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BOARD RULES |
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 Posted: Tue Dec 21, 04 7:32 pm |
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Board-wide Policies
This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at www.wormsscifi.com/haven. Please read it and become familiar with it, its terms are retroactive and agreed to by team and group members.
Forum rules
1. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).
2. 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.
3. Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue that contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Moderating team or Administrators. Only do this if a moderator team member has not replied within 6 hours. Members who consistently "act" as moderators may be warned.
4. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
5. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "You have to see this!", etc.
9. Members are welcome to use the test forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. Users posting in the test forum just to increase their post counts will be warned.
10. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.
11. The moderating, support and other teams reserve 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 the Board Owner, Moderating Team Members and not users.
12. 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.
Policing
1. Sci Fi Haven operates a three-strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning, a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days.
2. Arguing with Administrators or Moderators after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes, a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
3. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the Administrators, e.g. if warned by a Moderator you should contact the Administrator or Board Owner. If it is decided that you were treated badly, the warning will be removed. That decision is final. Contacting Admin. Members over warning matters should be done so as a very last resort ... Admin. Members should not be bothered unless vital.
4. Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new email account to evade an email ban.
5. An exception to the three-strike rule applies when users contact Board Moderators or Administrators personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
6. Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While I may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time, this is a rare occurrence.
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