LetsBeef Rules, Regulations and Policies

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You all wanted everything laid out in a general place for reference: Here it is.

The following is a list of guidelines and policies that the site runs on and how we enforce each incident on a general basis. This thread is not complete, as I wish to routinely update it with other useful information when I get around to it,orit comes up in discussion. For now, this is what I've got...

What is the Infraction system?
LetsBeef.com utilizes an infraction system for the punishment of individuals who break the rules of the site. Depending on the circumstances, the penalty could range anywhere from a warning to an extended ban. All infractions (minus warnings) carry infraction points that BUILD UP over a set period of time (usually 6 months, some offenses, never), which means each incurred infraction wihin that time period makes the result WORSE. (Example: Joe is given 10 points for hate voting. Joe then spams an ad worth 25 points. The spamming would have been a week ban, but with the exra 10, it's now 2 weeks. Those 35 points stay, so the next time he does anything, it's another larger ban, untill the points reset)

The following instances are where infractions are given:

Attempted Swaying Votes With Comments/Forum Posts
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Deliberately stating things about a battler's verse in comments or thread while a battle is open that may convince others to vote for or against.

Commenting For Votes
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Leaving comments on someone's battle for people to vote on your open battles. Comments are for you to place your expos on why you voted, not to advertise your battles.

Hate Voting / Low Rating
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Unfairly low votes for both verses in a battle (example 1's 2's 5's) when the verses clearly warrent much higher or Hate/dickrider votes scoring one individual much higher than the other (Example 10-1, 9-2)

Posting Copyrighted Material Not Owned By You
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Under the infraction system, you can be held accountable for posting certain copyrighted material on the site that you do not own the rights to. The obvious and most severe instances would be links to mp3/program/movie/game downloads.

Posting Tracks/Creating Crews for Basic Members
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Only members with an Exclusive membership are eligible to post tracks and create crewsfor their OWN purpose.This is a perk of paying for or acquiring an Exclusive membership through contests or site promotions. Basic membership is restricted for a reason and circumventing those limitations goes against LetsBeef policy.

Private Messaging /IM'ing/ Profile/ Chatroom soliciting For Votes
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
There is absolutely NO private messaging/ IM'ing/ posting on profile comments OR using the chatroom to get votes on your battles. NO EXCEPTIONS. If you wish to advertise your battle for others to vote, youmay post a thread in the appropriate forum and tag users to visit the battle and vote if they so wish.

Ban Evasion
(Infraction points: 15 Expires: never)
Ban evasion is absolutely prohibited. If you are banned for any length of time, wait it out and come back with a clean slate. If you create anothermulti to use during your ban, you'll just be banned on that account and cause more infraction points to be added to your original account causing a longer ban for it as well. WE SEE EVERY MULTI ACCOUNT THAT LOGS INTO LETSBEEF.You are NOT fooling anyone.

Trolling
(Infraction points: 15 Expires: 3 months)
Blatantly posting antagonistic material just to get a reaction from other users is considered trolling.

Spammed Advertisements
(Infraction points: 25 Expires: 6 months)
Under no circumstances are users to spam any forumon LetsBeef.com with advertisements for products and/or services on another site without express concent of the site owner.

Biting
(Infraction points: 30 Expires: Never)
NO BITING: Biting is the unauthorized copying of any other individual's work for personal use. It will NOT be tolarated in any way, shape or form. If your verse, in part or in whole is proved to have been bitten from another person, YOU WILL BE BANNED No questions asked! You will also recieve an auto-loss on any battle you have bitten work on. If you cannot be original on this site, you do NOT need to be here. With thousands of members listening to our Battles daily, you will be exposed if you are using someone else’s lyrics.

Multiple Accounts/Voting for Self
(Infraction points: 30 Expires: 6 months)
Users may not use Multiple accounts to vote on their own battles. Any individual doing so will have all multi accounts permanantly banned.

Racism/Bigotry
(Infraction points: 30 Expires: 12 months)
LetsBeef.com members are made up of many different races and nationalities across the world. To exsure fairness and respect towards everyone, blatant racism and bigotry towards another user on this site is not tolerated.

Repeat Offender
(Infraction points: 30 Expires: Never)
Repeat offenses of ANY of the above infractions is an instant ban.These infraction points NEVER reset, so being a repeat offender will instantly cause all bans to be that much harsher.It's best to learn things after the first offense of warning to save yourself the troublelater on.

Infraction Point Penalties:

15 4 Day(s)
25 7 Day(s)
30 2 Week(s)
40 3 Week(s)
50 3 Week(s)
60 1 Month(s)
80 2 Month(s)
90 2 Month(s)
100 3 Month(s)
110 3 Month(s)
120 4 Month(s)
150 6 Month(s)
200 Forever


What is VP or Vote Power?

LetsBeef utilizes a voting system based on VP, or Voting Power. This system of voting means each vote has it's own weight determined by how good your voting history has been on the site.

Normal users start off with a VP of 2, FVC 3 and staff 6. Users with 0's and 1's are found to have poor voting issues by rating things low, hate voting, dick riding or some other dumb shit. Obviously the higher the VP, the more pull the vote carries in a battle, with 0 VP having ABSOLUTELY NO IMPACT whatsoever.

The results when tabulating battle wins are not by counting straight vote numbers, but by counting points based off EACH VOTE's VOTING POWER. Therefore, it IS POSSIBLE to have MORE VOTES and still LOSE.

This system was put in place to counter the influx of dick riders, vote back bitches and PM voters to even the playing field for regular users. By having this system in place, the quality of votes means more than sheer numbers.

If you are curious about your own personal VP, all you have to do is provide a link to any battle you've voted on and a mod can tell you. If you have a VP of 0 or 1, the situation may warrent looking into and with some proper evidence of decent voting trends, you could get it raised back to normal. We are currentlyin the process to initiate a VP rehabilitation program for users to do just that.

You are ENCOURAGED to give full explanations about your vote. Lead by example and people will eventually do it on your battles as well. There WILL come a time where it'll be mandatory, For now though, your vote power may depend on HOW YOU VOTE. Users expressing good voting practices will have their voting power raised, those continuing with 'FV VB' and 'No H8' votes could possibly have theirs lowered. Consider it punishment or reward

[Teek]

You all wanted everything laid out in a general place for reference: Here it is.

The following is a list of guidelines and policies that the site runs on and how we enforce each incident on a general basis. This thread is not complete, as I wish to routinely update it with other useful information when I get around to it,orit comes up in discussion. For now, this is what I've got...

What is the Infraction system?
LetsBeef.com utilizes an infraction system for the punishment of individuals who break the rules of the site. Depending on the circumstances, the penalty could range anywhere from a warning to an extended ban. All infractions (minus warnings) carry infraction points that BUILD UP over a set period of time (usually 6 months, some offenses, never), which means each incurred infraction wihin that time period makes the result WORSE. (Example: Joe is given 10 points for hate voting. Joe then spams an ad worth 25 points. The spamming would have been a week ban, but with the exra 10, it's now 2 weeks. Those 35 points stay, so the next time he does anything, it's another larger ban, untill the points reset)

The following instances are where infractions are given:

Attempted Swaying Votes With Comments/Forum Posts
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Deliberately stating things about a battler's verse in comments or thread while a battle is open that may convince others to vote for or against.

Commenting For Votes
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Leaving comments on someone's battle for people to vote on your open battles. Comments are for you to place your expos on why you voted, not to advertise your battles.

Hate Voting / Low Rating
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Unfairly low votes for both verses in a battle (example 1's 2's 5's) when the verses clearly warrent much higher or Hate/dickrider votes scoring one individual much higher than the other (Example 10-1, 9-2)

Posting Copyrighted Material Not Owned By You
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Under the infraction system, you can be held accountable for posting certain copyrighted material on the site that you do not own the rights to. The obvious and most severe instances would be links to mp3/program/movie/game downloads.

Posting Tracks/Creating Crews for Basic Members
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
Only members with an Exclusive membership are eligible to post tracks and create crewsfor their OWN purpose.This is a perk of paying for or acquiring an Exclusive membership through contests or site promotions. Basic membership is restricted for a reason and circumventing those limitations goes against LetsBeef policy.

Private Messaging /IM'ing/ Profile/ Chatroom soliciting For Votes
(Infraction points: 10 Expires: 6 months)
There is absolutely NO private messaging/ IM'ing/ posting on profile comments OR using the chatroom to get votes on your battles. NO EXCEPTIONS. If you wish to advertise your battle for others to vote, youmay post a thread in the appropriate forum and tag users to visit the battle and vote if they so wish.

Ban Evasion
(Infraction points: 15 Expires: never)
Ban evasion is absolutely prohibited. If you are banned for any length of time, wait it out and come back with a clean slate. If you create anothermulti to use during your ban, you'll just be banned on that account and cause more infraction points to be added to your original account causing a longer ban for it as well. WE SEE EVERY MULTI ACCOUNT THAT LOGS INTO LETSBEEF.You are NOT fooling anyone.

Trolling
(Infraction points: 15 Expires: 3 months)
Blatantly posting antagonistic material just to get a reaction from other users is considered trolling.

Spammed Advertisements
(Infraction points: 25 Expires: 6 months)
Under no circumstances are users to spam any forumon LetsBeef.com with advertisements for products and/or services on another site without express concent of the site owner.

Biting
(Infraction points: 30 Expires: Never)
NO BITING: Biting is the unauthorized copying of any other individual's work for personal use. It will NOT be tolarated in any way, shape or form. If your verse, in part or in whole is proved to have been bitten from another person, YOU WILL BE BANNED No questions asked! You will also recieve an auto-loss on any battle you have bitten work on. If you cannot be original on this site, you do NOT need to be here. With thousands of members listening to our Battles daily, you will be exposed if you are using someone else’s lyrics.

Multiple Accounts/Voting for Self
(Infraction points: 30 Expires: 6 months)
Users may not use Multiple accounts to vote on their own battles. Any individual doing so will have all multi accounts permanantly banned.

Racism/Bigotry
(Infraction points: 30 Expires: 12 months)
LetsBeef.com members are made up of many different races and nationalities across the world. To exsure fairness and respect towards everyone, blatant racism and bigotry towards another user on this site is not tolerated.

Repeat Offender
(Infraction points: 30 Expires: Never)
Repeat offenses of ANY of the above infractions is an instant ban.These infraction points NEVER reset, so being a repeat offender will instantly cause all bans to be that much harsher.It's best to learn things after the first offense of warning to save yourself the troublelater on.

Infraction Point Penalties:

15 4 Day(s)
25 7 Day(s)
30 2 Week(s)
40 3 Week(s)
50 3 Week(s)
60 1 Month(s)
80 2 Month(s)
90 2 Month(s)
100 3 Month(s)
110 3 Month(s)
120 4 Month(s)
150 6 Month(s)
200 Forever


What is VP or Vote Power?

LetsBeef utilizes a voting system based on VP, or Voting Power. This system of voting means each vote has it's own weight determined by how good your voting history has been on the site.

Normal users start off with a VP of 2, FVC 3 and staff 6. Users with 0's and 1's are found to have poor voting issues by rating things low, hate voting, dick riding or some other dumb shit. Obviously the higher the VP, the more pull the vote carries in a battle, with 0 VP having ABSOLUTELY NO IMPACT whatsoever.

The results when tabulating battle wins are not by counting straight vote numbers, but by counting points based off EACH VOTE's VOTING POWER. Therefore, it IS POSSIBLE to have MORE VOTES and still LOSE.

This system was put in place to counter the influx of dick riders, vote back bitches and PM voters to even the playing field for regular users. By having this system in place, the quality of votes means more than sheer numbers.

If you are curious about your own personal VP, all you have to do is provide a link to any battle you've voted on and a mod can tell you. If you have a VP of 0 or 1, the situation may warrent looking into and with some proper evidence of decent voting trends, you could get it raised back to normal. We are currentlyin the process to initiate a VP rehabilitation program for users to do just that.

You are ENCOURAGED to give full explanations about your vote. Lead by example and people will eventually do it on your battles as well. There WILL come a time where it'll be mandatory, For now though, your vote power may depend on HOW YOU VOTE. Users expressing good voting practices will have their voting power raised, those continuing with 'FV VB' and 'No H8' votes could possibly have theirs lowered. Consider it punishment or reward