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In order to keep these forums running smoothly and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forums here. If you have any questions or problems, please contact one of the Staff Members.

Our goal for this site is to keep a fun, clean, family-friendly environment, these rules help ensure that people of all ages and backgrounds will enjoy this board.

  1. General Rules

    1. While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything.
      Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure the site is not disrupted or abused in any way.
    2. We reserve the right to edit or remove any user-generated content at any time on the site.
      The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these rules is up to staff and not users. In addition, we reserve the right to ban (temporarily or permanently) anyone who wilfully violates the board rules, as access to the site is a privilege and not a right.
    3. As these rules extend to all areas of the site, we reserve the right to read specific private messages sent through the forums in an investigation to verify a rule breach, illegal actions, or blatant abuse of the forum’s private message system.
    4. We are aware that not everybody is a native English speaker, but this is an English speaking community, so please only use English.
    5. Members are advised to not share accounts, as the owner of the account is ultimately responsible for any actions performed using their account.
    6. Back seat moderating is not allowed on these boards. If you notice an issue which may be against board policy, please use the Report Post Feature located on every post and a Moderator will address the issue. Members who constantly act as moderators will be warned.

  2. Signatures and Avatars

    1. Members are asked to keep signature images relatively small so that the topics may load quickly. Signature images are limited to a combined size of 400px wide and 200px high.
    2. Flashy or animated images and flash are not allowed in signature images.
    3. Members are asked to keep text sizes no larger than a font-size of 100%, with up to 5 lines of text allowed in a signature without images (for signatures with images, 2 lines of text is allowed).
    4. Links in signatures are limited to 5 links and must be unique pages or sites (i.e. 5 links pointing to the same external page/site are not allowed), Linked sites may not be overly commercial in nature. Subtle self-promotion is allowed in signatures.
    5. Signature content must adhere to normal board rules with respect to decency, where links to sites that are considered obscene, racist, sexually explicit, illegal, etc. will not be allowed and can result in the loss of the ability to use a signature.
    6. User defined avatars may contain mild animation, but not tasteless amounts of animation.
    7. Avatars must NOT contain an image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status on this site or forums (such a mimicking ranks or copying avatars of staff).
    8. Avatar images must adhere to normal board rules with respect to decency, where images that are considered obscene, racist, sexually explicit, illegal, etc. will not be allowed and can result in the loss of the ability to use a signature.

  3. Support

    1. Support is offered via the forums only. Support is not given through private messages, instant messages, or any other private means. The reason for this is that private support only helps one single person, whereas support on the forums benefits everyone. Repeated requests for support through private means may constitute a warning.
    2. Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "please help it is important" etc. Examples of good titles include; "How do you make custom commands?", "Sandbox crashes during coop-edit ", etc. are okay.
    3. Members are asked to refrain from excessively bumping their topics or support questions until a reasonable amount of time (at least 6 hours) has elapsed, a reasonable amount of time must be allowed to give the staff time to answer the question and or topic. Repeated excessive bumping could result in a warning and/or the topic being locked without resolution.
    4. Members are asked to refrain from demanding support from members of this site, all members of these boards give support of their own free-will and such rude behaviour is not welcome and may result in a warning and/or their topic being locked without resolution.

  4. Minor-level Offenses

    1. Minor Spamming contains but is not limited to: posting +1 posts; quoting members without saying anything; one word answers like "lol" and "this". If you happen to agree with someone, try to do more than just quote them.
    2. While we understand that sometimes a member may want to bump a topic or need to quickly make a reply regarding something they just wrote, we ask that members refrain from double-posting and beyond. If you need to say something beyond your first post, please edit what you need to post into your first post instead of making another reply.
    3. Members are asked not to constantly post using l33t speak, txt speak, posting in ALL CAPS in posts or topics.

  5. Medium-level Offenses

    1. Members are not to violate the privacy of other members by publicly posting identifiable personal information about them; e.g. full names, addresses, e-mail addresses or telephone numbers. This includes reposting the contents of private messages or e-mails without the prior permission of the sender. Exceptions may include notifying a staff member of a violation through private channels such as the board private message system.
    2. Members are not allowed to flame other members or groups of members. Flaming includes, but is not limited to: Ridiculing, insulting, or demeaning another member or group of members, such behaviour will not be tolerated and may lead to a warning and the offending posts removed or the topic locked.
    3. Members are not allowed to troll other members. Trolling is an attempt to anger and provoke another member. Such behaviour may lead to a warning and offending posts removed or topic locked.
    4. Advertising, with the exception of useful free resources for Sandbox, is not tolerated and will be considered spam.
    5. These forums are geared toward a general audience and therefore posts that are sexual in nature, pornographic content, or generally offensive in nature such as text, images, links etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to an immediate warning. If a username is found to be offensive, it will be immediately banned.
    6. In light of how poorly women are treated in most online communities, we will be enforcing our own equivalent to what is known as "Rule 322"; Members are not to act like jerks to women just because they are women, or joke "pix plz", "hay a girl lets cyber", along with other gender-prompted comments. Any behavior that is in violation of this rule will be dealt with in a very serious manner.
    7. Members are not to create alternate accounts (sometimes referred to as "alts" or "dupes") on the site unless given prior written approval from an administrator via Private Message. If an alternate account is discovered at any time, the alternate account will be immediately permanently banned, the user’s primary account will be given a warning for creating alternate accounts, and any actions taken using the alternate account will have their consequences transfer to the user’s primary account.

  6. High-level Offenses

    1. Members are not to harass or abuse other members in topics, private messages, signatures, avatars or profiles. This includes stalking other members, both online and in real life. Such behaviour will lead to a warning or a ban.
    2. Members are not to commit the act of "phishing" ("Phishing" is defined as the act of obtaining or attempting to obtain another member’s log in data). As "phishing" can be considered an illegal act, it may warrant notification being sent to the offender’s ISP in addition to other actions being taken.
    3. Members are not to heavily spam the board. (Heavy spamming is defined as, but not limited to, the following: repeatedly posting posts without text; repeatedly making the same post.)
    4. Hacking, which includes without limitation, accessing unauthorized portions of the website, accessing unauthorized portions of the web server, accessing protected data, bypassing security measures, etc; is not allowed and is illegal is the United States of America, where the website is hosted. Individuals committing this act will have their ISP contacted and a civil suit may be opened up to seek damages.
    5. Sending high a amount requests to the server for the purpose of, without limitation, slowing it down, preventing users from using it, etc; is illegal, as it is a form of attacking the server and the network the server is hosted in. Individuals will be turned into their ISP and will civil litigation may follow to seek damages caused by the downtime.
    6. Raids, defined as a coordinated attack at posting large amounts of spam, is not allowed. This includes both coordinating a raid on our site, and taking part in a raid against our site. Any violation will lead to a permanent ban without question.

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