Okay, since people seem to be having a hard time either reading, understanding, or remembering the community rules, here's a reminder:



1. Do not link to or share content from the personal journal of a minor. Minors -- defined as anyone under the age of 18 -- can't get Journalfen accounts and thus can't come play with us. If it isn't blindingly obvious they're minors from their userinfos or something, and you post it anyway, don't be surprised if you are asked to delete the post if/when it's revealed they're underage. Posts to communities are fair game. Unless they say in the post that they are underage or have it clearly marked in their userinfo. Or they make it self-evident (i.e. "I wuz smoking in the boyzlockerroom during 9th grade PE yesterday when suddenly I totally wanked.") We assume you're all reasonably intelligent adults -- don't try to get technical and claim "Well, he never said outright that he's 14 and never been laid!" Don't make us snark you -- we won't be gentle. This rule applies to all minors, not just livejournal ones.

2. Do not troll people who show up on FW. We are here to laugh at them, not fight with them. This means that, while you may or may not choose to comment to them, we expect you to behave. In general, unless you were there before the item got wanked, or happen to already be a member of/friended with the location of the wank, stay out of it. And even if either of those are the case, don't come bragging to us about it -- we're here to mock, not get involved. See also this post.

3. Do not link the subject of the wank to FW. This is part of our "what they don't know won't hurt them" policy. If someone has been wanked, it is simply not cricket to draw their attention to it.

4. Do not troll or flood FW itself. Trolling does not mean the person in the wank showing up and arguing with you. Trolling means spamming other entries with totally unrelated topics, flooding any entry with dozens or hundreds of comments with no content or the same, repeated content, or generally being obnoxious deliberately.

5. Do NOT use non-work safe icons. This rule only applies to here. The other comms and your own journal are perfectly fine. NWS is defined by exposed genitalia and overtly sexual situations. Text will be ignored unless it is just a giant 'FUCK' or 'JUICY COCK' in big fonts. Or anything close to that. Little text is fine. Do not argue with us on this one, it will result in a warning. If you're still not sure what constitutes NWS, check out this thread, which is chock full of examples and polite clarifications from your beloved mods.

6. Do not link to locked material. This one's hard to enforce (and a journal-related rule), since we're not here to be your nannies or police the internet to make sure the material started out unlocked. Or, you know, even really care. But it rarely ends well and can be kinda skeevy. And in a lot of cases, such as locked communities it's just a pain for the other users. So try and make your wank start out available to the general public. If it's a community and freely joinable, then it's technically okay to repost (but rude to lazy f_w members.) Communities or forae with moderated membership, however, are a no-no. In other words, the general rule is don't cut-n-paste from anything that requires the approval of someone else (private journal owner, moderator, et cetera) to join.

If it gets locked after being wanked, it's okay. Post text, screencaps, whatever. But if it starts out locked and inaccessible and stays locked, that's a big fucking no. Okay? Okay.

And from our beloved system (you know, the site owners?): Friends-locked posts are never, ever to be reposted elsewhere. I don't care how big the friends list is. Getting caught reposting or redistributing locked posts will be grounds for suspension.

7. "Please don't be an idiot. Thank you." -advice from Frank Pembleton.



Okay, that's it. Yes, some of them are common sense. Yes, I miss being able to use NWS-icons too. Yes, they all apply to everyone. Yes, it's very hard to comply with them. But please, give it your best shot, because we're all itching to ban someone unjustifiably, and you don't want it to be you.

So, nutshell: No minors, no trolling wanks and no trolling F_W itself, no reposting of flocked material, no NWS icons, and DON'T BE IDIOTS. Also, bake us cakes. See, not so hard to remember!


OH! ONE MORE THING: It's not a rule, but please, do your best not to feed the trolls. "Okay!" still works very well.