Overall, please keep your chat relevant to the game going on at the time, and respect other posters, many of whom are school-aged. If you follow those two principles and stay premium, everything should be tickety-boo. Specifically, breaking the following rules is grounds for banning:
- No abuse of other posters. Friendly banter is okay, but please do not be nasty.
- No bogus info. This includes posting rubbish rumours. Be aware that if you play the game of starting or perpetuating rumours, even if you heard something on the radio or saw it on TV yourself, you could be banned for it temporarily, as the mods aren't all-knowing. To be safe, please cite your source if you are repeating a report from elsewhere. The mods (especially m0nty) have no sense of humour about this rule.
- No spoilers from other games. If people want to hear about other games, they will go to the relevant pages. Please respect others in this matter.
- No links to live streams of AFL games. There are no legal live streams of games to Australian users, so please don't ask for them, and especially don't respond to requests.
- Talking about issues not related to the game at hand is strongly discouraged. This applies even during in-game breaks. Some games are more exciting than others, so attention may waver somewhat in junk time of a boring match, so some leeway is given in certain circumstances. Nevertheless, please do not abuse this rule. Understand that you leave yourself open to be banned if you use the chat to talk to your friends and ignore the game. That's what IM is for.
- Talking about other sports is even more strongly discouraged, and is often the cause of a ban. This is not a soccer or basketball site. Talk about Australian football, please.
- Please do not try to conduct an ongoing discussion with mods about who should be banned, or about banning policies. There is a
Feedback forum for such discussions.
- There is a swear filter in place, which is why you will probably see the words "flower" and "shower" a lot, among others. Swearing in itself is not a bannable offence, but testing out the swear filter, trying to avoid it, and/or posting nothing but swear words will get you banned.
- Other things are discouraged, and if you do them often enough you will get banned. This includes "[badplayer] is my captain" jokes and posting PNG predictions.
- Acting like an idiot will get you banned. This rule covers things like posting upside-down text, talking in IM speak, obvious trolling, banging on and on about one specific point, and not being a loss to the FF community in general. This also covers racism, sexism, potty mouths and other immaturity.
These rules are in place to ensure a friendly, football-focused chat environment. If you can't handle that, that is your problem.
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