Board Rules

Animal Crossing Man · Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:26 pm Post subject: Board Rules

You must follow all of these rules - if you don't i will be forced to issue bans out to people and restrictions to certain featues like avatars, signitures, PM's, etc.

Rule 1 - Don't post anything that is offensive about members of the board. Respect each other like they were your best friend, whether you get along with them or not. If you don't like them, please keep this private.

Rule 2 - No rude language. No words are sensored as i trust that you will be sensible among the board.

Rule 3 - When posting, please stick to the topic in the area that you are posting in. If you would like to go off topic the general posts section of this site is there for this purpose, or the chit-chat board, or spam area so please go there.

Rule 4 - When posting, please try and make sure that your answer is conversational, i.e. others can post their opinions off your post. Answers like 'I agree' can be acceptable every so often, but please try and keep answers like this to a minimum.

Rule 5 - Please check for an existing topic before posting a new topic as it is annoying to staff and members alike when a thread is started concerning a particular topic, that has already been started elsewhere.

Rule 6 - Avoid using capaitals or WeIrD wRiTiNg, as capitals are perceived as shouting and weird writing is annoying to read.

Rule 7 - When posting please try not to type in shorthand as not all of us know the shorthand for some words, and it would be annoying to those members who are trying to read your post.

Rule 8 - When a staff moderator, edits or deletes a post of yours due to rule breaks or inappropriare behaviour, instead of posting a comment on the board PM the appropriate staff member, to ask why.

Rule 9 - Avoid double posting. If a topic hasn't been posted in in a long time and your the last poster you may double post if you have something extra to say. You may also double post if it is part of your blog, story or banners.

Rule 10 - If you are going to go away for an amount of time e.g. on holiday for two weeks, please post in the "i'm going to be absent" board which is next to the "introduce yourself here" board so that we know you are going to be absent.

Rule 11 - Please do not create double/triple accounts, etc. If you are caught doing this your other accounts will be deleted and your first account will have a short ban.

Rule 12 - When suggestions or compliants are made to staff, please respect and abide by the decision that the staff come to. All suggestions and compliants and discussed by the staff, and the staff will not go back on their decisions once they are made.

Rule 13 - Do not post any images or links to websites that can be deemed as offensive nor can you post anything that is poronographic.

Rule 14 - Do not hack people's accounts.

Rule 15 - Do not PM people your sites on the board. If you are caught doing this then you will get a warning. If you want to advertise your site do it in the advertisement section when you reach the appropriate amount of posts.

Rule 16 - Have as much fun as posible whilst abiding to the above 15 rules.

The warning system works like this:

Whenever you do something wrong you will get a warning, you will most likely get a PM about this telling you what you done wrong.

Warning 1 = Nothing bad happens
Warning 2 = avatar size lowered to 100x100 (uaual 150x150)
Warning 3 = Placed under moderation
Warning 4 = PM system banned until further notice.
Warning 5 = Signiture system banned until further notice.
Warning 6 = Banned for 1 day.
Warning 7 = Banned for 1 week.
Warning 8 = Banned forever.

As you can see you do get a lot of warnings before i take serious action, this does not mean that you can break rules until you get to a ban as if i feel you are doing that i will just ban you for a certain amount of time anyways. Also not every rule-break will only give you one warning. If it is something really bad i may give you 3 warnings in one go so all 3 warnings will take effect.

Thanks,
Animal Crossing Man and all the staff.