pfrduke
03-26-2012, 02:16 PM
All-
It's now the offseason (much sooner than anyone would have liked), and if there's one thing the offseason brings it's intense focus on 16-21 year-old kids making individual and personal decisions regarding, depending on the person, where they want to go to college, whether they might want to leave one college for another, or when they want to leave college to pursue a professional career. This necessarily brings with it rampant speculation from people about what decision each particular kid might make, 99% of which is based on no direct knowledge of the kid, his decision making process, the advice he's receiving, his individual priorities, etc.
Given the above, we're here to provide a friendly reminder that rumor mongering is not permitted on this site (http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/forums/showthread.php?21833-Decorum-amp-Posting-Guidelines-%28Please-read-before-posting%21%29&p=423516#post423516). If your posts contain any of the following, odds are you're rumor mongering, your post will be deleted, and you'll get an infraction:
"What I'm hearing from people on campus is ..."
"I'm friends with [player X]'s friend, and he told me ..."
"What I was told about [x] is ..."
"According to my sources ..."
"My uncle works at UNC, and he says that people on campus are saying..."
"My barber goes to church on Sunday with the guy that owns the pizza delivery shop that the Tar Heels order from, and he told me that the owner told him that one of his delivery guys saw Kendall Marshall do a one-handed cartwheel on his right hand before downing half a pepperoni pizza"
Please note that rumor mongering is still rumor mongering even if you turn out to be right. If you say on Monday that a friend's buddy's third cousin's sister-in-law told you that Mason Plumlee is going to declare for the draft, and on Thursday he declares for the draft, we will not reverse your infraction.
It's now the offseason (much sooner than anyone would have liked), and if there's one thing the offseason brings it's intense focus on 16-21 year-old kids making individual and personal decisions regarding, depending on the person, where they want to go to college, whether they might want to leave one college for another, or when they want to leave college to pursue a professional career. This necessarily brings with it rampant speculation from people about what decision each particular kid might make, 99% of which is based on no direct knowledge of the kid, his decision making process, the advice he's receiving, his individual priorities, etc.
Given the above, we're here to provide a friendly reminder that rumor mongering is not permitted on this site (http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/forums/showthread.php?21833-Decorum-amp-Posting-Guidelines-%28Please-read-before-posting%21%29&p=423516#post423516). If your posts contain any of the following, odds are you're rumor mongering, your post will be deleted, and you'll get an infraction:
"What I'm hearing from people on campus is ..."
"I'm friends with [player X]'s friend, and he told me ..."
"What I was told about [x] is ..."
"According to my sources ..."
"My uncle works at UNC, and he says that people on campus are saying..."
"My barber goes to church on Sunday with the guy that owns the pizza delivery shop that the Tar Heels order from, and he told me that the owner told him that one of his delivery guys saw Kendall Marshall do a one-handed cartwheel on his right hand before downing half a pepperoni pizza"
Please note that rumor mongering is still rumor mongering even if you turn out to be right. If you say on Monday that a friend's buddy's third cousin's sister-in-law told you that Mason Plumlee is going to declare for the draft, and on Thursday he declares for the draft, we will not reverse your infraction.