Please read the following rules and guidelines before posting to the Rats Ahoy! forums.

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By registering, you have agreed to abide by these (and any other forum-specific guidelines). If you have any questions, concerns or queries about these rules, feel free to contact the admin team or to post in Questions and Suggestions
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• No Spamming. If anyone is discovered spamming the forums, or members via their emails their account will be disabled.

• No Advertising. Recommendations for other sites is fine, including those that sell products that might be relevant to the topic at hand, but using this forum purely to advertise a website or product is inappropriate.

• No unlawful or objectionable content. Unlawful, harassing, defamatory, abusive, threatening, harmful, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, racially offensive or otherwise objectionable material is not acceptable. Please keep the board safe for younger members and those who don't wish to be exposed to non-PG content.

• No flaming, no overly judgemental or harsh attitudes, no defamatory comments, no personal attacks, and no libellous comments. Please keep posts constructive, polite and helpful and - if a topic makes you feel angry - take the time to consider if your response is appropriate before hitting "Post".

• Trolling is strictly forbidden, and you are encouraged to ignore, rather than respond, to any trolls that may post. Instead, please report any concerns to the admin team.

• Use good netiquette when posting. If you are unfamiliar with good netiquette practices, a web search should provide you with a suitable guide.

• Try to use good punctuation and grammar in your posts. Some typos are unavoidable, but please keep leetspeek, textspeak, excessive abbreviations, typing all in capitals and capitalising every word to a minimum. Many people find it hard to read posts written in these ways.

• When posting, please edit your posts to add additional information rather than posting multiple posts in a row, where relevant.

• Be patient. Your post will get a reply but sometimes, members may not have the answer to your questions, or may not have yet seen your topics. Posting multiple times asking people to answer will not get a response any sooner.

• Make your subjects relevant to the post. Subjects such as "Please read", "Help me" and so on are unhelpful.

• Keep images to a maximum of 600 pixels wide and 480 pixels high to limit loading time of pages, particularly for those on dial up connections. If you wish to post images that are larger than this, please post them as a link.

• Please keep signatures to a reasonable size. Try to keep them to no more than 5 lines of text, and ensure that any signature banners are kept to a maximum of 500 pixels wide and 100 pixels high. Please do not use overly busy, complex, flashing or animated images.

• Please provide a subject warning and spoiler space if you are posting links or images that are likely to spoil any anime that someone may have not yet seen.

• Inappropriate threads or posts will be removed from the board and if there are repeated or severe infringements of the rules, the poster's account will be locked.

• The admin team reserves the right to lock/ban any account at their discretion.

• Only one account per member, please.

• Ensure that you check each forum for posting rules specific to them and abide by those when posting in those forums.

And lastly, remember to have fun. Anime Charm should be a place where people feel comfortable posting.