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I apologise to those whose topics were removed because of my links - thought they would stay there since they are all well and truley over - but oh well!
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Apparently we've just been getting away with it here in the NZ forum.
And mods, this isn't a personal attack or anything - i'm just letting everyone else know.
I apologise to those whose topics were removed because of my links - thought they would stay there since they are all well and truley over - but oh well!
When using this website you agree not to:
1. Use insulting, threatening or defamatory words, pictures or other communications.
2. Post any material likely to provoke, annoy, upset, embarrass or alarm any other person.
3. Deliberately provoke arguments or continue arguments that have calmed down, or have had the thread closed.
4. Use the forums to harass anyone, including but not limited to posting personal or private information, photos etc without permission from the person to which such information, photos etc relates.
5. Post any material which infringes the copyright, other intellectual property rights or any other rights of any other person.
6. Post links to any site that is pornographic, violent, racist, sexist, voyeuristic or is otherwise offensive or unlawful in any way.
7. Post any material that is pornographic, violent, racist, sexist, voyeuristic or is otherwise offensive or unlawful in any way.
8. Post links to websites or adverts for commercial or personal gain. All advertising on PistonHeads must be through the normal channels.
9. Create multiple profiles for any purpose, e.g. to escape a previous ban or to allow comments which breach our website terms and conditions or these Posting Rules). This also includes impersonating any other person, real or imaginary.
10. Post material or link to any material that is unlawful or which support, promote or incite unlawful acts etc.
11. Reignite inflammatory threads by creating new threads on the same or similar topics after threads covering a particular topic have been closed.
12. Use or attempt to use any other person’s PistonHeads login or profile.
13. Attempt to damage PistonHeads via electronic means or implement or attempt to implement a DOS attack.
14. Use a username that contains any reference to a company or website name.
15. Cross-post across the forums.
16. Promote charity events or recruit for charitable donations.
Apparently we've just been getting away with it here in the NZ forum.
And mods, this isn't a personal attack or anything - i'm just letting everyone else know.
Been away and so never had a chance to see the offending ads but just the fallout. Its seems with CRM's thread removed PH admin are certainly enforcing the rule. (Or perhaps out of fear that the English would banish CRM to the fatal shores of OZ as punishment he removed it himself?). What a shame. I liked hearing about the occasional car-related charity events and cheap dyno days. I can see the PH admin's point of view and it makes sense in a country like the UK, where with so many people/events the opportunity for abuse is high. But on the NZ forum, where roughly the same small number of people frequent the site, and where there are few car events in general and that number gets smaller as you move south, I liked hearing about the occasional charity run and dyno day.
Me too, i think it is unnecessary to a point.
Been thinking of starting a topic in Website Feedback and asking them to take a different approach to charity events, in regional specific forums. i.e. If there is irrefutable evidence that a charity run is 100% genuine, and that maybe some PH'ers have even attended before, then it should be allowed.
I dunno. All this makes me want to start up a new club in NZ for owners of fancy cars like ya'll have, but i don't have the time or money to do so.
They need to revise the rules or something, because it seems there are a lot of annoyed people out there and its just getting worse (or i'm just noticing it now).
Been thinking of starting a topic in Website Feedback and asking them to take a different approach to charity events, in regional specific forums. i.e. If there is irrefutable evidence that a charity run is 100% genuine, and that maybe some PH'ers have even attended before, then it should be allowed.
I dunno. All this makes me want to start up a new club in NZ for owners of fancy cars like ya'll have, but i don't have the time or money to do so.
They need to revise the rules or something, because it seems there are a lot of annoyed people out there and its just getting worse (or i'm just noticing it now).
Yep I agree. Understand there's a problem in more populated forums where the policy makes sense, but when we go for days at a time with no posts frankly anything motor related which isn't outright selling is better than nothing. Don't we have our own local moderator who can manage this instead?
It appears that up till now there has been little in the way of moderation in this forum and it doesn't seem to have been causing any problems. Can one of the moderators please explain the benefit to any poster of this sub-forum from this policy being enforced given it hasnt been in the 11 years I've been here prior to yesterday?
Bull1t said:
It appears that up till now there has been little in the way of moderation in this forum and it doesn't seem to have been causing any problems. Can one of the moderators please explain the benefit to any poster of this sub-forum from this policy being enforced given it hasnt been in the 11 years I've been here prior to yesterday?
This is about fair and even application of the rules of posting, across all of PH's sub fora.. It is indeed fair to say that there has been little [need for] moderation in this particular area, however a number of threads were recently brought to the attention of the moderators as they transgressed the RoP.. SkylineObsession said:
I apologise to those whose topics were removed because of my links - thought they would stay there since they are all well and truley over - but oh well!
Just for clarification if you check back over the links you posted only the first one was removed as it was a future event.The second was a member asking for advice so it needed no intervention from the mods, the remaining six IF you had bothered to check as still live. No point in deletion after the event.
So only one Charity post was removed as a result of you bringing it to our attention.
Big Al.
PH site moderator.
Big Al. said:
Just for clarification if you check back over the links you posted only the first one was removed as it was a future event.
The second was a member asking for advice so it needed no intervention from the mods, the remaining six IF you had bothered to check as still live. No point in deletion after the event.
So only one Charity post was removed as a result of you bringing it to our attention.
I just guessed they all had been (internet was playing up by going really slow, so never bothered to check the rest). The second was a member asking for advice so it needed no intervention from the mods, the remaining six IF you had bothered to check as still live. No point in deletion after the event.
So only one Charity post was removed as a result of you bringing it to our attention.
Who is the head honcho here who makes all the rules?
SkylineObsession said:
Who is the head honcho here who makes all the rules?
The company that owns to site is Haymarket, Stuart Forrest is the director of PH his right hand man and the manager of PH is Paul Garlick.The moderators do not make the rules they only police and enforce those rules.
HTH answer your question?
Also seems during that last couple of days that you have turned a very low moderated forum into a high profile one.
That's three us now commenting on this thread Slinky, Gaz and myself, are you going to keep banging on the door or can we go back to sleep now?
Gaz. said:
Hold up a mo, you are the one who asked for consistency so now that's exactly what you've got. You were offered an editorial for your event but you wanted to have an arguement and a whinge instead. Had you taken Garlick up on his offer not only would you have your charity event but you may have had a feature about it on the main homepage of the site.
Without wishing to enflame the main issue further, it is this offer of an editorial that I thought a little unusual. Why exactly this would be offered when 99.99% of the potential readership was on the other side of the planet?? Very generous offer I suppose given those circumstances.
Well actually the rules do apply, and while I do break a few rules myself I also like well moderated Forums, and Pistonheads is an enjoyable site.
I am also a firm believer of picking fights you can win, and thinking carefully about the ones that will be hard work.
Trust me, this one will be hard work.
But hey, you go get those dirty moderators if that's your thing!
I am also a firm believer of picking fights you can win, and thinking carefully about the ones that will be hard work.
Trust me, this one will be hard work.
But hey, you go get those dirty moderators if that's your thing!
I'm not looking for a fight, just flexibility. I'm too busy and away from the main centres to actually enjoy some of these events.
Perhaps we can have a topic where these things are announced as meetings without any mention of charity or commercial purpose?
Or can the mods suggest an easy way to directly advise such gatherings.
Perhaps we can have a topic where these things are announced as meetings without any mention of charity or commercial purpose?
Or can the mods suggest an easy way to directly advise such gatherings.
Edited by mark387mw on Thursday 7th July 07:28
Big Al. said:
That's three us now commenting on this thread Slinky, Gaz and myself, are you going to keep banging on the door or can we go back to sleep now?
So if we agree to not post in this thread or make any further discussion of the rules can you agree to carry on ignoring us as has always previously been the case.Gassing Station | New Zealand | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff