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Hi. I'm suddenly confused about the whole "team neutral" thing. I read and thought I understood the information about not referring to team specifics in our postings. Yet I see people including team specifics in their signatures. Can you help this make sense to me?

kikimarie wrote:Hi. I'm suddenly confused about the whole "team neutral" thing. I read and thought I understood the information about not referring to team specifics in our postings. Yet I see people including team specifics in their signatures. Can you help this make sense to me?

So long as the mentioning of a team is not blatant recruiting, and is not mentioned in the posting itself, it would seem to be OK. Like my own signature simply states which team I fold for but does not try and encourage others to do so as well.

In a signature, I think saying "member of team xxx" is allowed

Which is forbidden is for example "join me in team xxx" ...

Forum Policies: viewtopic.php?f=2&t=15

Recruting/Promoting : We run a team-neutral forum and offer support for anyone, without regard to team affiliation, or organizations. Attempts to encourage others to join your team/organization (explicit or implicit) are prohibited in all of the general forums.

If you wish to discuss a Teams/Organizations idea (in general), this will (in most cases) be allowed, if you follow certain protocols.

1. Do Not use the name/team # of the Team/Organization, directly in your posts.
2. Do Not use links that point to the Team/Organization in ANY form.
3. 1 and 2 apply to EVERYONE, regardless of if you are affiliated with that Team/Organization or not.
4. Use appropriate wording, to remain neutral. Words such as -- Team, Teams, They, Them, Us... Ect...
5. And that includes NOT having your USER NAME as the ORGANIZATION as well!!! That IS considered part of the post.

Posts that do not follow the above guidelines, regardless of the poster, will be edited or deleted at the Admin's/MOD's discretion.

So where can we recrut? where can new members fine what team do recruting. and where can we post an 'ads' for our team???

RealBigSwede wrote:So where can we recrut? where can new members fine what team do recruting. and where can we post an 'ads' for our team???

Unfortunately since we shifted over to the new forum, the admins/mods have taken the decision that recruiting should be done elsewhere, rather than on this forum. I'm afraid you'll have to find somewhere else to recruit... sorry

RealBigSwede wrote:So where can we recrut? where can new members fine what team do recruting. and where can we post an 'ads' for our team???

You can advertise and recruit on your Team's web site. You can advertise and recruit on T-Shirts, billboards, most anywhere but in postings on this forum. You can can also list you team affiliations in your signature, in a tasteful and unobtrusive (normal size font) manner. You can NOT actively recruit in posts or in your signature.

Come Join Team # xxxx, or come visit Team Forum xxxx and the like will not be permitted. The OWNER of this site, not the Mods and Admins, have the final say in the decision that because we are already Hardware and Software agnostic, that being Team agnostic would also be appropriate for a forum who's primary focus is to support the F@h project and it's individual contributors. Team support can come from the team.

An occasional mention of a team name may slip by or be ignored if the reference seems like an afterthought rather than the primary goal of that post. However, if your team info is already listed in your signature, any mention of a team in a post might be moderatored slightly more strictly. There is little need to mention your team when it is already on display in your signature. This also applies to posting links back to Team Web Pages and Team Forums, which may be considered an indirect form of recruitment.

We try to be as helpful as possible without showing any favoritism, to hardware, vendors, software used, 3rd party contributors, individual contributors, or teams. No one is perfect, but that is the goal. Fold On.

maybe we could have a recruting forum for all?? I willing to set one up that all can use.. but the members both old and new need to find it. Would you guys talk to the owner and straff about that?? It would be a totaly independed from panderoup but have a link to it. Where all team can recruit and post ads fro their teams. Like a link "looking for a team??" and that's it.
Thanks for input.

RealBigSwede wrote:maybe we could have a recruiting forum for all?? I willing to set one up that all can use.. but the members both old and new need to find it. Would you guys talk to the owner and straff about that?? It would be a totally independent from PandeGroup but have a link to it. Where all team can recruit and post ads fro their teams. Like a link "looking for a team??" and that's it.
Thanks for input.

If you recruit at a place like this forum, you're basically recruiting people who already fold. The people that NEED to be recruited will never visit this forum. (Not yet folding means they're not looking for help with their FAH client.)

You can set up one if you want, but from our experience it may not have the results you expect. A link from this forum or from stanford.edu will only send people your way if they're unhappy with their present team. A number of the folks who are unhappy will want to talk about their unhappiness.

You will get some team-vs.-team challenges, and that certainly needs a place.