Fellow BP posters,
There have been several complaints about standards on the Recruiting Forum and not enforcing the long-standing rules enough. While the BPRT mods try our best to enforce the rules and make this forum the best it can be, we also understand the complaints and feel it necessary to bring this forum back into the standards this site was founded upon. Myself and other mods have had to spend unnecessary time dealing with violations and not that we are trying to earn a medal, but we do this in our limited free time and it gets frustrating.
To be clear, all of the forum rules posted and pinned by @osugrad21 still apply. We are simply emphasizing the specific recurring issues we have seen that need to stop, and give fair warning that if it does not stop then the mods will be more aggressive on correcting the issues. We want everyone to post and don't want to run off good posters, but we've had issues with long-time posters and new posters that have a common theme. Again, all recruiting forum rules apply, but here are the biggest issues we have seen.
1. NO CURSING IN THE RECRUITING FORUM. NONE OF ANY KIND. This has been a core standard from Day 1 of BP. I curse like a sailor but am cognizant of when I am in the recruiting forum. It is not that hard guys. Recruits and their families come in here and we need to clean it up. We are constantly editing posts to take out cursing and we're done just doing that without a warning, then a temporary ban. I don't care if you have posted here for 20 years or its your first time, it will be a warning and if it happens again, then a temporary ban. I will impose that on myself if I break that rule, everybody be accountable.
2. STAY ON TOPIC. Occasional jokes and banter is to be expected, or raising issues tangential to that recruit to some extent. However, threads are going so far off topic and relocating the posts to the proper thread is cumbersome. For example and for current classes, if we miss on an OL, that recruits thread is not the place to decry Frye's recruiting. That belongs in general discussion or Frye's thread. We understand it can be easy to get off track, but lets focus on making individual recruit threads on track.
3. NEGATIVITY. We understand that being negative is not generally a violation of forum rules. The line between criticism and negativity can sometimes be a gray area. However, when you are posting, remember that recruits and their families come into this forum. If you are a fan of Ohio State, do you want them to see a post that further perpetuates the idea (or perhaps myth) that our fans are bad fans and overly negative towards players? Educated criticism is fine, but we are seeing posts go beyond that.
There have been several complaints about standards on the Recruiting Forum and not enforcing the long-standing rules enough. While the BPRT mods try our best to enforce the rules and make this forum the best it can be, we also understand the complaints and feel it necessary to bring this forum back into the standards this site was founded upon. Myself and other mods have had to spend unnecessary time dealing with violations and not that we are trying to earn a medal, but we do this in our limited free time and it gets frustrating.
To be clear, all of the forum rules posted and pinned by @osugrad21 still apply. We are simply emphasizing the specific recurring issues we have seen that need to stop, and give fair warning that if it does not stop then the mods will be more aggressive on correcting the issues. We want everyone to post and don't want to run off good posters, but we've had issues with long-time posters and new posters that have a common theme. Again, all recruiting forum rules apply, but here are the biggest issues we have seen.
1. NO CURSING IN THE RECRUITING FORUM. NONE OF ANY KIND. This has been a core standard from Day 1 of BP. I curse like a sailor but am cognizant of when I am in the recruiting forum. It is not that hard guys. Recruits and their families come in here and we need to clean it up. We are constantly editing posts to take out cursing and we're done just doing that without a warning, then a temporary ban. I don't care if you have posted here for 20 years or its your first time, it will be a warning and if it happens again, then a temporary ban. I will impose that on myself if I break that rule, everybody be accountable.
2. STAY ON TOPIC. Occasional jokes and banter is to be expected, or raising issues tangential to that recruit to some extent. However, threads are going so far off topic and relocating the posts to the proper thread is cumbersome. For example and for current classes, if we miss on an OL, that recruits thread is not the place to decry Frye's recruiting. That belongs in general discussion or Frye's thread. We understand it can be easy to get off track, but lets focus on making individual recruit threads on track.
3. NEGATIVITY. We understand that being negative is not generally a violation of forum rules. The line between criticism and negativity can sometimes be a gray area. However, when you are posting, remember that recruits and their families come into this forum. If you are a fan of Ohio State, do you want them to see a post that further perpetuates the idea (or perhaps myth) that our fans are bad fans and overly negative towards players? Educated criticism is fine, but we are seeing posts go beyond that.
