Chat Zone Rules

RULES

First of all make sure you follow the ProBoards® TOS.


001 ;; No flaming: Do not seek to insult, deride or lambast other members; even a flame that you mean as a joke will not be accepted, unless it's obvious to all the other users reading your post that it's not intended to attack or offend. If you are flamed, then contact a staff member and they will deal with it - do not retaliate. There are three classifications of flaming; unintended (where you did not even mean to insult the other user), minor (where you insult the other user on the spur of the moment without thinking) and major (where it's clear you are calmly trying to cause maximum distress to someone else).

002 ;; No baiting: Do not treat people in a manner intended to anger or upset them.

003 ;; No Drama Whoring: You must keep harmful personal stuff OFF the boards. Do NOT seek to maliciously turn opinion within the community against another member, or seek to utterly discredit members you dislike, be it through truths or rumors.

004 ;; No Harassment: If someone asks you to stop contacting them over private messenger, then you must abide by this request, or this is private harassment. Also, if someone asks you to leave a thread that they made, then you should do so.

005 ;; No Flooding : Defined as either posting more than five new threads in the same forum in an one hour period without staff permission, or bumping a load of dead topics which causes the previously active threads to drop off the first page.

006 ;; Take Account of Others Viewing the Topic : Make sure that your posts are readable. Any media used must be used keeping into consideration that not everyone has broadband access. Do not post background music or imbedded media in a thread. No music or media can be placed in signatures whatsoever. Topics with adult content media must contain a thread warning. Make sure your signatures are cut down to an acceptable size (450x450 is a good estimate).

007 ;; No trolling or neo-trolling: Trolling means deliberately seeking to cause damage to the community. Neo-trolling is another variant of this whereby you try to cause damage without making it seem like actual trolling (ie: subtle and intelligent trolling). This can include:

[1. Maliciously exploiting 'loop holes' in the rules.
2. Seeking to constantly or massively undermine staff.
3. Massively or constantly publicly attacking the forum or how it is run on sites both associated and unassociated with the forum.
4. Privately plotting to cause problems on the forum.
5. Maliciously breaking rules.
6. No hacking, or issuing hack threats: This carries an immediate server ban. ]

008 ;; Respect the mods: If a mod closes a thread, or tells you to quit doing something, then please listen to them.

009 ;; Roleplaying Threads: Under no circumstance can one character be in more than two roleplaying threads at the same time. This is because we are trying to keep it realistic, since in real life you can only be in one place. If you want to move locations you have to roleplay it out. The only exception to this is if you have two characters; each characters can be in a different place.

010 ;; No Godmodding.

011 ;; No killing other characters without there permission.

012 ;; Keep it Literate!!!

013 ;; THE BIGGEST RULE OF ALL!... HAVE FUN ;D