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Old 08-04-06, 04:17 pm
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Talking Impactions--Wheeks & Poos!

Guinea Pig Cages now has an Forum Impaction System in place! Well, the technical name is infraction, but we decided we are calling it Impaction!

Our moderators and administrators can now easily click on a post and select from our list of impactions. A post impaction carries a "poo point" value and an expiration time. We can elect to just issue a warning (with no poo points) or the impaction with the poo points. We are calling our warnings: Wheeks! We can also issue custom or manual impactions with custom poo points and expirations. So, we will be issuing Wheeks and Poos!

This should make it easier and less time consuming for our moderators to stay on top of things.

Impactions can be appealed and potentially reversed.

5 poo points will cause a member to be moved to moderated (or 'Cavy Caged') status.

Registered members can see if a post has generated an impaction. There will be a little yellow or red (warning or points) marker in the bottom right of the screen (until we come up with better graphics!)

Impactions automatically generate a private message or email to the user with the specific impaction and poo points associated with it along with a link to the post that caused the impaction.

A list of impactions and poo points follows.

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Old 08-04-06, 05:13 pm
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Impaction Notifications

IF you get an impaction notice from us, you will receive a Private Message that will look something like this:

Impaction notice!

Dear Teresa,

We have an issue with this post:
post link

Because of: Copyright infringment (or whatever).

Our standard explanation or a custom explanation as to this particular impaction.

This impaction is worth 1 poo(s) until it expires. 5 accumulated poos or more will result in restricted posting. You may not have had a chance to read the forum rules yet. Please do read over our policies and guidelines, here: http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/...ing-rules.html and here:
http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/policies-guidelines.

We look forward to your continued and improved participation on the forum.

All the best,
Guinea Pig Cages Forum Management
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Wheek Notice!

Dear Teresa,

This is a just a warning wheek about this post:
post link

Because of: Copyright infringment (or whatever).

Our standard explanation or a custom explanation as to this particular impaction.

You may not have had a chance to read the forum rules yet. Please do read over our policies and guidelines, here: Guinea Pig Cages Forum - Information in Forum : Cavy Chat and here:
http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/policies-guidelines

We want you to get the maximum enjoyment and value from our forum.

For more information on our impaction policies and how it works, please see this thread:
http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/...on-system.html

Thank you very much for your attention to these details. We look forward to your continued and improved participation.

All the best,
Guinea Pig Cages Forum Management

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Old 08-04-06, 05:54 pm
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Impaction Awards

Impactions:

1 poo, 14 days
  • Copyright infringement
  • Newbie Attack
  • Posting like a moderator
  • Stating opinion as fact
  • Too many smilies
  • Religious or political debate
  • Improper photo in post
  • Improper link
  • Posting your age if under 18
  • Improper Gallery Photo/s
  • Resurrecting dead threads
  • Creating Multiple threads
1 poo, 30 days
  • Spelling
  • Grammar
  • Punctuation
  • Capitalization
  • Run-on post, needs paragraphs
  • Posting in all color, all bold or all caps
  • Inappropriate Language
  • Name calling
  • Abusing Thanks and Groans feature
2 poos, 30 days
  • Chat speak
  • Grammar & capitalization & punctuation
2 poos, 60 days
  • Arguing on your first posts
  • Giving bad advice
  • Breeding and/or Showing "How-To"
3 poos, 60 days
  • Reported abuse from private msgs
  • Racial or Non-Politically Correct Slur
  • Insulting another member
  • Flouncing post
  • Posting again after a flounce post (6 points is Caged!)
Serious offenses
  • Changing email to an invalid address (10 poos)
  • Alter-ego, duplicate account: Explain (10 poos)
  • Alter-ego, duplicate account: Banned (20 poos)
  • Spamming or soliciting on Private Messages (20 poos)
  • Spammer (22 poos)
  • Troll (25 poos)
5 ACCUMULATED poos will cause moderation status (Cavy Caged).
10 ACCUMULATED poos will cause moderation status with PMs revoked.
20 ACCUMULATED poos is banned.

For a while, this will be changing this quite often as we think of new things or readjust based on how it works it.

Any impaction can be given as a wheek! Additional poos and impactions can be given at our discretion. This gives us lattitude, but makes it easier to manage and gives our members more visibility into how we are trying to keep things in line and the forum a pleasurable experience for all!

Please note: Alter-ego means creating a SECOND userid OR sharing a password with an existing member.

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Old 08-07-06, 09:19 am
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Re: Impactions--Wheeks & Poos!

If a person has received an impaction poo or wheek, there is either a yellow (wheek) or red (poo) flag icon in the bottom right area of their post. You can click on that to read the impaction information.

Also, you can view any and all impactions (active and expired) given to a member on their public profile. Impactions are listed at the top of the profile.

Here are some real examples you can take a look at.

http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/234191-post8.html

http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/233349-post27.html

http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/233610-post1.html

http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/233393-post1.html

Since all impactions also show on a member's public profile, you can click on the member's name in the post, and from that menu, select View Public Profile. There you can see if they have any additional impactions and their total poo points. We can also issue impactions to a member without a specific post, such as:

http://www.guineapigcages.com/forum/members/stipma.html

This helps us as moderators keep better track of warnings about keeping within our forum's posted policies and guidelines as well as giving our members visibility into our actions and practices. ALL standard impactions are listed in this thread. All of our moderation actions are now available for public viewing.

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