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Culture & Media Policies and Procedures
Rules, regulations and punishments posted in O.E.
Rules, regulations and punishments posted in O.E.
Introduction
Culture & Media provides members with discussion of the western culture. The aspects included in western culture covered here include, of course, entertainment; be it from books, movies, television, music, or sports. Whatever it is that is enjoyed in society's entertainment (with the exception of art) belongs here. Art, and Japanese-related discussion belong in their designated boards. Consider this thread your guidebook (survival book) to posting in this section and having an enjoyable experience.Culture & Media Rules
Just a small note before the rules are listed: The global rules that are included in the PokéCommunity rules thread do indeed apply here. If you have not read these rules, I suggest you do so. They can be found here. You can also find a link to the global rules in the navigation bar typically found directly below the banner or in some cases below the welcome table. With that said, please read through the following rules as they are important in this section and will refrain from you getting a thread locked, an infraction, etc.Also note, if you have any questions and would like answers, I encourage you to send me a personal message confronting me with whatever it is you're trying to know. Be it a thread that you want to make and are unsure of if it belongs here or somewhere else, a rule in question, or even a suggestion.
Below are the list of Culture & Media rules with a description on what they are and what will result in breaking them (the rule itself is underlined for the tl;dr type of people):
- Remember to be polite in threads. We are not trying to bash someone for their opinion, since something such as this is bound to happen in any situation where opinions are asked of you, it is important to realize that that is disrespectful to the other person and is asking for an argument right there. Breaking this rule will result in an infraction.
- Remember to be respectful of decisions made by either myself or a higher ranked staff members. If a thread is locked, please do not cry asking why it's locked or demand it to be re-opened. Instead, politely confront whoever it is who locked your thread. Typically, the staff member who locked it will be the staff member who replied last to it explaining why it was locked. This will generally be treated with a verbal warning via PM. If it continues, you are likely to earn an infraction.
- Though listed in the global rules, it is important to know that thread revivals are not allowed in this section. Any thread longer than a month old from the previous reply (with the exceptions of pinned threads) are generally considered dead. Replying to them will be reviving them and, obviously, is not allowed. This will result in a locked thread and a warning (with a possible infraction) to the member who revived it.
- Though videos are full of entertainment, specific threads purely on a video clip, such as one from YouTube are not allowed. A thread of a specific artist or movie with details on what the thread is about that includes a clip of a song or a movie is permitted, however. Violation of this rule will be considered SPAM and will result in an infraction.
- Though the entertainment industry is wide and has a lot to offer, threads relating to the same subject will result in threads being merged or locked. If there's already a thread on a particular artist or of a subject (one such as "What's your favorite band?") please don't make another one asking the same thing but, perhaps, adding a few words to fancy the thread up a bit. Remember to search for the thread you're looking to create before creating it.
- Advertising is generally not allowed. This rule is rather vivid since this can include and exclude only one. The only thing, however, that will be excepted is advertisements of bands. If you found a band, or are in a band, and want to get opinions (not just advertise) please feel more than free to make a thread about them linking to the website. However, please remember to have something relevant to the asking of opinions on whatever it is you're linking to. Otherwise, it will be considered SPAM and the link will be removed from the thread, the thread will be locked, and you will receive an infraction.
- Provide content and examples in your posts that ask of your opinions. If you are asked what you think of a specific artist, please don't say "I don't like her." or "She/He's horrible." or anything along those lines and then say "That's all that needs to be said." to get that character limit that you need to have when posting. It's important to have intellectual posts in this section, and you posting that isn't very intellectual. Posting things like that will be considered SPAM and will result in a warning (if you haven't been infracted for SPAM previously) or an infraction (if you have been infracted/warned for SPAMing in the past).
[*]Simply listing names or artists, bands, books or anything of the like in threads in which you state what your favourite ____ is, will result in your post being deleted or you may be subject to recieving a warning or infraction. You must add your opinion or some detail to attribute to the discussion at hand.
Important Notes
There are a few important notes that are rather important when dealing with this section.- Discussions based on topics other than Western Entertainment, such as Japanese movies, music, anime, or manga, belong in their designated forum. In this case, that forum would be Japanese Entertainment.
- Though this section is based on culture, art (including poems and other related discussion) is not included. Art has it's own category which can be found here.
- Threads make up the foundation of the community. Without them, and members, it will not be here. It is important to know that if you have made a thread, and would like it locked, it will not typically be locked without proof of why it should be. If you would like your thread to be locked, please remember to state why you want it locked and provide examples of what happened in the thread that may lead to the thread being locked anyway, otherwise, it will not be locked upon request.
- Rules listed above may be edited at anytime without update to the members of Culture & Media. Please be sure to check this thread often. New rules, or amendments to rules previously created, will be changed to red text.
- If you would like a change in thread title, an edit to a poll, or a poll added to your thread, please contact me via PM with whatever it is you would like to add to the thread and I will be more than happy to do so.
- When replying to a thread that asks for your favorite thing; be it music video, movie, artist, etc. it is acceptable for you to reply multiple times since your favorites probably change as much as mine do. Know that this doesn't mean you can reply every ten posts. Every few pages, yes. Don't reply every time your preferences change.
Thank You
Thank you for making your way to the end of the rules thread. Whether or not you skimmed through it and only read the important stuff, it's appreciative to both myself and you as now you don't have to worry about getting into trouble here (of all places, it's kind of embarrassing getting into trouble in Culture & Media) Remember, if you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask them. You can do so by sending me a Personal Message or leaving me a Visitor Message with a thread in question. If you have any ideas on any Claim threads or anything else, please feel more than welcome to share them with me the same way.
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