Board Rules

Kodiak

Intermediate

Posts: 219

Location: Highland, Scotland

1

Saturday, January 19th 2008, 11:17pm

These rules can be changed, edited, and added to at any time.

Every offence against the rules of the Forums (the now following general rules and of course the special rules for some subforums) may lead to a warning. The Administrators of the forums has the right to ban accounts on the forums and maybe even ingame and on IRC in extreme cases. The interpretation of the rules is up to the board team.

1. Accounts, Warnings and Bannings

1.1 Every User may register and use one account. Multiple registrations and usage of several accounts may lead to a banning of all accounts.

1.2 After receiving the third warning an account may be banned up to 2 weeks, in extreme cases longer. The circumventing of the ban by registering a second account is not allowed. An account may get banned permanently if the user receives again several warnings after the account was unlocked.

1.3 In extreme cases it is possible a User gets banned without having several warnings.

1.4 Editing a post after a warning was given (this includes removing or editing the warning) is against the rules and can lead to a ban from the forums.

2. Attitude on the forums
2.1 Posting contents and links of pornographic, politically extremist, immoral and offensive material which may breach applicable laws are forbidden.
2.1.2 It is also not allowed to post keys, hacks, cracks or other things of illegal nature, including illegal download pages and "warez". Discussion of such items will lead to an immediate warning.

2.2 Posting of contents which do not belong to the topic/ relevant forum (Spam/Offtopic) are undesired and may lead to a warning. An exception of this is the Spamboard.
2.2.1 This includes postings which only point out breaches of the rules (Backseat Modding). This is up to the board team.

2.3.1 Images in Signatures may not exceed the following measurements:
height: 100 px
width: 500 px
100 kb
And one pic per signature.

or

height: 150 px
width: 400 px
100 kb
And one pic per signature.

2.3.2 Signatures must not have more than 3 lines of standard sized text.

2.3.3 Images may be attached or embedded within posts but they must not exceed the following sizes
Height: 400 px
Width: 400 px
and a file size of 100 kb each

2.3.4 Moderators may remove any pictures deemed to be oversized at any time. No more than 5 pictures or smilies may be placed inside any single post.

2.3.5 Due to information sometimes needed to be passed on to users, staff may sometimes have a extension on the size of the image, or text placed in the signature.

2.4 Flaming, Offences against other users or staff and inappropriate language are punishable on the whole forum.

2.5 The board team holds the right to censor threads. This will be marked in the relevant post.

2.6 Reposting of a theme that was already closed is not allowed. If you wish to post in it, ask the moderator who closed it to reopen.

2.7 Account Trading is not allowed on the whole forum.

2.8 Advertisements and linking to other browser games is not allowed on the whole forums, including the PC Forum. Links to games with the aim to count every visitor are not allowed. Links to other GameForge games are an exception and may be posted in the Spam and/or Entertainment areas only.

2.9 The Board language is English, and only English.

2.10 Requests to unban ingame accounts are not to be discussed anywhere on the forums. Please get in contact to the Game Operator who banned you via PM/email/IRC only .

2.11 Spamming of emoticons and images is not allowed due to the fact that it may freeze peoples’ computers. Images or postings which are side exceeding (means one has to scroll vertically or/and horizontally to read all) are not allowed.

2.12 If you feel warned unfairly, first PM the Mod who gave the warning. Then you may get in contact with the Smod. In extreme cases you have the right to talk to a Board Admin. The Board Admins’ word is final. Follow the hierarchy, or you may find you are ignored, (include all previous communication).

2.13 Impersonation of a Staff member (Name, Avatar, Signature) may lead to a warning or in extreme cases to a ban.

2.14 Posthunting (posting just to get a higher postcount) results in a warning or in extreme cases in a direct ban. Posting twice within the allowable time to re-edit the original post shall be considered Posthunting.

2.15 It's not allowed to post for banned people. If you do so, it results in a warning for you. Only exception can be made for good-bye threads (with prior permission from an admin). The sharing of accounts with people who are banned from the board will also incur a ban for the account holder.

2.16 Discussion of bans or warnings is not permitted in the public forums, this may result in further bans or warnings. Please discuss these issues with the moderator involved or their superior on the board only.

3. Notes

The following themes are to be discussed with the Board Administration:
- Signature Bans
- Unban request (via IRC or email)
- User title (Smods can change this as well)
- Name changes
- Complains about Smods (concerning Mods, please get first in contact with a Smod)

The Staff reserves the right to change rules when they deem it necessary.

The use of these forums is a priviledge not a right. Administrators reserve the right to do what they think is best for the forums, including the banning of people.

Cry Wolf

You Spin Me Right Round

Posts: 213

Location: Rhode Island, USA

Occupation: Student

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Tuesday, September 15th 2009, 1:14am

Ammendment to the Board Rules (effective September 14th, 2009):

The following text here from the rules...

Quoted

2.12 All posts must contain a minimum of 4 words; Less words will be considered as spam and warned accordingly. Any forms of abbreviations such as: ICU, BRB, LOL, ROFLMAO, will be considered one word. The only exception to this rule is in the spam sections.

will no longer be considered a part of the board rules. That is to say that any post which contributes to the thread but contains less than 4 words will not be considered a board rule violation. Any posts containing less than 4 words that do not contribute to the thread will still be warned.

Best Wishes,
Your Board Administration Team

Board Administrator