Forum Rules
What’s the purpose of the After Our Time Forum?
The Forum is here for the discussion of the Radio 4 In Our Time programme, and related topics. Unrelated topics may only be discussed in the ‘Off-Topic’ forum.
Does this forum have anything to do with the BBC?
No, this is not a BBC-run forum.
Who can post on the forum?
Anyone has the privilege of posting on the forum.
Why do I have to register?
So no-one can log in and claim to be you.
What can’t I post?
Insults, flames, hatred comments, spamming and advertisements are an abuse of your privilege to post and can result to a penalty.
Restricted subject matter includes anything deemed inappropiate or offensive by a moderator or the forum administrator. If uncertain as to whether a particular subject falls under this category, contact the moderator(s) of the forum(s) you wish to discuss this matter in; where no moderator(s) is present in a forum, contact forum administrators.
Why do you censor certain words?
This forum is intended for a family audience and so it’s not appropriate to display some swear words. If you try to circumvent the filter, this may result in a penalty.
Can I have a second login?
No. Creating a second login, using the login of someone else, etc., is strongly prohibited.
What are the penalties?
The administrators have the choice of a simple warning, to a disablement of someone’s login (allowing to read, not allowing to post) for a short or infinite period, to banning any access to the site for a short or infinite period. The administrators may ask from the members to decide on the kind of penalty in a certain case, but they are not obliged to.
What might get me banned?
A non-exhaustive list includes:
- Double log-ons
- Massive spamming in a thread
- Multiple identical comments posted in many different threads
- Hate threads, or hateful posts
- Ad-hominem threads
- Massive Flaming
- Behaviour which is considered disruptive to this site.
- No explicit sexual discussion allowed
- Doing anything after an Admin or Mod tells you not to do it
Usually, common sense is the rule of how we want things to work here.
Who runs this forum?
Adrian Hon is the owner of the site, and also runs the weblog and wiki.
These forum rules were adapted from the Apolyton forum rules.