and will incur an infraction. If you feel the need to swear in a particular post then just type the actual swear words and let the swear filter do its thing.
Rule 3. Posting any information on or ridiculing the personal details (real name, photos, job, place of residence, marital status or family members etc) of another poster will also earn you a nice holiday from BigFooty.
Rule 4. Continually using the “Report” button just because you don’t like the post, or the poster, will take you down a slippery slope. The report button is there to report serious breaches of the rules, not because someone calls you an idiot or disagrees with you
Rule 5. Starting Threads/Posting
Over a number of years a happy medium has been struck between the board hosting an individual thread for every player, issue and question, or hosting a few megathreads where every post is lost in the traffic.
Thus the best (but not perfect) solution is to retain an annual and weekly thread structure for the board which covers the majority of posts and questions. From time to time, other issues will crop up which will warrant new threads.
Annual structure:
5b. You are allowed to include a news article in your thread or post, but rather than simply posting a link, try to quote the most relevant paragraph or two from the article so people understand what you’re highlighting.
Repect Copywrite Owners: the posting of a full, or the majority of a "Paywalled" news article is forbidden
5c. Use the search function - multiple threads on the same topic clog up the board and push other threads off the front page, so have a look before hitting "Submit Thread" that someone hasn't already thought of your bright idea before you. The search forum tool is at the top right hand of the forum.
5d. Don't create threads asking people to join your league in the main board. Each year there will be an "Unofficial Member Organised Leagues" thread located on AFL Fantasy Leagues Sub-Board - Post your requests there.
Rule 6. Moderators / Infractions
6a. The moderators of this forum are always right and there will be zero tolerance of criticism levelled at moderators.
6b. The AFL Fantasy Board does not exist is to provide a forum for anyone to air their grievances about Moderators or infractions they have received (on this board or any other). If you feel you have been hard done by the correct procedure is to take up your case with the Moderator via PM. If you’re not happy with the response, you can escalate it to an admin via the contact page: http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/sendmessage.php
6c. Posting images on SRP is a good way to strengthen your case, or to generate debate. However, there are limits to everything. As you can imagine, the moderators will automatically apply appropriate infractions against posters who display pornographic, obscene, or offensive images. Pictures of naked women, or scantily clad women, are expressly banned as our advertisers have policies against them. At the end of the day, they are what keeps BigFooty fundamentally a free service.
6d. Examples of automatic infractions are: images of Downs syndrome or other obviously intellectually handicapped persons (usually as a form of insult to a fellow poster); pictures of other big footy users; pictures of decapitated bodies/war zones, pictures of drug use or associated implements, animals fornicating, defecating, urinating etc.; images of personal vibrators, dildos, sex dolls etc....
6e. We can't list all of the things that are inappropriate, so we say be tasteful. If it's something you would be comfortable showing your grandmother - then it's probably OK.
6f. Moderators do what they do voluntarily. Even though you may not see the majority of what goes on, largely the reason we all live in peace is because we keep the ugly stuff off the board. If a moderator makes a request, or a ruling, please have enough respect to adhere to that. Otherwise, refer to Rule 6b.
Rule 7. Race / Sexual Preference
7a. Racist remarks are offensive and will not be tolerated in any way. Remember that some slang terms that were once commonplace are no longer acceptable in our more enlightened society, so choose your words carefully. Words such as "wog" or other such words amount to racial vilification and will not be tolerated.
7b. Questioning someone's sexual preferences or suggesting they perform sexual acts with or without someone else will run the gauntlet of good taste. Stay away from any and all references to gender identity or sexual preferences. Choose your comments wisely as what may not be offensive to you may be for someone else. A person's Gender Identity is also not to be attacked or questioned on this board. Please respect every person as an individual poster.
Rule 8. Application of Rules
8a. Applying these rules is an inexact science and we as moderators we will consider context, the history of a poster and the nature of the thread among other things when determining whether the undefinable line has been crossed. We may also just be in a bad mood.
8b. Long sequences of off topic bickering between posters can be boring for others to read and will be likely deleted with an infraction attached.
8c. It is impossible for us to read every post in every thread so some posts may slip through unnoticed. If you are offended by a post and believe action should be taken, report the post as this will ensure it is brought to our attention and we can act on it as necessary. If you do report a post don't then respond to it as well as it creates even more work for us and will darken our mood. Responding will most likely see both yourself, and the instigator, infracted
8d. Above all else we are all here to have fun and enjoy some good natured banter with other passionate members.
Rule 9. External Websites
All threads solely dedicated to external fantasy football sites are banned. A link to a resource list is in the next post. If you wish to have a site included on the list, please alert the moderators who will evaluate it before its addition.
Posts within other threads can still refer to information from an external site however this must be done by posting the entire article/page on BigFooty followed by a link to the original. Links to external sites in signatures are allowed.
This board is for discussion. If you would like your website to gain exposure, place a link in your signature and join in discussion with valuable and insightful information, ideas and opinions. You will become recognised and trusted and people will eventually spend their valuable time finding their way to your website. Direct advertising is not permitted. If you would like to advertise on BigFooty, direct your enquiries to the Customer Service board or PM Chief directly.
This is fair, and more than we allow on other parts of the site.
Rule 10. Need A League Filled ?
There's no need to start new threads all over the board advertising that you need to fill your league. If everyone did that, we'd be lost in a jungle. You are more than welcome to post advertisements for your various league in the appropriate thread on AFL Fantasy Leagues Sub-Board
Rule 11. Politics
Head over here to discuss politics. Any reference to, or discussion of politics, in any way, is not welcome here.
Rule 12. Trolling
An internet 'troll' is an abusive or obnoxious user who uses shock value to promote arguments and disharmony in online communities. Named after the wicked troll creatures of children's tales, an internet troll is someone who stirs up drama and abuses their online anonymity by purposely sowing hatred, bigotry, racism, mysogyny, or just simple bickering between others. Trolls like a big audience, so they frequent blog sites, news sites, discussion forums, and game chat. Trolls thrive in any environment where they are allowed to make public comments.
If someone has a different opinion to yours, and argues against that opinion, that does not mean they are "trolling". Posters often have differing opinions. Just because other posts don't think a player is as good as you do, that does not constitute "trolling".
If a moderator considers that a post you have made has been done so in order to get under another persons skin, it will most likely be removed.
Rule 14. Hindsight Heroes
AFL Fantasy, fundamentally, is like Tattslotto. Despite all the historical statistics that go in to making predictions, thoughts are just that; predictions. Many posters here will make dozens of them a week; some will no doubt end up being correct, some will end up being incorrect. If people didn’t post what they thought at the time of posting, we wouldn’t have a board at all.
Hindsight heroes are not welcome on this board, full stop.
There's nothing more frustrating than spending hours on here giving your thoughts and insights on SuperCoach players only to have some random come along and say "I told you so" when you inevitably get one wrong. This type of behaviour discourages people from posting their thoughts in the first place, and in reality is just plain childish. Not only will you alienate yourself from the community, you'll find yourself infracted.
Rule 15. The Catch-All Rule
It is impossible to document everything, and this is not a court of law where arguments over the wording of rules or decisions of moderators can be debated. At the end of the day this is a privately owned, and privately run board. Freedom of speech does not exist here and we reserve the right to allow or disallow whatever we choose. You have the option of reporting posts, or discussing interpretations/decisions in private with the moderators.
For the large part, this board is one big family. We have many regular posters who have been around a long time. We will, at all times, make decisions that seek to protect what was been established here over many many many years. Any failures to adhere to continued requests from moderators to change behaviours they identify as threatening the community that exists, whether you agree with them or not, will not be tolerated.
The moderators reserve the right to ban any users from this board who they believe continue to upset the equilibrium, despite being warned previously.
Finally, whatever we say goes. If you don’t agree with a decision we make, which are usually made in unanimous agreement, you can escalate your complaints to a Super Mod or an Admin.
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If you have any queries or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact the moderators.
Have fun and good luck!
Cheers,
Jiska, WaynesWorld19, pincrusher
If you think something is missing, and needs to be added, please let us know. We've ripped bits and pieces from SJ's rules and from ones written for other areas of BigFooty.
AFL Fantasy is a game. Fundamentally, we are all here because we love the game. The beauty of the game, is that everything is speculation and opinion. Whilst many use facts to back up a point of view, at the end of the day everything is guesswork. If you post on this board enough, there will be dozens of examples of where you are both right and also very wrong.
As such, it is important to acknowledge that people have differing opinions and viewpoints and just because someone doesn’t agree with you, doesn’t necessarily mean they are wrong. In here, as it is in face to face interactions, it is important that everyone has a mutual respect for each other. Arguments are fine, disagreeing with someone is fine and articulating that in a respectable manner is fine.
Generally speaking, the golden rule of thumb is that if what you post would be appropriate in to say to a colleague in the workplace, it’s okay to say here.
AFL Fantasy, as all boards are, are governed by the BigFooty Terms, located here : Terms and rules
As an extension, or more specifically:
Rule 1. We encourage rigorous debate as long as it stays on topic and subject. If you attack the man then you risk infraction; when responding, attack the argument not the poster.
Rule 2. Avoiding the swear filter by altering a letter or two even though the word is still obvious will be deemed deliberate and will incur an infraction. If you feel the need to swear in a particular post then just type the actual swear words and let the swear filter do its thing.
Rule 3. Posting any information on or ridiculing the personal details (real name, photos, job, place of residence, marital status or family members etc) of another poster will also earn you a nice holiday from BigFooty.
Rule 4. Continually using the “Report” button just because you don’t like the post, or the poster, will take you down a slippery slope. The report button is there to report serious breaches of the rules, not because someone calls you an idiot or disagrees with you
Rule 5. Starting Threads/Posting
Over a number of years a happy medium has been struck between the board hosting an individual thread for every player, issue and question, or hosting a few megathreads where every post is lost in the traffic.
Thus the best (but not perfect) solution is to retain an annual and weekly thread structure for the board which covers the majority of posts and questions. From time to time, other issues will crop up which will warrant new threads.
Annual structure:
- [Year] defenders
- [Year] midfielders
- [Year] rucks
- [Year] forwards
- [Year] rookies
- [Year] post your team (preseason)
- [Year] player/s X versus player/s Y
- [Year] injuries, suspensions & late changes
- [Year] nailed it
- [Year] regrets/vent thread
- [Round] trades
- [Round] discussion
- [Round] captain / vice-captain
5b. You are allowed to include a news article in your thread or post, but rather than simply posting a link, try to quote the most relevant paragraph or two from the article so people understand what you’re highlighting.
Repect Copywrite Owners: the posting of a full, or the majority of a "Paywalled" news article is forbidden
5c. Use the search function - multiple threads on the same topic clog up the board and push other threads off the front page, so have a look before hitting "Submit Thread" that someone hasn't already thought of your bright idea before you. The search forum tool is at the top right hand of the forum.
5d. Don't create threads asking people to join your league in the main board. Each year there will be an "Unofficial Member Organised Leagues" thread located on AFL Fantasy Leagues Sub-Board - Post your requests there.
Rule 6. Moderators / Infractions
6a. The moderators of this forum are always right and there will be zero tolerance of criticism levelled at moderators.
6b. The AFL Fantasy Board does not exist is to provide a forum for anyone to air their grievances about Moderators or infractions they have received (on this board or any other). If you feel you have been hard done by the correct procedure is to take up your case with the Moderator via PM. If you’re not happy with the response, you can escalate it to an admin via the contact page: http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/sendmessage.php
6c. Posting images on SRP is a good way to strengthen your case, or to generate debate. However, there are limits to everything. As you can imagine, the moderators will automatically apply appropriate infractions against posters who display pornographic, obscene, or offensive images. Pictures of naked women, or scantily clad women, are expressly banned as our advertisers have policies against them. At the end of the day, they are what keeps BigFooty fundamentally a free service.
6d. Examples of automatic infractions are: images of Downs syndrome or other obviously intellectually handicapped persons (usually as a form of insult to a fellow poster); pictures of other big footy users; pictures of decapitated bodies/war zones, pictures of drug use or associated implements, animals fornicating, defecating, urinating etc.; images of personal vibrators, dildos, sex dolls etc....
6e. We can't list all of the things that are inappropriate, so we say be tasteful. If it's something you would be comfortable showing your grandmother - then it's probably OK.
6f. Moderators do what they do voluntarily. Even though you may not see the majority of what goes on, largely the reason we all live in peace is because we keep the ugly stuff off the board. If a moderator makes a request, or a ruling, please have enough respect to adhere to that. Otherwise, refer to Rule 6b.
Rule 7. Race / Sexual Preference
7a. Racist remarks are offensive and will not be tolerated in any way. Remember that some slang terms that were once commonplace are no longer acceptable in our more enlightened society, so choose your words carefully. Words such as "wog" or other such words amount to racial vilification and will not be tolerated.
7b. Questioning someone's sexual preferences or suggesting they perform sexual acts with or without someone else will run the gauntlet of good taste. Stay away from any and all references to gender identity or sexual preferences. Choose your comments wisely as what may not be offensive to you may be for someone else. A person's Gender Identity is also not to be attacked or questioned on this board. Please respect every person as an individual poster.
Rule 8. Application of Rules
8a. Applying these rules is an inexact science and we as moderators we will consider context, the history of a poster and the nature of the thread among other things when determining whether the undefinable line has been crossed. We may also just be in a bad mood.
8b. Long sequences of off topic bickering between posters can be boring for others to read and will be likely deleted with an infraction attached.
8c. It is impossible for us to read every post in every thread so some posts may slip through unnoticed. If you are offended by a post and believe action should be taken, report the post as this will ensure it is brought to our attention and we can act on it as necessary. If you do report a post don't then respond to it as well as it creates even more work for us and will darken our mood. Responding will most likely see both yourself, and the instigator, infracted
8d. Above all else we are all here to have fun and enjoy some good natured banter with other passionate members.
Rule 9. External Websites
All threads solely dedicated to external fantasy football sites are banned. A link to a resource list is in the next post. If you wish to have a site included on the list, please alert the moderators who will evaluate it before its addition.
Posts within other threads can still refer to information from an external site however this must be done by posting the entire article/page on BigFooty followed by a link to the original. Links to external sites in signatures are allowed.
This board is for discussion. If you would like your website to gain exposure, place a link in your signature and join in discussion with valuable and insightful information, ideas and opinions. You will become recognised and trusted and people will eventually spend their valuable time finding their way to your website. Direct advertising is not permitted. If you would like to advertise on BigFooty, direct your enquiries to the Customer Service board or PM Chief directly.
This is fair, and more than we allow on other parts of the site.
Rule 10. Need A League Filled ?
There's no need to start new threads all over the board advertising that you need to fill your league. If everyone did that, we'd be lost in a jungle. You are more than welcome to post advertisements for your various league in the appropriate thread on AFL Fantasy Leagues Sub-Board
Rule 11. Politics
Head over here to discuss politics. Any reference to, or discussion of politics, in any way, is not welcome here.
Rule 12. Trolling
An internet 'troll' is an abusive or obnoxious user who uses shock value to promote arguments and disharmony in online communities. Named after the wicked troll creatures of children's tales, an internet troll is someone who stirs up drama and abuses their online anonymity by purposely sowing hatred, bigotry, racism, mysogyny, or just simple bickering between others. Trolls like a big audience, so they frequent blog sites, news sites, discussion forums, and game chat. Trolls thrive in any environment where they are allowed to make public comments.
If someone has a different opinion to yours, and argues against that opinion, that does not mean they are "trolling". Posters often have differing opinions. Just because other posts don't think a player is as good as you do, that does not constitute "trolling".
If a moderator considers that a post you have made has been done so in order to get under another persons skin, it will most likely be removed.
Rule 14. Hindsight Heroes
AFL Fantasy, fundamentally, is like Tattslotto. Despite all the historical statistics that go in to making predictions, thoughts are just that; predictions. Many posters here will make dozens of them a week; some will no doubt end up being correct, some will end up being incorrect. If people didn’t post what they thought at the time of posting, we wouldn’t have a board at all.
Hindsight heroes are not welcome on this board, full stop.
There's nothing more frustrating than spending hours on here giving your thoughts and insights on SuperCoach players only to have some random come along and say "I told you so" when you inevitably get one wrong. This type of behaviour discourages people from posting their thoughts in the first place, and in reality is just plain childish. Not only will you alienate yourself from the community, you'll find yourself infracted.
Rule 15. The Catch-All Rule
It is impossible to document everything, and this is not a court of law where arguments over the wording of rules or decisions of moderators can be debated. At the end of the day this is a privately owned, and privately run board. Freedom of speech does not exist here and we reserve the right to allow or disallow whatever we choose. You have the option of reporting posts, or discussing interpretations/decisions in private with the moderators.
For the large part, this board is one big family. We have many regular posters who have been around a long time. We will, at all times, make decisions that seek to protect what was been established here over many many many years. Any failures to adhere to continued requests from moderators to change behaviours they identify as threatening the community that exists, whether you agree with them or not, will not be tolerated.
The moderators reserve the right to ban any users from this board who they believe continue to upset the equilibrium, despite being warned previously.
Finally, whatever we say goes. If you don’t agree with a decision we make, which are usually made in unanimous agreement, you can escalate your complaints to a Super Mod or an Admin.
**********
If you have any queries or suggestions, please do not hesitate to contact the moderators.
Have fun and good luck!
Cheers,
Jiska, WaynesWorld19, pincrusher
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