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The Rulebook
« Thread Started on Mar 1, 2007, 1:33am »

Rules

1. No images, links, or anything else related to the following:

Pornography: if you'd get fired from work for viewing it on the job, then what makes you think we'd want it here? Besides, there is a section JUST for that.
Racial discrimination: don't post anything stupid you'd be taken to court over.
Religious proselytization: no one here wants to convert to your religion, whether it be Christianity, Wicca, or something "fabulous" you just made up yourself.
Unendorsed commercial advertisement: no, we don't want to visit your casino.

Violators of this rule will be banned on sight and have their accounts deleted.

2. No spam. Spam includes any or all of the following:

Duplicate posts with the same message copy/pasted into them.
Worthless posts meant to increase one's post-count. (Post in the Game Room are not counted in this rule)
Messages of immense stupidity meant to provoke the community and/or administration.
Advertising of all goods and services without permission of the owner of the board. Leaving single one-time postings that advertise one's psychic services or separate websites will be deleted immediately.
Any other posts administration finds annoying or possibly litigious. This includes, but is not limited to, insults and obscene references to moderators and administrators; posts attempting to sell illicit drugs or otherwise advising people to engage in illegal activities; posts containing potentially libelous statements; etc..

3. No suicide posts allowed. No replying to suicide posts allowed. Any such posts will be deleted on sight with the author's account disabled. This is not a suicide hotline, and we're not legally able to help in any way. Don't put us or yourself in danger by posting suicide messages here. Seek immediate help from real trained professionals; they're the ones who're there for you.

4. Policies on image sizes:

Avatars: Maximum of 100 x 100
Signatures: Both height and width are an issue here. If your signature makes the page take too long to download, or if your image is much, much bigger than the majority of the other members' sigs, then it has to go. Always keep your signature at a modest size. 300 x 600 is reasonable.
Posted images: if an image you post is so big that it breaks the frames of a page, or takes the page too long to load as a result, then link to it instead of posting it directly. If a member of administration sees that you've unwittingly violated this rule, then the image will be converted to a link for you.

If you're having trouble resizing or hosting your preferred personal images, contact me and I'll gladly help you out.

Guidelines

For Continuing Members

1. Always be respectful and considerate to everyone who, in your honest judgment, deserves it. There are no rules governing how "civilly" you're supposed to behave to one another. If anything, just do everyone else the courtesy of being honest at all times. It's your prerogative to say whatever you want to whomever you want at any time. No one's forcing you to be nice to someone whom you're having personal disagreements with. However, if you want to start all-out war on someone or some group, take it to some other more private medium. We don't need or want a flame war.

2. Remember how you were treated as a new member of this community. Whatever you would have changed about the old members' treatment of you, reflect in your treatment of new members.

New Members, Pay Attention!

3. Do not a) appear only once; or b) show up weeks-months later to respond to a thread without leaving any notice to your absence. This is extremely rude to the people who took the time to interact with you. We do understand that some circumstances will call for such an action, but please state when it applies to you.

4. Never type a normal message in all caps. All caps means you're shouting and makes your message sound like a screaming banshee wrote it.

5. Try not to use more than three exclamation marks in your post's subject-title. People who type things like "OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE HELP MEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" are not likely to be respected or answered politely. In the body of your post, please also refrain from breaking the page's frames with too many exclamation or question marks. We get annoyed when people do that.

6. Be as specific in your questions as possible. Vague questions will only leave us asking, "What the hell are you talking about?" Same applies to a thread. The more you put into it, the more likely you are to get a response.

7. Don't post the same message in multiple forums. We don't need help finding just one copy. If you are unsure where it goes, post it once and then ask a mod to move it to an appropriate board.

8. If no one has replied to your post, don't ask, "Y izn't ne1 replyng 2 my post?!?!?!" It should be obvious that at least one of two things is the case: nobody has seen it yet, or nobody wants to respond to it.

9. Don't make stupid polls just because you feel like making one. Just don't. EXCEPTION is for polls placed in the game room, because that's just a place to relieve stress and spam a bit.

10. If you've just arrived here, don't start welcoming other new members to the board as if you've lived here your whole life. You'd think it was pretty rude if someone you didn't even know suddenly moved into your house and thought he or she could welcome other people into your home, wouldn't you? Be around for a few months before you start welcoming. Giving responses such as, "Hi, I'm new here too" however are fine.

Thank you for reading the Rules & Guidelines of the Forum! If you feel that some of them are phrased rudely, sorry, but sometimes that's the only way to get some things across: by being brutally honest. We don't want to scare people off, quite the contary. We want you to enjoy yourselves and have a good experience here. As long as you're courteous to us, we'll be courteous to you.

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