Please read, fellow and sister fandom_wankers, and love me and despair
Okay, it's time for the quarterly Reminding of Certain Rules. One in particular has come up several times in recent weeks, and while we really wish this wasn't necessary, the mods feel that it's important to emphasize this one in particular:

Do not take things encountered here on Fandom_Wank -- or any wank communities at JF, for that matter -- off-line. Do not call the people being wanked, do not attempt to interact with them, do not contact their friends/workplace/et cetera, do not track down and post personal information about their real life. I'm not going to single out any members here, sorry, the point of this post isn't to embarass anyone, but here's a relatively minor example of an anon suggesting it. Granted, this is just a suggestion, but there have been more egregious examples of actual F_W members actually claiming to have done it -- which is the real problem.

This, along with the "no spamming in an attempt to crash the server" is one of the few absolutely essential rules here. With only the single exception mentioned below, there is no grey area here. Over and above the extreme wankiness of doing so, it leaves ZR and Robin and Journalfen open to potential liability issues. As such, this is one of the few zero-tolerance rules here. Therefore, if any member of F_W takes things encountered here off-line, they will be summarily banned, no questions asked. This applies even to people who just claim they did in a comment, because we're not going to do the probably-impossible research to ascertain whether you did or didn't. If you think you're gaining popularity points by posting about it even when you didn't, we have no problem with taking you at your word. We're here to laugh and mock, not harass people. Since F_W is a very loosely run selfmodding community, most rule-breaking will only get mocked and jeered at by other non-mod members. This one, however, could easily lead to actual RL consequences for the owners and community and the wankers themselves, so we're taking it very seriously. However, these people can take their case to fw_debate if they choose. Just a warning: we won't see the humor of it, so "I thought it was funny" won't be considered a valid excuse.

To clarify one point: just being accused by a wanker is no evidence at all. We're gonna ignore and probably mock unsubstantiated accusations, cause, let's face it, wankers are wanky, and a good many of them hate fandom_wank and its members, so we're going to go with the "innocent until proven guilty" perspective there.

One obvious exception: as has happened in a recent wank, a person being wanked could initiate off-site and off-line issues. At that point, F_W rules are obviously trumped by personal privacy and safety considerations, and you are quite justified in doing what you feel is necessary to protect yourself IRL. Also worth mentioning are the more innocuous issues, such as charity donations -- as have appeared in a recent thread -- and the like. These are, barring special circumstances, obviously in a different category.

Taking wanks off-site -- such as deliberately harassing a wanker, or trying to get hir sites deleted, et cetera -- but not off-line is beyond wanky as well, and definitely in violation of the no-trolling rule, but not in quite the same category as the abovementioned IRL case. It is grounds for a stern warning, plus open-season on mocking you by the rest of the F_W population. Repeated behaviour along these lines will potentially subject to banning as well, with the caveat that we'll definitely open up a fw_debate entry dedicated all to your special wanky self so people can weigh in on the issue. Remember, we're not exactly a heavily-policed community, so we're trusting y'all to behave yourselves.

Due to some recent complaints on a wank, another point we want to mention is the posting of pictures. F_W doesn't actually have a firm rule on this. The general sentiment seems to be, to quote one clever member who prefers to remain anonymous and teh_mysterious, ""if you can only express it with a graphic, it's probably not worth reading." However,the only rule we have for now is that it needs to be worksafe and not blindingly offensive -- a loose prescriptive, but people will let you know if they have a problem. Yeah, icons and text can be very non-worksafe, and in times past, people have complained about non-worksafe icons, but those at least have the advantage of not taking up half your screen with nauseating million-colour imagery, and people do read F_W at work. We will screen/delete anything that strikes us as excessive.

I'm turning off comments and directing you to this fw_debate entry if you want to discuss this, ask questions, disagree vehemently, disagree meekly, offer up sex, et cetera.</text>