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Rule #1

Pacers Digest is intended to be a place to discuss basketball without having to deal with the kinds of behaviors or attitudes that distract people from sticking with the discussion of the topics at hand. These unwanted distractions can come in many forms, and admittedly it can sometimes be tricky to pin down each and every kind that can rear its ugly head, but we feel that the following examples and explanations cover at least a good portion of that ground and should at least give people a pretty good idea of the kinds of things we actively discourage:

"Anyone who __________ is a liar / a fool / an idiot / a blind homer / has their head buried in the sand / a blind hater / doesn't know basketball / doesn't watch the games"

"People with intelligence will agree with me when I say that __________"

"Only stupid people think / believe / do ___________"

"I can't wait to hear something from PosterX when he/she sees that **insert a given incident or current event that will have probably upset or disappointed PosterX here**"

"He/she is just delusional"

"This thread is stupid / worthless / embarrassing"

"I'm going to take a moment to point and / laugh at PosterX / GroupOfPeopleY who thought / believed *insert though/belief here*"

"Remember when PosterX said OldCommentY that no longer looks good? "

In general, if a comment goes from purely on topic to something 'ad hominem' (personal jabs, personal shots, attacks, flames, however you want to call it, towards a person, or a group of people, or a given city/state/country of people), those are most likely going to be found intolerable.

We also dissuade passive aggressive behavior. This can be various things, but common examples include statements that are basically meant to imply someone is either stupid or otherwise incapable of holding a rational conversation. This can include (but is not limited to) laughing at someone's conclusions rather than offering an honest rebuttal, asking people what game they were watching, or another common problem is Poster X will say "that player isn't that bad" and then Poster Y will say something akin to "LOL you think that player is good". We're not going to tolerate those kinds of comments out of respect for the community at large and for the sake of trying to just have an honest conversation.

Now, does the above cover absolutely every single kind of distraction that is unwanted? Probably not, but you should by now have a good idea of the general types of things we will be discouraging. The above examples are meant to give you a good feel for / idea of what we're looking for. If something new or different than the above happens to come along and results in the same problem (that being, any other attitude or behavior that ultimately distracts from actually just discussing the topic at hand, or that is otherwise disrespectful to other posters), we can and we will take action to curb this as well, so please don't take this to mean that if you managed to technically avoid saying something exactly like one of the above examples that you are then somehow off the hook.

That all having been said, our goal is to do so in a generally kind and respectful way, and that doesn't mean the moment we see something we don't like that somebody is going to be suspended or banned, either. It just means that at the very least we will probably say something about it, quite possibly snipping out the distracting parts of the post in question while leaving alone the parts that are actually just discussing the topics, and in the event of a repeating or excessive problem, then we will start issuing infractions to try to further discourage further repeat problems, and if it just never seems to improve, then finally suspensions or bans will come into play. We would prefer it never went that far, and most of the time for most of our posters, it won't ever have to.

A slip up every once and a while is pretty normal, but, again, when it becomes repetitive or excessive, something will be done. Something occasional is probably going to be let go (within reason), but when it starts to become habitual or otherwise a pattern, odds are very good that we will step in.

There's always a small minority that like to push people's buttons and/or test their own boundaries with regards to the administrators, and in the case of someone acting like that, please be aware that this is not a court of law, but a private website run by people who are simply trying to do the right thing as they see it. If we feel that you are a special case that needs to be dealt with in an exceptional way because your behavior isn't explicitly mirroring one of our above examples of what we generally discourage, we can and we will take atypical action to prevent this from continuing if you are not cooperative with us.

Also please be aware that you will not be given a pass simply by claiming that you were 'only joking,' because quite honestly, when someone really is just joking, for one thing most people tend to pick up on the joke, including the person or group that is the target of the joke, and for another thing, in the event where an honest joke gets taken seriously and it upsets or angers someone, the person who is truly 'only joking' will quite commonly go out of his / her way to apologize and will try to mend fences. People who are dishonest about their statements being 'jokes' do not do so, and in turn that becomes a clear sign of what is really going on. It's nothing new.

In any case, quite frankly, the overall quality and health of the entire forum's community is more important than any one troublesome user will ever be, regardless of exactly how a problem is exhibiting itself, and if it comes down to us having to make a choice between you versus the greater health and happiness of the entire community, the community of this forum will win every time.

Lastly, there are also some posters, who are generally great contributors and do not otherwise cause any problems, who sometimes feel it's their place to provoke or to otherwise 'mess with' that small minority of people described in the last paragraph, and while we possibly might understand why you might feel you WANT to do something like that, the truth is we can't actually tolerate that kind of behavior from you any more than we can tolerate the behavior from them. So if we feel that you are trying to provoke those other posters into doing or saying something that will get themselves into trouble, then we will start to view you as a problem as well, because of the same reason as before: The overall health of the forum comes first, and trying to stir the pot with someone like that doesn't help, it just makes it worse. Some will simply disagree with this philosophy, but if so, then so be it because ultimately we have to do what we think is best so long as it's up to us.

If you see a problem that we haven't addressed, the best and most appropriate course for a forum member to take here is to look over to the left of the post in question. See underneath that poster's name, avatar, and other info, down where there's a little triangle with an exclamation point (!) in it? Click that. That allows you to report the post to the admins so we can definitely notice it and give it a look to see what we feel we should do about it. Beyond that, obviously it's human nature sometimes to want to speak up to the poster in question who has bothered you, but we would ask that you try to refrain from doing so because quite often what happens is two or more posters all start going back and forth about the original offending post, and suddenly the entire thread is off topic or otherwise derailed. So while the urge to police it yourself is understandable, it's best to just report it to us and let us handle it. Thank you!

All of the above is going to be subject to a case by case basis, but generally and broadly speaking, this should give everyone a pretty good idea of how things will typically / most often be handled.

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If the actions of an administrator inspire you to make a comment, criticism, or express a concern about it, there is a wrong place and a couple of right places to do so.

The wrong place is to do so in the original thread in which the administrator took action. For example, if a post gets an infraction, or a post gets deleted, or a comment within a larger post gets clipped out, in a thread discussing Paul George, the wrong thing to do is to distract from the discussion of Paul George by adding your off topic thoughts on what the administrator did.

The right places to do so are:

A) Start a thread about the specific incident you want to talk about on the Feedback board. This way you are able to express yourself in an area that doesn't throw another thread off topic, and this way others can add their two cents as well if they wish, and additionally if there's something that needs to be said by the administrators, that is where they will respond to it.

B) Send a private message to the administrators, and they can respond to you that way.

If this is done the wrong way, those comments will be deleted, and if it's a repeating problem then it may also receive an infraction as well.

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If a poster is bothering you, and an administrator has not or will not deal with that poster to the extent that you would prefer, you have a powerful tool at your disposal, one that has recently been upgraded and is now better than ever: The ability to ignore a user.

When you ignore a user, you will unfortunately still see some hints of their existence (nothing we can do about that), however, it does the following key things:

A) Any post they make will be completely invisible as you scroll through a thread.

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To utilize this feature, from any page on Pacers Digest, scroll to the top of the page, look to the top right where it says 'Settings' and click that. From the settings page, look to the left side of the page where it says 'My Settings', and look down from there until you see 'Edit Ignore List' and click that. From here, it will say 'Add a Member to Your List...' Beneath that, click in the text box to the right of 'User Name', type in or copy & paste the username of the poster you are ignoring, and once their name is in the box, look over to the far right and click the 'Okay' button. All done!

Rule #4

Regarding infractions, currently they carry a value of one point each, and that point will expire in 31 days. If at any point a poster is carrying three points at the same time, that poster will be suspended until the oldest of the three points expires.

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When you share or paste content or articles from another website, you must include the URL/link back to where you found it, who wrote it, and what website it's from. Said content will be removed if this doesn't happen.

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If I copy and paste an article from the Indianapolis Star website, I would post something like this:

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The legal means of watching or listening to NBA games are NBA League Pass Broadband (for US, or for International; both cost money) and NBA Audio League Pass (which is free). Look for them on NBA.com.

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It may or may not go without saying, but this goes for threads and posts as well, particularly when it's not made on the off-topic board (Market Square).

We do make exceptions if we feel the content is both innocuous and unlikely to cause social problems on the forum (such as wishing someone a Merry Christmas or a Happy Easter), and we also also make exceptions if such topics come up with regards to a sports figure (such as the Lance Stephenson situation bringing up discussions of domestic abuse and the law, or when Jason Collins came out as gay and how that lead to some discussion about gay rights).

However, once the discussion seems to be more/mostly about the political issues instead of the sports figure or his specific situation, the thread is usually closed.

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We prefer self-restraint and/or modesty when making jokes or off topic comments in a sports discussion thread. They can be fun, but sometimes they derail or distract from a topic, and we don't want to see that happen. If we feel it is a problem, we will either delete or move those posts from the thread.

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Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

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  • #46
    Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

    Pacers 97
    Pelicans 93

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    • #47
      Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

      Pacers 92
      Hornets 88

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      • #48
        Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

        Pacers 99
        Pelicans 95

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        • #49
          Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

          IND 107
          NO 99
          Last edited by MyFavMartin; 10-30-2013, 05:25 PM.

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          • #50
            Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

            Pacers 94
            Pelicans 77

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            • #51
              Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

              Pacers 92
              Pelicans 87
              DG for 3

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              • #52
                Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

                Pacers 97
                Pelicans 90

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                • #53
                  Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

                  Pacers 101
                  Pelicans 93
                  "It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."

                  ----------------- Reggie Miller

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                  • #54
                    Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

                    Pacers 101
                    Pelicans 95


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                    • #55
                      Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

                      Pacers 105
                      pelicans 90

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                      • #56
                        This Contest Is Closed

                        This guess the score contest is now closed. The following guesses have been successfully recorded:

                        Code:
                        Poster                          Pacers      Opponent    
                        BillS                                     93          90
                        BobbyMac                                  92          86
                        Brohan Cruyff                             96          82
                        Cactus Jax                               101          93
                        ColeTheMole                               92          87
                        Coopdog23                                 97          89
                        DJVendetta                                93          84
                        Doug                                      94          90
                        Eleazar                                   97          90
                        Hicks                                     97          93
                        Iceman1                                   96          91
                        Il Ragionier Ugo Fantozzi                 91          98
                        Kemo                                     104          97
                        LoneGranger33                             98          93
                        LucasRL13                                 93          88
                        Miller_time04                             93          89
                        Mr_Smith                                  89          94
                        MyFavMartin                              107          99
                        Nuntius                                  104          96
                        PacerDude                                101          88
                        PaulGeorgeHill                           105          90
                        QuickRelease                              96          87
                        Randolph_HorseLips                        96          94
                        Rasmus                                    99          95
                        RomanGabriel                              91          87
                        SamBear                                  101          81
                        Sherlock                                 108          94
                        Sparhawk                                 104          90
                        SycamoreKen                              110          90
                        aamcguy                                   96          90
                        able                                      97          85
                        bballpacen                                98          89
                        boombaby1987                              90          92
                        circlecitysportsfan                       94          90
                        colts19                                  102          87
                        croz24                                    92          88
                        dustinpettit                             100          88
                        iogyhufi                                  99          88
                        jrwannabe                                 93          91
                        khaos01207                               104          82
                        mildlysane                                94          77
                        owl                                       98          93
                        pacers74                                  97          80
                        penbert66                                 97          94
                        pumpk35                                  103          98
                        rabid                                     85          83
                        tate                                     101          95
                        travmil                                  101          92
                        RoboDoug                                  89         101
                        Rejected Posts:
                        Post 1723672, User cdash, Reason: No valid guess found
                        Post 1723730, User Doug, Reason: No valid guess found
                        Post 1723732, User cdash, Reason: No valid guess found
                        Post 1723743, User Nuntius, Reason: No valid guess found
                        Post 1723870, User Doug, Reason: No valid guess found
                        Post 1723871, User Doug, Reason: No valid guess found


                        HomePointsV3,4306044,8.22,2013-01-03/VisitorPointsV3,2751447,8.12,2011-12-24

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                        • #57
                          Drumroll please...

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                          Final score:
                          
                          Pacers                95
                          Pelicans              90
                          
                          Code:
                                                                                                ------------------------------------ Season -----------------------------------
                                                                                  Right                   Total                           Right   Right Perfect   Total Average
                          Poster                      IND   NOP   OffBy    Rank  Winner  Points    Rank  Points   First  Second   Third  Winner Percent Guesses Guesses   OffBy
                          ------------------------  ----- ----- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- ------- -------
                          aamcguy                      96    90       1       1       1      10       2      11       1       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     2.0
                          circlecitysportsfan          94    90       1       1       1      10       2      11       1       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     3.0
                          Doug                         94    90       1       1       1      10       2      11       1       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     4.0
                          BillS                        93    90       2       4       1       1       5       8       0       1       0       2  100.0%       0       2     1.5
                          Eleazar                      97    90       2       4       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     3.0
                          Iceman1                      96    91       2       4       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1     2.0
                          Coopdog23                    97    89       3       7       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     4.0
                          jrwannabe                    93    91       3       7       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     2.5
                          Miller_time04                93    89       3       7       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     5.0
                          bballpacen                   98    89       4      10       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     6.5
                          LucasRL13                    93    88       4      10       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     8.5
                          QuickRelease                 96    87       4      10       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     6.0
                          croz24                       92    88       5      13       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     8.5
                          Hicks                        97    93       5      13       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1     5.0
                          Randolph_HorseLips           96    94       5      13       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1     5.0
                          ColeTheMole                  92    87       6      16       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    11.0
                          iogyhufi                     99    88       6      16       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1     6.0
                          LoneGranger33                98    93       6      16       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     4.5
                          owl                          98    93       6      16       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     8.0
                          penbert66                    97    94       6      16       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     5.5
                          able                         97    85       7      21       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     8.0
                          BobbyMac                     92    86       7      21       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     5.5
                          boombaby1987                 90    92       7      21       0       0      50       0       0       0       0       0    0.0%       0       1     7.0
                          dustinpettit                100    88       7      21       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     5.5
                          RomanGabriel                 91    87       7      21       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     8.0
                          DJVendetta                   93    84       8      26       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    10.0
                          PacerDude                   101    88       8      26       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     6.5
                          travmil                     101    92       8      26       1       1       1      21       1       0       0       2  100.0%       1       2     4.0
                          Brohan Cruyff                96    82       9      29       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1     9.0
                          Cactus Jax                  101    93       9      29       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1     9.0
                          Rasmus                       99    95       9      29       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     7.0
                          Sparhawk                    104    90       9      29       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    10.5
                          colts19                     102    87      10      33       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    13.5
                          Mr_Smith                     89    94      10      33       0       0      34       1       0       0       0       1   50.0%       0       2     8.0
                          PaulGeorgeHill              105    90      10      33       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1    10.0
                          tate                        101    95      11      36       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2     8.5
                          Il Ragionier Ugo Fantozzi    91    98      12      37       0       0      34       1       0       0       0       1   50.0%       0       2     8.0
                          pacers74                     97    80      12      37       1       1       5       8       0       1       0       2  100.0%       0       2     6.5
                          mildlysane                   94    77      14      39       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1    14.0
                          Nuntius                     104    96      15      40       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    10.5
                          SamBear                     101    81      15      40       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1    15.0
                          SycamoreKen                 110    90      15      40       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1    15.0
                          Kemo                        104    97      16      43       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1    16.0
                          pumpk35                     103    98      16      43       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    20.5
                          khaos01207                  104    82      17      45       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    16.0
                          rabid                        85    83      17      45       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    12.5
                          RoboDoug                     89   101      17      45       0       0      34       1       0       0       0       1   50.0%       0       2    14.0
                          Sherlock                    108    94      17      45       1       1       7       2       0       0       0       2  100.0%       0       2    10.5
                          MyFavMartin                 107    99      21      49       1       1      34       1       0       0       0       1  100.0%       0       1    21.0

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                          • #58
                            Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

                            So, I guess that we should stop posting normal posts and quoting in this thread
                            Originally posted by IrishPacer
                            Empty vessels make the most noise.

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                            • #59
                              Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

                              Originally posted by Nuntius View Post
                              So, I guess that we should stop posting normal posts and quoting in this thread
                              I think that was what RoboDoug was trying to say in a not so straight forward fashion.

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                              • #60
                                Re: Guess the Score 10/30/2013 Hornets

                                Originally posted by Nuntius View Post
                                So, I guess that we should stop posting normal posts and quoting in this thread
                                As long as you also have a post recording your guess, it doesn't matter. Your guess was still counted, even if it wasn't so stellar
                                Time for a new sig.

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