The community forums are a place where people can interact and have discussions about several different topics. However, we ask that you follow these guidelines to ensure that the forums have some productive conversation. These rules and guidelines are enforced by administrators and moderators, and at their discretion, may delete posts without warning that do not comply. Also, failure to comply with these rules may result in a ban from the forums or the entire site, as well as removal of posts and points!
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- This is an English web site, so all forum posts must be written in English. Any thread topics or replies written in a language other than English may be removed without notice, including the points they award.
- No "flaming" or "badgering" -- writing hostile or insulting messages aimed at other users for their views, comments, status as a user on the site, or any other reason. You can disagree with someone's views and still be polite about it.
- No "trolling" -- posting controversial (sometimes off-topic) messages with the intent of baiting other users to reply.
- No "spamming" -- No advertisements, or referral links to other services. We also classify "spam" as short replies (usually fewer than 7 words) which do not contribute to a forum thread in a positive manner. Some forum threads expect short messages (like some forum games), but otherwise short messages are highly discouraged. Do not post for the sake of forum post count... your posts will be removed if we see you posting unhelpful or non-contributing messages just for points.
- Do not post material that is hateful or mean towards race, religion, sex, or any other offensive nature.
- Do not post offensive content, or links to offensive content. Remember that kids visit the web site.
- No excessive swearing or language. If you're that angry about something, take a break from the forums. Also, do not attempt to use any means to bypass our profanity filter, such as misspelling a cuss word, or using punctuation or spaces. We are much more likely to ban users for this behavior than those who let the profanity filter replace cuss words with *'s instead. Still, excessive swearing can get you in trouble too, so keep it clean.
- Please do not "hijack" a forum thread by changing the subject. If you want to change the subject, please start a new message thread.
- Do not complain about getting banned, and do not make another account to circumvent a ban. Do not complain about other users being banned, in the forums or on profile pages of other users. If u were banned was for a good reason and definitly that reason was not respecting the rules.
- Do not complain if a moderator removes a message you posted. We trust our moderators, and if they've removed a message, they had a good reason.
- No alternate accounts allowed. Posts will be removed without notice.
- Do not post personal information about you or anyone else. If you want to post a photo of yourself and give yourself to know to the comunity, please do so in the Lounge.
- Turn off your caps lock, do not use excessive ALL CAPS in your posts.
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If you have any questions about these rules, you may contact a moderator.
