RisingDown, I gather they were talking about making it easier to obtain tagpoints too. But ignoring that factor, is it really so hard to obey the forum rules that you should fear high penalties?

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POINT DEDUCTION

    Violation of forum rules (usually resulting in Closed Thread). -1

    Swear word violation -1 for each violation within a post, to a maximum deduction of -5.  Maximum will result in an Official Warning.

    Official Warning (Qualitative, based on nature of post). -5

    Subsequent Offense = Forum Ban and loss of all Tag Points.

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All I have to say is that some mods must have been on drugs late night, this 'absurd' as much as 'unnecessary' penalties table, reminds me of some rulebooks we had on dictatorship of Franco in 1970 decade  (or decadence I might say).

I hope this is announcement is just a joke guys   I'm unable to fit those words and KT writing them

I have posted several times the way education and progress go, and it's not by punishing the bad guys. If you reward the honoured/fair/educated/bright people then all the people will tend to act the right way.  If you only punish, then you'll get rebels against you, because rebeldy is their only cause. (OUR only kause)

so ..... [screw] OFF THIS DEDUKTION SHIT!!!   

A titillating temptation... I mean it's fair! Very fair!

I agree with Render, this is just some silly censoring.

"    Swear word violation -1 for each violation within a post, to a maximum deduction of -5.  Maximum will result in an Official Warning."
This is just silly and childish. People should know for themselves to keep swearing to a minimum, and I myself do not see the odd curseword every now and then as a problem. Some curse words have become socially accepted even, or at least amongst the younger demographics. Language is always changing, and so are the definitions of words and their intended purpose. (example: words like "gay", "shit", and in some contexts "[BLAM]" (what the [BLAM], etc.). Now don't -1 me for each of these, I'm trying to be serious about the consequences of producing such vague rules >_<)

"    Official Warning (Qualitative, based on nature of post). -5"
Warnings are based on the subjective view of (forum) mods, or is there a list of hard indications for official warnings? If not, I'd work to make one first before giving such consequences to something entirely subjective.

*Expression of point duly noted, so no points are deducted for actually having logical reasoning in your post. But do please, refrain from using them again in future posts.

I would like to remind people that tagpoints are meant to be enjoyed by all but players are by no means entitled to them.  I put in effort to make it easy for the staff to reward players on a post-specific basis when people make positive contributions.  The flipside is that they can just as easily take them away from people who break rules.

Players can choose to abide by the rules they agreed to upon signup or they can choose to ignore them in which case they will be punished.  Either way, tagpoints and in particular post-specific tagpoints can just as easily be taken away entirely with everybody being simply, "Player".  Obviously nobody wants this.

In other words: follow the rules and there won't be a problem.  Break the rules and you will be punished.  There has been too much going on lately with people swearing freely and making personal attacks.  This will not be tolerated.

Play it safe: think before you post.

it comes down to who you are as well lol

You must be drunk Render.

The FORUM RULES haven't been changed. Just how tag points are manipulated.

lol 1st of all, I dont know what 'swearing' is, but if you're talking about whine threads with diskussions, trash talk, etz, I konsider those threads spizy gold of this forums. Without them this forums would be another boring site where people writes boring stuff without feelings.

You kould have rather dezided, instead of this absurd tagpoint reduktion, to tell people to use more the "Report" button everytime they feel offended by what somebody's posted, then fmods zhek it and apply a temp ban (like it has always been ).

but meh, this u are treating us like zhildren in the skhool eksit, I give you a sweet but talk good or I take it away, like if we gonna kry and flounder and we kannot sleep at night bkause we lost a tagpoint! 

Render should get tagpoints because he does not speak English as a first language but he knows what "titillating" means