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Son of Thunderbeast
Sep 21, 2002


Hello, posters of C-SPAM! Welcome to the one and only casual political subforum for Something Awful! C-SPAM is a politically-focused forum for casual shitposting, jokes, and laughing at the state of the world and how we're all DOOMED!

The current C-SPAM mods are:
  • Azathoth
  • Crusty Nutsack
  • Dreylad
  • Korean Boomhauer
  • Lacrosse
  • NeatHeteroDude
  • Shear Modulus
  • vyelkin

If you need to contact a mod or IK, you can do so via forums PM. If you don't have forums PMs, you can join this discord server to be able to PM us. You won't be able to post in this server; it's just to facilitate PMs.

However, here as elsewhere, there are some rules you do have to follow, cheerfully enforced by our dedicated team of moderators and idiot kings. The idiot kings will change often.

A quick reminder that all standard forum rules apply, and a few are re-emphasized here and will result in a very very harsh punishment if you decide to break them!

1. :siren: Do NOT explicitly or implicitly threaten harm on anyone, especially people under Secret Service protection or who might work in the White House. If you do so, you are risking a permaban. :siren:

2. Text spam, twitter spam, or any really stupid spamming of any type is forbidden. Image spam is also forbidden unless it's a dedicated image thread. All other rules apply, though.

3. Even if you aren't breaking a specific rule to the letter, if you're making consistently lovely and bad posts we will come down hard on you so don't do it! This includes being a huge rear end in a top hat for no reason and getting too personal with your insults.

4. Don't post in-line NWS! That being said, this is a political shitposting forum, so read it at work at your own risk!

5. Slurs and bigotry are not cool, and "ironic" racism is almost always just a stepping stone to the real thing, so don't post like that. This doesn't apply if you're quoting someone else being a shithead, but if you abuse this exception to toss pejoratives around casually we'll see through it pretty quick.

6. Reporting people is helpful if you think they've broken a rule or are generally being a shithead, but please be clear in the report reason. Despite our best efforts we can't read mindsyetand what you think is obvious bad behavior might not be so apparent! Abusing the report function to carry out forums vendettas will not end well.

7. Do not say that anyone, on here or off, specific or general should kill themselves. Do not say that it would be good if anyone killed themselves. Do not say that anyone should be killed. Do not lay out methods for successful suicide, even if you direct them toward hypothetical terrible people who might be reading. These types of posts can be triggering and it's not cool.

8. We're not doing mass election toxxes anymore but if you want to toxx on your own and then self-ban if you fail then I mean ok.

9. Don't post your own tweets.

10. Do not directly link quotes to D&D threads from CSPAM (i.e. unsourced/unlinked & unattributed quotes are fine). Do not post in D&D and then come back to CSPAM to giggle about owned libs or your imminent probation. What you post in D&D is your business, and when you post there you are subject to their rules and moderation.

In addition to these rules, the individual IKs may have their own mad whims and feverish delusions, which they will post in the IK Edicts thread, and which may or may not be enforced by the mods as well.

On doxxing:

quote:

SA User Doxxing:
Linking anything from off forum or stepping into real life is too far.
  • "I found this person's social media account, look at all the dumb poo poo they post [LINK]" "Looking at his Facebook, I see his wife works for DC"
    Bringing up past ON FORUM posts that are relevant to the topic is for the most part not going to be punished.
  • "He posted about liking that in that one thread 6 years ago. [LINK]" *Note: Importing drama and generally being creepy with people's post histories can still earn you a probation

Famous Person/Public Official:
  • Anything relevant to their position or celebrity is, for the most part, fair game: "They worked at XXX in 1998, they are giving XXX huge contracts now." "They posted pictures of their 2-story pool, look at this thing"
  • Well known facts or things the person has opened themselves up for mocking is not considered doxxing: "He posts the same ketchup sandwich on his Instagram every single day."
  • Anything non-position related, or things they have not made public themselves, is off limits: Family, Address, Private Phone Number, "They walk their dog in ZZZ Park," etc.

Random Internet Blip (i.e. No leash lady):
Don't dig up anything. SA does not need to be the Go-To place to vigilante these people. If something is posted on a news site/twitter, it's fine to discuss, but don't be the people making it the news.

These rules and examples are general guidelines. There may be things not covered or borderline examples that don't fit the above. The mods and admins will make final judgements and always try and take into account context of posts. If you can't determine if your post will be doxxing, ask someone or err on the side of caution and don't post it.

On idiot kings:

If you become an idiot king or mod of CSPAM, drop by this thread and make a post introducing yourself so we might remember your reign!

(link to the previous version of the rules thread for continuity: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3934233)

Somebody has issued a correction as of 23:53 on Sep 20, 2022

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Korean Boomhauer
Sep 4, 2008
rule's

thehandtruck
Mar 5, 2006

the thing about the jews is,
hoping to get throuhg my reign of terror without any more porbes. so far just the one, someone said kissinger was dead and he wasnt and i just coudlnt let that go

Dreylad
Jun 19, 2001

vyelkin
Jan 2, 2011
This is just an informative post to let the good people of CSPAM know that Son of Thunderbeast has decided to step down from modding.

Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alUoE6tJP1w

frankenfreak
Feb 16, 2007

I SCORED 85% ON A QUIZ ABOUT MONDAY NIGHT RAW AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY TEXT

#bastionboogerbrigade
You asked for more timezone coverage and got me. Happy?

dead gay comedy forums
Oct 21, 2011


Salutations. In these difficult times experienced by us all, it is imperative that we must Uphold Superior Posting Thought. A mandate by the central commissariat of posting has been offered to me to overlook the Doomsday Economic Posting Mines as Idiot King, which I agreed to, by revolutionary duty. It is my hope that we, together in solidarity and through the spirit of socialism, will strive to shitpost with unseen-before acumen and tenacity to make the roflmaos flow in abundance. May a death by a hundred thousand incredibly incendiary bad takes on twitter fall upon me and gayness depart my body if I fail on this duty.

Tiler Kiwi
Feb 26, 2011
im still here, will do sixers on commission or if provided proof you have played Mad Rat Dead (one probation per hard mode s+ rank)

Stereotype
Apr 24, 2010

College Slice
don't read the climate change thread

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Azathoth
Apr 3, 2001

Just a note, some of you may have noticed that the number of mods and IKs at the top of the forum has been reduced significantly. Don't worry your favorite IKs are still IKs of the same threads, only we've now started using the thread IK system that Jeffrey and astral have developed. Their names will now appear at the top of the threads they IK but you won't see an IK star outside of that. If anyone has any questions, please contact myself or any of the mods.

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