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Rules on Forum Username
- The Forum username must not contain any offensive content.
- Racist content within a forum username is not allowed
- No advertising is allowed via the forum username
Rules on Avatars
- Avatar dimensions should be less than or equal to 100x100 pixels and the size must be less than or equal to 50 kilobytes.
- No Pornographic/Racist/Indecent/Advertising content allowed in Avatars
- No URL linking allowed in the avatar (Means the avatar must not be clickable)
Rules on Signatures
- Signatures must not contain Pornographic/Racist/Indecent content.
- Maximum length of signature file is 5 lines which includes any blank lines used for spaces..
- Signatures should only be in black or blue. Hyperlinks will be the default blue. No red or other colors permitted.
- Only the standard font size to be used for signatures. No other fonts should be allowed. Bold and Italics will be allowed but no large fonts or Impact, Tahoma, Verdana, Georgia etc.
- No images in signatures not even those smilies.
Rules on Topic Names (Thread titles)
- Topics should be in English
- Topics purely in any other language other than English will not be allowed.
- Empty topic names will not be allowed
- No Pornographic/Racist/Flame Topics will be allowed
- No single word Topics will be allowed (no topics like 'Hey' allowed)
- Topics should be relevant to the forums in which they are posted and the topic name should be relevant to the message posted as well
- Topics must not be links to other sites/web content
- Graphics heavy topics should have a warning given in the topic name it self
- Topic Spamming is not allowed
Rules on Posts
- Posts should be in English
- Posts purely in any other language other than English will not be allowed.
- Empty posts will not be allowed
- No Pornographic/Racist/Flame posts will be allowed
- No single word posts will be allowed (no messages like 'Hey' or LOL or '....' allowed)
- Posts should contain at least one complete sentence.
- Posts containing only of a URL , Image or Emoticons will not be allowed.
- Posts should be relevant to the topic
- The dimensions of Images in posts should be less than or equal to 640x480 pixels
- No Pornographic/Racist/Indecent Images allowed in posts.
- Spam posts are not allowed
- Copying and pasting of articles from elsewhere, without providing links to the source is not allowed
General Rules- All violations of the forum rules detected by forumers should report it to the mods or admins either by Report Post feature in the Forums or via PM.
- NO ONE is allowed to flame another person via the forums or PM.
- A member who gets five or more PMs against him to any one Mod/Admin will get banned. The five or more PMs should come from individual members of the forums (one PM per member) and it should not be from other Mods. Those who sends the PMs must be active participants of the forums who has a post count of at least 50 posts. The PM should give valid reason for the request.
- All rule violators will get 3 warnings before action is taken against them. The actions may include total banning from the forum boards.
- When a topic is locked by a moderator the topic creator must PM a request to any of the Moderators/Admins to unlock the topic and the request should contain valid reasons as to why the topic should be unlocked. If no request is sent after 5 days of locking the topic, it will be queued for deletion.
- Upon request, a forumer's topic will be converted to a Sticky topic, provided valid reasons are given. (A PM should be sent to any Mod/Admin requesting this)
- Foul Language within the forums is not allowed.
- No pyramid schemes and other illegal activities are allowed to be advertised anywhere in the forums.
- These rules are subject to change without any notice.
**The rules for Threads, Posts and General conduct applies to the blogs within the forums board as well.
**The rules for Avatars applies to the Profile Pictureas well.
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