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[Drunken Meat Fist]

Welcome! Sherdog is a private forum so posting is a priviledge, not a right. All rules are subjective to administrative interpretation.

Double Yellow: last 30 days. Members lose many posting abilities, including being prevented from accessing the Off Topic and Platinum forums. Any infractions while carded may result in a ban.

Double Yellow Infractions

1. Fighter Bashing (including a fighter's girlfriend/wife/family member(s), refs, promoters and the like). Criticism is fine, flaming isnt. No insults, including calling a fighter a "can". Please note that an unsubstantiated accusation of steroids and PEDs is fighter bashing. In regards to female fighters, posting inappropriate, sexual or graphic comments is considered trolling and fighter bashing.

2. Flaming Comments ("Shut up, jackass," "Screw you, Dick," etc.)

3. Postwhoring/empty posting. Posting +1, empty quotes, too long/didn't read, rickson by armbar, pic-whoring, will result in cards and postcount reduction, and if it's more than a few, or a pattern, it will result in a ban.

4. Scrollbombs, oversized pics or posts that distort, interfere or cause problems with a thread.

5. Posting/soliciting video clips of events recently shown on ppv.

6. No bareass, assfloss, or graphic sexual poses, avatars included.

7. Copyright infringement. Ex: If a site posts an interview, post a link, don't cut and paste the entire article. Posting and requesting illegal streams may be met with a ban.

8. Posting a thread in the wrong forum, "dubs" may be given out depending on the context of the situation. Please refrain from making Strikeforce vs UFC threads in the UFC forum, those threads go in the Wasteland forum. Also, post Strikeforce threads in the Worldwide forum.

9. Profanity in thread titles. Don't use profanity (Fuck, shit, etc.) in thread titles as these may appear on the front page under the Forum Threads section of Sherdeog's main page.

10. Circumventing the word filter. Using alternative letters, numbers, symbols, spaces, fonts, etc, in a word to prevent it from being censored by the word filter.

BAN INFRACTIONS

1. Hateful/Inappropriate Comments. "Shut up ***," "Fuck you, Newb," etc.

2. Member Harrassment, including pms, threats.

3. Tape trading/selling/spam.

4. Registering or using an alternate account while carded.

5. Orchestrating forum raids.

6. Posting a private conversation or personal information without consent.

7. Trolling (posting ridiculous/racist/disturbing/pornographic comments, images or links.)

8. Porn (Posting, Quoting or Soliciting pornographic images or links). This means:
No rape threads/posts/images
No shit threads/posts/images
No beatiality thread/posts/images
No gross-out threads/post/images
No sexaully graphic threads/posts/images
No incest/pedophile threads/posts/images

Additional Rules, clarifications and guides are listed below. Please read threads stuck at the top of the subforums before posting in them. Rules are occasionally updated, please pay attention to any stickies and when in doubt, reread this thread for updates.


------------------ALSO REGARDING PORN------------------

******NOTE-Quoting, encouraging, promoting, celebrating, reponding to/t-ing a pornographic thread is keeping the thread alive and will result in a similar ban infraction for any and all involved, regardless of joindate, status, postcount, or Platinum membership. And there are NO refunds given to anyone with a banned Platinum status. The money is forfeited.******

****NOTE**** -We're only interested in what happens regarding the website, if your brother, ex-girlfriend, asshole roommate gets into your account and posts infractions, the account will take the bullet regardless.

If you see a thread getting out of hand or is blatantly inappropriate, please use the report a post function or pm a moderator and it will be taken care of.

Thanks, and enjoy the fourms.

[Drunken Meat Fist]

From now on keep them to your pms and with someone you trust. Due to the amount of people betting accounts, posting porn to get banned, welching on bets, and threads complaining about welching on bets stinking up the fight forums, any threads dealing with avatar/sig bets will be deleted and any pm complaints regarding someone not paying up will be ignored.

Thanks.

[Ronwah]

Any threads created on this subject will be deleted. There are literally dozens of these being made every day on here and it's bringing out the absolute worst in people. This forum is for MMA discussion. Creating a thread to debate his nationality has also been done to death, it's time to move on.
People who decide to make a thread about it anyway will be carded or banned depending on their current account status and history.

Let's get back to talking about fighting please.

[Ronwah]

The last couple of days have saw Chael Sonnen become the focus of discussion in the heavies again. This thread serves to remind people about the fighter bashing rule on Sherdog and hopefully try and clear up any grey areas.

Fighter bashing - a reminder

First off, Sonnen is not a fair game when it comes to fighter bashing. The rule is as follows.

Fighter Bashing (including refs, promoters and the like) won't be tolerated anywhere on the board. Criticism is fine, flaming isn't. Minor bashing such as "so and so sucks, is a dick, etc." is a double yellow, while extreme bashing like "so and so is a pile of shit, *********, etc." will result in a ban.

So posts calling Sonnen a bitch, dick, putz, douche, pos, etc will all receive infractions. The severity of those infractions will depend on the severity of the post amongst other factors such as the posters history etc.

Calling Sonnen a cheat

The CSAC upheld the punishment handed out to Sonnen so technically he has breached the rules. The issue for the CSAC seems to focus on the fact Sonnen didn't disclose he was on a treatment of testosterone injections for his medical condition. It's one thing to state a fact, but if you use it in a context purely intended to bash then that is a different story. e.g "Sonnen is a cheat" would be ok. "Sonnen is a cheat, fuck him" wouldn't.

Sonnen's medical condition

Again there is nothing wrong with stating any facts which came out of Sonnen's appeal. This includes mentioning the medical condition Sonnen says that he suffers from. However, if you follow this up with insulting comments like "he has a vagina" or "he is more a women than a man" and other comments of that nature - that would be fighter bashing.

Overall the moderators will use their best judgement in deciding whether or not posts are fighter bashing or not. These guidelines will hopefully clear up any doubt you might have on what is and isn't acceptable. The best advice I can give over and above that is if you are in doubt whether what you want to post is ok or not, then it's probably not.

edit - Finally, don't use these guidelines as a tool to tip toe around your intent to fighter bash. If it's felt you are just trying to push the limits of what is acceptable and continuously looking to discredit any fighter then it will be consider a combination of trolling and fighter bashing.

[Cool Hand Luke]

There has been quite a bit of confusion as to what is allowed concerning the posting of pictures and gifs.

Apart from the sites rules and regulations that apply to all the subforums here, namely Rules & FAQs, the following are examples of type of pics/gifs/vids NOT to be posted.

Infraction
- Pics/gifs/vids with links to sites with pornographic content. The main culprits are jj.am/4gifs. Visible urls to porn/nude sites are not allowed in posts or quotes. Repeated violations of this rule will lead to dubs and bans. If you have questions as to which sites are not allowed, simply PM me (yes you can PM me regarding porn.)
- Pictures/gifs/vids that leave nothing to the imagination i.e. close up crotch shots/camel toe/graphic poses
- Giant pictures

Double Yellow
- Assfloss
- Bare Ass
- Painted Nudes
- Requesting nudes (Yellow Monday anyone?)
- Avatars with Assfloss/Bare Ass
- Street Fight/Beat down videos
- Oversize pictures
- Graphic Sexual Posting - enjoy the pics but keep the color commentary to yourselves.

Automatic Ban
- Nudity/Porn
- Nipples
- Rape threads/posts/images
- Shit related threads/posts/images
- Beastiality threads/posts/images
- Underage/pedophile/incest threads/posts/images
- Grossout threads/posts/images

Excessive pic quoting and turning the thread into a chat forum should be avoided.

Lastly, all threads will be closed after 1,000 posts. If it is a reoccurring thread, then simply Link the previous thread(s) in the new threads OP.

For tips on how to embed multimedia, see this thread - http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f7/how...ip-tv-1502455/

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to PM myself or any of the moderators.

CHL

[Ronwah]

This forum is for UFC discussion only. Threads related to Strikeforce should be made in the worldwide forum.

Worldwide MMA Discussion - Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums

Having to constantly move threads because they are made in the wrong forum is time consuming for the moderators and unnecessary. Because of this, infractions will be issued for anyone making a thread in the wrong forum.

Thanks.

[Fury]

Copying and pasting large portions of copyrighted material is not allowed.

If you wish to make proper reference to websites, please use the headline of the desired blog post or article, along with proper attribution to the site and author, and direct the readers to the website (via link) to read the full blog post.

Dubs and bans going forward, no exceptions.

Please report violations if you see them

Thanks

[BAM]

MMA topics that do not fit into the main fight subforms are redirected to The Wasteland for further discussion. Please note that this is not a demotion, rather just the more appropriate forum. However, posts will not go towards your total posts tally in the Wasteland.

types of threads that get moved there

1. Pound for Pound rankings
2. Rankings threads
3. "I just bet x amount of dollars on fighter y for card z" - There will be a single thread for these in the fight forums
4. Professional wrestling
5. Joke threads - (GSP should grow a moustache; Fedor has subbed a bear)
6. Cross promotional matchmaking (King Mo v Rampage - who wins?)
7. Cross weight class or gender matchmaking (Jon Jones v GSP who wins?)
8. Rehashed topic - one that has been covered to death
9. Chat threads - including 'warwagons'
10. Moderator discretion - a moderator may remove a thread that he feels is unnecessary or disruptive to the subforum.

Note that if a moderator has noticed numerous joke threads in that poster's post history and/or that a poster has repeatedly made threads in the wrong forum, he may administer an infraction or warning at his discretion.

Due to the volume of threads that flow through the site, be aware that a moderator may not have time to message you about your moved or deleted thread. If you have a question please direct your query to the support forum thread -

http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f19/cl.../#post64369039

Note that the support thread is for questions and explanations only, not a rant thread for the disgruntled - rude, abusive and trolling posts will receive infractions

This thread will be stickied atop the fight forums for 1 month, after which it will be merged into the main rules and policies thread.

Cheers and enjoy the site

[BAM]

Due to the logjam that occurs during UFC events, we will be attempting to manage traffic by instituting thread starting rules during these cards. This applies to the night of the event only.


1. There will be stickied threads for each maincard fight along with a stickied thread for the prelims.

2. DURING the fight, all posting about that fight goes in the respective play by play sticky thread. Failure to do so will leave the poster open to infractions at the discretion of the moderator.

3. AFTER the individual fight finishes, post fight discussion will be opened up for that fight. Duplicate topics will be merged. Read the board before creating a thread to avoid making duplicates.



Note that as always, pound for pound, cross promotional and rankings threads go in the wasteland

IMPORTANT - Avoid making threads that are simply pbp commentary. For example, "OMG what a kick... that is all". These types of posts are exactly what the play by play threads are for and are what we are trying to cut down on (for threads). Please put some thought into your post fight discussion thread.

Cheers

[Ronwah]

Any thread about Fedor belongs in the Worldwide MMA Discussion - Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums

Regardless of the content of the thread, until Fedor signs with the UFC all threads about him and any other fighter not contracted to the UFC belongs in the Worldwide MMA Discussion - Sherdog Mixed Martial Arts Forums
Ignoring the above and making the thread in the UFC forum anyway may result in infractions.