| Terms of Service |
| Last Updated: 2005-December-03 |
| Violating the Terms of Service |
Please note that depending on the severity of your violation, any of these steps may be skipped.
- First offense - Post/topic deletion (Possible 1 Karma loss).
- Second offense - Post/topic deletion (Possible 1 Karma loss).
- Third offense - Post/topic deletion (1 Karma loss) and a possible suspension (5 Karma loss).
- Fourth offense - Post/topic deletion (1 Karma loss) and a possible suspension (5 Karma loss).
- Fifth offense - Post/topic deletion (1 Karma loss) and a definite suspension (5 Karma loss).
- Sixth offense - Your account is banned and under some circumstances, deleted (10 Karma loss).
- More than three banned accounts - Your IP is permanently banned from the boards.
By registering and posting at the Message Board, you agree not to perform any of the following: |
| A. Flaming |
Sexually explicit, racial or general hate comments directed towards another user.
- Direct insults (You're an idiot.)
- Indirect insults (X Member is really stupid.)
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| B. Censor Bypassing |
Changing letters to bypass a censored word. (For these examples, let's assume "train" is a banned word.)
- Replacing a letter with another similar letter, number, or symbol (You're a tr41n.)
- Adding spaces or characters inside the word (That's so t r.ain.)
- Not censoring out the entire word (What the t*ain?)
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| C. Inciting |
Posts which incite another user to violate the board rules, or are made to intentionally annoy another user.
- Orders (Go jump off a cliff and die.)
- Trolling (This game sucks.)
- Telling anyone to "STFU", "GTFO", or "FOAD"
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| D. Disruptive Posts |
Posts which disrupt a user's screen, browser, or computer.
- Massive amounts of random letters (asdfghjklasdfghjklasdfghjkl...)
- Blank or one character posts
- Posting your entire message in all uppercase letters (HELLO EVERYONE!)
- Intentionally misspelling words (hy gys huws itt gonig!?1)
- Excessive "leet" or AOL talk (1 4/\/\ 50 /\/\U(H 13373|2 7H4|\| 411 U)
- Posts which cause a horizontal scroll bar
- Signatures longer than 5 lines or larger than 350 characters
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| E. Illegal/Inappropriate Posts |
Posts which offend users, encourage or show use of illegal activities, or use sexually explicit terms.
- ROMs/hacks (Does anyone know where I can get this ROM?)
- Pornography (Check out my nude pic!)
- Serial/registration codes and cracks (Does anyone have a serial code for this program I can use?)
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| F. Off Topic Posts |
Posts which do not fit the board description.
- Off Topic (Do you have any codes for Super Mario World?) on the Sports board
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| G. Spamming/Flooding/Multiple Posting |
3 or more of the same post in one topic or advertisements. Feel free to put a link to your web site in your signature, but do not advertise it in your actual post.
- Advertising (Check out my awesome web site! *link*)
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| H. Exploits |
Altering code or using features to do something that was unintended in the board design. If you find an exploit, please immediately report it to an Administrator. If you are caught using an exploit, you will be banned.
- Giving yourself Moderator powers
- Editing other users' information and/or posts
- Performing any other task which wasn't intended in the board design
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