Rules and Guidelines

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In order to keep the forums running as smoothly as possible, and to also ensure the most enjoyable viewing experience for our members, we have compiled a small list of basic rules:

General Rules and Guidelines:

• While we welcome discussing and debating issues, we will not tolerate insulting comments, personal attacks, slandering or intentionally argumentative posts (trolling).
• Posting, emailing or private messaging with the intent to advertise or "spam" links is not permitted and will result in an instant ban.
• Reviving old topics (bumping) is not allowed — continually doing so will result in your forum account being banned.
• "Double-posting" is a no-no. Please wait an appropriate amount of time before replying to your own topic. There are unwritten exceptions to this rule, however.
• Please refrain from excessive cursing and any attempt to evade the censored-words filter, these forums are aimed at audiences of all ages. Take a moment to review your message and decide if it would be suitable for younger visitors before posting.
• Discussion of illegal activities such as file sharing, software and media piracy and intellectual property violations are not welcome here. This includes the discussion and exchanging of "CD-Keys" and "cracks".
• You are permitted to register a single account with the forum, attempting to create multiple accounts will result in a permanent ban of all said accounts, as well as a permanent IP ban.
• All posts must be made in English or with an English translation included. Only in rare circumstances will this be rule be waived.
• Due to increasing sizes of signatures, new limits have had to be imposed for the convenience of ALL forum users. Your entire signature, including images, text and links, must be no larger than 200 pixels high and 500 pixels wide. Please read the Signature Rules thread for details. Anyone exceeding these limits will have their signature deleted.
• The staff reserve the right to edit or delete any posts or threads without notice, including the expulsion of unruly members.

Minor Guidelines:

• Please do not request thread closures/moves as it is the decision of the staff to moderate posts and threads, not the members. Discussion of the sort only encourages users to go off-topic.
• Do not ask to become staff. I'm super serious. The best way to completely screw yourself out of becoming part of the team is to PM a current member of staff and ask. Personally, I won't even respond to your PM.
• The report function is your friend but not your babysitter. Only report something that cannot be resolved by anyone other than staff AND only if it actually breaks rules. Do not bait someone just to report them - it will backfire on you. If you cannot get on with someone or you find their posts to be annoying, please make use of the ignore and block functions available rather than spamming the report button.

If you have any queries concerning the current set of rules then you are more than welcome to contact any of the current staff regarding your issue.

Thank you,
- The Staff

Staff Contact Details

After noticing that there isnt' a handy button atm that links to the information reguarding Staff and naturally how to contact us, I thought I'd throw this little bundle of code together for all the long serving and new members who can't find a link to contact us though.

Hope this helps - I will also be locking this, afterall, the meaning of existance for this thread is this post and this post alone

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