-Forum rules-

[Muazam]

Forum Rules Its obvious.. don't do anything stupid.

Breaking rules result in punishments. There are several types of punishments:

1. Warning - This is where a public announcement is made that mentions your name and that you have broken a rule. I will determine whether you knew what you were doing was wrong or whether a warning is nessisary to explain it do you. If I do not give a warning, I will skip ahead to the next step in the penalty list.
2. Temporary Ban - This is where you are not able to view the board for a certain period of time.
3. Permanent Ban - You can never again view the board.

The following rules list the most serious violations:

1. No Hacking - This should go without saying, but you are not permitted to hack the board. Guessing someone else's password and succeeding counts as hacking. Members who hack will instantly be permanently banned without any warnings.

2. No Discrimination, - You may not insult members based on their religion, race, sex, political beliefs, or whether they are gay or straight. This is worse than flaming, because it also hurts other members of the board who fall into the catagory you insult. Atlava is a place where everyone is equal, and discrimination will NOT be tolerated!

3. No Bullying - Do not pick on other members. The worst kind of bullying is where new members are picked on. This hurts the member as well as the board.

4. No Flaming - Flaming harms the nice atmosphere of Atlava. It also causes thread's to go off topic, and most importantly, it hurts the person being flamed. The victom may defend themselves against any accusations made to them, but may not make any additional accusations to the flamer (which also counts as flaming).

5. No Profanity or Obscene Content - Such content does not belong on Atlava. A censor system is in place as a backup. If you see words in your post being replaced with ****, you have done something wrong. Please edit your post and tone it down before your timer runs out. To edit a post, click the "Edit" button right below it. Cheating the censor system is against the rules.

6. No Advertising - Advertising is not allowed on the Atlava forum(Including chat and Private messages) under any circumstances. Any post that is an advert will be removed from the forum and a ban may be issued at the discretion of the moderators. Also talking about your(or reffer to any sites ex. Come to that site, or come to *user's* site, especially if the site has been censored ) site in chatbox is not allowed, it'll count as recruiting.

7. No Illegal Activity - You are not allowed to break the law using Atlava. This can get Atlava into legal trouble. Posting links to roms is illegal, so this counts as a violation of this rule.

8. No Double Posting or Spamming - You may not post more than once in a row in the same thread. Posting lots of times in a row reduces the quality of the board, is a waste of the board's memory, and provides the culprit with ill earned post count points. Double posts will be merged into regular posts, and you will lose 10 postcount for each of the posts excluding the first one. Your post count can be changed to a negative number if necessary. The only exeption to this rule is if your edit timer (24 hours) for the post has run out, in which case you may double post if you have something important to add. Spamming is also not allowed, and is defined as a post that has no meaning.

9. No Topic Bumping - If a topic you created has no replies, you may not post again in it (although you may edit the post if the timer has not run out). If you made the thread because you need help with something, you may post again as long as you include additional information about your problem (the fact that you really really want it fixed does not count as additional information). You must post this in the same thread, and you are not allowed to create more than one thread per topic.

10. No Posting Personal Info - You may not post your last name, or your street address on Atlava. This is because this information then becomes accessible to anyone.

11. No Threatening to Leave the Board - Due to past experiences on the board, I have had to add this rule. You may not make posts threatening to leave the board. This causes flaming to occur. Because of what a problem this is, I cannot issue a warning for violations. Anyone responding poorly to these threads will also be muted.

12. Do not bypass word-filter - They're censored for a reason.

13. No random de-rep/rep or threatening members - Abusing the reputation system will make your rep power back to Zero.

14. No selling and trading on this forum - Do not sell your products here and do not trade here. users who try to sell their stuff here without permission will be banned. Do not adversite your hacks on this site, we don't want to know about it.

15. Do not have multi accounts or account sharing - Why would you have multi accounts? If you're banned wait till you get unbanned, do not make a new account. And do not share your account to anyone this will lead to a permanent ban, and do not ask for accounts.

16. Do not make threads with misleading/bad titles - When you need help with something, use a suited title for your thread name. BAD example "HELP?!", "WUT?". Good examples "The game will not start error 5477", "Dc problems" and such. I will give infraction/ban for bad thread title.

17. Do not post OVERSIZED or ANIMATED images in the chatbox and signatures.

The following are a set of amendments to clarify the rules for those people who wish to nitpick:

Amendment 1 - There are no excuses for breaking the rules. It doesn't matter if you were angry at the time and weren't thinking straight. It doesn't matter if you were only kidding around. If you break a rule, it does the same damage, regardless of your reasons for breaking it, and you will be punished all the same.

Amendment 2 - Staff abuse will not be tolerated. As a staff member, your job is to help the people, not harm them. You may only use your powers for the purposes that they have been given to you for. There is no limit on how much you may be punished for this severe offense as this must be stopped at all costs to protect the people. This means that if you abuse your powers, there is a good chance you will be permanently banned.

Amendment 3 - Harrassing the administration about punishments is not allowed. The admins are only trying to do their job, and many times they have to make difficult decisions. You may post your opinion in the thread that announces the punishment, so long as you do not flame anyone. If this thread gets out of hand, it will be closed, and you may not complain elsewhere on the board, or by other means including, but not limited to: private messages, instant messaging programs, email, telephone calls, and house visits. You also may not make threats against administrators (or other members for that matter...). Punishments for minor harassment to a permanent ban if serious threats are involved.

[jiji]

LOL. This is the first time i didn't get bored reading forum rules xD

[no_joke]

nice...

[thesorrow]

that is funny rules.

[jrchaos]

its simple :clap:

[SteakGriller]

Yeah, even for me it is possible to obey them and that means alot. xD

[KingSimba]

LOL. This is the first time i didn't get bored reading forum rules xD

Thats since they are in his own words, not boring forum website rules. ;)

[3P1CH4Xx]

Added to my Guide :P Oh Wait...I think I put AshBringers Rule List :o Should I Put this one too? :\

[Water]

Please make an global announcement for theese (thx to raiden for the term)

[TurK]

More people should read this.