The Rules - Please read these before posting in the forums.

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General Rules

Posts should be made in the relevant forum. Read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning.

While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or inflammatory posts. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.

Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in these rules they are welcome to post it in the 'Attn: Moderators' forum. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly "act" as moderators may be warned.

Each member is allowed one(1) login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed and may result in both accounts being deleted.

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.

Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.

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

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. If you need to host an image somewhere please look into options such as WaffleImages or the attachment feature.

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 coloured 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. This rule does not apply to 'The Lounge'.

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitating in signatures is also prohibited.

Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. This rule does not apply to 'The Lounge'.

The moderators 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 Moderators and not users.

Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.

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.

Signatures

Signatures may contain up to five lines of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 56kB in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text.

Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth.

Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of 3 unique personal pages or sites. Linked sites may not be commercial in nature unless it is a personally owned business. You may not link to warez, porn or political, racist or other similar hate sites. Links are included in signature size limits.

Avatars

Users are permitted to utilise a gallery avatar, upload, or link to one of their own. User defined avatars are to be no larger than 100 pixels square, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of team members), may not exceed 56kB in filesize and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).

Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth.

Policing

Teranath 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.

Arguing with 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.

Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to post in the 'Attn: Moderators' forum. If they feel you were treated badly they remove a warning.

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 of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user.

An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact team members personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.

Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While we may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence.

In addition to these rules, certain forums may contain their own subset of rules. You are to follow those rules as well as these rules. In case of conflicting rules (as such in the case of 'The Lounge') follow that forums rules.