Read the rules above, those are what you must abide by in black and white. If you for whatever reasons have a question on those rules, ask in /sug/ or IRC.

Someone saying "your ideas are retarded" is not a personal attack. Someone saying "you are retarded" is a personal attack. If you get baited into making a personal attack, it's still you breaking the rules, not them. If you want to complain about how the rules are enforced, do it in /sug/ or IRC, derailing threads due to rule complaints or perceived infractions will now garner you a ban. Report, do not reply, and move on.

Trip-fighting will now be met with bans and post deletions, off topic discussions of actions in previous threads not pertinent to the topic at hand will be met with bans. Stay on topic, stay impersonal, and stay within the rules. If you have questions, comments, or concerns, please see us in IRC or /sug/,

  ConcernedCitizen is drafting the official changes, but for now to limit reports I would like to outline a slight rule change:

/n/ is no longer limited to national/international news.

Anything traditionally newsworthy that impacts or potentially impacts people on the international, national, or regional level or is exceptional on the local level can have its own thread.

For local stories with no real impact - we will be crafting a Flawda thread to contain them.

Here is some food for thought:

http://www.mediacollege.com/journalism/news/newsworthy.html

All other rules remain in effect until further notice.

Bump to be on top of the Flawda thread.

Threads that dissolve into accusations of schilling and tripfighting will be locked. Don't do it in the flawda thread either or you'll be banned.