Community Agreement / Usage Policy
Community Agreement / Usage Policy
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NewCaney.com is a local gathering place for neighbors in the New Caney, Texas area.
If you follow the goal of "Keeping NewCaney.com Friendly," you should have no problem fitting in the with NewCaney.com crowd!
Keep NewCaney.com Friendly, Safe and Welcoming:
A Couple Guidelines:
- A thick skin is required to participate.
- No insults, name calling, or inflammatory comments aimed at other members. Refrain from posting personal attacks or grievances publicly. Avoid broad negative generalizations about other NewCaney.com members.
- If many people might interpret a message or picture as racist, bigoted or sexist, please refrain from posting it.
- Don't pretend to be someone else, or post under several usernames.
- Privacy / Anonymity: Do not post personal information (real name, address, work place, physical description, email address, family status, etc.) that would betray the anonymity of another member without permission, either publicly or in private messages. We can only enforce your anonymity/privacy if you are careful about giving out your information publicly. If you think someone has violated your privacy / anonymity, please contact an Admin ASAP.
- No "stalking behavior," including: following a member from one discussion thread to another while criticizing him/her; following someone into another thread and trying to continue a disagreement that began elsewhere; disparaging an individual in a thread where that person is not participating.
- Debate can be lively, but should remain civil and respectful, especially when it comes to sensitive topics like religion, politics, sexuality, and race.
- Keep the forums clean: messages that are too crude may get deleted. Don't post sexually explicit or violent pictures.
- Please follow our strict photo & video guidelines when posting photos or videos to the forums, including profile pictures.
- No business solicitations, advertisements or spam on the forums, please.
- No meme photos mocking / criticizing other site members.
- "Ignore" is meant to reduce conflict. Use it if you need to. If you have somenone on ignore, or they have you on ignore, please refrain from talking to or about that person. Do not circumvent the ignore mechanism to read messages you otherwise wouldn't be able to read.
- Be aware, moderators typically delete the following types of threads: Swan song posts, Posts about ignoring someone, posts about someone being banned (if you have questions, send the Admin a PM), Advertisements, Criticisms of our website sponsors, Critiques of moderating (take it to PMs please). Text mentioning other forums or community web sites may be replaced with the text "another website".
- Comments about rule breaking will be removed. Just use the "Flag" option instead.
- "Keep NewCaney.com Friendly" applies to all participation on the site, including private messages.
Moderators have the final word on forum decisions. Any message that we feel doesn't keep the NewCaney.com forums friendly
and inviting for others, may be removed or locked by moderators.
We are willing to discuss disputes in a calm manner, but
publicly attacking a moderator, or intentionally undermining a moderator's actions, will get your account locked.
Additional Moderating Guidelines:
Politics Discussion Guidelines »
Rules? What About Free Speech?
NewCaney.com is a privately owned web site and the forums are
a private online social group, which means we can and do restrict certain conversations
on the forums. We do this with the goal of keeping NewCaney.com a friendly and inviting place for most residents of New Caney.
Just like you couldn't curse at church, or use racial slurs at Disney World, without getting
kicked out; we have set certain reasonable limits on NewCaney.com members in order
to participate. This generally means making sure your messages are
friendly and respectful of others. The Internet is a big place, and there are many web sites where all types
of controversial and inflammatory discussions are allowed, but NewCaney.com is not one of them.
Religious Discussion
This community web site is not intended for overt preaching or for religious debate. It's also not a place
to attack, criticize or critique other religions or religious groups.
This goes the same for all religions: Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, etc., all alike.
It's also not a place to for Atheists to debate if there is or is not a God.
Religion can be a difficult topic, and it's the editors' opinion that if it's left off of these forums,
it better serves the true purpose of these forums: To chat with neighbors in a friendly way and to discuss local news and events.
UnBan Terms
If you've been banned, you might be able to be unbanned under probation, if you agree to stricter rules for 1 month.
Unban Terms - Please Read Carefully!:
-- I understand these forums are a private social community, and that I'm only welcome here as long as I don't
fight or insult other members too much, and as long as I stay in good graces with the moderators.
I agree to respect moderator decisions (even if I disagree) and give them
the benefit of the doubt.
-- I agree to be careful in my posts over the next month to not insult people or get into fights. I'll
debate the issues without making the arguments personal. I won't fight or insult people on the forums, even if
other people are doing it, and even if I disagree with moderator decisions.
-- I agree to focus on my own behavior alone. If I see other people breaking
these guidelines, I won't engage them. Instead I'll either flag the message or put
that person or "Ignore" to help minimize problems on the forum.
-- I understand I got in trouble and that I'm on probation for the next month, and that I'll be
held to a higher standard than everyone else during this time. If I see other people misbehaving,
it's not an excuse for me to break these unban terms.
-- I understand that if I break the general spirit of any of the above guidelines, I will likely be permanently
banned from the site without additional warnings.
If you agree to these terms, please
contact the Admin and we'll review your case to see if we'll undo the ban.
