The CardBoard

The Cardboard is designed to be a fun, amicable place for discussion of all Stanford sports. Here are some guidelines to help keep it that way.

1. No "hit and run" posts designed solely to draw members to other sites. Established community members and guests are welcome to post links designed to stimulate discussion. However, links determined to be solicitations will be deleted. Repeat offenders will be banned.

2. Attack ideas, not people. It's rare, but those who are repeatedly confrontational have been banned. If the moderators cannot determine the instigator, both parties will be banned.

3. Do not use the private messaging features to harass other members. If you feel you are being harassed, please contact the moderators.

4. Do not copy material wholesale from other sites or blogs. Small excerpts for the purpose of discussion are welcome. As a general guideline, do not copy or quote more than four lines from an external source. The CardBoard style for quoting is as follows:

• paste the quote into the message
• select the quote
• use the icon/tool resembling a cartoon speech bubble to set off the quote into the software's speech style
• paste a link to the quoted material below the quote

Under no circumstances post material from behind a paywall.

5. Fans of other teams: we welcome your insight, but please remember that this is our home on the web. Do not say anything on the board that you would not say to us personally in our homes. The management will make every effort to determine the purpose of posts. Those interpreted as trolling will be deleted, and the posters banned. (Hint: name calling is almost always interpreted as trolling.)

6. Most of us use handles to identify ourselves on this site. One advantage of this is that people with inside knowledge can feel free to disclose information about themselves or their experiences. Please remember that it is each individual's choice how much information he or she discloses. Please respect other posters' choices on anonymity.

7. No political posts. This includes not merely promoting or criticizing candidates or parties, but also using political slogans and epithets.

(10-15-2014, 10:43 AM)admin Wrote: [ -> ]The Cardboard is designed to be a fun, amicable place for discussion of all Stanford sports. Here are some guidelines to help keep it that way.

1. No "hit and run" posts designed solely to draw members to other sites. Established community members and guests are welcome to post links designed to stimulate discussion. However, links determined to be solicitations will be deleted. Repeat offenders will be banned.

2. Attack ideas, not people. It's rare, but those who are repeatedly confrontational have been banned. If the moderators cannot determine the instigator, both parties will be banned.

3. Do not use the private messaging features to harass other members. If you feel you are being harassed, please contact the moderators.

4. Do not copy material wholesale from other sites or blogs. Small excerpts for the purpose of discussion are welcome. As a general guideline, do not copy or quote more than four lines from an external source. The CardBoard style for quoting is as follows:

• paste the quote into the message
• select the quote
• use the icon/tool resembling a cartoon speech bubble to set off the quote into the software's speech style
• paste a link to the quoted material below the quote

Under no circumstances post material from behind a paywall.

5. Fans of other teams: we welcome your insight, but please remember that this is our home on the web. Do not say anything on the board that you would not say to us personally in our homes. The management will make every effort to determine the purpose of posts. Those interpreted as trolling will be deleted, and the posters banned. (Hint: name calling is almost always interpreted as trolling.)

6. Most of us use handles to identify ourselves on this site. One advantage of this is that people with inside knowledge can feel free to disclose information about themselves or their experiences. Please remember that it is each individual's choice how much information he or she discloses. Please respect other posters' choices on anonymity.

7. No political posts. This includes not merely promoting or criticizing candidates or parties, but also using political slogans and epithets.

While I don't think my position will find any support, let me say that as far as political posts go, those involving say democrats vs republicans, or whoever should be banned.
However, I think it would be appropriate for the CardBoard to have a another board where interested people can discuss international events.  Some of us have served out country in times of peace and times of war. Others of us have worked withing the government and have insights as to how decisions are made.  I am not espousing discussion of Trump vs Biden, or whether Biden is too old etc., but how we and our offspring will live in the world we are in as  time marches on.  For myself, the clock is ticking, I am Stanford Class of 1961 so perhaps I should have no interest in how the current world situation plays out, but I spent too many years involved directly in that conundrum and remain very interested.

If I understand you properly, allow a place for "non-partisan geopolitics".   Kind of like we are doing with the Ukraine thread, which I really appreciate.

Moving this to the relevant thread.

(04-04-2026, 10:31 AM)BostonCard Wrote: [ -> ]

(04-03-2026, 09:58 PM)76lsjumb Wrote: [ -> ]Quick question: When a person makes a libelous post about someone, does a moderator have the authority to simply delete it, or is it allowed to simply remain there because to point out that it is ridiculous would violate the politics rule? Just asking for a friend…

My personal threshold for deleting posts is very high and my preference is to remind people of the rules and hope that calms things down.  In my mind, the danger is not so much that a political post exists per se (whether I agree with it or not); I think at this point we know that people have very strong feelings about politicians, current and former.  The danger to me is that a post will elicit a strong reaction and we get a back and forth that hijacks the discussion.  If it really bothers you or worry that you or someone else will not be able to leave the statement unchallenged, I can delete the post (or the offending statement), but honestly since this discussion has moved on, there’s probably a greater risk of calling attention by deleting it.

Note, if one of the other mods with a lower threshold to delete posts does so that’s fine too; we’re all just volunteers trying to do our best

BC

I took the post that triggered this (i.e., the post 76lsjumb was referring to) to be a political post (at least the relevant sentence).  The guidelines above indicate "No political posts".  Had that post been a non-political libelous post, I would feel the same criteria should apply.

I am not a moderator and have no insight into the people managing this board.  However, I would suggest a different treatment.

1) If a post or portion thereof is found by the board management to be contrary to the guidelines, board management will take one of two actions.
    A) The post is immediately removed from being visible to non-moderators.  Action may be taken against the author (ban, warn, etc.)  The author could also plead his case as to why it (or an edited version) should be allowed.
  or B) The author (and any subsequent repliers) will be notified and asked to edit or delete their post to comply with the guidelines.  The original author may realize the problem and may willingly amend his post.  Responders who quote the original content will also be asked to edit or delete their post.

2) After the authors have had a chance to amend their posts, if the board management still feels a post is not within guidelines, then #1 will be applied again.  Specifically, board management may remove the post from public display.


BC's approach lets individuals take potshots.  If no one yells back at them, BC's approach allows the potshot to remain in the Cardboard forever.   If I don't like what was said and I want it taken down, BC's approach would encourage me to make a contentious reply so it would be taken down.

I suggest that removing a post be done to the entire post, even if only one sentence is outside the guidelines.