I think he means 'adult' as in pornographic.

I think Buzzfloyd's suggestion is valid. The term "adult" is ambiguous. I don't want an intelligent conversation like the one we are having about sexual preference to be interrupted by someone telling us that we shouldn't talk about it because children could be reading.

In fact, I would go so far as to say that while members of all ages are welcome, we do discuss mature subjects and as a general rule, do not believe in censorship. Regardless of your chronological age, you are expected to behave like an adult when you are here.

I would call porn, porn.

I agree wholeheartedly with everything Marcia just said. It's been a principle tenet of this community for years.

Yep I agree with that. I was just attempting to clearify. Too be honest I'm not sure if we need a rule saying 'no Porn' I would hope that pretty obivous....but then agian, some poeple.

Wouldn't porn usually be spam, and fall under our policy toward spam?

Unless it was some stupid pornographic Discworld-related boardfic.

We could make it more clear, it's actually reffering to posting pictures - the original text puts it more bluntly: tits and arses are okay, cocks and fannies are not. I'm trying to word it in such a way that we don't get filtered out by search engines for using too much 'adult' wording on one of our static pages (a page that doesn't move and is read a lot), which this is going to be - whithout having to say pron.

Maybe you should clarify our policy on editing.

Rinso came up with the idea of expanding some of the terms in a link to another page, which I think is a good idea, otherwise, if we clarify everything, the document will be too long and end up looking like the treaty of Versaille.

[quote:700a7cb69e="QuothTheRaven"]Maybe you should clarify our policy on editing.[/quote:700a7cb69e]
There's a whole load of stuff that's not in there, which I will be posting about soon - I promise! I haven't had an evening online since about Thursday, but I have a lot to say about community standards.

Okay I finally put this up on the site here: http://www.terrypratchettbooks.org/article186.html

with a link back to this thread at the bottom.

We can change anything we want, reword it et cetera. Also point out spelling mistakes or anything at all really.

I'll get rid of the nuclear logo when I can find a better picture, someone can make/provide one if they like?

We still need a proper FAQ, this isn't replacing that; it's just a general posting guideline for people to read.

I would be inclined to change the sentence "All messages express the views of the author, the owners and other members of the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board will not be held responsible for the content of any message." to read "All messages express the views of the particular author - the owners and other members of the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board will not be held responsible for the content of any message." - I'm a native English speaker, and it took me a while get that original statement clear in my head!

Pixel's right. That sentence as it stands is confusing.

Okay, I changed it to this:

[quote:23adf66979="Code of Conduct"]All messages posted on the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board express the views of the poster, the owners and other members of the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board will not be held responsible for the content of any message.[/quote:23adf66979]

I think that's clearer.

[quote:b451f407c5="Maljonic"]Okay, I changed it to this:

[quote:b451f407c5="Code of Conduct"]All messages posted on the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board express the views of the poster, the owners and other members of the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board will not be held responsible for the content of any message.[/quote:b451f407c5]

I think that's clearer.[/quote:b451f407c5]

Maybe I'm being patronizing, but I still think that for our non-native English speakers there should be a hyphen rather than a comma after "views of the poster" - but then I use hyphens as a major punctuation tool - I'm sure that sooner or later Grace is going to explain to me the error of my ways!

[quote:955ac7dd00="Code of Conduct"]All messages posted on the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board express the views of the poster, the owners and other members of the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board will not be held responsible for the content of any message.[/quote:955ac7dd00]

Well... technically this is a comma splice (comma but no conjunction). This is acceptable in informal language, but maybe this would be better:

[quote:955ac7dd00]All messages posted on the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board express the views of the poster. Consequently, the owners and other members of the Terry Pratchett Unseen Message Board will not be held responsible for the content of any message.[/quote:955ac7dd00]