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Old 02-14-2004   #1
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Forum Guidelines / READ BEFORE POSTING!
By posting, you agree to having read and understood these rules.

1.) Attacking other users will not be tolerated, which includes: "flaming", posting threads designed to antagonize or offend other users, and any other such actions subject to Administrator/Moderator discretion. This includes sending users harassing private messages and flaming or antagonizing content in signatures.

2.) Vulgar and/or offensive material is not permitted:
A. Swearing is not permitted.
This includes avoiding swear filters by way of ASCII and/or X-code.
B. Vulgar language or pictures are not permitted.
This includes any demeaning or offensive posts/pictures and/or reference to or pictures of sexual acts.

3.) Spamming will not be tolerated, which includes: double posting (posting two times in a row in the same topic. Use the EDIT button to add comments to your original post), excessive capital letter use, excessive punctuation use (i.e. !!!!!), posting multiple threads containing similar content, registering multiple accounts for the purpose to making multiple similar posts or replying to oneself, long strings of letters or numbers, posting threads in the incorrect forum, and/or any post deemed spam due to irrelevance or nuisance in nature.

4.) Post should be written in a legible manner. Unreadable posts due to lack of punctuation, use of “l33t sp33k”, spelling, or other things mentioned in other rules are considered spam.

5.) The forums are not a personal message board. If you wish to talk to a specific user, please send him or her a private message or e-mail him or her.

6.) Signatures shall be no more then "500 width x 150 height" in pixels. Violation of this rule may result in the complete deletion of your signature without warning.

7.) Using this site for personal gain, such as posting threads about selling personal belongings or other items, is strictly prohibited.

8.) No references or glorification of illegal drugs / controlled substance use or abuse. (This one isn't too strict, but still stands.)

9.) It is a violation of the rules to post or otherwise spread information on how to hack and/or cheat/glitch in any game as well as discussing and or instructing towards any other activities that are deemed to be illegal in the United States of America.

10.) No advertising of websites in posts, private messages, or visitor messages.! You can add the website to your profile.
*New* 5-15-2008
Important : If the sole intention of your signature and posts are to attract other people just to click on your link, You could be banned or suspended for this. Some examples of this are signatures that have the following included : "Download Now" , "Free Games" , "Click here now" , and similar crap like that. Over the years, it is apparent spammers are getting wiser...But in my opinion more stupid as their wasting their time to have 1 or 2 clicks to their useless site. You can still link to other sites in your sig, as long as its done in a civil manner. Example : "Your Site Name".

11.) Public comments made for the effect of criticizing or insulting the staff members or actions will not be tolerated. Severe punishment for these actions will be issued. This affects comments made in the public forums as a means of inciting hatred or instigating arguments between staff members and/or regular users. If a complaint is to be filed, doing so in person with an administrator via PM, IM, or email is fully allowed and encouraged.

12.) You cannot use a website address as a username. If you do this by mistake, our staff will contact you to change it to another name. ( New rule added 5/11/2008 )

Failure to adhere to the preceding forum rules may result up to and include:
1. Warning
2. Post deletion or edit without notice
3. Thread closure
4. Temporary or complete banishment from this website and the associated forums and/or relating properties, with or without prior warning, as seen fit by the moderators and administrators.


All forum rules subject to change without notice at the discretion of the site's administrators.
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Another thing regarding PM's. (private messages) Never give out any personal information to anyone requesting it that you are not familiar with. Examples include : telephone number, home address, credit card info, or any other type of personal matter. We will never request this info from any of our members.

If you know of anyone that is violating this rule , Please report them to me a.s.a.p.
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