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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Owle, post: 3794559, member: 22004&quot;]Charville:</p><p><br /></p><p><font size="6"><b>Revealing my growing list of unwritten rules</b></font></p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/profile/BrettPCGS" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/profile/BrettPCGS" rel="nofollow"><img src="https://us.v-cdn.net/6027503/uploads/userpics/584/n10DBS074G89U.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />BrettPCGS</a> Posts: 117 mod</p><p><a href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1027137/revealing-my-growing-list-of-unwritten-rules" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/discussion/1027137/revealing-my-growing-list-of-unwritten-rules" rel="nofollow">October 19, 2019 7:45PM</a> in <a href="https://forums.collectors.com/categories/u-s-coin-forum" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://forums.collectors.com/categories/u-s-coin-forum" rel="nofollow">U.S. Coin Forum</a></p><p>Heather is a stickler for simplicity. As such, we only have seven forum rules. Some other boards I&#039;ve been on, in this hobby and elsewhere, have a list of rules, terms, and conditions so long that you&#039;d need a team of lawyers to determine if you&#039;re allowed to even post.</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve been imploring Heather to let me add more rules, but she won&#039;t let me. This is her forum, I just work here. So below I&#039;m working on my own list of unwritten rules:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>8. Late night libel. The forum moderating team consists of four adult human beings, who all live on the west coast, and typically attempt to get some sleep each and every night. Intentionally saving trouble for late night isn&#039;t permissible. In my own mental ledger when you break our easy to follow rules after-hours it&#039;s two strikes, not one.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>9. If you spend your time attempting to find &quot;the line&quot; on what&#039;s appropriate or inappropriate on this forum you&#039;ll simply be banned. &quot;Challenges&quot; to be banned will also result in an automatic ban.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>10. No matter the number of posts or badges you have to your name, no one is grandfathered in to intentionally wasting our time.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s it so far, I&#039;ll keep updating this as we go along or until Heather sees this and deletes it...</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve never seen this type of censorship or forum rules except at PCGS; arbitrary no real warnings, no rationale given, apparently they want a mutual admiration society and no criticisms of the way they run it.&nbsp; &nbsp; People may try to buy insurance for themselves against being banned by praising the forum and PCGS to the skies but all it will take is a comment that is misinterpreted or judged a violation of unwritten rules and poof you are pulled from the forum or ghosted.&nbsp; If anything the PCGS forum is an example of what happens when you have 4 moderators straining at gnats in order to find a cause to punish an honest comment they don&#039;t like.&nbsp; I&#039;ve known a number of members there who were banned multiple times and found a way to reopen an account.&nbsp; And though they can make their own rules, it doesn&#039;t take away from how ruthless and abusive bannings will affect the reputation of PCGS as a &quot;my way or the highway&quot; company.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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