In my bit of the world it is now 15th August. Well into 15th August, in fact. Which by my reckoning means we now Haz Rulz, or words to that effect.

I would like to draw your attention to the following:

Posts ranting about Nokia or the community which contain unsubstantiated claims are "solely intended to incite controversy or conflict". This is the definition of trolling, and should incur 15 infraction points, once the poster has been given a reasonable time to provide evidence and failed to do so.

Posts which accuse other members of 'attack' when other members have merely offered 'challenge' are "Abuse, insults and personal attacks directed at any member, person, or group" and should be flagged as flaming (15 infraction posts) unless they are so severe as to constitute 'personal attack' (in which care they incur 20 points).

Repeatedly posting the same issue (one could think of MfE provisioning as a good example) in several different threads is spam. (20 points)

The sooner these nice new shiney rules are followed the better, IMHO.

Thank you.

Well, I am glad I had problems reflashing on wednesday. I crossposted, I confess. I'd have been with a -20 handicap.

I'm pretty sure that circumstances like that would be looked at pretty compassionately by the mods if it was a 'first offense'.

This is more about people who make a habit of such things.

You have six rows in your signature which equals 5 infraction points.

Looks like 3 to me, and they're the official greeter sig. I removed all the personal items that were there as well when the rules were announced in order to conform. If the rule is interpreted to disallow the spacing in the greeter sig, I'll remove that too.

I did raise in the rule discussion that the sig length could possibly include an exception to allow those of us using the greeter sig a single line of personal sig, but no comment was made. I'll happily take those infraction points to see the rules enforced boardwide tonight.

No looks like six to me. A [CR] is also for all points and purposes a 'text' otherwise you could have 20 rows of spaces.

I don't see a reason for an exception either as that would just set a bad example.

Before posting on this site, we should have a class on the rules and be forced to learn them backward and forward before we can post! The rules are MUCH more important than what we post about.

The exception would be because those acting as greeters are doing the community a favour which the community has specifically asked for. But since none was forth-coming, the point is moot.

If a mod wishes, I will remove the spacing from my sig and receive my 5 points. I look forward with enthusiasm to the rules being enforced thusly.

I'm pretty sure you can continue that favour AND following the guide-lines at the same time. But yes, it would be interesting to learn if spacing is included in the 5 rows-rule or not.

oh dear god, lets just throw all common sense out the window and have some crazy infract-a-thon for a few days until no-one wants to post anything without double checking the rules, sending them to a lawyer, having them signed in triplicate, lost, recovered, buried in soft peat for a few months and finally forgotten about.