RULES & AGREEMENT! PLEASE READ!

**Admin** · Admin Posts: 8 Join date: 2009-01-23

Rules

We thank all of you for being a part of this growing community. In order to keep the forums running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forums here. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact one of the Staff Members.

General Rules

* While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts.

* Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count IS allowed.

* Advertising, spamming and trolling IS allowed. But only in certain specified areas of the forum.

* Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts.

* We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate community standards. If this rule is broken, a banning will be in place.

* Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed HERE, go find another forum.

* Each member is allowed UP TO 3 login accounts. Registering with more than 3 accounts is not allowed.

* Please don't bash other boards or threads.

* We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.

* If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.

* We reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not abused in any way.

* You CAN post affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. But only in certain specified areas of the forum.

* You CAN post advertisements or notices for contests. But only in certain specified areas of the forum.

* We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privilege and not a right. A banned customer is still entitled to support from the support system.

Advertising Services and Solicitation

We DO allow people to post threads here that advertise and/or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. But only in certain specified areas of the forum. We DO NOT, however allow people to to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Advertising in Personal Messaging here is prohibited. But we DO allow people to post advertising and solicitation in signatures.

You should never give out your username or password to anyone, and you should NOT give usernames and/or passwords to anyone except through this support system and through Administrators. We can not take responsibility if you give this information to anyone else.

Signatures Guidelines

* Linking to a product/service IS allowed.

* Promotional text for a commercial product or service IS allowed.

* A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial IS allowed. (Non-sexual content related sites are not allowed)

* Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature IS allowed.

Signatures Guidelines

* Animated avatars ARE NOT allowed.

* Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars ARE NOT allowed.

* Use of logos in this forum or part of this forum in avatars ARE NOT allowed.

Signature Size Limits

All signatures should not exceed the following size limits, and you CAN NOT have both text and images.

* Font sizes above 3 ARE NOT allowed. But font sizes of 3 ARE allowed. (Blank lines DO NOT count as lines.)

* DO NOT use images with large text to bypass the previous item.

* For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20kb in size is allowed. Anything larger IS NOT allowed.

* Animated images in a signature ARE allowed.

* We also have some rules that apply for certain forums.

Other Rules

* Because of the high rate of software piracy on 'free' hosts, discussion and questions regarding piracy hosting services and piracy related content are not appropriate for this forum.

* Please, no over spamming, we do allow posting of links and advertisements, but please do not spam other threads with your product or service.

* We will not mediate third-party disputes and threads. Purchasing these items from another company is done at your own risk. If you have an issue with a third-party regarding their support or conduct then you will need to handle it through the means they provide. Any such threads on this topic will NOT be moderated. We cannot provide support for third-party products and services.

Moderation

Although the administrators and moderators of this Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of this Forum, nor the developers of this forum will be held responsible for the content of any message.

Agreement

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violate any laws or rules listed above.

* The owners of this forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

* We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.

Matt (Forum Admin)