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Group Forums Rules
Welcome to Group Forums. Firstly, thank you for taking the time to become a member of these fine forums, and I hope that you stay and post for many years to come. But if you want to become one of those priveledged people, you're going to need to follow these fairly simple rules. If you don't, you will be disciplined. Probably by Ophion. She likes to discipline people.
Unruly flaming (Insulting Other Users)
We don't mind a little tiny bit of flaming here and there. It spices up life. We make fun of each other often. What will not be tolerated is intense flaming. We are leaving this up to your discretion, unless it gets out of hand. It is up to you to decide what is within the boundaries of playful mockery and blatant insulting. Here are some basic guidelines:
* Name-calling
We would prefer you refrain from any name calling. Playfully calling someone a "jerk," during a humorous situation, is allowed, however. This will be a fairly flexible rule and much will be tolerated. You will be warned if it is not.
* Direct insults ("Screw you")
This rule is as flexible as the one mentioned above.
* Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language as a means of insult
There is no censorship of language on this board. As such, it is up to you to decide how much foul language you are to use. Ophion is a fan of swearing, but knows when too much is too much. She hopes that you also know when too much is too much. If you don't, you will be warned by either Ophion or Lannro. If you refuse to curb your vocabulary, you will be punished.
* Using sexual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or form
We often make jokes about sexual preferences, etc. Again, use your discretion. Anything getting out of hand will be warned and promptly punished if it continues.
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult
Once again, we make jokes. We make lots of jokes. Lots of these jokes involve the previously mentioned things. Discretion, people.
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself")
These are funny.
If used too much, though, they are annoying and dumb sounding. So we would prefer if you do not do it.
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")
You will get to learn that we are avid users of "your mom" jokes. You'll just have to live with that.
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language
Threats and hate-speech in particular will not be tolerated. You will be punished if we find any ocurrances of this.
* Trolling (Inciting Flames)
It's stupid. Don't do it. Jesus Lord Dick.
Trolling (Inciting Flames)
Posts intended solely to annoy and/or offend other posters by going against the clear nature of a board or topic are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
* Provoking other users to respond with flames
* Asking obviously useless questions
* Posting false information as fact
Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of Group Forums and its designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of Group Forums and its designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by Group Forums and whoever it designates as moderators. You agree that the decision of the moderators and administrators is final, and you may not legally contest their rulings.
Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the forums from your IP address or your entire ISP.
Finally, if you're pissed, have a problem, ect, you have to be tactful, ect when you voice your complaints. Trolling and pitching a temper tantrum resolves nothing and will not be tolerated.
General Rules to follow:
1 - No posting pictures of a pornographic nature or links to pornographic sites. Remember, this forum may have members who are not yet legally old enough to view such material and we don't want to have any part in breaking the law. Also because it's stupid.
2 - This forum may not use filtering software to filter out swearwords from posts, but that doesn't mean that you may tangent off in a fit of swearing. We do allow use of swear words, but try to keep it in moderation.
3 - No posting information from any pay site. It doesn't matter how relevant it is to a discussion, posting articles/pictures/whatever that is only reserved for paying customers and is not allowed on these forums. We strongly agree with most 'net goers that the Internet should be a free source of information, but as long as subscription sites exist, we will have to play by the rules.
4 - It's YOUR responsibility to make sure others don't have access to your password for these forums. If you use a public computer, or share a PC with family members, it's strongly suggested you make sure you LOG OUT when you're finished. I'm sure you understand that we can't take responsibility for a mistake you may have made.
5 - Don't use racist, gender-bias or homophobic language in a serious manner. Jokes are allowed under the proper circumstances, but blatantly using any of this language with the sole intention of insult or pain will not be tolerated.
6 - Don't post anything with the sole purpose of annoying other forum members.
7 - Don't repeat any "offence" listed above once you have been warned by a moderator or administrator. This includes reposting locked threads.
8 - Try to keep your signatures down to 5 lines of standard text or 3 lines of text with an image.
9 - Sig images should be no larger than 460 pixels wide by 120 pixels high. As of this time, if you want a sig image, you have to host it yourself and remote link. Note that Lannro is against any obtrusive sig images by nature, so try to keep them relatively tame. Or interesting. Or boring, I guess. What we're trying to say is, your siggy must be appropriate and not horribly offensive to the eyes.
10 - Avatars can be no larger than 150x200 pixels. Smaller is, by all means, welcome.
11 - Try, to the best of your ability, to type with proper English grammar. n e typ1ng lyke dis will result in a firm warning followed by a swift banning. We understand if you're bad at spelling or English is not your first language. Anything else has no excuse.
This is a relatively laid back environment. Enjoy yourself and use your common sense when posting. Don't be annoying. We don't like annoying.
Speaking of annoying, you should be warned. Lannro is the lesser of the two evils. If ever you have an admin to fear, it is Ophion. She will call you out on your stupidity and punish you accordingly. You should take it upon yourself to treat all admins and mods with respect. It is a lot of work to set up/maintain forums, so sometimes we can get a little cranky. If it's taking us a while to fix a bug, bear with us, we will get to it eventually.
It really isn't that hard to exist on this forum. Just don't be stupid.
Welcome to Group Forums. Firstly, thank you for taking the time to become a member of these fine forums, and I hope that you stay and post for many years to come. But if you want to become one of those priveledged people, you're going to need to follow these fairly simple rules. If you don't, you will be disciplined. Probably by Ophion. She likes to discipline people.
Unruly flaming (Insulting Other Users)
We don't mind a little tiny bit of flaming here and there. It spices up life. We make fun of each other often. What will not be tolerated is intense flaming. We are leaving this up to your discretion, unless it gets out of hand. It is up to you to decide what is within the boundaries of playful mockery and blatant insulting. Here are some basic guidelines:
* Name-calling
We would prefer you refrain from any name calling. Playfully calling someone a "jerk," during a humorous situation, is allowed, however. This will be a fairly flexible rule and much will be tolerated. You will be warned if it is not.
* Direct insults ("Screw you")
This rule is as flexible as the one mentioned above.
* Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language as a means of insult
There is no censorship of language on this board. As such, it is up to you to decide how much foul language you are to use. Ophion is a fan of swearing, but knows when too much is too much. She hopes that you also know when too much is too much. If you don't, you will be warned by either Ophion or Lannro. If you refuse to curb your vocabulary, you will be punished.
* Using sexual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or form
We often make jokes about sexual preferences, etc. Again, use your discretion. Anything getting out of hand will be warned and promptly punished if it continues.
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult
Once again, we make jokes. We make lots of jokes. Lots of these jokes involve the previously mentioned things. Discretion, people.
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself")
These are funny.
If used too much, though, they are annoying and dumb sounding. So we would prefer if you do not do it.* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")
You will get to learn that we are avid users of "your mom" jokes. You'll just have to live with that.
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language
Threats and hate-speech in particular will not be tolerated. You will be punished if we find any ocurrances of this.
* Trolling (Inciting Flames)
It's stupid. Don't do it. Jesus Lord Dick.
Trolling (Inciting Flames)
Posts intended solely to annoy and/or offend other posters by going against the clear nature of a board or topic are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
* Provoking other users to respond with flames
* Asking obviously useless questions
* Posting false information as fact
Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of Group Forums and its designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of Group Forums and its designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by Group Forums and whoever it designates as moderators. You agree that the decision of the moderators and administrators is final, and you may not legally contest their rulings.
Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the forums from your IP address or your entire ISP.
Finally, if you're pissed, have a problem, ect, you have to be tactful, ect when you voice your complaints. Trolling and pitching a temper tantrum resolves nothing and will not be tolerated.
General Rules to follow:
1 - No posting pictures of a pornographic nature or links to pornographic sites. Remember, this forum may have members who are not yet legally old enough to view such material and we don't want to have any part in breaking the law. Also because it's stupid.
2 - This forum may not use filtering software to filter out swearwords from posts, but that doesn't mean that you may tangent off in a fit of swearing. We do allow use of swear words, but try to keep it in moderation.
3 - No posting information from any pay site. It doesn't matter how relevant it is to a discussion, posting articles/pictures/whatever that is only reserved for paying customers and is not allowed on these forums. We strongly agree with most 'net goers that the Internet should be a free source of information, but as long as subscription sites exist, we will have to play by the rules.
4 - It's YOUR responsibility to make sure others don't have access to your password for these forums. If you use a public computer, or share a PC with family members, it's strongly suggested you make sure you LOG OUT when you're finished. I'm sure you understand that we can't take responsibility for a mistake you may have made.
5 - Don't use racist, gender-bias or homophobic language in a serious manner. Jokes are allowed under the proper circumstances, but blatantly using any of this language with the sole intention of insult or pain will not be tolerated.
6 - Don't post anything with the sole purpose of annoying other forum members.
7 - Don't repeat any "offence" listed above once you have been warned by a moderator or administrator. This includes reposting locked threads.
8 - Try to keep your signatures down to 5 lines of standard text or 3 lines of text with an image.
9 - Sig images should be no larger than 460 pixels wide by 120 pixels high. As of this time, if you want a sig image, you have to host it yourself and remote link. Note that Lannro is against any obtrusive sig images by nature, so try to keep them relatively tame. Or interesting. Or boring, I guess. What we're trying to say is, your siggy must be appropriate and not horribly offensive to the eyes.
10 - Avatars can be no larger than 150x200 pixels. Smaller is, by all means, welcome.
11 - Try, to the best of your ability, to type with proper English grammar. n e typ1ng lyke dis will result in a firm warning followed by a swift banning. We understand if you're bad at spelling or English is not your first language. Anything else has no excuse.
This is a relatively laid back environment. Enjoy yourself and use your common sense when posting. Don't be annoying. We don't like annoying.
Speaking of annoying, you should be warned. Lannro is the lesser of the two evils. If ever you have an admin to fear, it is Ophion. She will call you out on your stupidity and punish you accordingly. You should take it upon yourself to treat all admins and mods with respect. It is a lot of work to set up/maintain forums, so sometimes we can get a little cranky. If it's taking us a while to fix a bug, bear with us, we will get to it eventually.
It really isn't that hard to exist on this forum. Just don't be stupid.
