Updated 5/31/2012 - Official City of Heroes Forum Rules and Guidelines

LOL I saw that rule hidden in there between 17 & 18 too!

HA! Just like Monty Python Bruces' Rule #6

Indeed, the strict meaning of the words is as you say. It connotes a less firm stance as I said. You can have the semantic trophy and I agree it is likely fine for a game message board rule set.

Just french-toastingly avoid it, because its granite-countertoppingly prohibited.

*Ahem*

Arcanaville,

*points fuzzy brown finger and elongates vocal cords for a much deeper voice*

Only you can prevent prohibited conduct...

Oh fine then.

TBH I have been guilty of this very rule myself, a while back >.> so I am rowing your boat too Arcana, lol.

It has never had that connotation for me. Avoid always meant "don't do it, stay away from it, shun it, etc" to me.

To have the connotation you seem to be giving it would seem to require wording similar to what I said earlier.

/shrug

In particular, I'm thinking of times when I've posted feedback to a player-written guide. Usually it's something along the lines of "I found this guide for Primary/Secondary powerset ATs to helpful because of X and Y. If you do an update, would it be possible to include Z or am I misunderstanding Z? My experience with G is different than the guide and previous player feedback in this thread--am I doing something wrong?"

There are times when I would like to post such feedback to a player guide more than 30 days after the last post. But posting the feedback and questions in the guide thread seems to be more reader-friendly, less confusing, and more efficient than the alternative. I could break the feedback and questions into 3 parts: Cut off the feedback and suggestion about Z and send a PM to the author (hiding the feedback from other, potentially guide-seeking or guide-writing players), ask about Z in a new thread with a link to the guide, and ask about G in a second new thread with a link to the guide.

I'd like to see some kind of leeway on the thread necromancy rules for Player Guides. I suspect that both writers and readers of guides use those guide threads differently than a typical question post. There is value in having feedback and ongoing discussion contained in the guide thread itself, rather than spinning out into multiple hard to find threads across the forums.

Thanks for reading all this.

... I hope Sentinel and HeroStats and VidiotMaps are okay...

Not to mention Mids.

this is so ridiculous.

not the prohibition, the way they go about it.

so if I type in curse words and the filter turns them into whatever it turns them into, like this:

****

****


that's fine.


But if I use a longstanding comic book convention to self-edit, as Arcana did (like turning **** into 'ampersand/exclamation point/hashtag/percentage sign') that's just OVER THE LINE and not acceptable.

But what if I 'say' _______, or XXXXXXX?

If the profanity of the statement is clear from context, then whatever convention you use to mask the words should be irrelevant as readers inclined to notice it will notice it whether it's been replaced by typographic fiat or by WAFFLES or DOGBITE or whatever.

If **** isn't actionable, then neither should any other masking technique be actionable.

There usually is an exception made for guides in the Guides forum. When people pull up a guide, they don't expect it to be fresh, topical information, but something written long ago. Thus, when it's necro'd, no one is confused about it being a new thread; nor is it a stealth form of bumping or lobbying.

Threads get necro'd not because the mods are sifting the forums looking for necro'd thread, but because they get reported as necro threads, at which point, a mod steps in to lock it. People very rarely would ever report a 'necro'd' guide as being a necro-post, thus, they are left alone. And if a new mod who doesn't know the score ever does become overzealous about locking a Guide thread, I wind up have a private chat with some folks to get it unlocked.