General Rules & Guidelines.

[BruceCM]

Posting Guidelines and Member Conduct

1. Insulting or personal attacks on other members is prohibited.
2. Do not attempt to "flame", "troll" or bait other members into arguments.
3. Racial, gender (sexist) and religious hatred/discrimination will not be tolerated.
4. Do not post content that is explicit, degrading or offensive. For example: porn, gore, death or similar.
5. Disclosing personal information without consent and making the content of PM's public is strictly prohibited.
6. Excessive use of explicit language is not allowed.
7. We have a zero-tolerance policy for all forms of Aspergers, Autism and even NT Supremacism.
8. Stalking and/or harassing another member is not allowed.

I'd like to make it clear that I agree with those rules but I find problems with some of them, in practice. Whilst I don't think I 'flame', 'troll', etc, I get accused of it on some forums. Hopefully, 4, 5 & 6 won't be a problem but I'm not sure quite what 'supremacism' might cover. I've asked about this before but I can't get proper answers about how those things I've covered are judged. That's usually the problem with 'rules'. On their own, they're reasonable but they don't apply themselves & when you try to find out how they are applied, you get all sorts of flak for it. Most of which goes against the supposed 'rules' but there's no explanation for how others get away with that so often!

 

[Droopy]

Whilst I don't think I 'flame', 'troll', etc, I get accused of it on some forums. Hopefully, 4, 5 & 6 won't be a problem but I'm not sure quite what 'supremacism' might cover.

I haven't seen you trolling or flaming on any forum. If I do then certainly I would point it out to you. As for supremacy, basically that means not to have the mindset that your are supreme over someone else due to you having AS and them not. There are some people within the Autism community that think they are better than the average person simply because they have AS/Autism.

Honestly though, I think you worry to much about rules. We won't ban you if you do happen to break a rule (whether purposely or accidentally). You will get a warning or two first and explained what you did wrong. So there's no need to worry about the rules.

 

[BruceCM]

You can hardly mean that you don't want me to follow the rules of the forum, so they do matter. Other places haven't ever been able to explain how I was breaking their rules, which were very similar ones. Of course, somehow, supposed 'worrying' about them is worse than if I called you rude names, is it? Perhaps it can be explained how it was decided to be 'worrying', rather than reasonably thinking about things? As I do encounter problems with such things.

 

[Droopy]

I think you are worrying because you keep bringing up experiences with other forums with regards to their rules. If you break the rules on Aspies Central (which so far you haven't) we will point out what you did wrong and explain it to you. If you need a particular rule clarified, we can do that too. We're not the type of forum to take action without explanation.

 

[BruceCM]

It happens offline, too. It's what qualifies as an 'explanation' that concerns me. I haven't been banned anywhere, yet but then I've not been in forums for that long in total & I've stopped going to the ones I had the worst problems in. None of which gets anywhere with saying how those things ARE to be judged. As I said, the rules in question anywhere else I've been are only about the same as here. Nothing that should be incredibly difficult to explain to me. Any person is supposed to be able to understand such rules & follow them. It's an ongoing problem, however, as it's really decided by others in ways I can't understand. See how difficult is is to get better answers here & how long it takes!