Post by Admin on Jul 6, 2013 2:12:15 GMT -7
Forum Survival Guide
Your access to the Shadow of Hope Forums is a “privilege”, not a “right”. The voluntary staff of the SOH Forums reserve the right to remove your access at any time if they deem your behavior excessively detrimental to the forum. SOH staff also reserve the right to edit these rules when necessary. Decisions made by staff are absolute and final.
If you have any questions or concerns about the rules, please PM a member of Senior Staff (a Super Moderator or Administrator).
THE RULES
Registration: SOH does not permit multiple accounts. (Several accounts created by one user.) It creates too many issues on forums. Here are the rules regarding multiple and shared accounts:
Ban Evasion: Means creating a new account right after/for the duration you got banned. This will result in a perma-ban of the multiple accounts, and a two month ban for the original account. Persistent ban evasion will result in perma-ban of your original account. Any member consistently creating ban evasion accounts will be terminated from accessing the server!
Sharing of Accounts: Who you allow to access your account is your own business. However, know that you assume all liability for actions incurred by other users on your personal forum account!
Prohibited Content:
Advertisements: Advertisements are prohibited. You can link to products you have made, however, in the Showcase. This is the only place you can link to products you've created!
Intellectual Theft:
This rule includes (but is not limited to) the following:
Plagiarizing: Copying/using content without the original author's consent. (This excludes Fair Use, which covers items such as fan-fictions, AMV's and so forth.) If you are unsure if a work is fair-us or not, consult a GenMod, Smod or Admin before posting. Posting others’ works and claiming them as your own is also plagiarizing. Deliberate/malicious posting of such materials will get you banned.
Copyrighted Material: Requesting or providing copyrighted software, games, movies, etc, and encouraging others to break the law is prohibited. Anyone offering ripped materials will be perma-banned. Anyone requesting them will be disciplined.
Download Sites: Posting links to money-making sites, movie/music/copyrighted program downloads are all prohibited. All threads advertising these types of sites will be closed.
General Forum Posting Rules:
Signatures and Images:
Signature Size: Visible texts and images (i.e. content outside spoiler tags) should not exceed 500 X 250 px. Sizes for images used in signatures should be reasonable (for example, images under 1mb in size is reasonable). If your sig/images are in violation of these guidelines, a Smod or Admin may edit or remove the image. Repeated/willful violations will result in disciplinary action.
Images: Any images over 600px (both width and height) in posts or messages must be placed under spoiler
Keep it PG-13:
This rule includes (but is not limited to) the following:
Sexual Content: Any images/discussions of sexual acts, partial or full nudity (exposed genitalia and so on) will result in an immediate ban. (If you are unsure whether an image is safe to post or not, consult a GenMod, Smod or Admin before posting it.)
Cursing: Extremely vulgar words are filtered. Using even filtered words to troll will result in disciplinary action.
Violence: Posts/Image containing extreme violence will be immediately deleted. (I.E.; An image of a person being stabbed to death and so on.) The posting member will receive immediate disciplinary action. Excessive and or malicious posting of such materials will result in immediate ban.
NO Flaming: Flaming means insulting another member; a direct attack usually associated with explicit language and name calling. You may discuss in a heated manner, but do not post in such a way as to start a fight. Make statements that are supported by evidence, and express opinions supported by reasons.
NO Trolling: Any form of trolling is prohibited. Trolling is a provocative post attempting to start a flame war. Do not post in ALL CAPS as it is equivalent to SHOUTING or ANGRY TONE. Constant use may provoke flames. Do not feed the trolls. That is, no not reply to them if their post shows the slightest hint of trolling behavior. Instead of replying, report them to Staff instead.
Complaints about Staff: If you have any complaints about staff conduct, please do not hesitate to contact senior staff (the Smods and Admins).
No Spamming: Spamming is threads or posts which are not relevant to the forum category or original topic in which they were posted. Find the forum/thread your topic belongs to.
One-liner responses: Responses such as “Yeah I agree” or “Good point”, without any further discussion related to the posted topic, are also considered spam.
Double Posting: In order to keep the forums neat and orderly, please use the “Edit” functions instead to avoid double posting. While double posting is an occasional mistake or glitch, posting more than twice in a row is just malicious and unnecessary and will be punished.
Duplicate Threads: Use the “Search” function, or simply look through the threads to see if your topic has already been posted in another thread. Do not create another thread to bump your post count when you can already see clearly that an identical thread has already been made on the subject!
Reposting Closed Threads: There is a reason why a thread is locked, which means you are no longer allowed to discuss or open a thread to discuss the same topic. This causes the moderators to invest a great deal of time they could be spending more productively elsewhere dealing with a problem that should have never come back up and such behavior will be punished.
Necro-Posting: Threads inactive for over four weeks are considered old and will be closed. If you have new information that is of vital importance or meaningful comments on the topic that can promote discussion, then you may ask a moderator to re-open the thread, after having provided your reasons. You will not duplicate a new thread just to bypass this!
Death/Suicide Threats: Talking about murder, killing, how to kill or threatening to kill someone or talking about suicide is absolutely prohibited. You will be perma-banned upon discovery.
Racism: We absolutely do not tolerate racial discrimination! Posts/Images or even gestures of racism will result in serious ban time.
Your access to the Shadow of Hope Forums is a “privilege”, not a “right”. The voluntary staff of the SOH Forums reserve the right to remove your access at any time if they deem your behavior excessively detrimental to the forum. SOH staff also reserve the right to edit these rules when necessary. Decisions made by staff are absolute and final.
If you have any questions or concerns about the rules, please PM a member of Senior Staff (a Super Moderator or Administrator).
THE RULES
Registration: SOH does not permit multiple accounts. (Several accounts created by one user.) It creates too many issues on forums. Here are the rules regarding multiple and shared accounts:
Ban Evasion: Means creating a new account right after/for the duration you got banned. This will result in a perma-ban of the multiple accounts, and a two month ban for the original account. Persistent ban evasion will result in perma-ban of your original account. Any member consistently creating ban evasion accounts will be terminated from accessing the server!
Sharing of Accounts: Who you allow to access your account is your own business. However, know that you assume all liability for actions incurred by other users on your personal forum account!
Prohibited Content:
Advertisements: Advertisements are prohibited. You can link to products you have made, however, in the Showcase. This is the only place you can link to products you've created!
Intellectual Theft:
This rule includes (but is not limited to) the following:
Plagiarizing: Copying/using content without the original author's consent. (This excludes Fair Use, which covers items such as fan-fictions, AMV's and so forth.) If you are unsure if a work is fair-us or not, consult a GenMod, Smod or Admin before posting. Posting others’ works and claiming them as your own is also plagiarizing. Deliberate/malicious posting of such materials will get you banned.
Copyrighted Material: Requesting or providing copyrighted software, games, movies, etc, and encouraging others to break the law is prohibited. Anyone offering ripped materials will be perma-banned. Anyone requesting them will be disciplined.
Download Sites: Posting links to money-making sites, movie/music/copyrighted program downloads are all prohibited. All threads advertising these types of sites will be closed.
General Forum Posting Rules:
Signatures and Images:
Signature Size: Visible texts and images (i.e. content outside spoiler tags) should not exceed 500 X 250 px. Sizes for images used in signatures should be reasonable (for example, images under 1mb in size is reasonable). If your sig/images are in violation of these guidelines, a Smod or Admin may edit or remove the image. Repeated/willful violations will result in disciplinary action.
Images: Any images over 600px (both width and height) in posts or messages must be placed under spoiler
tags
.Keep it PG-13:
This rule includes (but is not limited to) the following:
Sexual Content: Any images/discussions of sexual acts, partial or full nudity (exposed genitalia and so on) will result in an immediate ban. (If you are unsure whether an image is safe to post or not, consult a GenMod, Smod or Admin before posting it.)
Cursing: Extremely vulgar words are filtered. Using even filtered words to troll will result in disciplinary action.
Violence: Posts/Image containing extreme violence will be immediately deleted. (I.E.; An image of a person being stabbed to death and so on.) The posting member will receive immediate disciplinary action. Excessive and or malicious posting of such materials will result in immediate ban.
NO Flaming: Flaming means insulting another member; a direct attack usually associated with explicit language and name calling. You may discuss in a heated manner, but do not post in such a way as to start a fight. Make statements that are supported by evidence, and express opinions supported by reasons.
NO Trolling: Any form of trolling is prohibited. Trolling is a provocative post attempting to start a flame war. Do not post in ALL CAPS as it is equivalent to SHOUTING or ANGRY TONE. Constant use may provoke flames. Do not feed the trolls. That is, no not reply to them if their post shows the slightest hint of trolling behavior. Instead of replying, report them to Staff instead.
Complaints about Staff: If you have any complaints about staff conduct, please do not hesitate to contact senior staff (the Smods and Admins).
No Spamming: Spamming is threads or posts which are not relevant to the forum category or original topic in which they were posted. Find the forum/thread your topic belongs to.
One-liner responses: Responses such as “Yeah I agree” or “Good point”, without any further discussion related to the posted topic, are also considered spam.
Double Posting: In order to keep the forums neat and orderly, please use the “Edit” functions instead to avoid double posting. While double posting is an occasional mistake or glitch, posting more than twice in a row is just malicious and unnecessary and will be punished.
Duplicate Threads: Use the “Search” function, or simply look through the threads to see if your topic has already been posted in another thread. Do not create another thread to bump your post count when you can already see clearly that an identical thread has already been made on the subject!
Reposting Closed Threads: There is a reason why a thread is locked, which means you are no longer allowed to discuss or open a thread to discuss the same topic. This causes the moderators to invest a great deal of time they could be spending more productively elsewhere dealing with a problem that should have never come back up and such behavior will be punished.
Necro-Posting: Threads inactive for over four weeks are considered old and will be closed. If you have new information that is of vital importance or meaningful comments on the topic that can promote discussion, then you may ask a moderator to re-open the thread, after having provided your reasons. You will not duplicate a new thread just to bypass this!
Death/Suicide Threats: Talking about murder, killing, how to kill or threatening to kill someone or talking about suicide is absolutely prohibited. You will be perma-banned upon discovery.
Racism: We absolutely do not tolerate racial discrimination! Posts/Images or even gestures of racism will result in serious ban time.