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New Mods, temporary new rules

BG_Knightmare

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Hello all Knights and visitors alike,

As everyone can see, the open forum has descended into chaos lately. We have too many threads talking about the same thing. Too many trolls posting nonsense and contributing nothing of value, most importantly fake rumors with no legs to stand on and enough is enough.

For the longest time the open forum has been a place where anything in good fun goes and that has been fine because most of our posters are reasonable adults. With the success of our team and season and with the looming coach uncertainty we have seen an influx of visitors from other forums which is always welcome but there is a line between actual contributions and just garbage.

The mods are here now.

A small set of temporary rules for now will include the following:
-Racism
is unacceptable and has no place here
-Duplicate treads will be redirected, closed then deleted
-Trolls posting nonsense will be warned and if they continue their behavior will be BANNED the same goes for UCF posters as well
-Rumors posted must be backed with a link to a supporting source
-Repeatedly posting unsubstantiated rumors will result in a BAN
-Any threads inciting violence or threats of bodily harm will be DELETED


These rules are not intended to be permanent it is just for now. These are the most important things that came to mind and I thought would help get things under control. More will be added as necessary and please post any and all comments or suggestions in this thread.

Thanks,
BG_Knightmare
 
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-Rumors posted must be backed with a link to a supporting source
-Repeatedly posting unsubstantiated rumors will result in a BAN

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Not sure how this works. So essentially if you’ve heard something directly from someone who would certainly have first hand knowledge of the situation you can’t post it unless you’ve got a link to another site stating as much?

What is considered an unsubstatiated rumor?
 
Hello all Knights and visitors alike,

As everyone can see, the open forum has descended into chaos lately. We have too many threads talking about the same thing. Too many trolls posting nonsense and contributing nothing of value, most importantly fake rumors with no legs to stand on and enough is enough.

For the longest time the open forum has been a place where anything in good fun goes and that has been fine because most of our posters are reasonable adults. With the success of our team and season and with the looming coach uncertainty we have seen an influx of visitors from other forums which is always welcome but there is a line between actual contributions and just garbage.

The mods are here now.

A small set of temporary rules for now will include the following:
-Duplicate treads will be redirected, closed then deleted
-Trolls posting nonsense will be warned and if they continue their behavior will be BANNED the same goes for UCF posters as well
-Rumors posted must be backed with a link to a supporting source
-Repeatedly posting unsubstantiated rumors will result in a BAN

These rules are not intended to be permanent it is just for now. These are the most important things that came to mind and I thought would help get things under control. More will be added as necessary and please post any and all comments or suggestions in this thread.

Thanks,
BG_Knightmare
How were you selected? 74 posts in 8 years? Most of them in last week.
 
Not sure how this works. So essentially if you’ve heard something directly from someone who would certainly have first hand knowledge of the situation you can’t post it unless you’ve got a link to another site stating as much?

What is considered an unsubstatiated rumor?
Unsubstantiated rumor is just pulling something from nowhere just to get kicks out of it to get people riled up for fun of course I know we have an running inside joke about hearing rumors at the Tijuana Flatts in Winter Park about yadda yadda yadda that's completely different. I'm talking about people making something up like Frost to FSU with nothing to back that up. The Ryan Bass rumors I would allow because while his sources are questionable he is still part of the media. Use those as examples for now.
 
How were you selected? 74 posts in 8 years? Most of them in last week.
I guess I took the initiative to do something, Brandon is wayyyy too busy especially with everything going on this season to be able to play whack a mole with everything going in the open board and I know I will definitely need the help from you guys to stay on top of this so any suggestions will get my full attention.
 
I guess I took the initiative to do something, Brandon is wayyyy too busy especially with everything going on this season to be able to play whack a mole with everything going in the open board and I know I will definitely need the help from you guys to stay on top of this so any suggestions will get my full attention.
Biggest thing is just merging the threads. No one around really needs to get banned. A lot of the same topics and repeat threads over and over
 
Guys please also if you see something that immediately needs to be cleaned up report it and one of us will get right on it.
 
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We can use some bannings from outsiders especially if they post NSFW photos and troll other posters for being a fan of UCF sports.
 
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Does this new moderation also apply to a he Water Cooler? It should.
Yes the best thing to do is if there is something really out there and needs to be taken down immediately report as that's the fastest way for it to be seen, otherwise a moderator needs to sift through every thread of every page and read through each response to find out exactly what it is.

We can use some bannings from outsiders especially if they post NSFW photos and troll other posters for being a fan of UCF sports.
This NSFW images definitely don't belong on this board because I'm sure I'm not the only one guilty of browsing the boards at work so please anything like that, report it as soon as you see it. I've already banned a couple posters for that already so keep em coming.

Thanks again guys
 
Just be sure to be consistent regardless of who the fan is of whatever team. UCF board or not, fans on both sides have been getting out of hand. And some are pot calling the kettle...
 
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Just be sure to be consistent regardless of who the fan is of whatever team. UCF board or not, fans on both sides have been getting out of hand. And some are pot calling the kettle...
I fully understand and we'll do the best we can to be as level headed as possible I know UCF posters have gotten out of hand too and they have been warned already. Keep in mind this is a UCF forum so know if you're gonna trash talk its fine just don't troll for the sake of trolling. There are way too many outsiders doing that and like I said we welcome visitors but there is a line. We're not going to ban every single Nebraska poster just for the sake of it but we will ban the worst of them and have begun to do so already.
 
I fully understand and we'll do the best we can to be as level headed as possible I know UCF posters have gotten out of hand too and they have been warned already. Keep in mind this is a UCF forum so know if you're gonna trash talk its fine just don't troll for the sake of trolling. There are way too many outsiders doing that and like I said we welcome visitors but there is a line. We're not going to ban every single Nebraska poster just for the sake of it but we will ban the worst of them and have begun to do so already.

I believe you should (or may already have) warned Mikesi about his rude and denigrating comments. He is just trying to get his counts up and will say anything to get a reaction from Nebraska fans.

When he and others put down Nebraska and continually call it a dumpster fire, any loyal fan is going to fight back and use equally nasty terms to put down UCF. Its not right, just human nature.

I and many other Nebraska fans have never used foul incinerating language but many UCF fans have. I assume you will use the same moderating standards for all posters.

When it is all said and done, most Nebraska fans will not post on here after the announcement. So your moderating work will be severely reduced.

You guys have certainly had a great year. I hope you win out against Memphis and your bowl game. Hope to play you guys someday on the field. BRB.
 
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Is it possible to restrict a person from posting for the first week? Would be nice to make people just read and absorb instead before making insulting/pointless/trolling posts.
 
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Please ban Lemmy; he is one of the ones who uses nasty foul language.

I'm handing out warnings left and right, nobody is immune everybody is getting warnings my goal is to get this board back to being safe to read at work. Trash talk is fine if you wanna dish it you gotta have tough skin to take it too, it goes for everyone, but personal attacks are where we draw the line here.
 
I'm handing out warnings left and right, nobody is immune everybody is getting warnings my goal is to get this board back to being safe to read at work. Trash talk is fine if you wanna dish it you gotta have tough skin to take it too, it goes for everyone, but personal attacks are where we draw the line here.
Thank you. I came on this board back when Frost first got hired. Just wanted to see what everyone was saying and thought of him. Over the last 2 years have really grown to like UCF. No issues with the board until the last few weeks. Nebraska fans have not been the best I admit. Most are simply retaliating against UCF fans talking unwarranted garbage. Many of them coming to our board started this back and forth crap. Our mods have cracked down on it I am glad you will be doing the same. I look forward to watching you guys this weekend and going forward. Good luck.
 
Thank you. I came on this board back when Frost first got hired. Just wanted to see what everyone was saying and thought of him. Over the last 2 years have really grown to like UCF. No issues with the board until the last few weeks. Nebraska fans have not been the best I admit. Most are simply retaliating against UCF fans talking unwarranted garbage. Many of them coming to our board started this back and forth crap. Our mods have cracked down on it I am glad you will be doing the same. I look forward to watching you guys this weekend and going forward. Good luck.
Nice observation!
 
When is EVERY SINGLE nebraska person going to be escorted the door? There was NEVER a competitive reason for a SINGLE one of them to be here other than troll.

We don't play in the same conference
They are not on our schedule
We have not played them recently
We don't recruit against them

They have made the last several weeks a PITA with the trolling. They have run alot of good UCF posters away. They have what they wanted, they need to F-in LEAVE, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.

I'm rapidly getting to the point of its either them or me.....this isn't a fun place to be anymore.....

You want to moderate? Take a stand against being bullied on our own damn forum.
 
When is EVERY SINGLE nebraska person going to be escorted the door? There was NEVER a competitive reason for a SINGLE one of them to be here other than troll.

We don't play in the same conference
They are not on our schedule
We have not played them recently
We don't recruit against them

They have made the last several weeks a PITA with the trolling. They have run alot of good UCF posters away. They have what they wanted, they need to F-in LEAVE, EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM.

I'm rapidly getting to the point of its either them or me.....this isn't a fun place to be anymore.....

You want to moderate? Take a stand against being bullied on our own damn forum.
Amen brother. Bye Trolls
 
BG's got this. He's been handling them. Hell, I got them asking him t ban me because they have terrible reading comprehension and ask me for sources on my opinions.
There are a few stragglers left. Just ban them all. Nobody will really care or miss them. Maybe a few will come in peace later, but need to be carefully watched. They get out of hand suddenly and quickly and are great at throwing back handed derogatory comments
 
There are a few stragglers left. Just ban them all. Nobody will really care or miss them. Maybe a few will come in peace later, but need to be carefully watched. They get out of hand suddenly and quickly and are great at throwing back handed derogatory comments
I would do One and done with no warnings. But it's BG's deal, so he'll drop hammers as he sees fit.

Doing it that way doesn't solve the problem because you can just sign back up with a new username and blank identity, at least this way I can keep the civil ones here who actually want to add something to the conversation. I've tried my best to kick out the worst offenders, but inevitably some slip through the cracks. Whenever that's the case report those guys and I'll take it from there. Thanks again guys, the feedback helps.
 
Doing it that way doesn't solve the problem because you can just sign back up with a new username and blank identity, at least this way I can keep the civil ones here who actually want to add something to the conversation. I've tried my best to kick out the worst offenders, but inevitably some slip through the cracks. Whenever that's the case report those guys and I'll take it from there. Thanks again guys, the feedback helps.

Thanks @BG_Knightmare ! You are doing a great job!
 
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