Guidelines On How To Use This Site

This site has a friendly community and its members are willing to to help. The members of the community want to be respected as human beings. We therefore ask you to apply to the following guidelines.

Be Civil

• No personal attacks.
• Do not harass, threaten, embarrass, or do anything else to another user that is unwanted.
• If you feel the need to flame someone, please do it in a private e-mail. Do not feel compelled to defend your honor in public.

• Do not use any vulgar, profane, offensive or obscene language.

Generally we ask that you do not:

• Get involved in any unwanted profane, offensive, obscene or sexual exchanges or to attempt to harm a young person in any way.
• Use religious, racially or sexually offensive language.
• Post, offer, ask or request sexually explicit images or other offensive content and/or material harmful to children.
• Discuss illegal activity, such as how to get drugs, illegally import products or to con somebody.
• Infringe anyone else’s intellectual property rights, including but not limited to any copyright, trademark, rights of publicity, or other proprietary rights.
• Impersonate or represent this site or its operators.
• Link to content not allowed on this site like warez, illegal transactions, pornography and violence.
• Adult content oriented links should be clearly marked as such.
• Try and get another member’s password or other account information.

• Post or request personal or other information from a minor (any person under the age of 18).

Stay on Topic

• Remember that the forums are split into different topic and that the messages in the forums are specific to that topic. Please post your topic to one forum only. If it needs to be moved, alert a moderator by pm (personal messaging).

Subjects

• Use meaningful subjects in the forum and comments which give informations about your posting. Do not use subjects like “Help! I´m lost”.

Trim Your Answer

• Include only as much of the last entry as is necessary to follow the context.

• Do not quote the entire content of the message to which you are replying. Remember that the original message is visible to read. A good rule of thumb is, don’t include more quoted text than new text.

Ignore Spammers

• Although we try to reduce spam, it does occur. Even if you feel the need to answer (flame) the spammer, please do not, as this causes more “noise”. It may make you feel better, but it doesn’t help.

Images

• Please keep your images on topic and mind the size and dimensions, as not everyone may be on a broadband internet connection.

• Don’t use copyrighted images unless you are allowed to.

Avatars

• Please use proper judgement when choosing an avatar. We like to promote a family atmosphere, and avatars that disrupt this will be removed. Do not spoof or post misleading text in your avatar.

Signatures

• Images – Use of images in your signature is not permitted.
• Sizes and formatting – Please do not change the font size of the signature text to a larger size than the postings text. Feel free to use formatting options (underlining, bold, italic, colors).

• Length – Please keep your signature to no more than a maximum of five lines.

No Test Entries

• Please do not post test entries.

If a member does not abide by the above guidelines he will either receive a message, a warning, a temporary or final ban depending on the severity of the issue from a moderator. Disrespectful behaviors, offensive sentences, insults and others language abuses, as describe above, will be edited and deleted without warning.