As a member of this board, you must follow these rules.

Etiquette

• Please do not ask to be promoted to any staff position on this board. We only offer promotions to those experienced members that we find suitable for the position.
• No profanity.
• No racial, ethnic, gender insults or any other discriminations.
• No offensive or harmful posts/PMs.
• Spam is not allowed. This includes short, useless posts or excessive repeat posting.
• Pornography, warez, and any other illegal activities are not allowed.
• All posts are property of the poster and are the poster's responsibility.
• Complaints about a staff member should be sent by PM to an Admin.
• Large images or several images should be linked to and not posted directly.
• Max Signature size: you may have images and text that total 550 x 150 or less.
  • Quick check: Your entire signature (not individual images) must fit within this box.
  • Signature images should not total more than 100KB and the size of Avatars should be no more than 25KB. We want pages to load at a reasonable pace for users.
  • Please do not use text in your signature greater than size 7.
• Advertising competing services is NOT allowed. This includes other free forum hosts or any type of paid hosting other than IPS hosting.
• Advertising an InvisionFree board is ONLY allowed in your signature, in the Board Directory (How to get listed), and in the Links forum.
• Post in an appropriate forum. If your topic is placed in the wrong forum, it may be moved.
• Any impersonation is strictly not allowed.
• If any forum has rules pinned at top of the page, those guidelines must be followed, along with the main forum rules.
• Please do not bring issues here from other forums or message boards.

Violation of any of these rules will result in one or more of the following punishments:
[Least Severe]
-Change of postcount.
-Edit of post, signature, or avatar.
-Warning - verbal or warning level change - depends on violation.
-Mod queue: all of your posts must be approved by a moderator first.
-Removal of certain abilities: sig, avatar, PM, etc.
-Removal of your posting rights.
-Suspension of your user account
-Deletion of your user account.
-And other punishments.
[Most Severe]

User Name Changes

• To request a name change, PM beanboy89 or SSS.
• You may request a name change every 6 months.
• You should search to make sure that the username you want is not already taken BEFORE asking. If the name you want is taken and you request it, that will still count as your name change for that 6 months.
• Your PM must be titled [NAME CHANGE] New Name Here; replace "New Name Here" with the new username you want. If you do not put the name you want in the title of your PM, it will be ignored.
• Users with more than 2 warnings on their account will have their request denied (this is subject to exceptions).

Errata

• We reserve the right to edit or remove any posted content. Topics may be deleted or closed to keep the board organized and up to date.
• By registering on this board, you agree that your account status may be changed or deleted at any time without any warning or explanation. You use the board at your own risk and we make no warranty that the information supplied is correct or accurate.
• You are only allowed one account on the board. Creating multiple accounts to get around suspension or other punishment will result in an automatic ban of ALL your accounts, permanently.

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Last updated - 12.16.05

Rules borrowed from InvisionFree and SSS's Forums.