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| Subject: General Rules Fri Jul 20, 2012 4:47 pm | |
| Topic titles: When you post your question or your problem, you must use a title related to your problem/question. Words such as "Urgent", "SOS", "Question", "Problem", "Hurry" are not tolerated. Capitals should also be avoided. Why do we ask you to use explicit titles in your topics ? Because the forum's search engine bases it's search results on keywords found in topic titles
When you do a search, do you use "help", "urgent", "problem", "SOS" or "question" as keywords to look for topics about your problem/question?
Certainly not! So this is why it is important to use titles related to your problem/question. Doing this makes the searches much easier for visitors who use the search engine to get an answer to their question
Description of you problem/question: When you ask a question, try to be clear and accurate about what you want to say. Don't hesitate to describe your problem. The more info you give, the better we can answer you. Screenshots can also help depending on the problem. If you don't know how to take a screenshot you should read this tutorial
Language on this forum: When you write in English, SMS (cell phone) style message, L3375P34K (leetspeak) and deliberate mistakes must be avoided. Non-English people, as well as English people, must be able to understand what you write, so put a minimum of care in your English, even if your English is not very good
Colors and capitals and size: When you write your message, please don't abuse capitals (it means that you shout), colors and bold. Re-sizing your text is also a bad idea. Overly large text resembles screaming. Colors and Bold text are reserved for moderation, therefore don't use them
Flood and off-topic: Flood must be avoided. One-word posts such like "lol", "rofl" or a single smiley must be avoided. You must also avoid to post the same topic twice, it will not be faster for you to get a response. As long as you topic is not in the second page of the support section, it is useless to bump it. The minimum delay between two bumps is 24 hours, according to this board's default timezone (UTC - 7). If you make a mistake or you want to make any modifications to one of your posts, please use the button at the top-right of the post, to avoid double-posting
Other advertising: It is also forbidden to post advertising for money-related stuff, many of our members are under 18.
Helping Users: If you know the answer to a question that a user asked and don't want to share it with other in your post, please refrain from posting. It doesn't help anyone of the board. This forum is a support forum to help users with questions or problems they have. If you continue to post you know answer or something similar to this line, but don't provide the answer you will be given three reminders and then a warning.
Behavior on the forum
Defamatory, racist, hateful, pornographic, illegal or insulting content must be avoided on this forum. You must respect the fact that people may have a different opinion than you. If you are in conflict with another member, please use PMs for that, this forum is not an arena!
Please, be patient. It's useless to bumup your topic every 2 minutes (see the point "Flood and Off-topic"). Every member of this forum has a private life besides Axelrsps, so they can't always respond immediately
You must respect the moderators and administrators. They all work voluntarily on this forum and they are human, not machines!
If you received advertising, pornographic content or insults by PM, you must send the whole message and a screenshot of that message to a moderator via PM. Posting it in a topic is useless and will only cause conflicts between you and the one who sent you the PM
If you don't find your topic, it may have been moved to a more appropriate place. If you are not sure how to find it, click on your username in the "Who is Online ?" section at the bottom of the homepage and go to the "Statistics" tab of your profile. There you can do a quick search of all the posts or topics you recently made.
Do not moderate other members. Moderating is reserved for staff members only.
Avatar and Profile
Avatar dimensions: Your avatar's width must not exceed 150 pixels and it's height must not exceed 200 pixels. These limits are here to avoid scrolling for people who have a low screen resolution. You must also respect the limit of storage space which is set at 300 KB. There are still people who have a low-speed connection, and big pictures take time to load for them
Your avatar is not an advertising banner, so avatars with your forum URL or links to any other sites must be avoided
Sexually oriented, gore and any other type avatars that are considered to be inappropriate must be avoided
Your "Language", "Location" and "Hobbies" fields are not an advertising space, so links (to your forum or other sites) must be avoided.
Possible sanctions
If you made advertising by PM, you will see your PM mailbox disabled
If your avatar doesn't respect the rules and you ignore the moderator's request to have it changed, the Administrator will forbid you from displaying an Avatar
Advertising for money-related stuff = Immediate ban
Ignoring the moderators warnings and continuing to not respect the rules and insulting people will result in a ban from this forum
Warnings: On this forum, depending on the gravity of the rules that you break, you will notice one of the following images on the "warning level" on your profile:
- You have no warnings - You have 1 warning - You have 2 warnings - You have a serious warning - You are banned
Also note that warnings are adding up on your profile and you will get banned if you: - Receive 4 warnings - Receive 1 warning + a serious warning - Receive 2 warnings + a serious warning - Receive 2 serious warnings - If you spam you will be banned on the spot without any warning
All bans and warnings are permanent.
Multiple accounts on this forum are not allowed if our bot has detected 2 accounts on the same Ip address and you don't give us any reason why you will be IP banned.
If you have any question about one of the forum rules, please PM a moderator to ask your question.
Note: These rules may be modified/updated anytime, so we invite you to re-read them regularly.
We thank you for your comprehension and for respecting these rules.
Respectfully,
The Team
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CARRION Admininistrator
Posts : 1 Join date : 2012-07-27
| Subject: Re: General Rules Wed Aug 15, 2012 1:02 pm | |
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