Posting Guidelines "The Nature of the Business...."

Recent events here on the board have caused us to realize that when we switched over to the new board system, we neglected to bring our site guidelines over as well. While for 99.9% of our posters, these reminders are never necessary, we thought that we'd get them posted here. It's not fair for us to try to enforce things when the guidelines are merely understood, rather than explicitly stated. We apologize for any confusion that may have caused.

Dirty Laundry -- Rules and Regulations

1. We do not tolerate personal attacks of any kind. It is 100% okay if you want to disagree with someone else's opinion. We encourage lively and spirited debate. Please refrain, though, from personally attacking another poster. Posts containing personal attacks will be deleted. If someone is using the PM system to make personal attacks, please let us know. We can't take care of what we don't know about.

2. We will delete any account that is impersonating a member of the Eagles or their organization. Additionally, please do not make multiple accounts to hide behavior or to agree with yourself. Remember, we can see IP addresses.

3. If you aren't here to engage in a COMMUNITY devoted to the Eagles, please rethink your participation in the board. We don't understand why people who don't like the Eagles, it's fans or the moderators of this board would devote time and energy here. If you engage in activity that undermines the community here, your account will be deleted. Let us make clear as well that there is a difference between having your account deleted and having your account banned. Over the course of the years, we've deleted the accounts of many people. We delete accounts that look like Spammers or who sneak past our spam protection and post advertising and porn. We delete the accounts of people who ask us to for various reasons. We've also deleted the accounts of people whose actions or words have made it clear that they did not want to be a part of this community. All of those people (except for the spammers) are welcome to create new accounts and engage in the community if they wish. I believe that over the course of the years, we've only had to permanently ban (that's when we add your IP address to a list so that you can't resign up again) 2 or 3 people. It was usually for threats or violence that we did that. Perhaps we haven't made that exactly clear, but hopefully this post will explain our position on things. We WANT people to engage in the community. Otherwise, why have one at all?

Let Somebody Love You -- Making the Board Run Smoothly

The following are some general tips to help us keep the board running smoothly and efficiently. If you have questions, please ask.

1. Please try to keep topics ON TOPIC. Of course, sometimes topics wander off course, but if things get seriously derailed, please make a new topic for the new thread of conversation.

2. If something turns into a personal conversation between two members, please take it to PM. Ask yourself, "Is this conversation for the community?" If not, please take it private.

3. Standards of taste and what is acceptable / not acceptable will be determined by the tone of the community. Remember, people under 18 read these boards. To paraphrase Justice Potter Stewart the community will "...know it when we see it."

4. Let us know. When things are bothering you or you think something wasn't fair or clear, please let us know. As I said above, we can't fix what we don't know is broken.

I think that's it. This is a community, though, so we invite feedback and comments on this list. For the most part, this community runs itself and we are very appreciative of our awesome members.