I. COMMON COURTESY
Breaking a rule of this category will get you a warning, once warned if you break a rule within the same month you will be suspended for a time limit chosen by an admin.
No member shall refer to another in any demeaning manner. This includes insulting the intelligence, sexual preference, religion, or ethnicity of a fellow member. Administrators and moderators reserve the right to remove any material deemed offensive from one's posts. The member in question will be informed of any such action taken.
NO member shall make sexual comments towards one another on these boards. You want to talk to one another like that do it outside the board. Administrators and moderators reserve the right to remove any material deemed offensive from one's posts. The member in question will be informed of any such action taken.
No member shall belittle the talent of another in any way.
No member shall challenge the authority of the admins in a defiant way. If you have a problem be civil and talk to us about it, don't insult and accuse us of lording our power over you, it's simply not true. We treat you like equals, and I expect the same from you.
No member shall make comments that could be viewed as offensive or innapropriate. This rule will be judged on a case by case basis.
No member shall exssessively double-post (or triple post or quadruple post and so on), or exssesively spam (post pointless things just to get their post count up).
No member shall create a new topic that continues a closed or deleted one. There is a 3 day suspension for breaking this rule.
II SIGNATURE AND AVATAR RULES
Breaking one of these rules will result in a warning, if you break that rule again within one month you will have avatar and signature privileges take away from you.
No members signature shall contain graphic material, this includes sexual content, racist terms, graphic violence, or any subject matter that would be considered inappropriate.
No members signature shall extend the margins of the site, if it does you will be asked kindly to resize or eliminate it, failure to cooperate will result in admin action in taking it out ourselves.
No members signature shall contained fan artwork created by someone other than themselves without proper credit.
III HACKING AND CRACKING
The breaking of one of these rules will result in instant banning and reporting to invision.
No member or other party shall attempt to gain the password of another without consent from the ROOT administrator.
No member or other party shall register a second name after being banned, suspended, or otherwise without consent from the ROOT administrator.
No member or other party shall access the administrator control panel without consent from the ROOT administrator.
No member shall give their password willingly to a person who has been banned or suspended.
IV OFF SITE INTERACTION
Any report of unwanted off site interaction (including harrassment) will result in instant warning, and a second violation will result in instant banning.
No member shall contact another face to face in a confrontational manner concerning an issue on the site.
This rule also applies to discussing issues and the like on the site that occur between members outside the site's jurisdiction.
V SPOILERS
Spoiling of the plot or content of video games, movies, shows, books, etc. must be clearly marked so the reader can skip over or avoid reading the spoiler. If it is not, the person who posted the spoiler will get a ban warning. Also the spoiler feature is not meant to be used when discussing RPs or in a regular conversation that does not pertain to any movie or book or whatever.
Article VI
The rules of the board are not limited to what is written here. The adminstrative power of the staff is not delegated nor prohibited by the board guildlines.
VII Regarding Birthdays
From this point forward, any birthday wishes you may have for one another must be announced in
this topic. While the sentiment is indeed appreciated, there is no need to post an individual birthday for each forumgoer; further to the point, any separate topics created to this point will be locked/deleted and the creator warned as the situation may warrant.
Last updated: Saturday, April 16 2005