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RULES OF CONDUCT


Use of our forums constitutes acceptance and agreement to our Rules of Conduct (RoC) and Forum User Agreement. If you violate our Rules of Conduct, Terms of use and Privacy Policy, we reserve the right to terminate all accounts belonging to you without prior notice. We prefer to advise users of inappropriate behavior, however, flagrant and repeated violations of our RoC will result in an immediate ban. Our failure to enfore this policy, for whatever reason, shall not be construed as a waiver of our right to do so at any time.


Age Rating


Age of 13+ is permmitted but we ask for the all members to refrain yourselves from inappropriate behavior and language. This is meant to be a peaceful atmosphere, not chaotic. (Unless it's a part of your story, we all know how crazy those can get!)


Forum Etiquette


We created the Rules of Conduct to provide a basic understanding of what's allowed and not allowed in our forums. The following are rules of conduct and forum etiquette that every player needs to abide by. The following is to be taken into consideration whenever posting:

 

  • Ensure a friendly and peaceful atmosphere for all members who participate in our forums and website.
  • Ensure the privacy of of our members.
  • Encourage responsible use of our forums and discourage activites which disrupt our community and reduce the effectiveness of our forums for our members.
  • Encourage the freedom of expression and exchange of information in mature and responsible manner.

Freedom of Speech

We believe in the right to free speech and are committed to ensuring that every member has the privilege of exercising that right. However along with what is contained in our Privacy Policy. Should we feel that the content is damaging or offensive towards other members, we reserve the right to remove any content at our own discretion.

Our Rules of Conduct is meant to be all encompassing and it is important that although we may not specifically state always what is not allowed. Any user generated content we feel that is not suitable fo rour forums that does not meet our criteria for what is allowable. We may choose to take action in the following forms:

  • Delete/Edit your post(s)/thread(s)
  • Ban you from website and forum for certain amount of time
  • Delete your account(s)
  • Permanently ban you from website and forum

Ad Hominem


Ad hominem, personal attacks towards any of our staff, members (this includes moderators and administrators.) Risks the post(s)/thread(s) being deleted and action taken against the user, regardless of how pertinent or thoughtful the rest of the message might be.


Personal Informaiton


We respect the privacy of all of our members and as such disclosing personal information about youself or others is not allowed. You may not post any form of personal identifiable information of any user and yourself. Examples of real life information include name, address, and phone numbers. Posting pictures of yourself is allowable however you do so at your own discretion adn understand the risks involved. You also cannot post any information about anyone tha tis fallacious, humiliating and demeaning in an attempt to provoke an individual. As such any information described can be requested for removal by that individual should they feel that their privacy has been violated.


Restricted Forum Behavior


In order to maintain a healthy forum that all of our players can appreciate. The following activites are prohibited and listed below is what we deem not suitable and not allowed in our forums.

  1. Excessive off-topic threads
  2. Posting nonsensical messages
  3. "Flooding" the forum with similar meaning messages
  4. Inciting a forum war or riot
  5. Messages without cotent
  6. Fraudulent activity (Pyramid schemes, chain letters, etc.)
  7. Free-___links (i.e. Free iPods, Free PSP, etc. etc.)
  8. Pirated materials, Plagiarism, and ect. ect.
In regards to maintaining and promoting healthy discussions all statements made with the intention to aggravate another individual is not allowed.

  • If the thread owner asks you to leave their thread due to excessive spam, profanity or inappropriate behavior, you must not continue to post. Although if the thread contains posts about you, you can respond, but this is ONLY if you are willing to leave. If you are kicked off the thread by a moderator or administrator because you refuse to adhere to the forum rules, you cannot continue posting on the thread no matter what. If you want to discuss a person, create a thread for it but only with good intentions.
  • You may not bait/troll members. Bait/Trolling is defined as posting with a clear intent to provoke anger, incendiary posts, and behavior that results in other members violating the Rules of Conduct.
  • You may not bait, insult, flame, or otherwise abuse a staff member and moderators. If you have an issue with any administrators or moderators all communication needs to be done by messaging me or discuss it out with teh administrator or moderator.

Contents You Post


The following content and behavior displayed is not allowed in any section of our website and is strictly forbidden.
  1. Is harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, torturous, vulgar, hateful, or racially, ethnically, or otherwise offensive or discriminatory.
  2. Is obscene, excessively violent or harmful to minors or depicts minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct or in a sexually explicit manner.
  3. Is illegal
  4. Is tortuous, defamatory, libelous or invasive of another's privacy or publicity rights.
  5. Infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary or intellectual property rights of any party.
  6. You do not have a right to make available under law or contractual or fiduciary relationshisp.
  7. Includes copyrighted materials for which you do not possess appropriate rights to so display, perform or otherwise make available.
  8. Bears any false, disguised or misleading origin
  9. Contains software viruses or any other computer cod, flies or programs designed to destroy, interrupt or otherwise limit the functionality of any computer software, computer hardware or other equiptment.

Acceptance


All messages , information, digital files or other materials, whether publicly posted, displayed or performed on, or privately transmitted, are the sole responsibility of the person who sends or publishes such items. Accordingly, you are responsible for all items that you upload, post, cause a display or performance of, email, transmit or otherwise make available via this website reserves the right to, but has no obligation to, monitor or screen the content posted and/or displayed or performed in this website and to remove any content in its sole discretion. Neverhteless, YOU REMAIN SOLEY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE CONTENT OF THE MATERIALS YOU POST, CAUSE TO BE DISPLAYED OR PERFORMED IN ANY AREAS OF THIS WEBSITE AND THAT YOU TRANSMIT IN ANY COMMUNICATIONS THAT USES THIS WEBSITE ADN THE SERVICES PROVIDED THEREBY.

 

 


 
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