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.
- Be aware, moderators typically delete the following types of threads: Swan song posts, Posts about ignoring someone, Advertisements, Critiques of moderating (take it to PMs please).
- "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:
Rules? What About Free Speech?
NewCaney.com is a privately owned web site, 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 religious debate. It's also not a place
to attack or criticize other religions or religious groups.
This goes the same for 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.
Political Discussion
Politics can be a difficult subject to discuss in mixed company on an online discussion board.
Members are expected to try to keep things civil.
Some Important Guidelines if you want to discuss politics:
- Absolutely no name calling when it comes to other forum members.
- It's OK to say someone's opinion about XYZ is stupid, but please do not revert to calling other
members stupid. It's the opinion of the moderators that this subtle change in discussing politics
can have a big effect on the civility and productivity of political discussions online.
- If you have written strongly worded criticism, you should back it up with substantial reasoning and
opinion.
- These rules of civility apply when talking to other forum members, and although we encourage
members to keep things civil at all times, it is not a requirement to be so civil to politicans
themselves, because they are not fellow forum members.
Not everyone is to follow the above guidelines 100% of the time, and we're not
going to get on everyone's case every time they cross the line...but if a moderator sees
it happening over and over, you could get a warning or eventually be blocked from the forum.
For people who complain about how it's unfair because so-and-so did the same thing: although the other person may have done the same thing, it's possible her or she
has probably crossed the line less frequently than you have, which is why you're getting a warning.
In other words, if the moderator feels they've caused fewer moderating problems and headaches overall, they may determine deserve more slack than you might.
If you get a warning from a moderator, your only obligation is to focus on reeling your own self in -- pointing at others' bad behavior is no excuse.
UnBan Terms
If you've been banned, you might be able to be unbanned under probation, if you agree to stricter rules for the next couple of months.
You agree:
-- To not fight or stir up trouble with other members and to not insult others, and to not engage in name calling with other members.
-- To not mention the people you're fighting with, or any of their posts, not even in a passing or veiled or indirect way. For example, if the person you're fighting with posts a lot about puppies, and you criticize annoying puppy posts, you'll likely get banned for it, even though you didn't mention the person by name. This is what is meant by talking about someone in a veiled or indirect way.
-- If someone you're fighting with causes you (personally) trouble, you'll flag it and not engage them on the forums.
-- To put people you're fighting with on Ignore, to not read their posts, and to not log off or use any other method to get around the Ignore feature.
-- To treat Mods with respect, and take up any problems up with them in private
-- You agree to focus on your own behavior, and that other peoples' bad behavior does not justify your own.
-- You agree that you'll help make the forums a civil place, and that the Mods shouldn't have to constantly send warnings or reminders to keep it so.
-- You agree that if you appear to break any of the guidelines above in the next 3 months that you likely won't get a warning, but will be immediately and permanently banned.
If you agree to these terms, please
contact the Admin and we'll review your case to see if we'll undo the ban.
