FORUM RULES

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Forum rules

Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).

Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming in any thread other then the desinated section or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.

Members are asked to not act as “back seat moderators”. If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the bunch of gamers web Team. Please use the “post report” feature to report posts. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly “act” as moderators may be warned.

Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.

Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.

Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.

Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.

Members should use an appropriate, descriptive subject when posting a new topic. Examples of bad subjects include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got an error!", etc. Examples of good subjects include; "Getting a new game or new hardware need help", "Cannot stay logged in ", etc.

Members are welcome to use the test forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. (subject to previous points on decency, warez, etc.).

Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, solicitation etc. Recruiting members for your own projects (moderators, designers, professional MOD work, etc.) is permitted and is not considered spam as long as it is posted in the right section and only once. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information.

Members are asked to not disclose any faults, or post any vulnerabilities in this forum before first notifying the the Bunch of Gamers Web Team. You should submit all finds to our Bunch of Gamers Web Team. Time should be allowed for us, at least a working day wherever possible.

The moderating, and other teams reserve the right to edit, remove or put on moderation queue any post at any time. Please note that currently any very first post is automatically and if abused further first posts will be placed in the moderation queue and will be approved/disapproved according to the present Rules. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, racism, etc as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users.

The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging/forum access

Signatures

Signatures may contain up to five lines of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 280px high, 580px wide and 500KiB in size. Animated signatures in the form of flash or gif are allowed.

Text sizes should be between 75% and 100% (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth.

Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of two ( 2 ) unique pages or sites. Bunch of Gamers Web Team members are allowed additional links to aid in rendering support for this site. Such links may only be to *.bunchofgamers.org or approved material. Linked sites may be commercial in nature. You may not include links in a way which suggests you offer official support, software, etc. for bunchofgamers.org. You may not link to warez, porn, racist or other similar hate sites. Links are included in signature size limits.

Users abusing these rules will be warned and links removed, constant abuse will be the removal of the user and all there posts.

Avatars

Users are permitted to utilise a gallery avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be no larger than 160 pixels square, contain animation, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of team members), may not exceed 512KiB in filesize and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).

Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, racism and so forth.Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.

help in any way

if you ask for some technical help on the pc or anything technical that can or could go wrong and you follow the advise given then the responsibility is upon you fully and not bunchofgamers.org or any member of the forum who posted the advise. Only follow advise you can check out yourself online, if any member of the web team can help out we will peovide external links of interest to your situation.

more rules to be added when needed.