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Post 3:
****** What to do when making
a new club *******
For the people that wants to start
a Club or Crew, please take your time to read this
before make one:
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1) Use the search box to see if
there's not a club like that! If you see there is
a club for it but hasn’t been used in sometime. I
would say over 6 month, or if the thread has 300
post or more you should email an active mod see if
it is ok to start a new thread.
2) When making a club use some
effort used in making the club. It not required
that the a club to have rules or guidelines, yet
having them shows the moderators you have put
thought into the club. Just putting down a single
line shows you have not put much thought into the
club. Give your club a good purpose with the first
post and a direction for it to go, but don’t waste
time and a post just duplicating stuff already in
the BBS rules.
3) When making a club, stop and
think. "Hmm, does the Newgrounds BBS really need a
club like this? And, what are the chances that
this club has already been made?" Do not make
flash clubs or collaboration threads they will
just get locked or deleted. The same thing goes
for user appreciation clubs.
In other words, NG doesn't need a
"Butter Club" and we most likely already have a
Final Fantasy Club, so there is basically no need
to post any new threads in Clubs and Crews,
whatsoever.
4) When posting in a club, ask
yourself, "Could I say this on AIM or some other
major IM system?" If you are saying, "Hi, how was
everyone's day?" and your club is about Megaman,
that isn't really pertaining to Megaman, and is
basically the reason why these clubs are all 200 +
pages. In other words, don't post in your club
just for the sake of posting.
5) Don't post just to bump your
club, unless you have something actually
LEGITIMATE to say. Countless amounts of time we
have users saying, "Oh my God guys, I can't
believe our club is on the third page, BUMP!" That
causes clubs that no one cares about to keep on
the front page. If your club does not get posts in
it, obviously no one is interested in it. It's
simple logic, use it.
6) When you see a new club, that
breaks one of the rules, don't post in it saying,
"OGM YOU n00b, THERE ALREADY IS A CLUB FOR THIS!!"
Simply ignore it, and allow it to sink to the
bottom. If the user continues to bump it up, a
moderator will deal with it. Posting in the club
just keeps the club on the front page, exactly
what you are trying to NOT allow happen. By
posting in a club that is illegitimate, you are
just annoying the moderator, and will most likely
end up getting banned for it. If you really have a
problem with it, and no one is dealing with it,
email a moderator with your complaint. Give it a
day or two before sending your email.
7) Flaming a club simply because
it is more popular than your own club, is stupid
and pointless, and should only be done in a
limited amount. If you are posting in a club
everyday to call everyone in it derogatory names,
then you will be banned. On the contrary, if
someone points out something in your club, and you
complain about that person posting in your club,
and it is an illegitimate complaint, the
moderators will just take you less seriously. So
don't become the whiney kid in class who bitches
about every minor thing. When in doubt email a mod
instead of flaming back.
8) Posting a member list every
five posts is pointless and a stupid way to bump
up your thread, and should be avoided. Maximum
times you are allowed to post a member list is
once per page. This prevents spamming up your own
thread.
9) Posting for the sake of raising
your thread's replies, is against the rules. If
you are posting the same thing over and over
again, and you are spamming your thread with
useless replies and constantly repeating yourself,
your club will most likely be locked, or else you
will be banned, depending on the severity of the
problem
10) Try to avoid joining every
single club you see, just for the sake of putting
them all in your signature. Being a devoted member
of three or four clubs maximum will cause less
quick, one word, unthoughtout replies, and
therefore eliminate needless spam in Clubs. Most
club owners who are actually serious hate it when
someone joins eighty different clubs, because
there isn't enough time to post in all of them
anyway, so why bother?
11) If you are a club owner, you
are not the omni-prescene of the thread, you do
not have the final say in anything, the moderators
of the BBS do. Some people think that they can
have users banned from their thread, simply
because they don't like what the user is saying.
If you have a complain, contact a moderator, and
we will look into it. Once you have emailed or
contacted us, leave it at that. Don't create a
giant flame war inside your thread, because that
will just escalate the problem, especially if you
are wrong about the person, which may end up with
your thread being locked.
12) Above all else, use common
sense when posting in Clubs and Crews. Yes, it is
easy to get away with stuff in that section, but
you shouldn't use it as a place to spam and raise
your post count. This section was created for
users to share interests in things that they both
enjoy, and talk about them in a BBS setting. If
you use your head, chances are you will avoid
breaking all the rules set out.
(Thanks to ramagi for this.)
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