Welcome to the Avengers Board! RULES TO READ BEFORE YOU POST! 12/26 Update!

[Brian Cronin]

Welcome to the Avengers Board!

Before you begin posting, here are a few rules:

1. BE CIVIL
This should be self explanatory, but just in case, on this board, we do not tolerate people acting like jerks for no reason. Treat everyone with civility. This goes for posters as WELL as creators of the titles. If you want to complain about Brian Michael Bendis, go ahead, but do it civilly, or else I will delete. And NO flame-baiting, either!

2. PROFANITY
Don't use profanity. And I am going to go a bit further and say that there shall not be any referring to women (fictional or not) as "skanks" or "whores" or "hos."

3. LOOK BEFORE YOU LEAP
It will occasionally happen that you will want to start a thread that someone else already started. Do a search before you post to make sure that someone else has not already posted your topic.

4. DISCUSS AVENGERS-RELATED TOPICS
This may also seem to be a basic idea, but just for clarification's sake, please keep all topics related to the Avengers (and Avengers-related titles, such as Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Invaders and Thunderbolts).

5. DISCUSSION THREADS
Discussion threads are for DISCUSSIONS. Therefore, there will be no "stakeclaiming" threads like, "Invaders #4 - Discuss!" In fact, I would like to go further than that and ask that you at least write a paragraph if you are going to start a discussion thread. Otherwise, just let someone else start the thread.

6. WHEN TO START A DISCUSSION THREAD

If you read an advance copy of an issue, and you want to start a thread, please keep in mind that all discussion threads for comics have to be posted no earlier than 12:00 AM on the day the book is released in the United States. Before that, the discussion belongs on the Avengers Spoilers Thread, which is where it will end up via my trusty merge button.

7. SIGH AND UHMMM BAN

No posts shall open with the noises "sigh" and/or "uhmmmm." Neither of them add anything to discourse, and they basically work as the internet equivalent of "Screw you!" For example, one person says, "Magneto made his first appearance in X-Men #2." Next person says, "Uhmmm...Magneto made his first appearance in X-Men #1" or "Sigh...Magneto made his first appearance in X-MEn #1." Take away the opening stuff, and the point of the sentence is not changed. So what's the point of saying Sigh or Uhmmm? To me, it is no more than saying, "You might think that, but you're a moron, as the ACTUAL answer is ____" or "I have to pause here to fully grasp how dumb you are." Occasionally, the word actually is used the same way as uhmmm and sigh. I reserve the right to omit "actually" when I think it is being used like uhmmm or sigh.

8. KEEP SURPRISES SURPRISES!
Don't give away information that would be classified as a "spoiler" IN the thread title. And if the thread has a spoiler in it, put spoilers in the thread title.

9. CBR IS LIKE IRAN

10. YOUR OPINION ABOUT SOMETHING IS NOT, IN AND OF ITSELF, WORTHY OF ITS OWN THREAD
I understand that you have opinions, and that you think your opinion is interesting, but we have so many discussions where you can express your opinion. You do not need to (and should not) form your own thread to do so.

-Brian

[Brian Cronin]

Just to be clear....some modes of discussion that are inappropriate for this forum:

1. Saying stuff like "Why does everyone hate Character X?" Don't do that - just say, "I think Character X is cool." Then if people disagree, simply debate the point using facts and observations rather than resorting to"You're just being negative!"

2. Telling people that "you're just being negative!"

3. Telling people "Why do you read the comic, then?" So long as they are being civil about it, people can criticize a comic over and over and over and over if they want to. You can feel free to ignore them, let their incessant complaining be like white noise to you...but you cannot personally attack them for their pursuits. Tell them that their positions are unfounded. Tell them that they are not backing up their points with any facts at all. Just do not personally rip them.

4. The ol' "Opinion Back and Forth," as in "This is just MY opinion!" "That's just YOUR opinion!" We get it. If you are saying something, it should be understood by everyone that it is your opinion. No need to discuss it further.

5. I will allow a lot of hyberbole go, stuff like "This is the worst comic that I ever read," stuff like that...but let us be reasonable, people. Simply stating "Book X sucks" just is not all that helpful of a contribution to the overall discussion.

SUPER GOLDEN RULE. Keep the discussions about the COMICS, not your fellow posters.

[Brian Cronin]

Okay, a word about the repetitive arguments.

A couple of weeks ago, I closed a bunch of threads where some folks were just having the same exact argument for the eleventy hundredth time.

I continue to think it is super lame for you folks to be arguing the same exact points over and over for the elevnty hundredth and one time.

However, I guess that probably is a bit unfair to any newbie who wants to argue about the same thing that everyone else has argued about for the eleventy hundredth and second times.

So, for the sake of the newbies, you folks can continue arguing the exact same points for the eleventy hundredth and third times (and more).

-Brian