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The Shoutbox; Rules&Guidelines for it's usage
Topic Started: Feb 1 2015, 12:44 PM (2,008 Views)
Zorcuspine
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As you no doubt have noticed, our forum now has a shoutbox at the bottom of the page. This is a feature we had previously, but was removed a few years back after a series of really glaring rule-breaking behavior. I want you all to note that the shoutbox is a privilege we are granting against the advice of several staff members, if we see a ton of rule-breaking behavior going on down there we will remove the shoutbox again, this time likely for good. The shoutbox, like the rest of the forum, is subject to the TOS. A general rule of thumb to follow when using the shoutbox is that if what you are about to type would get you warned had you posted it in General Discussion, it'll probably get you warned here. That means no dick picks, seriously calling people bad names et cetera, et cetera, keep that stuff to the Skype chat folks. Now, the one major exception to this rule is spam or useless posts, the very nature of the shoutbox allows more casual things such as one-word responces and picspam to be more acceptable. That doesn't give you carte blanche to post whatever spam and gibberish you wish, and flooding the shoutbox with random letters or some such nonsense will likely still get you warned, but it does mean that spam rules will be more loosely enforced than they are on the forum.

Now, with all that being said, I personally have no doubts that this forum has matured enough to handle the shoutbox. This is just a reminder that there are rules to the shoutbox, and stuff posted there can get you in trouble if it breaks the rules.
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hat means no dick picks, seriously calling people bad names et cetera, et cetera, keep that stuff to the Skype chat folks.


Even that sort of stuff is banned from the skype chat
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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That means no dick picks, seriously calling people bad names et cetera, et cetera, keep that stuff to the Skype chat folks.


Yes that isn't really what most participants in the Skype chat actually want!
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The skype chat already has a bad rap with some of the forum members, saying that we post dick pics and call each other names on it isn't going to make it look any better.
Projects and concepts that I have stewing around
Extended Pleistocene- An alternate future where man died out, and the megafauna would continue to thrive (may or may not include a bit about certain future sapients)
Inverted World- An alternate timeline where an asteroid hit during the Barremian, causing an extinction event before the Maastrichtian. Dinosaurs, pterosaurs, and notosuchians make it to the present, along with a host of other animals.
Badania- Alien planet that has life at a devonian stage of development, except it exists in the present day.
Ido- Alien world where hoppers (derived flightless ballonts) and mouthpart-legged beasts are prevalent.
Leto- Life on a moon orbiting a gas giant with an erratic orbit; experiences extremes of hot and cold.
The Park- ???
Deeper Impact- a world where the K-Pg extinction wipes out crocodilians, mammals, and birds; squamates, choristoderes, and turtles inherit the earth.
World of Equal Opportunity- alternate history where denisovans come across Beringia and interact with native fauna. Much of the Pleistocene fauna survives, and the modern humans that end up crossing into North America do not overhunt the existing animals. 10,000 years later, civilizations exist that are on par with European and Asian societies.
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Are you plausible?

Is that what actually happens there?
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food for thought
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Based on what I've heard of the place, wouldn't surprise me.
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pretend this says something funny

I don't recall anyone posting dick pics in... a while; I suspect no one wants to really see dick pics anyway.

It's not really that bad, mostly just people talking about random stuff and occasionally speccing. What'd you expect?
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It's not really like that. Sometimes those things happens, although that's comparably rare. Like, the last time some of those things happens was months ago. The Skype chat's bad rap is undeserving in my opinion. It's more wild than the forum, but not outright awful.
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The Skype chat in question is for a number of select people from this forum who get along to talk about absolutely anything or absolutely nothing which only sporadically involves speculative biology, and it is not affiliated with the forum in any way.
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I was only joking, I didn't expect that joke to be taken so seriously
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Are you plausible?

Yeah, it's hard for us who don't know what it's really like to know when something is a joke or not, and since it was talking about potentially providing pornography to minors, it was worth investigating.
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The single user who did such undesirables was, after being unable to change their ways, removed from the group for these reasons.
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Yeah, it's hard for us who don't know what it's really like to know when something is a joke or not, and since it was talking about potentially providing pornography to minors, it was worth investigating.
Ah I'm sorry, I did not consider that. Well I can assure you we do not actually post dick pics on the skype chat, believe me I would tell you if that were really the case.
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I use skype to chat to my girlfriend and have never ever posted dick pics there. :) I used to use Yahoo Messenger until it ruined itself.
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This thread is from two years ago, bud. You're speaking to echoes.

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