Forum etiquette and Code of Conduct

[PeterthePapercomPoser]

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.  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.

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

5 warning points - member's content will be manually moderated by the staff
10 warning points - member will be temporarily restricted from posting content
15 warning points - member will be temporarily suspended from accessing the site
20 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.

[PeterthePapercomPoser]

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