DQN will go a lot more smoothly if we all lay out a comprehensive set of well thought out rules for everyone to follow.

Well? Rules, anyone?

>>85-87 are banned under rule.. uh

>>85-87 are just banned.

How NOT to post on this forum:

5 minutes after your initial post you reply to your own post writing something like "Why is nobody helping me? I'm sure you know the answer". Once somebody replies to your thread but doesn't give you exactly the answer you've been expecting you insult them.

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what awaits you if you don't stick to the forum rules

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Do not post any content that is:
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>>99
where'd you get that list?

>>100
dictionary

be civil, people~ I personally am all loving - I ban people of every race, color, whatever you can think of.

dont care what people you are and what rights you have to be racist or whatever. Ill just kill this thread if the crowd here just isnt smart enuf for it (as expected~)

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Abusing wakabamark to make a post reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy wide is forbidden.

You will die if you've never even heard of yaoi-chan.
Everyone dies eventually.

　　　　　　　　　MAJOR BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT

OKAY, OKAY! Please, STOP emailing me, PMing me, and CALLING me about this. No, Squeeks is NOT real. He was made by registered forum members as a mascot character, that's all. You cannot get in touch with Squeeks by bothering me! He doesn't "live" with me, because he isn't real!

From now on, ALL board members who ask me ONCE how they can contact Squeeks will lose 3 karma and 3 user levels. A second attempt takes 5 more karma and levels, along with their avatar and signature. Three and posting rights are also removed for a month. One final offense earns you a ban, forever.

Do not, and I repeat, DO NOT ask me how you can find Squeeks. You will NOT be happy with the results.

I'm an alien who implanted a piece of metal in >>1's body.
The other day I visited the earth, abducted >>1 as a sample of the earthlings. I tampered with his body to gather data of the earthlings.
But I made a terrible mistake.
>>1's fat body is a nonstandardized article as an earthling.
He is unemployed, and on top of that he has no friends.
All day long he is sitting in front of the personal computer, clattering clattering, clattering the keyboard.
I am fed up with this job.
Boss from mother planet yelled at me for this failure.
He said, "Select your specimen more carefully!"
This is the first penalty I get since I have been assigned to The Earth Observation Party.
The human mutilation is not easy task.
Next year I am demoted to the charge of the cattle mutilation.
I am just about to go to The Area 51.
As for >>1, I leave him entirely up to you. Do as you like.

I'm an alien who implanted a piece of metal in >>1's body.
The other day I visited the earth, abducted >>1 as a sample of the earthlings. I tampered with his body to gather data of the earthlings.
But I made a terrible mistake.
>>1's fat body is a nonstandardized article as an earthling.
He is unemployed, and on top of that he has no friends.
All day long he is sitting in front of the personal computer, clattering clattering, clattering the keyboard.
I am fed up with this job.
Boss from mother planet yelled at me for this failure.
He said, "Select your specimen more carefully!"
This is the first penalty I get since I have been assigned to The Earth Observation Party.
The human mutilation is not easy task.
Next year I am demoted to the charge of the cattle mutilation.
I am just about to go to The Area 51.
As for >>1, I leave him entirely up to you. Do as you like.

Do not post Chopin piano etudes. They are completely off-topic for this forum. If you are caught posting Chopin piano etudes you will receive a warning, if it happens again you will be banned from this board. NO EXCEPTIONS.

( ´ω`) Don't bother me.

>>117

Where can I find Squeeks?

>>123 THAT'S A 50 DKP MINUS!

Abusing wakabamark to make a post WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Is strictly forbidden

2

Thread necromancy is to be punished with seven days imprisonment in the stocks, with public floggings every day at noon.

What about thread necrophilia?

>>131 is BANNED for AN INDEFINITE PERIOD
REASON: Thread Necromancy

Stupid mods.

MODD = FAGG

>>132 is banned

Rule 1&2: Every time you hear someone talk about anything even remotely related to DQN, you have to tell them they're breaking rules 1&2. This makes you cooler than them.

Rule 4: If you overhear someone talking about Rule 1&2, you have to insist it applies only to raids. This makes you even coolerer.

Subsequent rules up to 33 should be one-ups on people who invoke the previous rule.

I've saved Rule 3 for personal reasons.

Rule 3: rules saved for longer than 5 days will be recycled

Rule 3: Don't visualize anything you read here.

Example: 2 goatse 1 cup.

2 girls 1 cup challenges tubgirl to a game of battleshits

DOHOHO

Anti-Dance Rule: Thread necromancy is allowed if it's expressly used to catch dancers in old threads.

>>139
I see you

>>140
You're just necrobumping to push other threads off the main page.

>>141
I had no sinister goal in mind when I bumped this thread, unless you consider pointing out thread dancers sinister.

You should use Peter Suber's Nomic as the structure for the rules.