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The Rules on Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:39 pm

Peebrain

Site Admin
Joined: 27 Nov 2005
Posts: 716

How to be a Good Leader:
1. Be Nice
2. Be Involved
3. Be Honest
4. Be Intelligent
5. Be Fair
6. Be Understanding
7. Be Willing to Work

How to Respect Others:
1. Do not talk about religion/spirituality
2. Do not talk about psychic combat
3. Give proper credit
4. Do not violate copyright laws
5. Avoid the mentality of "I'm right, everyone else is wrong"
6. Don't try to manipulate others
7. When in doubt, communicate

How to be a Good Author:
1. Use correct spelling and grammar
2. Have a clear purpose and stay on topic
3. Be precise and concise
4. Research your topic in depth
5. Use pictures
6. Organize sections intelligently
7. Understand your audience

How to be a Good Skeptic:
1. Recognize the source of information
2. Understand the limitations of your source
3. Research evidence without bias
4. Understand different perspectives
5. When in doubt, ask for more evidence
6. Present reasonable ways for others to validate your claims
7. Doubt everything and ask questions

How to be Credible:
1. Avoid creating new terms
2. Avoid re-defining terms
3. Cite your sources of information (including personal experience)
4. Use reputable sources of information
5. Listen to people who disagree with you
6. Explore multiple perspectives
7. Avoid preaching "the truth"

How to be Responsible:
1. Do not advocate substance abuse
2. Do not give medical advice
3. Do not post obscene information
4. Do not post personal contact information (other than e-mail)
5. Do not advocate breaking the law
6. Hold yourself to high standards
7. Maintain a "PG-13" level of decency

How to Keep Things Fun:
1. Don't attack others
2. Don't look down on others
3. Don't force your beliefs/opinions on others
4. Avoid taking things personally
5. Keep things in perspective
6. Realize we're all in this together
7. Laugh Smile

These are the new rules. I am open to suggestions on how to improve them, but I think they cover mostly everything. I will be using these same rules for future restrictions regarding articles, so feel free to pick them apart and try to find ways someone could argue in favor of something against common sense.

For more information on how to be a respected member of the forums, please see PantsParty's article located at http://psipog.net/show.php?cmd=wp&id=38 .

~Sean
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Posted on Tue Feb 07, 2006 10:58 pm

Tenkei_Enzeru

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Posts: 50

Thank you.
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Posted on Wed Feb 08, 2006 8:51 am

Apollo

Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 1589

nice rules Sean!
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Posted on Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:45 am

AeroWing

Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Posts: 8

I'm just voicing my opinion but I think not talking about combat is a pretty stupid rule, I mean, there's a good chance people will get attacked at one point or another, and if the attacekr won't listen to reason, the person should know how to fight back to SOME extent, as opposed to just sitting there keeping up your defenses. and also, knowing about these things helps in coming up with ways to defend against them.

Once again, I'm just voicing my opinion.
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Posted on Thu Feb 23, 2006 7:58 am

Calgore

Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Posts: 6

AeroWing wrote:
I'm just voicing my opinion but I think not talking about combat is a pretty stupid rule, I mean, there's a good chance people will get attacked at one point or another, and if the attacekr won't listen to reason, the person should know how to fight back to SOME extent, as opposed to just sitting there keeping up your defenses. and also, knowing about these things helps in coming up with ways to defend against them.

Once again, I'm just voicing my opinion.


Well, I would think combat would take quite some time to bear fruit. A bad situation is a psinoob getting mugged and saying "mind attack! nunununununuunununununununun!" Then, after he learned something, starts giving random people migraines in the mall. Little positive would come out of it, and a load of negative. If you want to defend yourself, learn akido or some martial art.

Unless you were talking about defending yourself from a Psiattack. For that I would think passive aggressive is the way to go. Eventually the psiattacker would just get bored and move on to giving headaches to people in the mall.
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Posted on Thu Feb 23, 2006 9:34 am

somefatguy

Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 1187

AeroWing wrote:
I'm just voicing my opinion but I think not talking about combat is a pretty stupid rule, I mean, there's a good chance people will get attacked at one point or another, and if the attacekr won't listen to reason, the person should know how to fight back to SOME extent, as opposed to just sitting there keeping up your defenses. and also, knowing about these things helps in coming up with ways to defend against them.

Once again, I'm just voicing my opinion.


Well, if you are saying "attacked" by the fact that it is physical damage to your body...you should just learn a form of karate to defend yourself instead. Because lots of people have argued about it and I don't think they have gotten anywhere.
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Posted on Thu Feb 23, 2006 11:56 am

Red_Devil

Joined: 14 Jan 2006
Posts: 136

This is my opinion, but... what about you close this topic, so it doesn't get cluttered with replies? People can always you some feedback on changing the rules through pm or something...

Just my $0.02.
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Posted on Thu Feb 23, 2006 1:02 pm

Apollo

Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 1589

I think it is pretty obvious that he was talking about psychic combat. You cannot learn karate to defend yourself from that. But to refrain from going on and on, here are two links to threads that already talk about this:

http://www.psipog.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1059

http://www.psipog.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=180

There was another one but I cannot find it at the moment
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Posted on Thu Feb 23, 2006 3:43 pm

Peebrain

Site Admin
Joined: 27 Nov 2005
Posts: 716

I edited the rule to specify "psychic combat" instead of just "combat". For more discussion on why this rule exists, please see the threads Apollo posted above, and this thread:

http://psipog.net/forums/viewtopic.php?t=773

~Sean
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Posted on Thu Feb 23, 2006 6:55 pm

Apollo

Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 1589

yes that was the other one Smile
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Posted on Thu Feb 23, 2006 10:57 pm

somefatguy

Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 1187

I don't find it too obvious that he meant psychic combat because he said that you are bound to get attacked eventually and to my knowledge getting randomly attacked by a phychic is pretty rare. And yes it doesn't necessarly have to be random but if it isn't random then you would probably know it was going to happen and then you would be able to refrain yourself for doing and covince the attacker that violence is not the answer. I am insulted and I am going to go to cry in me room and eat 2 more pizzas now...how do you feel? Huh?
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Posted on Fri Feb 24, 2006 12:08 am

Apollo

Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 1589

AeroWing wrote:
the person should know how to fight back to SOME extent, as opposed to just sitting there keeping up your defenses


This hints it majorly. How do you "keep up your defenses" in physical world? Plus, i dont think he would be talking about something like karate in a psipog forum.

PS: Pizza sounds good right now!
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Posted on Fri Feb 24, 2006 5:05 am

AeroWing

Joined: 22 Feb 2006
Posts: 8

I can understand why not, and I also realize that saying you are bound to get attacked was a little exaggerated. But the chances of it are increasing, because psionics as a whole is increasing in popularity. But whatever, I guess I was just discussing the positives without looking too much on the negatives, and I can understand it what with this being a very popular site in the world of psionics, and therefore it's much safer for a smaller site to allow combat discussions. But these are all just my views on the subject, which I can't stop saying. If you want, Just forget I said anything.
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Posted on Fri Feb 24, 2006 9:20 am

somefatguy

Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 1187

Apollo wrote:
AeroWing wrote:
the person should know how to fight back to SOME extent, as opposed to just sitting there keeping up your defenses


This hints it majorly. How do you "keep up your defenses" in physical world? Plus, i dont think he would be talking about something like karate in a psipog forum.

PS: Pizza sounds good right now!


Yep, I guess you got me Chris...I am just too stuburn to give up. I didn't read that little part...I was skimming through it quickly.
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Posted on Mon Mar 13, 2006 10:36 pm

polaris

Joined: 12 Mar 2006
Posts: 27

I think those are good rules, but a tad overcomplicated. To me they all say the same basic thing - Show respect in everything you say. However, I feel it is wrong to say 'Dont talk about this'. Limiting freedom of speech never solved anything. However, thats just my 2 cents.
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