en-usSun, 7 Mar 2010 13:44:29 +0200forumadmin@kensalter.com60Battleboard - Snakenethttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/BattleboardClosure of the Politics ForumTHEMikehttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19759Updates and Announcements10Sat, 9 Jan 2010 04:03:14 +0200Originally posted February 2004

Due to recent events, and a history of similar events, the politics forum is now closed.

With immediate effect:
no discussion of politics is permitted on snakenet.

This includes all political subjects, unless they specifical related to Heavy Metal (such as an attempted ban on metal in the US by a political party etc.)

Snake's Position:
The decision to close the Politics forum was not an easy one and it was something we have been discussing since last year.

The mission of SnakeNet is to create a Metal Nation...a community of metalheads that knows no political or geographical boundaries. A place where people from all over the world can come together and share their love of metal music.

The politics forum has been with SnakeNet since the beginning. The name "The Battleboard" came about in the early days because of the heated political debate we had on the site. As our membership grew, so has the number of members from outside the United States. This served to bring in the perspectives of many different countries and my hope was that through discussion of political issues we could gain a better understanding of the world and other cultures.

Over the last year, we have worked diligently to increase the participation in our forum by members from outside of North America and the results have been tremendous. SnakeNet has achieved its goal of becoming an international site.

With the rise of international tensions over the past year, political discussions have become increasingly more emotional and polarized. This has created the need for heavier moderation of the politics forum and stricter guidelines to assure that people posting in the Politics forum showed respect to those of differing opinions.

Unfortunately, in spite of our best efforts, discussions in our political forum have increasingly caused tension and anger to spill over into other areas of the site. The goal of SnakeNet is to unite the metal clans under the banner of metal music. All too often, the political discussions on our boards have detracted attention from that goal.

Ignoring differences does not make them go away and preventing discussion will not promote a better understanding between people. However, although it is a nice high minded ideal, that is not the purpose of SnakeNet. We are a metal site for metalheads and that needs to remain our primary focus. Political discussions only distract our resources from our main reason for being, which is heavy metal music. Although this decision has been more difficult for me then anyone, I feel it is the right choice. We can now refocus our efforts on unifying our community and concentrate on what binds us together, rather then what separates us.

Effective immediately, all discussion of politics will be prohibited on the site. This includes flaming of countries political positions and leaders, links to political web sites and political "jokes" in our forums, IRC channel or anywhere else on the site.

Discussion of politics as they relate directly to heavy metal will still be permitted, such as topics on racism in lyrics or Kerry King running for President. Sign of the devil dude! However, these subjects will be moderated closely and if the discussion strays to far into the political arena, they will be shut down.

Members that violate this policy will be warned once and banned from posting on our boards for a second offense.

I hope this action will be a positive one for SnakeNet and our members. I'd like to thank Eggysan, Ruthie, Black Tulip and Newport News for the great job they have done moderating the forum and to all of our members that made it such an interesting part of forums.
]]>SnakeNet on TwitterMetal_Demhttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=19379&REPLY_ID=798486Updates and Announcements10Mon, 21 Dec 2009 08:12:26 +0200Quote:
fuck! there are people addicted at that point?!?Eek
ok than. twitter is not for me Smile]]>New Amon Amarth and BloodbathJebediahhttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=17823&REPLY_ID=785558Updates and Announcements10Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:10:53 +0200Quote:
Sure, I was around back then and remember the long outages and all that too. Suffice to say there are a number of reasons why membership declined; being unable to yap certainly one of them. In the end it's probably a positive thing, as you say. However I'm sure it rubbed folks the wrong way that the main feature of SNMR (the stream) was down so long after other measures taken for the perceived good of the site. Had the zeitgeist been persistent who's to say what would be different.

Then again maybe people just move on. SNMR was great for exposing me to all the different kinds of metal when I was a n00b. Regardless, I still come here from time to time so you haven't lost anything in that regard Wink]]>Heads UpSnakehttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19469Updates and Announcements10Thu, 8 Oct 2009 18:30:38 +0200Server MaintenenceSnakehttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19266Updates and Announcements10Mon, 10 Aug 2009 16:50:17 +0200]]>SnakeNet Hotel Party Cam From Maryland DeathfestI have dysenteryhttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=16924&REPLY_ID=756897Updates and Announcements10Sat, 23 May 2009 12:24:34 +0200Quote:
Snake, I can't get pics on my phone


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I haven't done weekends because my schedule is too iffy to say I am going to do anything at any certain time. If I can, maybe I will do one this Saturday, but I'll see how it goes.]]>New Albums At Noon Week of 9/28Snakehttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=17872&REPLY_ID=699133Updates and Announcements10Sat, 4 Oct 2008 14:34:15 +0200Quote:
Well, Mike could do it, but I am not going to ask him to do that. He has enough other bullshit to deal with. Setting up someone else to do it would require WAYYYYYYYYYYYY more hassle then it is worth, as well as compromise the security systems we have in place, which are very aggressive.

It didn't seem to have any postive effect at all. I only monitored it briefly, but the number of listeners didn't change too much. Sometimes it went down like yesterday and others it went up a bit. I think what is more important is whether our current members like the idea. What random listeners will tune into or not is kinda irrevelent because they are channel surfers for the most part.]]>SnakeNet Command Central Hotel Party CamSortimenthttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=16722&REPLY_ID=683644Updates and Announcements10Tue, 12 Aug 2008 06:06:46 +0200Quote:
No nice blowing goat.....]]>Moderators, Cred & PointsWintersunhttp://snakenetmetalradio.com/heavymetallounge/4rum/topic.asp?whichpage=-1&TOPIC_ID=17023&REPLY_ID=662389Updates and Announcements10Sat, 31 May 2008 05:08:16 +0200Quote:
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Originally posted by IeVuL-oNe

Thanks mike.

I rather like the idea Zelc posted in the green room

NICK
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I don't think that'll be a good idea, it will take so much space vertically that every post will fill out the entire screen]]>