In response to some recent low-quality low-effort posting in the forum the staff have decided to form some rules about proper forum etiquette and what constitutes fair and reasonable use of the forum:

1a)  If you suspect that something might have to be deleted by a Reviewer, Moderator or Administrator, don't post it.

1b) Or if you suspect that your post might not be appropriate for some reason consider if it might not fit better in a different section of the forum.  The forum has many sub-forums in it that are meant to be flexible and allow users to post all kinds of content, as long as it has its proper place.

2a)  Keep threads on topic.  Although the forum is meant almost exclusively for music discussions, there are sub-forums which are dedicated to any topic which can be used, if users so desire, to "shoot the sh*t".

2b)  But if a thread is meant to be about a specific musical composition posted in "Upload your Compositions for Analysis and Feedback" please keep the thread about the music posted in question.  If you want to post a new piece of music as a response to someone else's post, please create a new dedicated topic for that piece.

3)  Please refrain from talking about inflammatory topics such as substance use or abuse or sexually explicit topics considered NSFW.  And if you must talk about religion or politics, please create dedicated topics in appropriate sub-forums rather than flooding the musical forums with unrelated conversation.  Also, please try to keep talk of religion or politics related to music history.

4) Do not plagiarize other composers works or modify or use elements of another composer's compositions in your own works without permission and giving proper credit to the original composer.

Disregarding this etiquette will cause the member in question to be penalized with a warning point and the following penalties:

3 warning points - member's content will be manually moderated by the staff
6 warning points - member will be temporarily restricted from posting content
9 warning points - member will be temporarily suspended from accessing the site
12 or more warning points - member will be considered to be banned from the site permanently

Editing of inflammatory posts in question will potentially reverse warning points.

Added more content to the post about specifically what kind of penalties will be enacted.

Changed the number of warning points which will result in each type of penalty.

Just when I posted this ⬇️

I've come to read about the substance use/abuse rule.

I thereby accept my punishment, m'lord.  🗿

Added a mention of sexually explicit topics considered NSFW.

HI, 

I have notice volume of uploads of rather short pieces from member. Some are old; some are new-ish.  The issue I see he or she does not seem to provide active feedback on other members compositions.  I want this member to flourish and learn, but...  

4 minutes ago, Kvothe said:

I have notice volume of uploads of rather short pieces from member. Some are old; some are new-ish.  The issue I see he or she does not seem to provide active feedback on other members compositions.  I want this member to flourish and learn, but...  

Is the user breaking any of the above rules/codes of conduct?

1 minute ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

Is the user breaking any of the above rules/codes of conduct?

 

I do not think so.  Just expressing a concern. 

2 hours ago, Kvothe said:

The issue I see he or she does not seem to provide active feedback on other members compositions. 

Well I would say quite a number of people do this as they only post on forum but never review other members' works... So if this breaks rule a lot of members will be considered as breaking rules...

Henry

Could this be address:

🎬 ★𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒓 TRIBUTE | A Fire Within© - Orchestral and Large Ensemble - Young Composers Music Forum

3 hours ago, Kvothe said:

Could this be address:

🎬 ★𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒐𝒏 𝑲𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒍𝒆𝒓 TRIBUTE | A Fire Within© - Orchestral and Large Ensemble - Young Composers Music Forum

I added the following rule to the list:

4) Do not plagiarize other composers works or modify or use elements of another composer's compositions in your own works without permission and giving proper credit to the original composer.

Although YC post has been taken down, the vemo post is still up: " A FIRE WITHIN " - Main title | Composer : Mason Kistler© *Tribute | Videos & Movies on Vimeo

This needs to be taken down, too.

9 minutes ago, Kvothe said:

Although YC post has been taken down, the vemo post is still up: " A FIRE WITHIN " - Main title | Composer : Mason Kistler© *Tribute | Videos & Movies on Vimeo

This needs to be taken down, too.

That is outside of the purview of Young Composer's Forum. So, @MK_Piano will have to take that up with @interlect on their own.

14 minutes ago, Kvothe said:

Although YC post has been taken down, the vemo post is still up: " A FIRE WITHIN " - Main title | Composer : Mason Kistler© *Tribute | Videos & Movies on Vimeo

This needs to be taken down, too.

You can request Vimeo to take it down, as we are not Vimeo staff 🤪

30 minutes ago, Kvothe said:

Although YC post has been taken down, the vemo post is still up: " A FIRE WITHIN " - Main title | Composer : Mason Kistler© *Tribute | Videos & Movies on Vimeo

This needs to be taken down, too.

I’ll look into it. Thanks.