With the new season upon us, we are implementing some new rules for the message board that we hope our members will help out with to make the board a more enjoyable place for all. While we have no intention of banning people for violation of these rules, if someone is continuously violating them, we may consider a short suspension for that poster.
The Bears Football Forum is for Bears Football talk only. So please keep these rules in mind before posting here:
1. Before starting a new thread, check to see if that topic is being discussed first. If it is, please do not start a new thread on that topic. The constant starting of new threads keeps the main forum littered with thread after thread on the same topic. If a new thread is posted while that topic is already being discussed, the thread will be deleted. Anyone who was on the board during the Brett Favre Saga, will understand why we are asking the posters to PLEASE check to see if a topic is being discussed before starting a new thread. You can use the "search option" to see if the topic you want to start a new thread on has been recently discussed
2. All discussions regarding other NFL Teams should be placed in Rival Forum. There are a couple of exceptions to this. The team we are playing that week can be discussed in the main Bears Football Forum. Teams we are playing later in the season, or teams we are not playing at all, Please put in Rival Forum. Also, any legitimate trades that are being discussed on radio/tv can also be discussed in the main Bears Football trade, legitimate trades, not "So and So dropped this player, should we sign him"
3. Please, all qb threads in the qb forum. The qb forum was started due to the massive amounts of threads taking up the main football forum, so please put all qb discussion in the qb forum.
4. Any questions related to the message board, please pm the mods and do not start a thread. Please do not start threads that say "Why was my post/thread deleted" "Why do my posts need to be approved" All these are questions for the mods, so please send us a pm instead of starting a thread.
5. Graphics in your sig to be no larger then 175 pixels in height.
6. Any comments that you know are against the Code of Conduct, please utilize the "report abuse" button. We know some here do not want to feel like they are "telling" on each other, but no one knows you reported something and the mods will never tell a poster who reported them. The mods spend as much time as we can reading the threads, but is impossible for us to read every thread and post on this message board. So any help you can give us to keep the board clean/civil, would be appreciated. One final note, if you are suspended/banned/warned for something, and you see a poster doing the same thing, please do not assume it is because that poster is a "favorite" of the mods. More then likely we havn't seen the post/thread yet and it has not been reported to us.
These are simple rules, and we would really appreciate it if our members would help out in this situation. There have been times when the main board is so bogged down with the same thread (i.e Hester contract situation, Favre Trade situation) that the mods are getting pm's and complaints, and we are spending more time cleaning up the board then anything else. So please everyone, just keep these rules in mind before you post. Thank you.
