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Egoboo Community Forum Rules
Revision: 5 ( Last modified 11.05.08 )


General Information
Welcome to the Egoboo forums! Please read and follow the rules listed here. You are more or less required to know and read these rules. Breaking the rules can be punished. Please keep in mind that admins and moderators keep the right to ban and punish unruly members if needed. Any rule broken can result in PP points, which if you have enough, will cause your account suspended or even permanently banned. Your IP adress is always logged with date/time and stored into a database viewable by admin. Be nice and use common sense.

A hidden e-mail adress is confidentional and cannot be accessed by anyone except the administrator.



Writing Posts
Please refrain from using disturbing huge font sizes and colors.

Try to keep posts on topic and refer from using spam, especially just for increasing post count. Posting useless or stupid comments will be considered spam. Posting adult content will most probably result in instant and permanent ban. Do not harass, threaten, embarrass or cause distress, unwanted attention or discomfort to another member. If you double post by accident, please delete your second and unwanted post to save the moderators some work. Do not bump old posts unless you have something to contribute with. Use the "Edit" button instead of making double posts.

We have different topics and sections in this forum. Try to keep help posts in the help section and not in the suggestion box.



SPAM and Advetisements

- Please make sure that you are posting for the good of the community, not just for the sake of self-promotion
- Advertising is NOT allowed.
- Surveys are not allowed, unless you have been given permission in advance from a Site Admin
- Do NOT use the Egoboo community for the purpose of 'spam' or excessive advertisements! This includes forum posts, private messages, or emails to other Egoboo members
- Our moderators reserve the right to edit or delete any posts they consider to be 'spam'
- Spam can recive PP points (See below)


Language
1337speak is frowned upon. Also do not write with a excessive use of capital letters and usages of marks (exclamation, question, etc). This also includes the use of emoticons. Examples for how we normally do not like posts:
PLEASE HLP ME PLZ! I NEED H3LP!1111 4-R34L!!11!!
I have a GREAT IDEA!!!!!!!111!!!!!!!!!!!!!?!?!!!!!
etc.

Try not to use heavy swearing (heck, damn and hell is okay). Speak english and do not use other languages in the boards.



Signatures
Make sure that your signature size does not exceed the dark blue box:

A avatar thats bigger makes reading tiresome and forces readers to scroll alot more. Your avatar should also neither be offensive, advertisement for other projects or sites or very distracting for readers (Extreme collors, very flashy or movement, etc.).



Admins and Moderators
If you think a moderator is unfair or abusing his power, please report to the administartor, currently being Zefz. Admin e-mail: zefzsoftwares@hotmail.com
Please listen to moderators and admins to keep order and system in the forums we all can enjoy. This is not a nazi rule, but we need some degree of order in a open and free community.
Admins: Zefz
Moderators: Agent of Dread, Clonkinator



Keeping it open source!
Do not take credit for others work. Everything you share and post with the forum community is under the open source GNU GPL License (Same as Egoboo) - unless you specific say otherwise. Read more about the License here: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html



Punishment
If for some reason a member is punished, he is usually first issued warnings (Unless he does anything extreme, like post pornography, which is a instant ban). Further you can get temproary bans, spanning from a few hours to weeks. In the most serious measures, accounts can be deactivated, deleted and your IP can even be permanently banned from visiting this forum. Each trespass comes with an amount of penality points (or PP) as decided by the moderator.

Your PP will reduce slightly with time if you stop breaking the rules though; It's 1 PP a day.
- hitting 25 PP results in a 1-day-ban.
- hitting 50 PP results in a 1-week-ban.
- hitting 75 PP results in a 2-week-ban.
- hitting 100 PP or more results in a permanent ban.

The current list of penality points and reasons why they were distributed can be found here: http://egoboo.informe.com/forum/black-list-dt461.html
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