Editing Traveller Mailing List
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then save the changes below to finish undoing the edit.
Latest revision | Your text | ||
Line 67: | Line 67: | ||
The rules of behavior for the TML are unwritten and determined by consensus, with the standards strongly influenced by the FAQ. Foul language is very frowned upon, as are personal attacks or insults to others. A few debates that lasted a long time without being settled one way or the other but led to often volatile emotions are informally banned from discussion now. This is because nobody wants a repeat of the lengthy and loud debates that stirred up a lot of discontent but never changed anyone's opinion now matter how carefully the debates were examined. Most famously banned are: | The rules of behavior for the TML are unwritten and determined by consensus, with the standards strongly influenced by the FAQ. Foul language is very frowned upon, as are personal attacks or insults to others. A few debates that lasted a long time without being settled one way or the other but led to often volatile emotions are informally banned from discussion now. This is because nobody wants a repeat of the lengthy and loud debates that stirred up a lot of discontent but never changed anyone's opinion now matter how carefully the debates were examined. Most famously banned are: | ||
− | * The viability of [[piracy]] or even the mere existence of | + | * The viability of [[piracy]] or even the mere existence of [[pirate]]s at all or what form piracy might take if it does exist; |
− | * The existence or possibility of constructing "[[jump torpedoes]]" or any other unmanned craft capable of FTL [[Jump Drive|jumps]]; | + | * The existence or possibility of constructing "[[jump torpedoes]]" or any other unmanned [[craft]] capable of [[FTL]] [[Jump Drive|jumps]]; |
* Accelerating some large mass such as a [[spaceship]] or asteroid long enough to achieve extraordinarily high speeds and then crashing these ultrahighspeed masses onto the surface of a planet causing far more destruction than any hydrogen bomb could (these are often referred to as [[near-C rocks]], because their speed putatively could approach "C", the astrophysical constant that is the speed of light; and... | * Accelerating some large mass such as a [[spaceship]] or asteroid long enough to achieve extraordinarily high speeds and then crashing these ultrahighspeed masses onto the surface of a planet causing far more destruction than any hydrogen bomb could (these are often referred to as [[near-C rocks]], because their speed putatively could approach "C", the astrophysical constant that is the speed of light; and... | ||
* There are other more-or-less forbidden topics, this is not intended to be a complete list. | * There are other more-or-less forbidden topics, this is not intended to be a complete list. |