Forum Rules

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Primary Rules

Offensive Materials - Users may not post, request, or provide materials or links considered offensive in nature. This includes, but is not limited to: using sexually explicit imagery; using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult; using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language; and posting, requesting, or otherwise sharing material considered pornographic, obscene, graphic, or hate speech.

Illegal Activity - Users may not post, request, or provide links or information about illegal materials or activities.

Advertising - Users may not post or create topics that clearly advertise a service or product. This includes, but is not limited to: unsolicited commercial or personal web site advertisements; For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices of real life items; "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes; or any referrer-ID based sites (including both games and free-item marketing sites). Users are allowed to include their web site address in a signature, request comments on their personal site in a social setting, or provide an interesting or relevant link to another site.

Harassment/Stalking/Privacy - Users may not engage in harassing behaviour directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment with or without the use of explicit or implicit threats. This includes personal attacks and insults both in posts and in private messages. Posting contact or other private information of any person without their consent is strictly prohibited.

If you ever experience any kind of harassment report it to a moderator immediately.

Secondary Rules

Moderation - Users may not "backseat moderate". This means users may not try to enforce the forum rules on other users. Let the moderators do their job. If you think a post has broken a rule then report it using the report feature found at the top right of all posts. When it comes to a conflict between two members, regardless of their status, moderators always have the final word. If a moderator has edited your post or topic do not change the moderator's edit. Notify an admin if you feel a moderator is wrongfully using or abusing their privileges.

Spam - Users may not spam any section of the forums. Spam includes, but is not limited to: posting the same message multiple times, unnecessary stacking of posts, straying too far off the topic, posting topics in the wrong forum, posting the same topic across multiple forums, necro-posting topics, or low effort posts such as one word posts or image only posts. It is up to the discretion of the moderators to decide when users are spamming.

Topics and Posts - Users may not make topics or posts filled with nonsense including, but not limited to: all caps in topic titles or posts, leet speak in topic titles or posts, topic titles designed to mislead users, nondescript topic titles, excessive and unnecessary BBCode formatting, or repeated and unnecessary editing of posts. Note that the rule states topics and posts may not be filled with such things. It is okay to include them in your posts as long as you stay within reason.

Users should make posts in English. If English isn't your first language it's okay to use a translator (Google works fine). For in-lore purposes it might be necessary to write in original languages. This is okay as long as the main body of the post is in English.

Profanity - Users may not use profanity in topic titles. Profanity is allowed in posts but be respectful of other users. Excessive use of profanity in posts may result in moderator action. Profanity may be more severe for in-lore or roleplaying purpose but it must be clearly related. Unclear posts may be moderated.

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