Rules for the Chatbox
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Due to recent events it seems necessary to educate or remind people of what is and is not acceptable behavior for the chatbox. Keep in mind that there are members who have the ability to block you from posting if you decide to break “the rules”.
This is taken directly from the link IN OUR CHATBOX (click on YOU OWN YOUR COMMENTS at the top of the chatbox) regarding what’s okay and what’s not:
Rules for Comments and Chatbox
- Constructive critiques and “Thank you†comments are welcome and are encouraging to the article authors.
- Insulting and offensive comments and general flaming against anyone is however not permitted on this site and your comment will be deleted immediately.
- Multiple infractions of bad netiquette will result in your IP address being banned (you will be shunned from the community and blocked from participating).
- Users leaving comments retain ownership of their remarks. (Hence: You own your comments.) IdahoFallz.com cannot be responsible for what others say. If you find any remarks especially offensive or defamatory, please notify us via the contact form
- We have the ability to see your exact IP address, see where you came from and where you left to, track and screenshot all of your actions across our site, and we even know what you’re doing under the covers. We respect our users and only use this information in cases of people being jerks to others and not following site netiquette or to comply with legal American investigations.
- We reserve the right to not only ban you, your IP, your name, and your comments, but also to forward collected information showing what a bad person you’ve been to your ISP and ask them to cancel your Internet access (read: you cause us problems and we’ll make sure you can’t even get online anymore.)
- So let’s play nice, and we won’t tell your mother what you did under the covers.
If you aren’t sure, it breaks down to:
* No Spamming
* No Cussing
* No Immature Bickering, if you disagree, you disagree - move on to another subject or write a post regarding your opinion.
* No Threats, Name Calling, etc.
* YOU OWN YOUR COMMENTS in the chatbox just as much as you do in your comments and posts - just because the conversation will eventually “roll-out” doesn’t give you the right to monopolize the box or fill it with you opinions - WRITE A POST for that…
Most offenses will result in a warning or temporary ban - habitual offenses could get you banned for good. This is not a post to scold or threaten, simply to inform - if you see someone behaving badly you can also ask one of the editors to delete or edit comments that are deemed offensive or excessive.
Let’s have fun and COMMUNICATE - if we all had the same opinions this world would be a very boring place.
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Comments
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0 Just want to clarify a few things. First, I’m not Pollyanna. I think we can discuss subjects like adults and agree to disagree. Secondly, if there is a subject that I know will really get me worked up, I skip it. It’s not worth the high blood pressure when so many other subjects are themes I enjoy reading.
Finally, if you’ve just about lost it with someone who has written on this site, along with the steps Skitterkat has outlined above, I recommend putting the words of Anna Nalick into action. From the Wreck of the Day, Breathe (2AM) she writes, ” And breathe, just breathe
Woah breathe, just breathe,
Oh breathe, just breathe.”
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0 0 Yea I suppose this was directed at my blowing up on a few retarded chatters I will just breathe and ignore them sorry I was so hot headed with them. 
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0 0 I seem to have been banned from the chatbox and don’t know why. Nothing I write will come up. I hardly ever write in the chatbox, let alone cause any problems, swear, troll etc. Do you know why or whats going on Joe? I’m on my pc at work. I tried using two other pc’s within the company, but being on a network we all have the same IP address. Perhaps another employee said or did something I’m not aware of? I only know of one other person at work here that comes to this site and its not very often that I know of. (but then again there’s 40 people in my office so I don’t know for sure) Can you look into this Joe?
Thanks
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0 0 Go to ipchicken.com and email me your ip address
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0 0 Ok,thanks
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TOTALLY agree with Skitterkat. We are GUESTS on this site. If someone invites me to their home as a guest, I have an obligation to abide by their house rules. Likewise, if I invite someone to my house, they must follow my rules. If a person doesn’t like them, then unfortunately they won’t be able to stay at my house and they won’t be invited back.
How can we have more fun on this site? How can we build others up instead of looking for the small points to argue about? Skitter is write (Oops, I should have said Skitterkat - I apologize Skitterkat). Imagine that, I blew it, so I owned my and apologized to Skitterkat. It gets easier with practice.
One time when Skitterkat and I were discussing a subject in the chatbox, after the chat was over I realized that we could have very different experiences with people and different organizations. It was probably a few days later, but the next time we were on at the same time I apologized. And what a gracious response I received. Just another simple example of how to be a better citizen on Joe’s web site. I’m far from perfect - I would have realized my error sooner if I were perfect. But, I realized I valued Skitterkat and I’d better make it right.
I’m looking forward to your great positive ideas of how be good guests in the site that Joe built and is gracious enough to let us visit.