Ursa Manners:
People
are here to watch and listen to Owen. People also enjoy interacting
with other subscribers. Anyone detracting from these things has to
go. Here are some of the most common reasons for this:
- Membership on Unauthorized and/or YouTube exempts you from nothing. These rules ALL apply to everyone in the chat room and/or commenting on any video.
- A bear name (see “bearification” in the FAQs), does get the benefit of the doubt when it comes to some rules. Owen and his mods may send one person to time-out while banning another poster for the same “crime” based on their avatar. There is limited information--it's going to be a factor.
- If Owen asks everyone to stop doing something, then stop doing it. No one is asking you to alter your opinions in any way. Just stop. It isn't a suggestion. Stop. That's it.
- Fear and despair spread like cancer, and are not allowed. Attempting to rob others of their hope in the future, and lower morale gets you bounced.
- Gamma behavior will not be tolerated. It's mostly lying, subverting, trying to divide/cause drama, and being generally awful. (See the Voxiversity on the Socio-Sexual Hierarchy for more information.) Unlike dark matter, gamma behavior can be detected and will get you banned.
- Typing a wall of emojis, in all caps, and ending your sarcastic, shitty little remark with lol may get you a warning, then you get banned.
- Threatening or slandering BB or his family is never tolerated. If you want to be a vile little cunt, do so on your own channel. Expect a banning, and possibly a police referral.
- Do not spread unverified rumors. Bring video, pics ad/or screenshots or shut up.
- “Worry” about your porn habit, still living at home just because you're lazy, not being married or having children, being in debt, being overweight or scrawny and weak, drug addiction, and/or being unable to grow your own food/fix anything/build anything. Concern trolling gets you banned.
- Owen has no control over what Vox Day says or does.
- Criticisms need to be respectful, cite actual information/add to the discussion, and should be funny. People with a total lack of social skills are usually not capable of this, and will be banned.
- Poking bears never ends well.
The End
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Ursa Manners Notes:
-
The
parchment paper:
- Is to make the rules look like a proclamation. Actual scrolls looked too biblical.
- The words were also sent in a separate document.
-
We
didn't think we needed them and resisted it, then some “fool”
would always show up and prove us wrong. It happened over and over.
- The platform being yours might make behavior even worse. (No “YouTube policy prevents this” to fall back on.)
- Sometimes familiarity breeds contempt, and other posters can't help testing fences.
-
The
plan was originally just to throw together a quick list of bannable
offenses.
- What is instanaban, what is iffy, and what is just annoying?
- What gets a mod request vs. a verbal assault vs. a punishment?
- Time-outs vs. stream bans vs. permanent ban options vary by platform. <--- you decide what rule merits what response, and how to list them
- No clue what chat punishment options are planned for Unauthorized.tv if/when streams occur there.
-
Many
people won't read the rules or FAQs, or won't be able to follow
them.
- The enjoyment people get from bannings won't stop.
- It gives the moderately intelligent new people capable of following any rules a fighting chance.
- You and Vox both have ways of “ordering” people, so if this works against your methods, please have a designee offer corrections.
