Forum Rules

[DiamondK]

Forum Rules

Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting.

Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning. If a user continues to launch personal attacks, they may be banned from the forum.

Temporary Suspension
Any user/users who repeatedly makes comments which create turmoil may be temporarily suspended at the discretion of the Administrators. Suspension can be up to ten days, depending on the situation or history of the user. User/users will not be allowed to log on during the suspension period. Any communication with the administrators may be done via normal e-mail as the PM feature will be inoperative at this time. The need to suspend user privileges for a second time will result in the user being banned from the site.

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Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Moderator Team. Only do this if a moderator team member has not replied within 12 hours. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who consistenly "act" as moderators may be warned.

Members should remember this board is aimed at a family audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.

Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permision will receive a warning and their post will be removed.

Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.

Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or colored text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.

Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got an error!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "What's your favorite turkey call", "Hunting tactics for the fall", etc.

Members are welcome to use the Technical Issues Forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. (subject to previous points on decency, warez, etc.).

Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering any product or service for sale on any forum but the Classified Forum. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.

The moderating team reserves the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users.

The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging.

Signatures

Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size). No links, animation or images are permitted in the signature file. Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth. Users abusing these rules will be warned and their signatures removed.

Avatars

Users are permitted to utilize a link to one of their own images for the avatar (the image shown beneath the username in a post) User defined avatars are to be no larger than 115 pixels square, contain no animation, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed). Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges
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