Message Board Rules

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• Contents
  
  Section 1: General Rules
  Section 2: Copyright and Source Citing
  Section 3: Signatures
  Section 4: Treatment of Members/Staff
  Section 5: Staff Impersonation
  Section 6: Warning Levels
  Section 7: Member Ranks and Custom Titles
  
  
  
• Section 1: General Rules
  
  1. Members may not use the forums to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind. (An affiliates table will soon be added to the sites. If you would like to affiliate with this message board, please check back for the Affiliation Rules, soon to be posted.)
  2. Don't post misleading subjects. Make the subject of your thread relevant to your topic.
  3. Do not reply to obvious spam threads. Spam is considered any thread that lacks any point of discussion or is inappropriate to be discussed. If the first post should never have been made, then replies to it are considered as spam.
  4. Do not create a thread saying you are leaving, you are back, or that you love peanut butter.
  5. Do not post any 'I'm Bored' threads, there are plenty of other topics for you to post in, or maybe even consider reading a book.
  6. Do not create threads where the subject at hand is already being discussed.
  7. No "word games" or any threads which result in many just 1 or 2 word replies at fast intervals.
  8. Staff may lock a thread at any time for any reason. If the reason is not obvious, a justification post will be made to explain the action. Do not make threads about locked threads.
  9. Do not post any material that may cause distress to others, this includes flashing images (triggers epilepsy), and 'Screamers' (images that suddely change to a screaming face).
  10. Please be sensible when posting comments/pictures. Let's keep things as clean as possible. Pictures of "beefcake" is great as long as "privates bits" are covered. Stronger language will be censored and sexual content must be of the tamer variety.
  11. Proboards does not allow any language other than English.
  
  
  
• Section 2: Copyright and Source Citing
  
  1. Due to copyright issues and general confusion it is now advised that quoting large sections of someone else's work, news etc is not permitted here.
  Please provide a link to the article and if need be a brief extract of that story.
  2. Any thread that purports to be based on historical fact yet has no widely known information or has no credible sources will be considered spam and locked. This will mean that they are locked after a page or less of replies if there is no sources or credibility provided.
  
  
  
• Section 3: Signatures
  
  Forum signatures should follow the format below:
  
  
  
  Users found possessing signatures that do not comply with the rules are subject to have their signatures removed or changed by the forum moderators.
  
  
  
• Section 4: Treatment of Members/Staff
  
  1. Posts that belittle other members will not be tolerated.
  2. If you cannot be civil when replying, please do not reply. This is a friendly community.
  3. We will not stand for members using derogatory terms.
  4. Please do not try to convert anyone to your way of thinking whether it be your internet browser/religion preference/or any other kind of preference or choice. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and should not be made to change theirs because you don't agree with it. If someone does ask for help with anything relating to 'their opinion', then either help them in a friendly way or ignore the thread/post.
  
  
  
• Section 5: Staff Impersonation
  
  At no point in time will a staff member ask you for your password or any personal information. Administrators have global access power and thus do not require your password to log in.
  
  
  
• Section 6: Warning Levels
  There are 3 levels of warnings per member position.
  
  1. New members who haven't yet found the rules, they would usually be reminded of where the rules are, and which one applies.
  2. Members with 50+ posts are members who should have found the rules for each board they post in, so would get a percentage on a warning bar.
  3. Members with 200+ posts would be more established, so should know better, partly because of the rules, and partly because of their past record. These members would get a higher percentage warning.
  
  Members with a custom title that receive a warning will have the custom title removed. The title can be restored after the warning is gone.
  
  The warning percentage is only visible to staff and the member. Other members cannot see your warning level, unless you have received a written warning for a bigger offense.
  
  Do not post about your warning or your warning level. If you have a question about your warning, PM a moderator/administrator.
  
  
  
• Section 7: Member Ranks and Custom Titles
  Member ranks are as follows:
  
  

  Posts	Rank	Stars
  0	Amoeba	1
  100	Animal	2
  250	Human	3
  500	Immortal	4
  1000	God	5

  
  
  Once you have reached the rank of Immortal (500 posts) you may PM an administrator and request a custom title, and you should get your custom title inserted into your profile, however, we reserve the right to deny any member a custom title for any reason.