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Forum Rules - Read Before Posting
Topic Started: Oct 24 2010, 01:01 PM (123 Views)
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Remember to read every rules on every forum. Different forums have different rules. Which all are known to have stickied rules topics. You will be expected to follow by the rules in all areas of these boards. "I didn't know" will not be a sufficient excuse for not following the rules and not getting a warning. Know now that you will be expected to know them.

Breaking any one or combination of these rules will result in a warning. Follow the rules & you will be fine.

1) No profanity, inappropriate material, or content.
2) No illegal content.
3) No harassment.
4) No flaming.
5) No spamming
6) Stay on topic.
7) No trolling.
8) No whining.
9) No begging.
10) No impersonation
11) Training of other player's Pokedox Pokemon is not permitted.
12) Signature Restrictions(No signature will be allowed to exceed the limit of 500 x 300 pixels, Do not use other members signature content or avatar without their permission. Do not use images or art without the original author's permission. Failure to do so may earn you a warning, possibly for art theft.)
13) Account Responsibility - Protect your password; keep it updated.
14) No plagiarism.
15) Read and follow staff messages.
16) No backseat/mini-modding.
17) Staff can delete or lock messages at any time.
18) Foreign Languages - English-only, please.
19) Release of Other User’s Private or Personal Information
20) Search before you create a new topic.
21) No Naming Bad Sites that contains things like trojan horse & etc.
22) Other Rules - Listen to the mods. Do not use loop holes. Mods determine what is considered flaming, spam, etc. (more in the section)

· Rules Enforcement
· Ban Evasion
· E-Mail/Private Message
· Cheater Accusations
· Staff Have Final Say


REPORTING TOPICS

If you have spotted any abusive user/thread. Please use the report button.

Those instances are abuse of the report button and will earn warnings.

When reporting a person, it will be helpful for you to do the following:
- Make sure that it is the exact topic or post that broke a rule, not a different topic or post that the same member has made. By using the report button only on the topic or post you think broke the rules, the URL of the post is automatically included for us in the report PM. This way we can be taken directly to the problem topic/post and take care of it as efficiently as possible.
- Include the username of the person who you think broke the rule.
- Include the rule you think this person has broken.
- In your report, only include information directly related to the topic that broke the rules, nothing else.


WARNINGS

Warnings here run on a 3-strike system. If you break one rule, you earn a warning. If you break another rule, you would earn a second warning, and after breaking 3 rules, then your account is suspended. Warnings will be removed after a 1-month period, so if you can keep from breaking any more warnings, message a moderator for them to be removed after a month when they were given.

This is your warn meter. You want to keep it at 0 at all times.
If you earn one warning, it will increase to 32%
If you earn two warnings, it will increase to 64%
If you earn three warnings it will increase to 100% and your account will be suspended for a period of time depending on the rule you broke and how severely it was broken.

If you do not understand why you have earned a warning, click the number percentage and you will see why you earned the warning along with the name of the staff member who warned you.


AMNESTY POLICY

We will reduce the warning Levels of the users who break the rules. Each time we will only remove it by 1 level (every month/week). We will see if the users behaviors have change or not. If the user taking advantage of this policy = ban.
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