Stop treating this forum like Wattpad 🙄

[Lady_Eva]

@Mulberry

Funny you should say this. I got threatened yesterday with “soul death”, a challenge I accepted but he backed down

Once again, use flags, please… they may do that to someone who has just suffered some (completely unrelated) misfortune and that innocent person could spiral to a very dark place thinking the two are linked.

Threats have never been tolerated on here, not even back in the more wild-west days of 2014 before there was any real ruleset or moderation, Timothy came on himself and immediately banned a member who was threatening others. No wiggle room.

@anon48532061

If we were to consider that the “fanfic” is not appropriate content, then we need a “magic” police to clarify what is fake and what isn’t.

This is the issue, and it’s more or less impossible to draw the line - mute what you get annoyed by folks, flag anything that causes concern, use the Something Else flag and message me to take a look.

Usually a friendly chat sorts out most problems, but you need to be willing to let me know, because if I see a topic that looks a bit larpy or weird, I’m not going to just draw on my own opinions, I need to know if it’s bothering others, and then I will explain any action taken (or not taken) so at least you know ehere you stand with regards to forum rules.

There will always be things on here you as a member disagree with or think are fantastic, but that’s just the nature of any magick forum, so a bit of leeway is expected, and is granted to you in return, to post without fear of being mocked because your own work or experiences don’t fit someone else’s narrow-minded concept.

@Faustus

That’s exactly it. Reality policing in some official capacity is a slippery slope. So it’s up to individuals to learn to exercise discernment. I have my own metric for determining what ideas are useful and which ones tend to lead people into fantasy land.

The metric that i use is somewhat binary. Does it contribute to a tangible result or does it not. If not, then I will disregard it outright. When that cannot be answered with some degree of clarity then I am going to look on it with suspicion. This is something that I apply to my own stuff too.

^ Excellent approach imo.

For any beginner reading this and wondering how to recognise a larp, read this to begin with:

Magic needs a curious mind – the learning dilemma for magical students

@Akashiel

This makes weeding out the bullshit a good IDEA in principle that would be a nightmare to actually do without someone (Most likely Eva) getting to decide what is and isn’t true among a myriad of paths that none of us know in their entirety. And I think if someone got the the right to decide what is and isn’t legit, and based on that censor what can be said, I would personally have to leave the forum.

Same here.

Just going back to:

@Ashtarte

I did not know threats were against forum rules, next time you’ll say trolling and cursing is against forum rules as well!

Threats are against the rules, trolling is, cursing… eh, I don’t think anyone can moderate what magick people do provided they are discreet, however if someone tells another member they will curse that person (or their loved ones etc) or implies any magick will be done against them, that’s just a threat, it gets the usual solution: up the backside.

Full ruleset specific to this forum (not just the boilerplate stuff in the T&C’s that comes with the forum software):

BALG RULES - Please read them!

Ever since this forum was launched the idea of adding rules was deemed unnecessary. Because after all, we would most likely deal with mature Black Magicians seriously working on their Path to become a Living God. Almost two years later we, sadly enough, had to change our minds on this. We regret to announce that, as from now, rules will be added to this forum. We have had too many scammers, con-artists, trolling, flaming, threats, false profiles, intimidations, dead horses, etc… We can no long…