Post by Hatzegopteryx on Jan 28, 2014 21:29:42 GMT
Welcome to the Dinosaur Archives Forum. Before registering, or posting, we'd like you to read our rules. Once reading them, you are free to proceed!
High Importance Rules
High Importance Rules are the main rules, and every user must follow them. The violation of one of those rules will result in a punishment, with no exceptions, that may vary depending on the gravity of the infringement.
1. Spam: Spam is not allowed in this forum. Double-posting is not considered spam, unlike many other forums. The punishment for the infringement of this rule may vary from a verbal warning, to a ban.
2. Respect: This is a quite important rule, but rarely results in a ban when violated. We here tend to interprete our users as well as we can, so we will rarely ban basing on a violation of this rule. Offensive jokes that are misinterpreted won't result in a punishment.
3. Mini Modding: Mini modding will not be tolerated. At first, a verbal warning will be given to the user. If the user keeps mini modding, a staff member will take action, and either suspend the user temporarily, or ban him temporarily/permanently.
4. Personal Message Spam: We encourage our users to contact us if someone in special is abusing of the PM tool. Action will be taken and personal messaging might be disabled temporarily or permanently for the reported user. We do not encourage users to use Personal Messages for pointless announcements. Sending global messages without having a good reason will lead to a temporary personal messaging suspension of the user.
5. Extensive Swearing: Swearing is allowed to some extent, but the user will be warned if he swears extensively. Offensively criticizing or bashing someone is fine at the first infringement, but action will be taken if the behaviour is observed on the user more than once, which may vary depending on the gravity of the violation.
6. Trolling: This behaviour will not be tolerated, and the minimum consequence for this would be a suspension of one month.
7. Mature Content: Semi-explicit nudity and explicit gore(to some extent) is allowed, but extremely explicit content will not be allowed. Complete nudity/Porn is not allowed, and posting either nudity or extremely explicit content will result in a verbal warning and removal or a placed spoiler of the content.(probably the latter if gore but removal if porn)
Low Importance Rules
Low Importance Rules are rules that, if broken, do not result in a punishment. However, we, from the staff team, encourage following them.
1. Remaining On-Topic: We highly encourage our users to remain on topic as much as possible. We also encourage anyone to remind others that go off-topic of this rule, so we can maintain an organised community.
2. Interpretation: Our users should try their best to interprete other users. An example would be not getting offended over a joke.
3. Posting on the right place: Before making a thread, ensure you are posting it in its appropriate section. Otherwise, your thread will be moved to a proper place and a staff member will notify you through Personal Message, to avoid major confusion regarding that.
4. Backing your statements with evidence: In debate areas, it is encouraged to use as much evidence as possible. We tend to avoid baseless claims, estimates and such.
5. Re-posting an already made topic: Please make sure you don't make a thread based around another topic that has already been made, make sure you check before you post that topic. If you do this, the posts will be moved to the original thread, the new thread will be deleted and the creator of the new thread will receive a PM about it. No futher action or consequence.
5. Re-posting an already made topic: Please make sure you don't make a thread based around another topic that has already been made, make sure you check before you post that topic. If you do this, the posts will be moved to the original thread, the new thread will be deleted and the creator of the new thread will receive a PM about it. No futher action or consequence.