FOS Forum Rules and Regulations
Rules and Regulations
Please
read the following rules and guidelines very carefully. By proceeding
to post you agree to these guidelines and must obey them at all times.
Refusal to obey these guidelines will result in the appropriate
responsive actions.
We have implemented the following guide for
using our FOS forum. This guide is designed to strike a balance between
the main goal of our forum, providing support, and keeping the relaxed
and welcoming atmosphere for the user community.
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General FOS Forum Rules
#1 F.O.S
Group is aimed at a general audience. This means our site is designed
for 13 year olds and older. Everything must be aimed at this year level
and older. Explicit, vulgar language, drug talk, and so forth is not
allowed.
#2 Spamming (ex.
Duplicate or non-sense posts) in any form is prohibited at all times.
Posts considered as spam will be deleted. Nonsense phrases or one to
three words posted on topic replies are considered spams and will also
be deleted without mercy.
#3 All
publicly displayed messages are limited to English and Tagalog only.
This includes posts, titles, signatures, profiles, other forms of
public display.
#4 All usernames should not exceed 15 characters, and may not refer to a email or any web site - use good taste here.
#5
Personal attacks are strictly prohibited. A personal attack on another
user's character or personal preference is strictly prohibited.
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Warning System
#1 Members who disobey the rules will be warned or banned depending on what the moderator believes is the appropriate punishment.
#2 Members maybe warned a maximum of three times. On the third the member will be immediately banned.
#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 an admin. Talking back to the moderator who gave you the
warning with no sense of respect will lead to further warnings.
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Posting Etiquette (manners)
#1 All topics must contain a full description.
#2 Treat others positively and with respect. Flaming other members or other forums will lead to a warning, possibly even a ban.
#3 Topics must be submitted to the relevant forums. Please read the forum descriptions before posting.
#4 Topic titles must be descriptive.
#5
Bumping is allowed provided that the reply has relevant information
that is useful to the continuance of the topic. Short intervals of
bumps is not allowed to bump the topic up onto the first page by the
same person.
#7 Images must be hosted on image hosting websites like http://www.filehive.com
#8 Content
of posts should not be explicit, offensive, shocking, discussions of
demerit commodities or pornographic unless it is posted in an
educational sense. Content which is inhumane or unethical to be viewed
by ages below 13 years old is not allowed.
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Spam rules
#1 You may only promote your website once.
#2 If you choose to post a link it should benefit everyone and must not be a site of the following categories:
Web
hosting. Referrals. Affiliation. Other forums with conflicting
interests. Sites that require registration, subscription or a fee to
access. Sites that contain links that can be posted here but poster
requires users to go their own links to benefit from advertising.
#3 Excessive posting of similar messages to increase post count is not allowed.
#4 You may not have links advertising other websites within your signature.
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Avatars and Signatures
#1 The total maximum dimensions for images in a signature is 420px (width) by 70px (height)
#2Maximum number of characters in user signatures is 200 characters
#3All avatars should follow the total maximum dimensions is 100px (width) by 100px (height)
#4 Maximum file size for avatar images: 6kb.
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Explicit guidelines
#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, only room for six stickies
per forum. Topics which use a poll to petition a sticky are not
allowed.
#2 To have your username changed please PM Admins.
#3 All forum rules apply to each members profile. just copy Hotlink your image on forums and message boards.
long live F.O.S
Lab yah
Posted by: -reysiL- | January 8, 2008 08:20 PM