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BRUTALITOPS
07-29-2009, 10:48 PM
** NOTE: APP access is not enabled by default. If you wish to post here, message any of the mods and we'll grant you access **

This subforum has been created to encourage a higher level of conversation and debate. This subforum inherits all site wide rules, and has some additional caveats:

1. No racism, sexism, homophobia, general bigotry
2. No insults directed at specific individuals
3. No trolling
4. No flaming
5. No "Message Board Wars," please check personal vendettas at the door
6. No thread de-railment. Please stay on topic.

You should aim to be courteous, kind, patient, intelligent and receptive to one another.

Please report violations of the above, preferably with what rule you believe was violated. It makes everything easier.
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Other Stuff:

1. You should assume that breaking any of the rules will lead to your access of APP being revoked. Minor slip-ups may be given a pass, but that is not a guarantee. Everyone knows what they are signing up for when posting here, this forum is stricter. Post with that knowledge in mind. If you show blatant disregard for the criteria or are particularly nasty you'll be removed on first offense with zero warning.

2. As a reminder, Thread Derailment is a rule too! (Rule 6). APP is about a higher level of debate, and while being off topic and derailing threads may not come off as mean, it is still distracting and not in line with the spirit of the forum. Thread derailing will lead to being removed from APP just like the other rules. STAY ON TOPIC.

3. If you can help it, try avoiding thread banning people. This forum already has a higher standard, and if someone breaks that standard in your thread they will be gone anyway. Give people a chance to prove themselves in a more mature context. If you absolutely know the person is hopeless, by all means, continue to threadban them, but if you think there is a chance that they can behave, give them the opportunity.

4. DO NOT QUOTE POSTS THAT BREAK THE RULES. In the course of modding this subforum you'll get someone throwing a personal insult and then 2 responses to the personal insult. Which doesn't add to the conversation. APP is above petty fighting, and even if you don't start it, responding/paying attention to the stuff still defeats the purpose of this subforum. Look at the rules listed, if you see a rule being broken, report the post and we will get to it ASAP. Posts that respond to the insults will also be deleted because there is no point to them; if a problem post is deleted then your post would be responding to thin air. Report, don't Respond.
5. Losing access to APP is indefinite. If you wish to be able to return, message the mods after you feel an appropriate time has gone by, and we'll consider letting you come back.

(jpp.com reserves the right to alter the rules at any time, by revising this post.)

BRUTALITOPS
12-21-2017, 03:31 AM
What happens if you get banned from APP?

I've decided to add this post because a lot of people are confused about our standards here.

On APP, we generally ban first and ask questions later. If we let everyone have a 1st, second, and third chance, then we'd end up with 100+ people on JPP having multiple chances and that's pretty much going to undermine the entire nature of the forum. The rules are very clear, everyone reads them and agrees to them before being granted access here.

If you violate a rule, typically you'll be unceremoniously prevented from posting in APP, with no announcement or fanfare.

If you want to get back in, you will have to complete 3 steps:

1) You will self impose a time away from APP that you find is reasonable for your offense. It can be some amount of hours, a day, a week, a month, or longer. We don't have a set standard for this, it is up to each individual to reflect sincerely. If you can't take this forum seriously, we don't want you in it. Generally speaking, the worse your offense, the longer time you should consider self-imposing.

2) When you feel ready to return to APP, PM one of us mods. You must apologize for your offense. Please note: The reasons as to why you were banned are not debatable. Either apologize or move on.

3) You will humble yourself and promise that you will try your best, in good faith, to not make the same mistake again.

The result of this system is that the vast majority of stubborn, arrogant, conceded, and intentionally rude posters willingly or unwillingly self impose a life time ban from APP on themselves, as they can't bring themselves to complete steps 2 and 3. Which is perfectly fine. They aren't wanted in this sub forum anyway.

Those that continually break the rules with reckless disregard will eventually not be eligible to be unbanned at all. A poster will be informed if they are ever permabanned from APP.

Those that want to sincerely participate will always be welcomed back.

BRUTALITOPS
04-02-2019, 11:04 AM
Current APP Ban Log:

This is a list of those that previously had access and since have had it revoked. It is posted here for transparency.
If your name is on this list and you wish to post on APP again, see the #2 post above

DY
evince
rune
Dungheap
guille
bill
usfree
Poor Richard Saunders
postmodernprophet
micawber
Wilhelm Zenz

This list is not exhaustive and has only recently been built. It might be missing a few names here and there.