Rules and FAQ
These rules are the cornerstone of the Vine...
1. No Nudity
Simple rule, this is a child friendly site with young users. No porn or hentai allowed.
There is no middle ground on this rule, it is firm and steadfast. Breaking it will have the mod's coming down on you hard. if you have a picture and you're not sure about it, either use your common sense, or if you're lacking that then PM it to a Mod and ask them.
2. No Profanity
Again, there is no middle ground on this one... if you swear your post gets deleted, if you keep doing it after getting warned then the mods will come down on you.
If you must swear to get a point across, something I don't see the point of, use symbols to cover up a few letters.
$ = S
! = I
And so on, it's a form of 'leet' speak that has evolved onto most forums, it gets the message across to most people and keeps the swearing to a minimum.
3. Anything you post here is open to criticism.
Everyone has a right to post here and everyone has a right to their own opinion. But people have differing opinions on things and they have just as much right to post as you do. That's why this is a discussion forum. A suggestion: before posting, ask how someone could counter your argument and what you can say about it.
4. Don't use slurs against someone's (supposed) race, creed, religion, sexual orientation, etc.
Using terms that fall under these makes you seem especially ignorant, and well, boring... we've heard it all before so don't bother with it...
any abuse against other members of The Vine will get you a warning.
5. Adding to the Vine‘s Enclopedia, but not sure how
There's a lovely button at the top right hand side that says "Help" either click on that or follow this link, failing that, ask a Mod, we're always here to help.
6. No threatening people
This was brushed up above, don't threaten anyone... any threatening behavior or abuse will be met with a warning, three strikes and you’re out.
- Who are the Mods and Admins?
Admin
Mod's
- How do I become a Moderator?
You don't seek to become a mod, we seek you out...
- How many warnings do I get before being banned?
3 warnings. There are special occasions where we'll skip the 3 warnings, but you've got to do something really bad for that to happen
- I see a bug/problem in the wiki/forums. Where do I report it?
If you notice a bug, post it Here with a little explanation of what the bug is, where it happened and a HTML link if possible please.
- How do I earn points?
Comic Vine uses a unique system for content submission that involves heavy moderation for new or anonymous users and gradually opens up more options to the individual user as they continue to submit quality data to the site. Most users can gain live edit access (where submission show up on the site immediately) within a week or two of submitting approved content. Until that time submissions go through a moderation queue that is monitored by the staff, or most likely, volunteer moderators from the community. We try to get to new submissions within 24 hours. You will receive a private message once your submission has been approved or rejected and a history of your submissions can be accessed at anytime from within your profile.
If you're looking for a page that really needs work then head over here and work on one that really needs info from people in the know...
Basically it's easy to get points here, do quality submissions and you get the points for them. simple as that.
For the people complaining that there 'isn't anything more to add to the site', take a look around, there are thousands of pages that need doing.... and you can see that there are pages upon pages of submissions to do that no one is bothering with yet...
For those complaining that their submission got rejected, it's probably for one of three reasons...
- You're plagiarizing another site... NOT ACCEPTABLE HERE
- The level of Spelling and Grammar was so atrocious that we couldn't actually fix it without taking the entire submission apart and rewriting it ourselves.
- The information was incorrect... adding "implant" powers to Powergirl or Lara Croft or the like doesn't make you funny, doesn't make you smart, it makes you look like a prat who is never going to get live edit privileges.
G-Man and the other staff have actually taken to rejecting submissions if the spelling is too bad on them, while normally we do go through the submission and try and correct everything we can, sometimes it's just too big a job...
It's getting to the point now where the submissions are getting to be a joke, people are taking the piss when it comes to spelling, grammar and layout. Some people are taking it too far as just adding and taking away powers as they see fit.
Let me put this straight, if you continually mess with the database content you WILL be put on a Wiki ban and you won't be able to edit any more pages, the points will mean nothing to you.
Now that we've got that out of the way here's a few hints for the serious submitters out there that will help them work on site content and have their submissions approved quickly and easily...
Spell check your submissions
I can't stress this enough, so many submissions we get are complete nonsense because people don't read through the submission first and it's riddled with stupid mistakes and terrible spelling.
If you don't have a spell check or don't want to read through your submissions first, go and download Firefox, it will automatically check your spelling as you type and has an excellent spell checker built in.
Grammar
Capital letters for the start of sentences, capital letters for names, capital "I's", basic grammar here people...
Use paragraphs properly, space out your submissions so the character page is pleasant to read as well as informative.
Here are some websites to help with submissions.
Common errors in English.
Standard guide to punctuation.
I know quite a few of the major submitters on the site actually use Office based software to write out their submissions before copying them into the site, this is a brilliant idea as it lets you run through the spelling and grammar check off line and you can save a copy of it for later editing.
If you don't have expensive Office software like Microsoft Office, there are plenty of freeware variants about, one I can recommend is OpenOffice, which you can download for free here...
Basically just read through your submission once you've typed it out and if it makes sense to you and is in acceptable English, then and only then, click on the submit button.
And if you really want to get in the mods / admin's good graces, there is always room for people to help on Wednesdays / Thursdays when the new issues come out... as soon as you get the issue, scan in the cover and upload it as a 'new issue' with all the relevant details... It may not seem like a lot of points at first, but those 60 / 70 points per new issue soon mount up...
Say you do 6 issues a week, that's an average of 280 points extra per week for just helping keep the site updated with the new comics... add your other submissions on top of that and you're laughing. Another good way is to take a character that you collect regularly, anyone, and then every week (or whenever their new issue comes out), update their page with the new relevant information from the latest comic.
- What are points for?
At the moment, nothing... they will be used for something at a later date, but at the moment they are just for a laugh.
If you have a complaint about a user...
if your complaint is about a user, either their actions on the forums or their submissions, follow these steps...
take a copy of the user name
grab a link of the posts / edits you are complaining about and send them both to a mod...
there are several mods you can send it to, if it's a forum problem then Methos, Kate Sith and Gambler will be happy to deal with it...
please bare in mind, this is not for petty squabbles or "he said, she said" crap... if you have a legitimate complaint, send it on...
If you have a complaint about a mod...
Now, this is a little more serious...
if you have a complaint against a mod then it needs to go to the forum admin, which is G-Man... so do the same as above, send a link of the mod you're complaining about, and a link to what has happened on the forums... copy both of these links and send a copy to Methos, Kate Sith and G-man using the multiple PM system
all comlaints will be dealt with in confidence and everything will be looked into...
Things that will help your complaint be dealt with asap...
Link to everything you are complaining about... if we don't know about it then we can't help you
if it's on the forum, don't 'attack' back... if they're attacking you simply copy the posts and PM it to us, don't attack back because then the complaint goes against both of you
if you make a complaint... don't wander off half way through talking to a mod / admin about it... it bugs us as we all have other stuff to do, complaints are important but we have a ton of other things to do and it doesn't help when people don't answer or just say 'oh it's sorted now, never mind'. if you've made a complaint, follow it through
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With all that said, we hope you enjoy the site and if you do have any questions any of the Admin or Mod team will be happy to answer any of them.
The Mod Squad
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