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GENERAL RULES - While debating and discussion is fine, we will
not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. The decision of the Administration team is final in these matters.
- Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
- Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
- Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
- Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts.
- We do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate
http://www.stephenking.co.uk community standards. The Administration team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
- Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
- Each member is allowed
one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
- While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts unnecessary criticism of other boards.
- We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
- If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
- Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
- You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
- You cannot post advertisements or notices for unrelated contests.
- We also reserve the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to this forum is a privilege and not a right.
ANY THREADS/POSTS OF THESE TYPES WILL BE DELETED Advertising Services and Solicitation
- We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitation in signatures is also prohibited.
LINKS IN SIGNATURES MUST FOLLOW THESE GUIDELINES - Promotional text for a commercial product or service is OK, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
- A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate
http://www.stephenking.co.uk community standards. The Administration team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
- Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.
AVATARS - Animated avatars are
not allowed. Sorry.
- Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.
SIGNATURE SIZE LIMITS - All signatures should not exceed the following size limits, and you can't have both text and images
- For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
- Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
- For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
- Animated images in a signature are not allowed
