PDFF Posting Rules, Required reading please!

Please familiarize yourselves with them. Subject to changes every now and then.

1. No excessive swearing.
2. No flaming in forums.
3. No offensive pictures in every forum, avatar and signature (x-rated, pornographic, lurid, suggestive, satanic).
4. No personal attacks in forums.
5. No serious attacks on a race, religion, country etc... unless done in good fun.
6. No mass spamming. Spamming will get you banned immediately.
7. No trolling
8. Excerpts of articles copied and pasted from other sites must have a link. Pasting of the ENTIRE article is discouraged.
9. Ads and links to advertising sites not allowed.

Additional rule - added 8.13.05:

10. Do NOT double post (reply directly after one of your own posts)! Use the edit button instead!

New rule - added 9.27.06

11. The official language of PDFF is English. As such, all members are required to post threads and replies in English only . One or a maximum of two sentences in Filipino (Tagalog or any Philippine dialect) interspersed in the mainly English thread or reply can be allowed but posting entirely in Filipino is strongly discouraged. All mods are allowed to delete replies posted entirely in Filipino.

New rule - added 3.16.07

12. No malicious PMs to other members. Members who receive malicious PMs are encouraged to report the same to the Admin, Staff and Mods.

Thank you and happy posting.

Can u please teach me how to post and provide the link at the same time.

Thats what I'm practicing up to now but can perfect it..

U know i'm a computer idiot..

tnx.

Bro, you just highlight the address bar of the website where you copied your article, right click, then click copy and paste to your post before posting here.

example: http://www.global-defence.com/2005/index.php

Nice one fieldmouse.

BTW, i'll try to add this one to the Tech Guide thread.

Felows, i suggest you at least post the important part, or parts, of the article, especially news articles, to save us time jumping over to the link provided. Some websites even delete or transfer these to their own archives. The original link becomes a dead link. So it will be better to post the impt part here.

Thanks.

It's really getting tiresome reading posted news articles re-transcribed from newspapers or tabloids.

My suggestion is re-publishing news items or directing to it's link should only be applicable or used to support some issues debated or discussed under certain topics otherwise we will be fed up with backtracked and duplicated second hand information available first hand from highly reputable newspapers.

That's one big concern alright. I suggest we balance both to get the benefit of both while trimming down the disadvantages that go with it.

New rule - added 9.27.06

11. The official language of PDFF is English. As such, all members are required to post threads and replies in English only . One or a maximum of two sentences in Filipino (Tagalog or any Philippine dialect) interspersed in the mainly English thread or reply can be allowed but posting entirely in Filipino is strongly discouraged. All mods are allowed to delete replies posted entirely in Filipino.

New rule - added 3.16.07

12. No malicious PMs to other members. Members who receive malicious PMs are encouraged to report the same to the Admin, Staff and Mods.

To the moderators/administrator:

is there a minimum set of military credentials that is required before a member can post? I dont think I saw it in the rules list (i may have missed it) nor was it implied when I submitted my application to this forum. I do not discriminate nor do I wish to be discriminated on.

I hope the PDFF would make it's position plain (by making a definitive rule) regarding this matter as it could discourage other members from joining. MBLT has made his arguemts "for" (credential requirements) as I have made mine "against" in the PMC "40mm AA" thread

thank you

SUSHI

nope, long timer na ako dito sa pdff, i think everyone is welcome: civilians, military, security guards, janitors, mga neps, milf, mnlf, abu saya, kahit sino as long as pdff rules are followed.

with regards to mblt's demand - its his own rule, not pdff's

don't think too much about it, if you happen to read mblt's other rebuttals to other posters who happen to question his military credentials, you will know na medyo high up there siya when it comes to self-confidence - to say the least.

dear moderators,

i have read your rules above. I have 3 questions just to clarify:

1.) I assume then that other than what is specifically listed above that there is no censorship?

2.) as long as the above rules are not violated, do the moderators adopt a hands-off attitude on poster's comments?

3.) is the forum truly independent from the AFP or does the AFP try to influence the moderators and the discussions here.

Thanks for any moderator comments

This post has been edited by pachador on May 5 2008, 01:59 PM

There is a disadvantage to the rule below ---> if we just post the link and the link becomes dead later on then that article is lost forever...

8. Excerpts of articles copied and pasted from other sites must have a link. Pasting of the ENTIRE article is discouraged.

1. Yes

2. Yes

3. Definitely yes.


As for linked articles, you may include the relevant paragraphs as suggested by Flipzi above.

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