Website Rules

Forum Rules

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Hello everyone,

Welcome to our website and forums! We are very honored to have you here.

We want this site to be a helpful, informative, and constructive place. Please treat each other with respect and use common sense when posting a message. Breaking these rules will result in the post being edited or removed at our discretion, and users who break the rules may be warned or banned from further posting.

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Basic Rules
To give you a brief version what we do not allow:

No personal attacks are allowed. If you have a problem with any member, please contact a member of the Weapon Nation Council.
No Spam. Do not spam this website, if you do, your account will be deleted and your IP banned.
Disparaging any race, gender, religion, country, or sexual orientation is not allowed.
Do not air your complaints here, if you have a problem, contact an admin in private.

In short, please be polite and civil to one another. Think before you post; replying in anger is never a good idea. Give yourself time to cool down before attacking another poster and getting yourself in trouble. Generally speaking, any post made in anger or in an attempt to prove that you are smarter than someone else is going to result in a problem for you.

You will notice we have a lot of forums here. Please post your message in the forum most appropriate for your subject matter. If the moderators feel your post belongs in another area, we will move it there.

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Harassment
Harassment in its various forms, and/or intimidation of any type will not be tolerated on this site or through the personal messaging System. Should you receive an inappropriate Personal Message, do not delete it! Forward it to a member of the Weapon Nation Council who will then assess it and take the appropriate action. Harassing or intimidating anyone here can result in anything from a warning to a ban, depending on the nature and severity of the incident. We also reserve the right to refer the matter to the appropriate law enforcement agency if necessary.
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Spamming
Please do not spam the website. Anyone found to be spamming the website by either duplicating posts, constantly repeating yourselves on post after post or by messaging many members with the same message, will be considered to be in website violation and you will be dealt with by the Administration. If the majority of your posts or your reason for being here is to spam/promote other websites, then these topics will be moderated or removed. This rule is in place for those who only come here to spam and nothing else, which doesnt help the community who we try to support. This will NOT be allowed and is cause to be BANNED. Actual SPAM such as VIAGRA or MORTGAGES or SEX LINKS, etc, anywhere on the website including in your profile will be cause for an IMMEDIATE AND PERMANENT BAN.
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Posting Rules

Posting A New Topic
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 and/or banned.
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Post Titles & Etiquette
Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "This sucks!", "I hate this class!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "My school uses outdated hardware", "About my class", etc.

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.
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Flooding and Duplicate Posts
Do not create an excessive amount of topics in a short period of time about the same subject. An example would be someone creating 10 topics within 2 minutes about their website before receiving any replies. Do not create duplicate Copy and Paste topics, even if they are located in different forums. Constantly posting on *dead* topics which receive no replies to spam another websites services is also considered flooding. These rules also include replying to yourself multiple times in a row in any thread. Doing so makes it difficult for others to join in and is not acceptable. This is called Bumping The Post and we have a minimum time before that is allowed.
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Personal Signatures

Links
Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of one unique page or site. Linked sites may be commercial in nature. You may not link to warez, porn, or racist or other similar hate sites.
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Images
Signatures may contain text and one image. The image may be no more than 400px high and 800px wide.
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Avatars

Size Contraints
Users are permitted to utilize a gallery avatar or to upload one of their own. User defined avatars are to be no larger than 90 pixels square.
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Content
Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.
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