General Rules

1. While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
2. Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
3. Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
4. Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members.
5. Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts.
6. We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate community standards. The moderator team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
7. Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
8. Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
9. We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
10. If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
11. 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.
12. You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
13. You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
14. We also reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right.

We consider this a "family site" (aka 'Office Friendly') and the guidelines we use to moderate the discussion forums are based on the "PG-13" rating for movies. Obviously, this means that there is a certain amount of subjectivity at work here. Moderators are given wide latitude and you can expect that we will make some mistakes from time to time.

Participants must understand, however, that relationships develop here that result in some fun between friends. At first glance, these may appear to be verbal attacks but they are allowed as long as they do not exceed the concept of good fun. What constitutes "good fun" will be determined by the Moderators and violations will be reprimanded. For this reason, then, if you are not the recipient of a verbal attack, please do not report the post -- it may all be in fun.

Our Moderators are here to preserve a constructive atmosphere in an environment that allows for a free discussion of controversial issues. Some people feel very passionate about these issues and will express their opinions forcefully. While we expect common sense rules of respect and courtesy to apply, we also recognize that the PG-13 / 'Office Friendly' guidelines allow for a degree of banter that may offend some people.

For the same reason, it's important to understand that some members here view these forums more as a playground; a place where they feel comfortable "unwinding." This can take a variety of forms, according to individual personality and style. As a consequence, you will find jokes and innuendo of all kinds scattered throughout these forums.

Advertising Services and Solicitation

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.

Links in signatures must follow these guidelines

1. Promotional text for a commercial product or service is ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
2. A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate community standards. The moderator team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
3. Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.

Avatars

1. Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry.
2. Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.

Signature Size Limits

All signatures should not exceed the following limits

1. For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
2. Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
3. For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
4. Animated images in a signature are not allowed

Moderation

Although the administrators and moderators of this Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author and the owners of this Forum will not be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

The owners of this Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

Addendum

We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.