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Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer


Hello, posters of C-SPAM! Welcome to the one and only casual political subforum for Something Awful! The website is imminently, as of July 2020, about to be sold by Lowtax to new management, and it means it’s time for new rules! C-SPAM is a politically-focused forum for casual shitposting, jokes, calling people mean names, and laughing at how we’re all DOOMED!

The current C-SPAM mods are: Squizzle, twoday, Flavius Aetass, and Crusty Nutsack

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!

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 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. Stop posting your own tweets.

10. Stop whining about D&D in CSPAM.

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"

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 of CSPAM, drop by this thread and make one (1) post introducing yourself so we might remember your reign!

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Lightning Knight
Feb 24, 2012

Pray for Answer
Introducing myself:

I have returned after a brief exile. The sale of the site is now imminent and Lowtax will soon be gone forever (praise be to God), so I have returned because the other mods of CSPAM don't like doing reports and need a firm, guiding hand.

Please feel free to PM me again all of your complaints and poo poo you're mad about on a daily basis again!

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