[Important] Forum Rules

Forums Guidelines

The Forums Guidelines are to be observed by the users of the Forums.

All forum users have deemed to have read and agreed to these guidelines upon registration for the Forums. The Forums Code of Conduct are subjected to change and amendments without prior notification.

The Forums seek to bring about a regulated and flexible environment that encourages and promotes community building within users.

1. Information on the Forums

Constructive feedbacks and suggestions are always welcome.
However, All forum users have deemed to have read and agreed to these guidelines upon registration for the Forums. The Forums Guidelines are subjected to change and amendments without prior notification.

All players who have signed up are to abide by its Terms and Conditions made during registration.

Warnings and suspension of forum accounts are definite consequences for not adhering to the rules. Ignorance will not be accepted as valid reasons for breaking them.

Decisions are made at the discretion of the Forums Moderators and Administrators. Moderators and Administrators reserve all rights to remove, modify or shift any posts or rules at their sole discretion without prior notice. Forums Moderators are entitled to issue warnings to forum offenders in unique and specific circumstances apart from these guidelines.

All decisions made are final.

Feel free to contact the Moderators if you have any doubts regarding the rules.

2. Respect for Online Management or Forum Moderators

Moderators are non-salaried volunteers who provide assistance to the forum users.

Offenses involving the following will result in severe consequences:
- Attempting to defame, discredit or challenge the Management / Forum Moderators authorities.
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A permanent suspension will be awarded with or without warning to the Forum user who violate any of the Rules repeatedly.

If you feel that the suspensions seem unjustified or are made in bad judgement, please leave your appeals at aronto3@hotmail.com

Please note that appeals without reasonable explanations and/or appeals with rude remarks will not be entertained.

All decisions made are final.

Signature

Forum users are not to place any of the following in their signatures:

- Messages/images with the nature or intent to impersonate the Moderators /
- Messages/images insult players; promote adult behaviour and suggestive actions; violence; gruesome material; and/or pornography.

The Forums Moderators have the right to remove any offending signatures and/or signatures that are not within the stated frame size. Notice will be given prior to warnings. If the warnings are not heeded or taken seriously, the signature rights will be removed indefinitely for the abuser without any room for appeals.

3. Guidelines and Etiquette for Discussion Topics/Posting (All Forums)

Look out for Announcements and Pinned Topics.

The Forums Moderator will pin up news and announcements of Forum Updates regularly. Update yourself with the latest news and happenings before posting new threads.

Post your discussion in the correct section.

Please post your topic in the correct section. Read the short descriptions of each forum section to determine the most appropriate place to start your new thread.

Choose your topic/thread title wisely.

To allow other forum users to know the forum discussion contains, you are advised to put an appropriate title to your forum topic. If you wish to generate a buzz with your discussion, it is your responsibility to inform other users what your thread is about.

Read Page 1 or Search before you post.

Repeated topics can cause frustrations to other users who have limited time. It is annoying to find the same discussion scattered with little or no development in content.

Before posting the topic,

- Kindly check if a similar topic exists on the first page of the forum section it belongs to.
- Use the Search function first before deciding if there is a need to create new threads for discussion.

Post responsibly. Do not spam.

Forum users are to keep their post content constructive. Do not make pointless threads or spam. Spam is defined as post(s) that have no relevance to the threads topic, or have no purpose in general.You are allowed to spam at spam forums.

Spamming includes the following activities:

- Blatant advertising
- Excessive creation of topics and posts in the forums
- Excessive bumping of threads, be it new or old
- Excessive creation of new threads with the sole intention to promote another

One topic/thread for a discussion is enough.

Posting one discussion thread at the relevant forum section is enough. Do not create multiple topics to advertise the main thread or seek responses for the discussion everywhere. Posting the discussion thread across different forums and subsections in great quantity will be regarded as spamming.

Refrain from bumping unless necessary.

Bumping is not encouraged. Please do so sparingly if necessary. Allow at least 30 minutes to pass before the next bump.

Do not bump (bring-up-my-post) new topics and topics on the first page excessively for the purpose of seeking attention from other forum users.

Please do not bump old topics. If the newest post-to-be is 2 months old and beyond from the date of the last post, you are advised to create a new thread for discussion.

When quoting, do it selectively and remove image tags / pictures / video tags.

Quote only the post which you wish to address and refrain from multi-quoting. If there is a picture or video in the quote, please remove the [IMG] tag / picture / video tag.

What you need to know on Forum Housekeeping matters.

Forum housekeeping procedures are required to speed up forum loading speed and prevent server crashes.

All threads that contain more than 1000 posts will be locked and the users taking part in the discussion are required to either restart a similar thread, or discontinue the discussion.

For Pinned Threads (Forumites'outings, Official Announcements, Events) will be exempted from the >1000/2000 post lock rule.

Respect the Other Users.

Please treat others the same way you will want to be treated.

Opinions are valued and welcome from everyone. Please keep all personal conflicts to yourself and have discussions, not arguments. If you disagree with another member, post your comment calmly so other can understand your point and feelings. Do not insult the intelligence of the other users. If a member gets on your nerves, do not go out of your way to insult them. Last but not least, treat others like how you want to be treated.

Users are to refrain from flaming, trolling and slandering. Please exercise sound judgment before posting or creating threads that might draw flames from other forum users due to the sensitive contents involved.

Flaming involves attacking a person or his/her views in a disrespectful manner.
Trolling involves the posting of flaming content with the intention of baiting other users into an emotional response or consistent disrespectful attacks for entertainment.
Slandering involves falsifying a situation or person in an attempt to defame or insult.

Users of the forums are to refrain from personal attacks and the usage of profanities in their posts.

Post Personal Information at your own discretion (self) and with permission (others)

In the Internet community, information is accessible to all. It is the individual’s responsibility to safeguard their own interests. If the personal information is not your own, you are not to post the information without the prior permission from the individual of concern.

4.Rules on the Forbidden on the Forums

No Inappropriate Images and Post Contents

This includes images in signatures, and post contents that insult players; promote adult behaviour and suggestive actions; violence; gruesome material; pornography and/or any other explicit content.

No Advertising

Forum users are not allowed to advertise a link to another website, if found admin will look into it.

Players do not have the rights to extract, distribute or request
the copyrighted audio files in any way as it is illegal by law.

Examples of advertising include but not limited to:
- Posting of website containing keyloggers
- Posting of any form of referral links.
- Posting of any material deemed illegal by law or policies.

Releasing of false information in an attempt to cause disturbance and confusion among forum users will not be tolerated.

Any form of discussion prohibited by your local government laws will be not be tolerated. This may include the distribution of warez, or locally licensed anime titles (not restricted to U.S. licenses), etc.

It is impossible for the Moderators to download, scan and test each file posted on the Forums. Forum users are advised to conduct a thorough scan on all downloaded files to ensure the safety of their possessions.


5.Miscellaneous

Confidentiality of Adminstrators

Forum users are not allowed to publish any of Adminstrators contacts due to security reasons and purposes.

If forum users wish to make any form of enquiries with Adminstrators, please do so via hotmail at aronto3@hotmail.com