FAO Mal or Royal

Please read through the rules, they aren't that long.

General

• You must be at least 13 years of age to register to this forum.
  
• Advertising other forums is prohibited (this includes links in signatures).
  
• Racism is not tolerated and will most likely result in an automatic ban.
  
• For your own safety, we discourage you from revealing personal information (address, real name, credit card info etc).
  
• Not every disagreement has to turn into a flame war, try to respect different opinions.
  
• Advertising of any sort by new members will be seen as spam and will result in a permanent ban.
  

Posting
This
is an ENGLISH forum, so please try to avoid posting in other languages
unless appropriate, such as teaching another language.

Please only use CAPS appropriately. There is no need to post in capital letters all the time.

Before
creating a thread, check to make sure the same thread or a thread of
the same subject has not already been created. Thread titles must
clearly describe the subject of the thread. If a thread title is
inappropriate or doesn't give enough information, a
moderator/administrator may change it.

Although we allow swearing on this forum, excessive and unnecessary use of profanity may result in an infraction.

There
are sections for anything you would want to talk about on this forum,
so please post in the appropriate section, off topic threads will be
moved. Try to keep posts on topic. If you are reminded to stay on topic
by a moderator/administrator, then do so. If you continue to post off
topic you could end up with an infraction(see infractionsbelow).

Attacking
other members (flaming) will not be tolerated. Doing so may result in
the offending post may be removed as well as further action.


Rules:-
You MUST NOT do any of the following:
- Flood or spam the boards with unnecessary threads or posts
- Attack other members personally
- Post porn or anything that may be considered offensive content
- Change the title of a thread that has split due to reaching the post limit
- Post trick links
- Post comments or create threads purely to wind a select person/group of people up intentionally (trolling)
-
Evade the swear filter. At the moment only serious racial slurs are
filtered, but you must not evade the filter to post these regardless of
context
- Post anything that can be considered NSFW (not safe for work) without putting it in a spoiler and clearly labelling it
-
Bait other members by calling players/clubs or other things insulting
names. Context is important. By all means feel free to talk down
players, but if a moderator/administrator feel it is in order to bait a
reaction, action will be taken
- Attempt to seriously impersonate a member of staff any other member
- Post the personal information of others without permission
- Pointlessly bump old threads


Accounts
Forum
members are asked to create only one account. Multiple accounts and
account sharing is not allowed. In addition to an infraction, users who
create more than one account will have any additional account banned.

Accounts with inappropriate usernames will be suspended.


Avatars and Signatures
The
size limit for signatures is 400px x 350px. Don't worry if your image
is too big though, it will automatically be resized. Please into
consideration the size of the image file before you use it. If the size
is deemed too large it will be removed. Blank lines also count towards
the size of your signature and will be removed if necessary. The content
is also important, if an avatar or signature is inappropriate it will
be removed. If you continue to use that avatar/signature after removal,
expect an infraction. You may also be banned from using them if it gets
out of hand.

Rules:-
- No links to other forums in your signature, even if it is hidden within the image.
- No offensive language/images.
- No pornographic material (topless women are not advised either).
- No links to harmful or inappropriate websites.


Infractions
There
are a total of 6 numbered infraction levels. Whenever the numbers of
the infraction levels received add up to at least 5, a ban will be given
out depending on the total.

For example:
If a member receives two Level 2 infractions and one Level 1 infraction, they will receive a 5 day ban
If a member receives one Level 4 infraction and one Level 3 infraction, they will receive a 7 day ban
If a member receives one Level 5 infraction, they will receive a 5 day ban
and so on...

But
why the Level 6 infraction? Well, the Level 6 infraction is there in
case a moderator feels something surpasses what they would would
consider worthy of a Level 5 infraction. The moderator will decide how
long the ban duration is in that case and it will be a minimum of 10
days.
We work on a case by case basis and a moderator will decide what level an offence is worthy of at the time.
Infractions expire after one month.

Every
ban after your first will be extended by a certain amount of days. The
sequence we use is 3, 5, 7, 14, 30, 60, permanent. Let's say someone
receives a ban from a level 4 and a level 1 infraction, they will be
banned for the normal duration, which in this case would be 5 days, then
for any ban after that we will add on an extra 3 days, then 5, then 7
etc. until it is permanent.


If you come on this forum purely to troll or spam you're just getting an instant perma ban, no need for infractions.


Failure
to comply with any of these rules could result in a warning or a ban,
depending on the severity of the situation. Moderators/Administrators
reserve the right to remove any posts considered off-topic, baiting,
offensive or spam

Be sure to utilise the report button. Mods
can't check every single post made, so what can we be expected to do if
we miss something? Reporting is the responsibility of the members to
ensure the best possible quality of moderation on this forum.

Rules last updated: 17th May 2011 by Royal

You are expected to know and follow the rules and guidelines of the forum. Claiming to have not known the rules is no excuse.