Rules for handling House Rules

[Panther]

In the past the handling of House Rules-related threads has sometimes led to discussions among the members, as there is often some kind of rivalry about a subject belonging to either the dedicated game forums or the “Customization”-(sub)-forum(s) (including “HouseRules”/“Variants”).

We have discussed the procedure with the aim of providing some transparent rules of how these threads are to be handled.

Facts:

• The dedicated game forums are reserved for discussing the original game with its original out-of-box (OOB) rules plus official FAQ.
• The House Rules-forum is reserved for every idea that is not in complete accordance with the OOB-rules and FAQ.
• But sometimes we have threads that correctly start as a discussion in the dedicated game forum but at any point change into a house rule discussion.

Results:

• Threads that start with a (OOB compliant) game-specific subject but turn into a House Rule discussion would be marked with the prefix [House Rules] by a moderator but stay in the forum the original poster has intended
• Threads that start with House Rules but are opened in a game-specific forum will be moved to House Rules

However we understand the desire for better identifying which original game is behind which house rules. For this we ask everybody creating a thread in the House Rules subforum to assign a prefix to the title of his thread representing the original game the idea derived from:

[1914]
[1941]
[1942 2nd Ed.]
[Global 1940]
[Global 1942]
[Europe 1940]
[Pacific 1940]
[Spring 1942]
[Anniversary]
[Zombies]
[Guadalcanal]
[Bulge]
[D-Day]
[Revised]
[Pacific]
[Europe]
[2nd Edition]
[Classic]
[other]

Also: Please add tags of the same game-name when creating a topic. Thank you!

We probably cannot cover every situation - but this should be a reliable framework for admins, moderators and members.

[djensen]

And tags of the same name. If the tags work out, maybe we can drop the title of the topic practice.