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Youk Of The Nation
10-07-2008, 08:46 AM
There has been a minor but noticeable increase in registration during the first few days of the postseason. We would like to start off by thanking all of our new users for choosing Talksox.com for their online Red Sox discussion destination, and welcoming you to the site.

Due to the influx of new members, we believe that a fresh explanation of some of the site's basic rules is in order.

The standard message board regulations apply here. No pornographic or otherwise obscene imagery. Keep the profanity to a minimum ('minimum' here at TalkSox being slightly more than other sites). No attacking or consistent insulting of each other. You know, the usual.

One of the TalkSox site rules that is not widely posted and therefore hard for new members to learn regards the categories of the forums and which of those categories a thread you may wish to start belongs in.

General Baseball Discussion is for specific topics regarding teams, transactions, or happenings in the Major Leagues that do not directly involve the Red Sox or the Yankees. Each of those two teams has a seperate forum for topics concerning them.

Anything Goes is for topics that either contain personal arguments or discussions not related to baseball and which contain content not suitable for the OffTopic Discussion Forum.

When you want to post a thread, the first thing you should do is check the first page of the forum you are posting in to ensure that a similar or identical topic has not been posted. If it has, and you post your topic, they will be merged. Do not take this as a personal insult. In order to facilitate discussion we want to keep as many different topics on the main pages as possible, avoiding clutter.

We all love the Red Sox. (Well, most of us. There are a few Yankees fans and even a White Sox fan or two registered here). While we appreciate and share your love for the Sox and your enthusiasm when they succeed, it is preferable that you express this love and adoration in the gamethreads for the days on which they occur. "I love Josh Beckett", "I love the Sawx", "Go Boston", and "I want to rub Dustin Pedroia's premature male pattern baldness spot for good luck" are all feelings we can agree with, but in a forum such as General Baseball Discussion, they simply clutter the board and push topics about the world of baseball further down the page. If you absolutely feel you must create a new topic solely to say 'Go Sox', the proper forum for that would be Anything Goes, because there...well, anything goes!

In essence...please be sure that a topic you create belongs in the forum you create it in, and never hesitate to send a private message to one of the Moderation Team, or post a topic in The Front Desk forum, if you need advice, help, or any other form of assistance from us.


Thank you for reading! Remember...enjoy the site, never be afraid to say what you want, and of course...



GO SOX!

Youk Of The Nation
10-07-2008, 08:49 AM
Oh, and to our veteran members: Remember you were new once yourselves. When a new member creates a thread in the wrong forum, let them know what the proper thing to do is, rather than just poke fun at them. No one will ever learn the right thing to do unless you longtime members inform them of it, right?

Gom
10-07-2008, 10:35 AM
Kill the newbies. Every last one of them.

dreilly
10-07-2008, 12:59 PM
Yeah, especially the ones who make "My man Beckett is back " posts and then send me a nasty PM cause I replied to the post.

Soxfan#1
10-07-2008, 02:00 PM
Oh they learned how to PM?

Gom
10-07-2008, 04:28 PM
Kill them all. You'll thank me later.

cobra24
12-14-2008, 01:37 AM
Can someone tell me how i can sign up for anything goes??? it tell me its private on the home page and you have to be signed up for it.

thank you.

Coco's Disciples
12-14-2008, 01:41 AM
It's a really long registration process, you have to get recommendations.

I kid, it's somewhere in your CP. I'll check right now...

EDIT: User CP-Networking-Group Memberships

cobra24
12-14-2008, 01:42 AM
ouch! dont like to welcome new people ah?