The Salt Lake Tribune's TribTalk

sltrib · 02-16-2009 until 03-19-2020

Forum Rules

The basics:  
1. Keep it clean. Comments that are obscene, vulgar, lewd or sexually-oriented will be removed. Creative spelling of such terms to get around this rule is not okay.  
2. Don't threaten to hurt or kill anyone.  
3. Be honest. Don't lie about anyone or anything. 
4. Be nice. No racism, sexism or any other -ism that degrades another person.  
5. Keep it legal. Do not post content (including images and video embeds in story comments) or news articles from other sites. This may violate copyright law and can slow down the site. (You may post images and embeds less than 400 pixels square in TribTalk posts. You may post articles if you comply with fair use - a headline, paragraph of text and a link only.)
6. Police yourselves. Click the "Report Abuse" link to report offensive comments to us.  
7. Stay focused. Keep comments on topic and related to the story. In TribTalk, keep to the topic of the original post. If things veer off in a new direction, consider creating a new thread or changing the thread title if the original poster agrees.  
8. Stop and think. Review these quick guidelines and the full user agreement below.

If you have a question about whether you can or should post something, email us at webmaster@sltrib.com first.

Registration to this forum is free. We do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below. If you agree to the terms, please check the 'I agree' checkbox and press the 'Register' button. If you would like to cancel the registration, click here to return to the forums index. Only one registration per person is allowed. Subsequent registrations will be result in all related accounts being permanently banned.

We welcome your participation in article and blog comment threads, TribTalk and other discussion forums, where we encourage you to analyze, comment on and even challenge sltrib.com's articles, blogs, reviews and multimedia features. It is our hope that you'll take the opportunity to interact with leaders in our community, with the journalists, editors and management of The Salt Lake Tribune and with other sltrib.com users.

In order to keep these experiences enjoyable and interesting for all of our users, we ask that you follow the rules outlined below. By participating in the TribTalk Forums, or by submitting comments to articles, blogs, reviews or multimedia features, you are consenting to these rules.

You agree that you are fully responsible for the content that you post. You will not knowingly post content that violates the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of any third party and that you will remove the same should you discover that you have violated this provision. Likewise, you may not post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, that violates a third party's right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate. You will indemnify The Salt Lake Tribune and MediaNews Group, its employees, agents, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to content you have posted. You may not post content that degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, disability or other classification. Epithets and other language intended to intimidate or to incite violence will not be tolerated.

You understand and agree that sltrib.com is not responsible for any content posted by third parties. You further understand that, on the unmoderated discussion forums, sltrib.com does not monitor the content posted. Nevertheless, sltrib.com may monitor the any user-generated content as it chooses and reserves the right to remove, edit or otherwise alter content that it deems inappropriate for any reason whatever without consent. We further reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove a user's privilege to post content on our site.

You understand and agree that the discussion forums are to be used only for non-commercial purposes. You may not solicit funds, promote commercial entities or otherwise engage in commercial activity in our discussion forums.
The discussion forums are for text only. Use of graphics outside of signatures, video and audio is not appropriate.
You acknowledge and agree that you use and/or rely on any information obtained through the discussion forums at your own risk. sltrib.com is not in any manner endorsing the content of the discussion forums and cannot and will not vouch for its reliability.

For any content that you post, you hereby grant to sltrib.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, exclusive and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part, world-wide and to incorporate it in other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed.

The owners of The Salt Lake Tribune's TribTalk will NOT sell or give away your email address. It will only be used to contact you regarding your The Salt Lake Tribune's TribTalk registration and/or comments you have posted on the board or in response to stories.

Infraction Explainer
For those of you who are new to TribTalk or are unfamiliar with our infraction system, here is a basic primer on how this works.

When you register as a user on TribTalk, you agree to abide by our user guidelines. In order to be fair to all users and to apply an even standard to the enforcment of these guidelines, we have an infraction points system in place. When you violate the guidelines, you are given an infraction worth a certain number of points that expires in a set period of time.

If you accumulate enough infraction points at a given time, you will be subject to restrictions or a temporary ban depending on the total number of points. If an infraction is serious enough, or if you accumulate enough non-expiring points, you will be permanently banned from the boards and article comments.

Here are the most common basic infractions, point levels and expirations:

Signature Infraction (too many lines or links, images larger than permitted): 1 point, expires in 7 days

Inappropriate Language (including circumventing the filter): 2 points, expires in 14 days

Personal Attack: 5 points, expires in 14 days

Copyright Violations: 10 points, expires in 14 days

Other, less common violations results in similarly appropriate levels of points and expirations. More serious infractions can result in an immediate and permanent ban. These are up to the discretion of the forum administrator and our online staff.

Here are the levels at which a ban occurs, and their expirations. Keep in mind that you must accumulate the listed number of points in your account at the same or overlapping times to meet the level listed. A five point infraction a month ago and another this week will NOT combine to 10 points; but a five point infraction yesterday and one today would.

10 points: warning status until points expire below 10 point level; includes "has been warned" under userID in posts, all posts are moderated and approved before posting
20 points: 7 day ban
30 points: 3 week ban
40 points: permanent ban

If you have questions about this system, private message "sltrib" or email tribtalk@sltrib.com.

02-16-2009 until 03-19-2020
sltrib sltrib.com Staff Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Salt Lake City, Utah Posts: 113	TribTalk Rules Forum Rules The basics:   1. Keep it clean. Comments that are obscene, vulgar, lewd or sexually-oriented will be removed. Creative spelling of such terms to get around this rule is not okay.   2. Don't threaten to hurt or kill anyone.   3. Be honest. Don't lie about anyone or anything.  4. Be nice. No racism, sexism or any other -ism that degrades another person.   5. Keep it legal. Do not post content (including images and video embeds in story comments) or news articles from other sites. This may violate copyright law and can slow down the site. (You may post images and embeds less than 400 pixels square in TribTalk posts. You may post articles if you comply with fair use - a headline, paragraph of text and a link only.) 6. Police yourselves. Click the "Report Abuse" link to report offensive comments to us.   7. Stay focused. Keep comments on topic and related to the story. In TribTalk, keep to the topic of the original post. If things veer off in a new direction, consider creating a new thread or changing the thread title if the original poster agrees.   8. Stop and think. Review these quick guidelines and the full user agreement below. If you have a question about whether you can or should post something, email us at webmaster@sltrib.com first. Registration to this forum is free. We do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below. If you agree to the terms, please check the 'I agree' checkbox and press the 'Register' button. If you would like to cancel the registration, click here to return to the forums index. Only one registration per person is allowed. Subsequent registrations will be result in all related accounts being permanently banned. We welcome your participation in article and blog comment threads, TribTalk and other discussion forums, where we encourage you to analyze, comment on and even challenge sltrib.com's articles, blogs, reviews and multimedia features. It is our hope that you'll take the opportunity to interact with leaders in our community, with the journalists, editors and management of The Salt Lake Tribune and with other sltrib.com users. In order to keep these experiences enjoyable and interesting for all of our users, we ask that you follow the rules outlined below. By participating in the TribTalk Forums, or by submitting comments to articles, blogs, reviews or multimedia features, you are consenting to these rules. You agree that you are fully responsible for the content that you post. You will not knowingly post content that violates the copyright, trademark, patent or other intellectual property right of any third party and that you will remove the same should you discover that you have violated this provision. Likewise, you may not post content that is libelous, defamatory, obscene, abusive, that violates a third party's right to privacy, that otherwise violates any applicable local, state, national or international law, or that is otherwise inappropriate. You will indemnify The Salt Lake Tribune and MediaNews Group, its employees, agents, and affiliates from any and all claims and/or damages (including but not limited to reasonable attorneys' fees) resulting from any claim brought by any third party relating to content you have posted. You may not post content that degrades others on the basis of gender, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, disability or other classification. Epithets and other language intended to intimidate or to incite violence will not be tolerated. You understand and agree that sltrib.com is not responsible for any content posted by third parties. You further understand that, on the unmoderated discussion forums, sltrib.com does not monitor the content posted. Nevertheless, sltrib.com may monitor the any user-generated content as it chooses and reserves the right to remove, edit or otherwise alter content that it deems inappropriate for any reason whatever without consent. We further reserve the right, in our sole discretion, to remove a user's privilege to post content on our site. You understand and agree that the discussion forums are to be used only for non-commercial purposes. You may not solicit funds, promote commercial entities or otherwise engage in commercial activity in our discussion forums. The discussion forums are for text only. Use of graphics outside of signatures, video and audio is not appropriate. You acknowledge and agree that you use and/or rely on any information obtained through the discussion forums at your own risk. sltrib.com is not in any manner endorsing the content of the discussion forums and cannot and will not vouch for its reliability. For any content that you post, you hereby grant to sltrib.com the royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, exclusive and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such content in whole or in part, world-wide and to incorporate it in other works, in any form, media or technology now known or later developed. The owners of The Salt Lake Tribune's TribTalk will NOT sell or give away your email address. It will only be used to contact you regarding your The Salt Lake Tribune's TribTalk registration and/or comments you have posted on the board or in response to stories. Infraction Explainer For those of you who are new to TribTalk or are unfamiliar with our infraction system, here is a basic primer on how this works. When you register as a user on TribTalk, you agree to abide by our user guidelines. In order to be fair to all users and to apply an even standard to the enforcment of these guidelines, we have an infraction points system in place. When you violate the guidelines, you are given an infraction worth a certain number of points that expires in a set period of time. If you accumulate enough infraction points at a given time, you will be subject to restrictions or a temporary ban depending on the total number of points. If an infraction is serious enough, or if you accumulate enough non-expiring points, you will be permanently banned from the boards and article comments. Here are the most common basic infractions, point levels and expirations: Signature Infraction (too many lines or links, images larger than permitted): 1 point, expires in 7 days Inappropriate Language (including circumventing the filter): 2 points, expires in 14 days Personal Attack: 5 points, expires in 14 days Copyright Violations: 10 points, expires in 14 days Other, less common violations results in similarly appropriate levels of points and expirations. More serious infractions can result in an immediate and permanent ban. These are up to the discretion of the forum administrator and our online staff. Here are the levels at which a ban occurs, and their expirations. Keep in mind that you must accumulate the listed number of points in your account at the same or overlapping times to meet the level listed. A five point infraction a month ago and another this week will NOT combine to 10 points; but a five point infraction yesterday and one today would. 10 points: warning status until points expire below 10 point level; includes "has been warned" under userID in posts, all posts are moderated and approved before posting 20 points: 7 day ban 30 points: 3 week ban 40 points: permanent ban If you have questions about this system, private message "sltrib" or email tribtalk@sltrib.com.