Read the directions carefully before taking any action.
This is bolded, this is italicized, and this is underlined. Please do not make me repeat myself.
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Welcome to the Club Forum!
This is the forum where you will find various clubs of basically anything, whether it be silly or serious. Clubs can range from movies, actors -- to books, and hobbies. Don't hesitate to join any forum you wish. This'll be a very neat, healthy, friendly forum if you follow the following guidelines:
1. Members will be allowed to create as many clubs as they please. We have vetoed the ‘2’ clubs only rule. Members who have PM’d about their clubs should know that their clubs can continue running. However if you do not want to continue running a club, please post in this thread and we will take it off the Club Directory and your club will be closed and deleted.
2. Please do not create a new club before running it through us. This is for organizational reasons to try not to create too many threads of the same thing. [I.E. "Harry Potter Fan Club" - "We Love Harry Potter Club", etc.] Any clubs that are created without consulting the moderators or has not been requested using this thread will be closed and deleted, no questions asked.
3. Anti-Clubs.... will not be tolerated. For reasons that should be obvious, there will be tension and arguments will break out from left and right and we don't want that. Try and keep the forum positive, you don't want to spread hate.
We're sorry if these rules seem unfair but we have reasons for them without trying to be extremely strict like some other website forums. Our goal isn't to try and take away your priviledges but to keep the forum as friendly, neat, and easy-to-use as possible.
If you no other questions, please feel free to post your club request in this thread.
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Due to recent changes in the post-counts on some forums, I would like to address something.
[x] Please do not look towards the Club Section for easy ways to get posts.
The whole reason why Misc. Randomness club was stripped of post-count was because of its lack of quality in post posts.
[x] The Club forum will not be a new home for short and useless posts.
[x] You MUST post in relation to or about the topic that the club is for.
For example: In an Eowyn Fanclub, you MUST talk about Eowyn or anything in similarity to Eowyn.
In the Unity clubs, you MUST talk about your post-counts or what your next goal for post counts is.
The only threads that are exceptions to this guidelines is the Randomness Club but technically, you can talk about random things.
[x] If your thread has started to get off-topic, you will receive a post in the thread that looks like this...
Reminder wrote:
Whoops! It looks like the topic of conversation has swayed off to the main point of the club. Please steer it back!
If you <i>do not</i> steer it back or the topic has swayed again much too soon after the reminder, the club will be closed for a day or two.
[x] Absolutely, NO posts that only contain a few words or two. The post must complete a thought. At least a sentence --- a smilie does not complete a thought. Moderators will remind the individual as needed.
A-U Moderators wrote:
To whom it may concern (aka everyone),
The A-U Moderators have had many discussions about how much we agreed that because we encourage using the forum more of a well…. forum and not a chat, from now on all clubs are to be ON-TOPIC. They MUST be have a subject or a specific range of subjects. Clubs cannot be just for a specific GROUP of people to “hang-out”.
Posts such as…
‘What are we talking about?’
‘Hey, I’m back! How is everyone?’
‘Welcome back!’
‘I don’t know what’s going on.’
‘I gotta go, see ya!’
… are not acceptable in on-topic threads (hint: clubs), or any other thread on the forum for that matter.
Thank you for your cooperation,
<s>The Nazgul</s> A-U Moderators
The A-U Moderators have had many discussions about how much we agreed that because we encourage using the forum more of a well…. forum and not a chat, from now on all clubs are to be ON-TOPIC. They MUST be have a subject or a specific range of subjects. Clubs cannot be just for a specific GROUP of people to “hang-out”.
Posts such as…
‘What are we talking about?’
‘Hey, I’m back! How is everyone?’
‘Welcome back!’
‘I don’t know what’s going on.’
‘I gotta go, see ya!’
… are not acceptable in on-topic threads (hint: clubs), or any other thread on the forum for that matter.
Thank you for your cooperation,
<s>The Nazgul</s> A-U Moderators
||| --- ||| If you are confused, or need clarification about what your club should mainly discuss, please <b><i><u> PM </u></i></b> me [Kitoky].
