1.) General Attitudes and Behavior
- 1a.) Arguments and/or Personal Insults
We are all for the spirit of debate but, when that debate becomes derailed and it's just insults-vs-insults, our moderators will be stepping in. Simply put....argue all you want in the spirit of discussion but, the second it turns to personal insults, it will be handled by the staff. This includes repeating that somebody is stupid in every other post. You can disagree with somebody without being a turd.
Examples:
Poster A is arguing with Poster B over something with the Team/Player. Poster B's logic is completely dismantled by Poster A. His only resort is to call the other one an idiot, etc. When your argument turns from sports to personal insults, it will be removed by a moderators.
Poster A fairly displays why Poster B is incorrect in his assessment of the Team's draft selections in a certain draft. However, he tops it off at the end by calling him a fucking moron. This is the type of activity that will also be deleted without further explanation.
Racism, Homophobia, Threats of Physical Violence, are off-limits. This includes working around censored word filters.
For the most part we will ask you to take your petty squabbles, if you insist on acting like children, into private messages. There is a reason they are called private messages: they are to remain out of sight of the general public. If you are directly threatened and perceive this as harassment etc., please use the "report" function. DO NOT make a thread airing out the private message as this will be a warn-able and/or ban-able offense.
- 1b.) Antagonizing and/or Following Users
You agree to not be hostile on ChiCitySports.com. If your only reasoning for being on the site is to be antagonistic, this is not the site for you. We are all sports fans, there is no reason for anybody to be at each others' throats.
Abusive, hateful, posting in harassing tones will result in deleted posts and a warning. Continuation will result in bans without any further explanation.
This also includes posting malicious images. This may include, but is not limited to: graphic images, pornography, strobe-like images. Even when intended as a joke. Being clever and hiding images that you are hell bent to post, but are considered malicious to other users(children, epileptics, squeamish, and so on) will also result in a ban and deletion of the posts, pending the situation and judgment of the staff.
If there is a user you dislike, don't follow them around the forum and reply to their posts to create a rouse. Use the ignore function first. If you choose not to use the ignore function for whatever reason, by default you accept the other users activity and it is no longer our problem whether you believe in using an ignore feature or not.
