-- Forum Rules --

Forum Rules


These rules are spred across the board


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Forum Rules

Rules Across The Board

1. Respect Other Members

-No flaming - Do not seek to insult or deride other forum members. We have a zero tolerance .

-No baiting - Do not treat people in an unkind manner to get them to flame you.

-No Drama - Keep the drama to an acceptable level across the boards. If you get into a huge arguement with someone, try and make sure it does not publically spill over into the community as a whole.

-No Harrassment: Usually this is where a member will continue to PM or shadow (ie: post in the same places they are deliberately) another member despite being told to stop. Note that if you continue to reply, this is not harrassment. Harrassment can cover aim, yahoo, email and msn, if they get your instant messenger names/emails off the boards.

-No Neo-Flaming/baiting Another form of flaming where upon the user flames or insults the other member, but usually disguises it to make it not look like a flame, insult or baiting.

2. Respect the Boards.

No Flooding : Defined as either posting more than five new threads in the same forum in an one hour period without staff permission, bumping a load of dead topics which causes the previously active threads to drop off the first page, or posting repetitively in the same thread in a manner which ruins the previous subject of discussion.

No incorrect use of html tags You may use any html tag, but you must

NOT leave tags open, otherwise these tend to break threads.

-No neo-trolling Posting or interacting with the community with the intent of degrading the boards for others is seen as neo trolling. This can include exploiting loopholes in rules, deliberately and publically trying to show members of staff up, and so on. This can also include actions off site, such as aiming or msning a lot of people to deride how the boards are run, making numerous and highly unproductive attacks against the boards on journals, and so forth.

-No Hacking: Considered one of the very worst offences someone may commit. Hacking kills sites; enough said.

-No Advertising commericial sites or message boards: Do all that in sigs.

DO NOT PM other members with such links either. We do not pay for the bandwidth to advertise other sites.

3. Respect the Staff

If a mod closes a thread, or tells you to quit doing something, then please listen to them. Mods are there to help control this forum, and stop it being degraded. While what they ask for may not make sense to you, it will make sense to everyone else who want what's best for the forum. If you are unhappy with a mod, then do not make a public protest thread, but PM an admin with the complaint and we will deal with it if necessary.

We will NOT accept the excuse that 'it's not in the rules so therefore I have not broken the rules'. If we warn you it is usually for very good reason. Not every infringement can be tightly put into this rulebook; we are not legal specialists... Just use common sense, and don't seek to take the piss, and you will get on fine.
Punishments for rule breaking.



Banning And Warning

The following actions can be taken by staff depending on how badly you have infringed on the rules.

Official Warnings : Should be taken very seriously if you recieve one. You should speak to the staff member and make sure that you do not repeat your mistake again, lest you get something more serious next time.

Banning : Bannings are specified at the time of being banned, and can range from 3 days, to one week, to one month, to indefinate (undetermined).

Permanent Bannings: These are very rare. Usually something terrible would have had to have been done to warrant this, such as a successful hacking attempt which devasted the boards, stalking, or various other serious illegal activities conducted over the boards.


Signatures, Sig's

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