European Tribune - Frequently Asked Questions

Are there any rules of behaviour?

There are no fixed rules of behaviour, other than try to behave in a civil way. You can however read some guidelines, following which could reduce unnecessary conflicts and increase the signal to noise ratio, in the ETiquette. Uncivil behaviour of course includes spamming, trolling, ratings abuse and creating sock-puppets. Read more on what may be done against such persistent misbehaviour in the section on Community policing on the page on Frontpager Duties.

Diary deletion

Sometimes users may feel strongly offended by a discussion on ET, or have second thoughts about posting a diary after a controversy developed in its comment threads. It has happened that in the heat of anger, a user has deleted his/her own diary/ies.

However, deletion in the Scoop software ET uses, is irrevocable. Neither the diary nor its comments thread can be retrieved. By deleting a diary, the diarist doesn't just delete her/his own content: the contributions of other users to the diary will be lost, too. To prevent the deletion of more diaries along with the respective comment threads, any editor at hand can intervene to withdraw that diarist's right to delete own diaries. This measure only intends to protect others' comments, no negative repercussions follow for the diary-deleting user (apart from general disapproval, because diary deletion is not cool).