Posting 1.
No flaming Flaming and/or making insulting remarks to other people on the forums is not tolerated. Insults and flames would include anything that is posted for the intent to anger, intimidate, demoralize, aggravate, threaten, and/or frighten. Anything that discriminates someone based on religion, sex, sexual affiliation, and/or race will also be considered as flames.
2.
No trolling Please do not post any topic that disrupts these forums. Do not make non-intelligible threads with the sole purpose of starting a dispute or argument.
3.
No spamming Spamming is strictly prohibited. Your post needs to contribute to the discussion or the topic.
The continuous posting of messages irrelevant to the topic or discussion is strictly prohibited. You should not consistently be able to look up at your screen and see that the majority of topics or messages on a page were just created or posted by you.
To discuss: To talk about a subject in detail.
To chat: To talk in a light, familiar way. Informal talk. (e.g. one-sentence-posts such as "I agree" etc)
Chatting is considered spamming and will be dealt with accordingly in all forums but will be tolerated to a certain degree in "Off Topic". Please remember though that "Off Topic" is for off-topic discussion, not no-topic discussion. Threads that are blatantly spammy in nature or just pure spam will be locked at the staff's discretion.
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No offensive posts, links or images Posting of or linking to material that could be considered as inappropriate is not allowed. These kinds of materials may include: pornography, nudity, hate-oriented material towards a group of individuals, sexual explicit material, and highly violent or disturbing material. Remember, not everyone is as unsensitive as you might be.
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No illegal material or links to it We do not condone any illegal content or information for such things on the forums. Do not ask for help, do not help others, and do not give links to illegal content or anything that can lead to illegal content. This includes warez, cracks, serials and the like.
6.
Right to privacy You shall not violate a person's privacy by publishing information that is private and personal (either about a member or any person) without that person's consent.
7.
No advertising We do not allow people to post threads, send private messages or eMail users here that advertise or solicit any products or services unless specifically requested by the involved party.
4.
No propaganda Everyone is entitled to have their own opinions and discuss 'em, no matter how controversial they are, but promoting them is a completely different matter. This includes, but may not be limited to political or idealistic propaganda.
Signatures / Avatars 1. All rules outlined in the "Posting" section of this CoC apply to signatures and avatars as well.
2. Additionally, signatures may not exceed a height of 100 pixels (which equals 6 lines of normal-sized text) of and a width of 560 pixels (which is the standard width of the post column) on topic view.
3. Signatures which violate any of these rules may be edited/deleted with or without prior warning at the staff's discretion.
Enforcement 1. Threads/posts violating the CoC may be deleted or closed.
2. Violating any rules outlined in this CoC will result in a warning via private message on first occurence.
3. Repeated violation of the Posting Guidelines may lead to a warning as well.
4. If a second warning has to be issued for violating the same or a different rule, this will result in a temporary ban for 1 week.
5. Trying to circumvent a temporary ban (e.g. by re-registering with a new account) will result in a permanent ban.
6. Continously violating the CoC (especially if a temporary ban had already been issued previously) will result in a permanent ban.
7. In case of severe CoC violations we reserve the right to ban users temporarily or permanently without prior warning.
