Forum Rules

Newly added rules will be bold and colored orange

Legend:
Basic rules fundamental.
Usually about all sections.
Usually about requests and general sections.

General Board-wide

#1.1 Over-raided.forumotion.bz is aimed at a general audience. This means our site is designed for 13 year olds and older. Everything must be aimed at this age and older.

#1.2 Do not mini-mod. We would like to encourage and thank members to use the report button but not add their own criticism. Impersonating a staff member is a serious offense and may lead to a permanent ban.

#1.3 All publicly displayed messages are only limited to English. This includes posts, titles, signatures, profiles and other forms of public display.

Warning System

#2.1 Members who disobey the rules will be warned or banned depending on what the moderator believes is the appropriate punishment.

#2.2 Image Image Members can be warned a maximum of two times consequently. On the third, the member will be immediately banned. This does not mean that you have to have a warning to get banned, moderators may ban you without warnings depending on the offense.

#2.3 A warning can have a time bomb unless you're banned. If a time bomb is set, your warning will automatically expire after a certain number of days.

If you believe you do not deserve the warn please contact the moderator who warned you. Talking back to the moderator who gave you the warning with no sense of respect will lead to further warnings.

If you do not know why you received a warning, an email and private message would have been sent to notify you of the reason why you were warned and who warned you.


Posting Etiquette (manners)


#3.1 All topics must contain a description.

#3.2 Treat others positively and with respect. Flaming other members or other forums will lead to a warning, possibly even a ban.

#3.3 Topics must be submitted to the relevant forums. Please read the forum descriptions before posting.

#3.4 Topic titles must have an appropriate description.

Example:

An example for a good description is "Help needed with game".

An example for a wrong description is "HEEEEELP!".

#3.5 Bumping is allowed provided that the reply has relevant information that is useful to the continuance of the topic. Short intervals of bumps are not allowed to bump the topic up onto the first page by the same person.

Example:

Allowed: A topic discusses a news event. The topic's discussion has died but there is new striking evidence to turn thoughts around. A reply with such information that is relevant and useful is allowed.

Allowed: Requests (Includes requests in for crafts and proffessions) may only be bumped once every 48 hours since the last reply.

Disallowed: Bumping topics continuously to get them up to the first few pages. This includes using additional accounts (either your own or others) to do so.

#3.6 All links must be coded - including, but not limited to, e-mail addresses, passwords and internal links (eg

Code:

Link placed inside here

#3.7 No topic hijacking (going off topic).

#3.8 You must add tags in all topic titles within the Games and Movies forums and their sub forums. Tags in other forums are optional.

#3.9 When their previous post has exceeded the maximum characters limit, or if they have relevant content to add to their topic 24 hours after the previous reply was made, members are allowed to double or triple post.

#3.10 Trades of any kind and selling are two things that are not allowed here. To break it down in simple terms, it's considered a trade any time the situation is "If you do this, I'll do that" and selling is offering a product, service, etc. for money. The staff do not appreciate members trying to get around these rules, so please avoid attempting to do so.



Spam Rules


#4.1 You may only promote your website once. This may be done in the Link Heaven section and only applies to sites that are within the rules.

#4.2 You can post links for files, from warez sites torrents and everything else but it must be coded, non coded links will result in a warning via pm and a force edit of the post, also repeated posting of non coded links will results in a real warning (check warning system).


#4.3 Passwords that advertise other sites are allowed provided that they are required. If the passwords are not required the poster will be punished as a spamming member.

#4.4 Excessive posting of similar messages to increase post count is not allowed.

#4.5 You may not have links advertising other websites within your signature.

#4.6 The following one-liner messages are classified as spam [Except in Funstuff]:

Any acronym such as lol.
The use of +1...+X within posts.
The use of an emote only reply (such as Smile).

These are only guidelines not strictly limited to just these examples.



Private Messaging (PM)


#5.1 All rules apply in regard to private messaging.

#5.2 It is the responsibility of each member to check their private messages when online, as certain private messages from staff members may require prompt answers. Members who ignore these messages from staff may be warned, locked or banned, depending on the situation.


Avatars and Signatures

#6.1 All rules apply to avatars and signatures.

#6.2 The total maximum dimensions for all images in a signature is 500px (width) by 200px (height) horizontally only.

#6.3 Signatures can only be 100KB or less in total file size.


Explicit Guidelines



#7.1 Sticky Requests: Please do not request a post to be stickied. If there is room to sticky an exceptional post, we will do so; however, there is only room for ten stickies per forum. Topics which use a poll to petition a sticky are not allowed.

#7.2 To have your username changed please PM a Super or Elite Moderator instead of Admins.

#7.3 Asking any staff member if you can be a part of the staff will hinder your chance of ever becoming one. The same applies for VIP as well.

#7.4 All forum rules apply to each member's profile, no referrers, no porn links, and no warez forums.

#7.15 All forum rules apply to every image posted in messages, signatures, avatars and PM's. Images must not contain URL's of websites (or any advertisement of another warez site, URL or not), words that bypass our word censor or any type of serial number. The sole exception to this is when a URL in an image is presented as a password (provided that the URL is not censored). We do not allow user names to contain email addresses or websites' names.