General Board-wide
- #1.1: Do not background moderate. It is strongly encouraged that members use the report to administrator feature if they must.
- #1.2: This forum is only limited to English and is no way obliged to support any other language. This may include buttons, dynamic content, etc.
- #1.3: Administrators/moderators reserve the right to lock, delete or edit your post at any time.
Warning/Penalties
- #2.1: Members who disobey the rules will be warned or banned. This depends on what the administrator/moderator believes is appropriate at the time.
- #2.2: Members can only have a maximum of three (3) warnings and on the third and final warning the member will be immediately banned. Members may not receive a warning when banned depending on the offence.
- #2.3: Penalties given will be based on number of times offended and type of offences committed.
- #2.4: Type of penalties include (but not limited to):
- Warning(s)
- 3 day ban
- 1 week ban
- 1 month ban
- lifetime ban
Posting:
- #3.1: All topics must contain a relevant description.
- #3.2: Treat others positively with respect. Flaming other members or other forums will lead to a warning, possibly even a ban. E.g. "STFU N00B" is not acceptable.
- #3.3: Posts must be made in the relevant topic/thread/forum.
- #3.4: Topic titles must contain accurate description of what posts should be about.
- #3.5: Bumping is allowed provided, the post is useful to the continuance of the topic. Short intervals of bumps are not allowed.
- #3.6: Double posts are not allowed, this includes posting the same or very similar content as another user or your own.
- #3.7: E-mails in public domain MUST be hard coded. E.g.
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myemail@mydomain.com
- #3.8: No excessive levels of quoting. Only quote what is relevant or what you are replying to in your post.
- #3.9: No topic hijacking. Translation: Don't go off topic.
- #3.10: Removal of administrator/moderator posts is not allowed.
- #3.11: No warez.
- #3.12: In the unlikely event that the member's post has exceeded the maximum characters, the same member is allowed to double or triple post.
Spam
- #4.1: Excessive posting with the aim of increasing post count is not allowed.
- #4.2: The following one liners are considered spam:
- Acronyms such as lol
- The use of emote only replies. E.g.
These are simply guidelines and spam is not limited to just these two examples.
Private Messaging
- #5.1: All rules apply regarding private messaging.
Avatars and Signatures
- #6.1: All rules apply regarding avatars and signatures.
- #6.2: The total maximum dimensions for all images/texts in a signature is 700px (width) by 250px (height) horizontally only.
Misc. Guidelines
- #7.1: Please do not ask administrators/moderators for your post to be sticked. If there is enough space and there are exceptional posts then it will be stickied in it's own time.
- #7.2: Please PM an administrator for your username change requests (if needed).
- #7.3: Constantly asking for administrative/moderator rights will hinder your chance of actually getting any.
- #7.4: All forum rules apply to individual member profiles.
Updates:
27/06/09:
[*] Grammatical and spelling fixes
[*] Added examples to spam section
