We’re all here for one reason, and that is our love of Pokémon. Here at PokéJungle we believe community is key. We enjoy engaging in discussion with our readers, much like they do themselves. However as the site grows in size so does the community, as such we feel it is important that our readers understand how we believe readers should treat one another and how we treat our readers.
Most of the reader-to-reader interaction on PokéJungle happens in the comment area of content. Because of this we have decided to publish a set of community guidelines for our users to follow to make sure they get the most out of this website and the unique content we offer. We ask that you read these guidelines and abide by them. These guidelines are subject to change without prior warning.
Users and Disqus Accounts
PokéJungle.net uses the Disqus platform for comments on articles and pages. Anyone is able to post in the comment area of the site, either as a guest account or a registered member account. Registration is not required but suggested and fully recommended.
When using the platform we ask that readers use a single name when registering and refrain from creating more than one account. Individuals found using multiple accounts will be warned on their primary account and have all subsequent accounts banned. Readers posing as others will have the offending account banned and a warning will be issued. We do not tolerate impersonators.
Community Conduct
While we encourage conversation and user engagement, we discourage spam and disrespectful behavior. Comments posted in reply to articles or content listed on pages should remain on the topic of said content. We will accept slight deviation, but to engage in full discussion unrelated to the content we ask users to either use our forums, or the site chat. When posting do so because you wish to engage in conversation. Comments that serve little purpose (such as those going for the first comment on content: “First!”) will be deleted and a warning issued.
Users should conduct themselves with respect, both to themselves and others. Any form of personal attack on another user will not be tolerated and will be dealt with suitably. Racism, sexism or anything of the like will result in a permanent, instant ban. Posting racist, sexist or any other inappropriate content intended as a joke will be punished. Use of cuss words is accepted, but overuse and anything deemed unnecessary will be acted upon.
Comments posted should not be tiring to read, users should not overuse capital, bold, italic, underlined or alternate coloured text. Use them only to stress the important parts of your comments.
When posting externally hosted content, such as images, videos and even other sites it should remain suitable for a universal audience. Our readers span a broad age-range as such content should be restricted appropriately. Nudity is not permitted and will result in an instantaneous ban for the individual.
Staff Commitments and Community Moderation
Staff and Community Moderators have the Gym Leader tag next to their name, they are able to access tools for community moderation and identifying users. The decisions made by staff and moderators are done so to keep the site a safe, friendly and tidy place for all of our readers. We are not responsible for the content you publish.
Community moderation is done so by staff and moderators only. Readers should not attempt to deal with problem individuals themselves, instead effort should be made to notify a member of staff or the community moderating team. We are here to have fun and help you, don’t be afraid to talk to us! Decisions made by staff or the moderating team are final, and not open for public discussion. Users can contact us regarding bans using the contact forum.
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We hope you’ve taken the time to read through the above guidelines, and thank you for taking the time to do so. The above will be made available in an easily accessible location shortly for future reference. For now we’d like to hear any questions you have regarding the site (and these guidelines), opinions or suggestions about how we can improve and anything else you feel we should know about you and PokéJungle.net!
Look out for the start of something new tomorrow!
Gosh you guys have been introducing a lot of new stuff lately. The new layout, the new thing tomorrow…
It’s sad that you have to post this. It’s all pretty much common sense 🙁
All that I can say! is that I loved pokemon before… but I love it even more because of your amazing work! THANKS! proud of be a jungler!
As a long time member here, I feel like these rules are common sense because when I first joined, don’t think I did too much of this
Not blaming everyone new, but since the announcement of X&Y and since the a surge of new people joined, I’ve found the comments section to be quite….hectic
Just try keep it to the bare minimum is all
Pokejungle, you rock tho!
(Start of something new…a High School Musical X Pokemon crossover?)
Could anything be done about the butthole who keeps coming along on each article and downvoting EVERYONE? I know it’s harmless but it’s a joke that was never amusing in the first place and has gotten tiresome. Some kind of troll-blocker software should be in place xD
Also I’m glad we’re now being asked to stay on topic. A couple of people decided to set up a trade in the comments section a few weeks ago and Holy Long Comment Thread Batman! It took me forever to scroll past it; it’ really not the place or time to do that.
We can’t do anything about it now, but it’s best to ignore it whenever it happens.
Also, everyone should keep in mind that the downvote button is intended for off-topic, spammy or insulting comments and not because you disagree with the post in question.
The downvote system is abused just like on Reddit.
I understand! We need to be more cautious and be thankful poke jungle is posting great news.
Huzzah to that! ^^ Let’s all work hard to create a positive. engaging community environment.
What happened, I’ve been gone a week and this xD But yea its nice to have some guidelines now, ps love the new layout!!
Starting to turn into ZI 2.0 with enforcing a comments policy.
ZI? 😮
We’re just putting up some guidelines so that people don’t have to scroll through trade arrangements, restaurant reviews, etc to get to comments that are about the actual post.
What’s wrong with that? It’s a comments section, not a forum.
Uhhh. Except for the fact that a forum is structured and comments are not?
Omg surry
It’s great to see how the site has grown since I first made my account. One of the only Pokemon sites I joined because of how kind and inviting the people here are. Keep up the great work everyone!
One quick question; Is my profile picture considered inappropriate for this community? I thought it would be better to ask rather than finding out later on.
o you can’t have multiple accounts mk