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When reporting a post

RBR — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:16:09 +0800

We have been experiencing a major surge in reported posts recently. A very high percentage of them are simply discarded as they are not of reportable nature.

Below is a guide of when to report and when not to report:

When should I report?

Personal attacks: When someone makes a post that is personally attacking another person.

Illegal / inappropriate: When someone is posting a link to or asking for help acquiring illegal, copyrighted or otherwise inappropriate material. This includes things such as warez, porn, or anything against any law of the country.

Blatant and persistent foul language: Excessive use of profanity is neither constructive nor communicative. The odd minor infraction in an otherwise helpful and on-topic post isn't such a big deal, but frequent use, or the use of 'harder' language certainly warrants a report.

Off-topic / hijacking: Blatant attempts to drag a thread offtopic, or to 'hijack' a thread, unless the thread is in the Lifestyle Sections.

When should I not?

Wrong information: Being incorrect is not grounds for the removal of a post. If you believe that someone has lead someone else astray, write a response to offer what you believe is correct.

Singe use of foul language: Ignore it.

Personal issues: Live with it.

Double posts/Triple posts: Its minor and unintentional. Ignore it.

Spam in Lifestyle Sections: This is unavoidable. The sheer volume of posts there makes it impossible for us to effectively and expeditiously attend to reports, particularly in Kopitiam.

How should I report

Provide us with sufficient information to make a good judgment call. If there are multiple posts that are infringing in the same page, report just one post and let the moderator know the details.

If there is a duplicate thread, provide us with a link to the other thread.

If the thread should be moved, a suggestion as to where you think its more suitable would be appreciated!

Post Count Disabled

RBR — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:46:58 +0800

Post count in Pets Wonderlands is disabled until further notice.

Please raise any queries with me

Just a few things...

RBR — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 17:35:48 +0800

Some personnel changes:-

1. alien2003 is now a full moderator.

2. Asendure and shockw@ve have tendered their resignations as Staffs due to work and other commitments.

3. jhcj, yongkailoon and stevenistelrooy have been appointed as Staffs.

Vulgarities and Profanities

RBR — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 10:57:10 +0800

The use of vulgarities is prohibited. It was never allowed in the first place, which is why we filtered them out. However, since people are circumventing the filters, from now on, if you use 'fark' or any other word which is essentially conveying the same thing, it is punishable by a warning.

To reflect this as official policy, we have dutifully updated the board R&R:- http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=boardrules

Action: Using profanities or vulgarities, as determined according to discretion of a member of the moderating team
Result: A warning is issued for the first offence, and suspensions for multiple offences.

The reasons why its not allowed:-

1. It is unnecessary. Other words will serve you just as well.

2. LYN is viewed in offices, schools, colleges, universities and even at home where parents might not approve of foul language. Its important we have an image as a clean forum.

3. It is uncouth.

4. Plenty of people are misusing the leverage we've been giving so far.

There will be plenty of grey areas, which will be dealt with at the discretion of the moderator.
There will be inconsistencies, which is an unfortunate consequence of every new rule.
There will be misgivings, but they should iron out after a while.

If you're concerned, the best way is simply to avoid putting yourself in a situation where it may be seen as vulgar.

As always, Feedback Desk for any feedback

Ho Ho Ho!

RBR — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 01:02:47 +0800

A very Merry Christmas to all LYNers celebrating Christmas, and Happy Holidays to the rest

Merchandise Sales

RBR — Sat, 06 Oct 2007 22:13:39 +0800

This is an announcement to all, in particular to those involved in the printing and subsequent sale of merchandise in the Trade Zone bearing logos and/or names of brands or companies (football clubs, TV show, car, product etc).

Unless you obtain written permission from the respective companies, you may not sell such products on Lowyat.NET. You are most likely in breach of trade mark laws, and the last thing we need is a lawsuit.

If you already have such a thread running:-
1) Close the thread immediately.
2) If printing has been ordered, fulfill all sales via PM.
3) If printing has not been ordered yet, conduct refunds immediately.

If you are unsure as to whether your thread would infringe trade mark laws, drop me a PM and I'll try my best to help you out

Board updates!

RBR — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 16:48:22 +0800

Here are some recent updates:-

- A section ~~tentatively~~ named ~~"Life's Matters"~~ Roundtable Discussions will house the more serious subforums from Lifestyle.

- Anime Shrine sits on its own...

- Blogsentral and the Malaysian Blogosphere is now a subforum in Kopitiam.

Personnel updates:-

- The 4 probationary moderators (sihumchai, MayAnne, c9 and cherroy) are now full moderators

- 7 'retirements'. They are chewxy, Gigabitz, bwan, winD, Shinigami, Yukito and perror.

- One new staff so far - goldfries.

Cheers all!

CoupeFan banned

RBR — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 18:28:56 +0800

We have just banned CoupeFan from this forum together with 2 of his duplicate accounts for being an miserable troll, consistently breaking the rules and having no respect for other members of the community. He is no longer welcomed in LYN.

In order to make this work, please assist us by PMing me if you feel he has created a new account for himself and began posting again.

Thanks.

Vista!

RBR — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 10:28:21 +0800

A new subforum for all your Windows Vista needs

http://forum.lowyat.net/WindowsVista

Moderator Applications

RBR — Sat, 14 Jul 2007 07:10:55 +0800

Its time Finance, Business and Investment House has its own moderator

If you would like to moderate this section, or have someone in mind to moderate this section, to drop me a PM.

Requirements:-
1) Posts well across the board
2) Is around often (3-4 times a week at least)
3) Is courteous and friendly

Preferably:-
1) Has ample knowledge in finance, business, investment and property areas
2) Is around more often
3) Has plans to improve the forums in general

Please drop me a PM to suggest someone.

List of 'no post count' subforums.

RBR — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 09:50:13 +0800

Since this is a source of consternation for many members, we've taken the liberty (with a little help from stevenistelrooy) to update our FAQ list or which subforums have post count and which don't.

The following are subforums where there is no post count:-

1. Announcements
2. Main Site/Forum Feedback and Helpdesk
3. Events and Gatherings
4. Gamers' Hideout + its subforums
5. Consoles Couch + its subforums
6. Kopitiam + its subforums
7. Movies & Music + its subforums
8. Trade Zone (Garage Sales, Bulk Orders, Classifieds)
9. Broadband User-2-User
10. Members Store
11. Hardware Questions & Answers
12. Hobbies & Modelling
13. Girls Club + its subforums
14. Trade Zone Dispute Resolution
15. Travel & Living
16. LYN T-Shirt Design Competition '07

We'll try to update the FAQ as often as possible.
http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=faq&article=3

T-shirt competition - REMINDER

RBR — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 16:37:40 +0800

To all those who have opened a thread here to post up your entry, please remember that it is still NOT submitted until you have emailed your entry to submit[at]lowyat.net.

Also, if you have sent your entry to submit[at]lowyat.net, then we have received it. We can't confirm receipt as we receive way too many entries to efficiently reply to each and every one of you.

LYN T-Shirt Design Competition

RBR — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 18:41:13 +0800

Yes guys, its finally here!

First step is to get ourselves a design, and the design of the T-shirt would be by a member, as chosen by members.

Rules, Terms, Conditions and Other Important Information

1. Your submission of an entry in this competition signifies your acceptance of the terms and conditions as listed here, and any other rules as we may impose from time to time.

2. The competition is only open to registered Lowyat.NET community members, except Administrators and Forum Administrators. Thats se7en himself, wKkaY, nexus- and RBR.

3. To enter the Lowyat.NET T-Shirt Design Competition, all entries must be completed with the T-Shirt template attached below with a design which includes Lowyat.NET logos and their individual interpretation of the Lowyat.NET's personality with no limitations of any creative briefs.

4. All entrants must submit their design in *.PSD or *.AI format with a JPEG thumbnail with the size of (400px x 400px) and equip their entry with any additional notes or remarks that signifies their design, name, Lowyat.NET handle (username), IC number, address, contact number, email address and submit it to: submit[at]lowyat.net [This is an email address. Replace the [at] with '@'. We made it this way to prevent spam bots. This explanation was added because, yes, I have quite incredulously received 2 PMs so far asking what 'submit[at]lowyat.net' is.]

5. The Lowyat.NET T-Shirt Design Competition commences on 8th April 2007. All entries must be received by 11.59pm, 30th April 2007. Late entries, or entries not in accordance with Rule 4 above will not be considered.

7. The judging process will take place in the following manner:-
a) A small group of members (approximately 8) consisting of regular forum members, moderators, staffs and administrative staff, as chosen by se7en, will select 10 designs from all the valid entries received.
b) The winner will then be the design with the highest votes from the 10, as voted by registered members of this forum.

8. We will, without notice, disqualify any entry we deem to have been fraudulently voted upon. We can, at our discretion, change the final voting system should fraud be evidenced.

8. There will be ONE main winner whose design will become the basis of the T-Shirt. This design may be modified.

9. The winner will win a Samsung SGH-Z560 mobile phone worth RM1,599, as reviewed here and a Lowyat.NET T-shirt. The remaining 9 finalists will be mailed the T-shirt once it has been printed. [Note : Phone NOT sponsored by Samsung. Finalist might get more than one t-shirt (we're printing baby-T's too) depending on availability]

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10. The Organiser shall not be liable if, for any reason outside its control, the Samsung SGH-Z560 becomes unavailable. We will, however, endeavour to replace it with a similarly valued replacement.

11. If the Organiser is unable to contact the Winner after a period of 2 weeks following the original judging date, having made reasonable efforts to do so, the Organiser reserves the right to re-judge from the remaining eligible entries and select another winning design.

12. All prizes will be mailed to the winners unless otherwise stated. If your address or any other details provided is invalid, your prize is forfeited.

12. All entrants must ensure their entries are original. The Organiser reserves the right to verify the validity of all entries. The Organiser also reserves the right to disqualify any entrant for tampering with the entry process or attempting to act in a fraudulent, plagiarism and does not breach rights such as copyright and trademarks. Designs must not in any way libellous, obscene, menacing, threatening, offensive, abusive, fraudulent, criminal or that they infringe the rights of other people or are in any way illegal or otherwise dishonest manner.

13. The Winner of Lowyat.NET T-Shirt Design Competition will be announced publicly on the main site of Lowyat.NET at an appropriate time.

14. All entries and intellectual property rights will be assigned automatically as the property of the Organiser upon submission. Entries will be re-produced at the Organiser's discretion. You are not to re-use any submitted designs for any other purposes.

16. The Organiser will hold and may use personal information accompanying any entries for purposes relating to the promotion and for sending entrants promotional and other material in relation to future offers, information and activities of the Organiser, unless otherwise advised by the entrant at the time of entry. All entrants have the right to inspect and update their personal information at any time.

17. You may at your own discretion upload a watermarked image of your design on the submission thread in this subforum for feedback and such. However, the official entry for the competition will only be accepted via submit[at]lowyat.net as stated above.

T-shirt design template

The background colour of the T-shirt will be black. Your design should take that into account.

Below is the T-shirt template on which you are to base your design on. You may modify the template provided, or use your own template should you see fit.

Logo PSD -> http://www.lowyat.net/microsite/tshirt07/dudes.zip

2 new mods!

RBR — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 09:36:43 +0800

A quick announcement regarding the appointment of 2 moderators effective yesterday:-

1. VincC454 for Hobbies, Collectibles and Model Kits

2 youngkies for Handphones & Communications

Thats all folks!

New Section - Classifieds

RBR — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 00:22:33 +0800

We've introduced 2 new subforums under the Classifieds section - Jobs and Properties. All job listings (seekers and providers) and property sales/seekers should now post under the new Classifieds section.

We'll refine the rules and tags as we move along.

The Be All and End All Guide on Indirect Bumps

RBR — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 22:43:08 +0800

There seems to be plenty of confusion as to what is considered an indirect bump and what is allowed. This guide will contain the definitive guide as to what is and what is not an indirect bump.

As a general rule to moderators and enforcers, we will not be too fussy or narrow-minded. The benefit of the doubt, if there is one, will always be given to you.

NOT ALLOWED
1. 'UGPM'
2. 'Bump'
3. 'anyone?'
4. 'please buy'
5. come come
6. ..etc are all NOT allowed.

ALLOWED
1. Price changes - Posting a post when you change your price is allowed, provided its not done too often that it becomes a sham.

2. Compliments - Posting to thank someone for compliments is allowed. However, if you have 3 compliments, please thank all in one post rather than post three in intervals. Intention matters.

3. Availability notices - Posting to say something is already sold is allowed. In a similar note, posting to say you have something in stock is allowed.

4. Reservation notices - When an item is reserved for someone, posting it is perfectly fine and even encouraged.

5. Updates - You may post to state you have updated your first post, but you must state what it was which has been updated (eg, price, pictures). You may, however, not post to state you have updated your buyer list for bulk items.

<<This post will be updated as necessary>>

New Moderator - fru!tlo0p

RBR — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 17:13:04 +0800

fru!tlo0p has been assigned moderating privileges at Technical Support. We hope you will extend to him the same cooperation that you have extended to the rest of the team here.

2 important changes recently made

RBR — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 07:29:07 +0800

Please note that we've made some changes recently which may impact your forum-ing experience on LYN...

1. There's a new Finance, Business and Investment House under the Lifestyle section. It is for discussion on areas as its title suggests.

It is not for posting property, stocks or bonds etc that you personally are seeking a buyer for. Post that in Garage Sales instead. The posting of referral programs or any MLM scheme (however legitimate looking) is strictly prohibited.

http://forum.lowyat.net/index.php?act=SF&s=&f=153

2. There is a new PM limit in place for new members. Its best explained in an example:-

QUOTE

A member who registers today gets to send an unlimited number of PMs to only 5 distinct members. Tomorrow, that member gets to send an unlimited number of PMs to 10 different members. The day after, it is 15, following that, 20. And it keeps increasing...

This is to put a stop to recent spates of PM spamming we've had. We believe this change would have no impact at all to the large majority of new members.

Welcome to Finance, Business and Investment House!

RBR — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 19:23:19 +0800

As promised and requested, here it is, on a trial basis to test the waters and see if there is enough interest.

Here's to a long future. There are no moderators as of yet, don't apply to be one yet while we ascertain if it will be permanent

Post away!

Btw, no soliciting for loans, advertising to provide loans here please. And, if you can think up a better description for the forum than the current one, do let me know

If you've posted a self-made guide

RBR — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 08:36:24 +0800

If you have written a self-made guide, please PM me if you would like it published under the 'Guides' section on the main page of Lowyat.NET.