OFFENSIVE POSTING
Posts of a patently offensive nature are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language
Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, disability, nationality, or gender as a means of insult
Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libellous language
Posting or requesting links to (or material from) pornographic, obscene, illegal, or hate-speech web sites
Posting links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a clear warning
Descriptions or details about any sexual act or sexual organs.
FLAMING (INSULTING OTHER USERS)
Posts clearly insulting other board members, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
Name-calling ("You\'re an idiot", "You moron")
Direct insults ("Screw you")
Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself")
Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults toward family members ("Your mom...")
Hit lists
In addition, do NOT flame "newbs." Treat them the way you\'d want to be treated.
TROLLING (INCITING FLAMES)
Posts intended solely to annoy or offend other posters by going against the clear nature of a board or topic is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
Provoking other users to respond with flames
Making misleading topic titles
Asking obviously useless questions
Posting false information as fact
"Spoof" Threads
Informing users that you have reported their post
Flooding with the intent of disrupting forum activities
Posting only for the sake of informing other users that they are on your ignore list
Special note for Flaming/Trolling (Previously known as the "November Policy")
Any member found flaming and/or trolling the forums will be subject to a week-ban. These will not incur a warning. Any member who does not desist in flaming may be subject to one or more warnings. If a user on probation is found trolling and/or flaming, he or she will be permanently-banned.
SPAMMING
Posts that do not contribute to forum discussions or distract from ease of reading are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
Posts that clearly advertise a service or product
Repeated web site advertisements
Scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes
Posting links to games like "OUTWAR".
References to "The Game".
Posting one or few worded posts
Posting multiple messages in succession. (use the EDIT button to add to your post)
Off-topic posting
A post that contains no real words (exclusively random symbols, emoticons, 1337-speak, etc)
A post simply telling someone that their post is spam (it is spam itself)
Posting to ask a question that could be answered by a simple google search
Posting "+1 Post" "postcount +1" or similar.
"Parroting" another user (posting the same thing/similar as another user above)
DISRUPTIVE POSTING
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to:
Posts with large spacing
"Bumping" older topics (posting in them well after the last post - 2 weeks as a general guide)
Deleting and reposting the same (or similar) things.
Posting multiple, identical, or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" topics
Intentionally hard-to-read topic titles (i.e. ALL CAPS, ToGgLeD cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation, 1337 speak, etc.)
Posting multiple, hard-to-read messages in a single (or multiple) topics
Posting (either in a thread or in your signature) autoplaying flash/videos with sounds. Any source of audio must have a "play" button.
Posts requesting moderator action e.g. "Request Lock" (Use the post report button)
INAPPROPRIATE LANGUAGE
Curse words or other inappropriate language are NOT allowed here. This includes images containing curse words. Using curse words results in a warning. We do warn for saying a curse word(or any word filtered by the inappropriate language filter) with merely one letter present: use something to completely censor the word (eg ####). Attempts to evade the swear filter (by intentionally misspelling swear words, for example) will result in a particularly harsh penalty - 2 points minimum.
Also, swearing in code is not allowed (e.g. spelling out words making each letter the first letter of a word), nor is swearing in foreign languages.
IMPERSONATION
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for impersonating other boards users by creating and/or using a message board account with a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize another user, or otherwise falsely claim to be another message board member. Anyone found using the avatar and/or signature of a moderator/administrator after being given a light reminder via PM will be given a warning. His/her avatar/signature will be automatically removed as well.
