Are there specific guidleines for the forum?

[Einsamer_Wolf]

I perused the FAQ section of this forum. Other than stipulating that no racist comments are allowed, there do not seem to be any other guidelines? Ought there be?

EW

[Jason Pipes]

This is written on the page you must agree to before becoming a member. This combinded with the FAQ and common sense should provide enough of a guideline. Do you think we need more?


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[Patrick]

This combined with the FAQ and common sense should provide enough of a guideline. Do you think we need more?

I don't think we do. We've had some, shall we say, disruptive individuals as of late, but they were eventually removed. Otherwise, I think nearly everyone else here behaves.

[Einsamer_Wolf]

This combined with the FAQ and common sense should provide enough of a guideline. Do you think we need more?

I don't think we do. We've had some, shall we say, disruptive individuals as of late, but they were eventually removed. Otherwise, I think nearly everyone else here behaves.

No I do not think we need more guidelines. I was thinking though about how the small handful who against or neutral on banning Pupper Dog questioned how he actually violated the forum guidelines as written. I am not sure how I would phrase the charge against him, but the Pup still needed to be put to sleep. The werid thing ws that he tried to interwine irrelevant matters in subjects that, though bizaree, were tenuously related to the subject of this forum.

EW

[Robert Rojas]

Greetings to Chairman Pipes, his august lieutenants and the community as a whole. Well sir, in reference to your now vintage posting of Monday - September 20, 2004 - 8:23am, old Uncle Bob is curious IF there have been any addendums or amendments to this organization's guidelines since the genesis of this particular thread. Apart from your unambiguous prohibition with abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening and sexually-orientated materials, is there any administrative edict OR edicts which specifically establishes ironclad parameters on the nature and timeline of any bona fide topic of interest? In otherwords, is the resurrection of an "old" thread and its associated topic officially frowned upon by the forum's powers-that-be? Along a similar vein, would there be any limitations upon a thread's content even if that particular thread fell within the historical period of 1918 through 1945? Finally, on a purely incidental matter, does the Feldgrau Forum retain a formal definition on what technically constitutes a topical "contribution" to this organization? Once again, thank you in advance for entertaining my pointed inquisitiveness. Well, that's my initial two cents worth on this adminstrative topic - for now anyway. As always, I would like to bid you an especially copacetic day down in Baghdad-By-The-Bay.

[John W. Howard]

Hello Uncle Bob:
Jason would be the guy to ask about any changes in his guidelines; to my knowledge there have been no changes. There is no prohibition against re-starting an old thread provided the new information is relevant. There is no prohibition against threads dealing with 1918-1945 provided, once again, they are relevant. A topical posting would be one that deals with subject matter covered on this site; if there is doubt, a PM to Jason or the Mods could clear things up for you. Every once in awhile we let postings which are technically off-topic slide by, such as the recent one dealing with the weaponry of the Bundeswehr; and let existing threads move off-topic, such as one of our recent tank threads, which moved into a discussion of modern armor. In the scheme of things, they do no harm, have good info in them, and are of interest to other members. We do not want to make a habit of that though, because it would be all too easy to drift away from the purpose of this site. I hope I have helped. Best wishes.