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Topic Started: Jan 22 2011, 02:18 AM (251 Views)
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THE RULES

ZetaBoards and by extension 20 Nothings forums operate on a 5 increment system of infractions. We additionally restrict posting access for people who acquire 60% or 3 increments of infractions. We reserve the right to ban anyone at anytime who we feel is harmful in some way to the community. We will use this power with caution and abuse of it will land the staff who abused it banned, but be warned that being an asshole might not be outside the rules but we might not want it either.

These are the things you can rely on getting infractions or bans for:

Behavioral:

  • Flaming: We define flaming as direct insult directed towards another individual, calling someone a retard or a similarly hurtful insult directly constitutes flaming. Context is important for flaming and it's in the eyes of the beholder, should someone take a joke as flaming we will treat it as such, but if context dictates that it is without malice then exceptions can be made. Flaming results in a 40% infraction.
  • Harassment: Harassment is repeating an unwanted action against another member without due cause (repeatedly infracting a member wouldn't fall under this if they were breaking the rules). We take harassment very seriously and it will result in a 60% infraction and therefore posting restrictions. Before it comes to harassment we'd like members to take it upon themselves to block/ignore the offending members, only if they bypass that should staff get involved.
  • Spam: Spam is making posts that do not contribute to the topic at hand, like with flaming context is important and interpretation is left to the moderating staff. If you're hesitant about if it's spam, don't post it. spam results in a 20% infraction.



Content:

  • Pornography/Obscene Imagery: Pornography is not allowed to be posted, and strictly pornographic sites cannot be linked. Linking to manga or anime with smutty or "ecchi" contents including sex scenes is okay if marked "NSFW" obviously and only through sites such as tenmanga, mangafox, mangareader, anilinkz, or other general streaming sites. The posting of pornographic materials constitutes 80% infraction and posting restrictions. If you're on the fence about it confirm the content with anyone on the staff before posting it and list their name if confirmed in the topic/post, this rule also applies to obscene or gross imagery, such as serous injury. Child pornography is never allowed and will result in an instant permaban.
  • Grammar: Use it. We don't like 1337 $P3@K here, and we don't want to decipher nonsense posts. We can be understanding if English is not your first language but posting stupidly when not for humorous purposes (and even then for the most part) is gonna get you a 20% infraction.
  • "Kawaii desuuuuuu~": This isn't a Japanese forum, speaking with Japanese words occasionally is okay but speaking in some wierd broken Japanese/English hybrid is going to count as bad grammar and spam and will land you between 20% and 40% infraction depending on the severity and frequency of your usage.
  • Art theft: Not tolerated. The second worst act beyond pornographic posting and will land you between a 60% and 80% infraction if proven.





Side Rules:
These won't get you infracted unless you're a repeat offender, but these things are frowned upon generally:

Backseat modding - Let us do our job.

Sig/Avy explosions - We won't restrict you to a specific size, but be reasonable. Nothing the size of a small computer monitor. generally speaking keep it at around 150x150 or less for avys and at 250x700 or less for sigs, these aren't hard restrictions but guidelines. We will remove/replace avys or sigs that we feel don't comply.

Double/Triple posting - It's okay if you're updating or furthering a discussion or even bumping a topic that hasn't been responded to in a while, but unless you're adding something of value to the topic multi-posting is spam and will be treated as such every time after the first initial warning about it.

Advertisement - We're not going to say "never advertise", in fact we hate when sites do it. Just don't spam us with it. You can make an advertisement topic and have it in your sig, but don't mention it every time you post or anything. Once or twice is fine, don't spam us with it or we'll treat it as spam.
Edited by Kennisiou, Jan 23 2011, 02:15 AM.
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