Terms of Use

Krakantas Wed Sep 03, 2008 10:39 am

A) Forum rules

1.Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).

2.Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.

3.Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.

4.Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.

5.Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got an error!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "Getting an TABLE FULL error upon login", "Cannot restore a backup", etc.

6.The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users.

7.The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging.

B) Signatures

8.Signatures may contain text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 500px high, 110px wide.

9.Users abusing these rules will be warned.

C) Avatars

10.Users are permitted to utilise a gallery avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be no larger than 150 wide, 200 height, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of team members).

11.Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth.

12.Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.