Greetings everyone! Salutations. So, I was talking with Snake about it amd we've decided that it would be best if /chat/ had a home owner's association sort of approach when it comes to posting on ponychan.
We will now have a committee where users will be able to vote who is apart of the board and who is not. We feel this is the best way moving forward to ensure quality posts, and that everyone's need is key within the community!
In addition, there will be a new set of rules enforced in addition to our current set for ponychan's global policy:
Policy in the past has always been to err on the side of lenience. In so doing, however, we moved the goalposts too far, and have gone past lenience and into negligence. Effective immediately, a new enforcement policy will be in place: one that is simple and easy to understand.
Moderators will be given much more autonomy to act on the rules. The rules themselves will be vastly simplified, as you shall soon see. The first rules offense a user makes will generally be considered with a warning in thread, publicly visible. The second rules offense a user makes will generally be considered a short ban. And the third rules offense and after will invite any ban, up to and including a permaban, that a staff member feels is fit.
Please note that this is a guideline, and that a moderator will have leeway to even permaban on first offense, depending on the situation, from here on out. Moderators will
