Welcome to the New Order! (Rules Sticky)
Posted: Tue Feb 17, 2026 5:56 am
Okay, you've been online. I expect you to know about trolling, flaming, and The Usual Crimes. Those rules are in place, use your common sense. The moderators won't be jerks about things, because they'll answer to me if they do.
This is not about The Usual Crimes. This is about how we here at Ten Thousand Straw Dogs are different. This is a space for beatniks, weirdos, perverts, queers and outcasts, and it'll stay that way by hook or by crook. For this reason, we have some extra rules.
1. No Moralism. That includes sexual puritanism, moral panic culture for both real and imaginary subjects of panic, etc. Breaking Rule One is an instant ban. Expression of personal discomfort is permitted so long as there's no assertion of moral superiority.
2. No Conformism. This is not a forum for the Marcello Clericis of the world. Telling people to be normal, calling them schizophrenic as an insult etc will lead to a ban or a stern warning depending on severity. Conformism here is understood to mean the speaker positioning themselves as superior to the subject of their ire through proximity to normalcy. We here at Ten Thousand Straw Dogs consider normalcy to be Hitlerite.
3. No Neurotypical Supremacism Or Transmisogyny. In theory this should be covered under The Usual Crimes since bigotry is against the rules everywhere, but in modern woke politics these things are rife outside this blessed island of decent conduct and arthouse sensibility. Rule 3 is here to remind you that no, you cannot do that here.
4. Be Involved. Rule 4 is less of a rule you can run afoul of and more of a principle. If you feel that new subforums should be created for certain topics, please request them. The site must be designed for the benefit and edification of its users.
5. No Anti-Intellectualism. This here is a beatnik forum. If you complain about art films being boring or whatever we will not only ban you, we will send hit squads to your house.
6. No Propertarian Sentiment. This includes anti-piracy and anti-shoplifting rhetoric and anything that argues for the enclosure of the commons. This isn't to say you should run around posting torrents- that'll get us shut down. You should just embrace the class conscious proletarian mentality of stealing everything not nailed down.
Forum Specific Rules:
The Duck Soup Special Rule: On the Marx Brothers subforum, there's a rule against political idealism. This includes assertions, but not questions, as its natural for those learning Marxism to know less and make idealist mistakes. The issue is arguing for idealism rather than simply failing to have unlearned it. Additionally, this includes arguing for idealist positions as a joke unless it's clear to everyone it's a joke. Apparently I have to clarify this. If you're worried about a joke getting taken the wrong way, simply don't make it, or make it outside that specific subforum. Violating the Duck Soup Special Rule gives you the Idealist role, which bars you from posting in the Marx Brothers subforum and temporarily makes your display AVI Steven Pinker. Apparently, I also have to clarify the Steven Pinker thing is a moderator joke. Both the AVI and the Idealist role are temporary, and frankly I'm surprised they caused our first The Mods Are Abusing Me crashout. Guidelines are a week of being an Idealist for the first few offenses, and if it becomes a recurring problem maybe increase the time. A lot of this is going to be mod specific judgement. Anyway I'm kinda tired while writing this but I felt the Duck Soup Special Rule needed greater clarification, since I was asleep for like 20 hours and things were handled less delicately than I'd like.
Further rules will be added as necessary.
This is not about The Usual Crimes. This is about how we here at Ten Thousand Straw Dogs are different. This is a space for beatniks, weirdos, perverts, queers and outcasts, and it'll stay that way by hook or by crook. For this reason, we have some extra rules.
1. No Moralism. That includes sexual puritanism, moral panic culture for both real and imaginary subjects of panic, etc. Breaking Rule One is an instant ban. Expression of personal discomfort is permitted so long as there's no assertion of moral superiority.
2. No Conformism. This is not a forum for the Marcello Clericis of the world. Telling people to be normal, calling them schizophrenic as an insult etc will lead to a ban or a stern warning depending on severity. Conformism here is understood to mean the speaker positioning themselves as superior to the subject of their ire through proximity to normalcy. We here at Ten Thousand Straw Dogs consider normalcy to be Hitlerite.
3. No Neurotypical Supremacism Or Transmisogyny. In theory this should be covered under The Usual Crimes since bigotry is against the rules everywhere, but in modern woke politics these things are rife outside this blessed island of decent conduct and arthouse sensibility. Rule 3 is here to remind you that no, you cannot do that here.
4. Be Involved. Rule 4 is less of a rule you can run afoul of and more of a principle. If you feel that new subforums should be created for certain topics, please request them. The site must be designed for the benefit and edification of its users.
5. No Anti-Intellectualism. This here is a beatnik forum. If you complain about art films being boring or whatever we will not only ban you, we will send hit squads to your house.
6. No Propertarian Sentiment. This includes anti-piracy and anti-shoplifting rhetoric and anything that argues for the enclosure of the commons. This isn't to say you should run around posting torrents- that'll get us shut down. You should just embrace the class conscious proletarian mentality of stealing everything not nailed down.
Forum Specific Rules:
The Duck Soup Special Rule: On the Marx Brothers subforum, there's a rule against political idealism. This includes assertions, but not questions, as its natural for those learning Marxism to know less and make idealist mistakes. The issue is arguing for idealism rather than simply failing to have unlearned it. Additionally, this includes arguing for idealist positions as a joke unless it's clear to everyone it's a joke. Apparently I have to clarify this. If you're worried about a joke getting taken the wrong way, simply don't make it, or make it outside that specific subforum. Violating the Duck Soup Special Rule gives you the Idealist role, which bars you from posting in the Marx Brothers subforum and temporarily makes your display AVI Steven Pinker. Apparently, I also have to clarify the Steven Pinker thing is a moderator joke. Both the AVI and the Idealist role are temporary, and frankly I'm surprised they caused our first The Mods Are Abusing Me crashout. Guidelines are a week of being an Idealist for the first few offenses, and if it becomes a recurring problem maybe increase the time. A lot of this is going to be mod specific judgement. Anyway I'm kinda tired while writing this but I felt the Duck Soup Special Rule needed greater clarification, since I was asleep for like 20 hours and things were handled less delicately than I'd like.
Further rules will be added as necessary.