1] Do not use offensive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable language toward users of the board.
Do not post anything that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liabilities, or is unlawful in any other way.
There will be no discussion based on a national, religious, sexual or ethnical nature.
2] If you have a question, please use the search function first before asking it. There is a good chance that your question was already asked and answered before.
3] You may not submit any content protected by intellectual property laws or by rights of privacy, unless you own the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights.
4] It's not allowed to make any false representation, including impersonation of any person or entity or misrepresentation of your affiliation with any person or entity. Including the staff of this fourm and the volunteers around it.
5] Do not make use of Message Board for commercial purposes, such as advertising any products or services, reselling or publishing the information posted or transmitted.
- Advertising other forum is not allowed, however, other games are fine and so GFX Forum but with an approval of a Moderator.
6] Graphic signatures should not exceed 170 pixels in height. Each line of text you add above or below an image counts for 15 pixels of height, which means that there can be a maximum of six lines of text in a signature without any images above or below the text.
The width of any signature image should not exceed a width of 400px, and file size of 220kb.
The maximum number of user bars allowed is 2. Both should not exceed the width of 400px, the height of 30px and the file size of 120kb.
A quote with 1 line of text counts as 3 lines of text. So the maximum number of quotes (without any additional text outside of the quote) is 2.
Images or avatars should not be offensive or in other way violate the forum rules.
The maximum number of rows of smilies allowed in a signature is 2.
7] In addition to the above rules, all topics within sjaanime forums are to remain on topic. A notice will be posted on the thread if it is determined to be going off topic. Continuation will result in thread locking, in which the author of the thread may request reopening. Threads in Help Section and General forums are to pertain to Sjaanime
Threads in the Spam Zone are at the discretion of the thread author. If they request the thread remain on topic, then it shall be.
8] Powerposting, posting back to back (multi posting), spamming and bumping will result in the post being locked or removed without further notice.
9] If you have a problem with any member of our community and you can't talk that over with him via PM, please contact a moderator by PM.
If you have a problem with a moderator and you can't talk that over with him, please contact the Moderator.
10] If you want to contact only 1 person, or a certain group of posters, please use PM, ingame message or email to contact them.
11] While it is ok to use colors, larger and bold/italic words in your post, keep it to a few words. If everyone would use a different color for their posts this forum would give everyone a headache.
Full colored posts will be edited out by the moderators. So lets not use them in the first place.
12] We will in no way restrict these forums in terms of which MMOGs you can and cannot discuss. However, this discussion must be constructive. We will not permit insults directed at our competition.
13] PM's, emails and instant messaging conversations received from Administrators, Head GMs, Lead Moderators, Game Masters and Moderators are considered personal and are not to be posted on this forum or otherwise made public without permission from the person who send the PM, email or instant message.
14] Abusing the reputation function is prohibited. That function is used to award people for good deeds and punish people for spam. Abusing the reputation function means awarding negative or positive reputation to a person without an appropriate reason / comment.
In addition, it is not allowed to award people with reputation for 2 months (+) old posts. This is to prevent intended abuse.
15] If a person is banned, the ADMIN or MOD that banned him/her should make a thread stating the banned person and IMMEDIATELY close the thread, in order to prevent useless spam like "good job',"good work","gratz+rep" etc... In the Banned Section should be just a (1)Notice about banned person, (2)reason why that person was banned, and (3)what the reason was of banning the person. Banned Accounts can always contact with the Team using the PM function.
16] In report section , moderators should delete IMMEDIATELY all needless comments like , "good work", " keep it up +REP", if thread not closed. Best if the theard will be closed at once, in order to prevent stop needless spam.
17] In video section and in humour section the maximum allowed is 5 jokes and/or films per one person in one day, otherwise it is Spamming. If someone exceeds that limit, he will be WARNED for spamming.
18] If you believe you were Warned Unfairly you can always talk it over with the Administrator. Since there is a chance you were warned unfairly, if the Administrator concludes that you are, the warning will be WITHDRAWN.
19] IF you saw an offence or a bad thing(Nudity, porn, Swearing, Insults, etc,) on forum and you reported it, PLEASE BE PATIENT. The Administrators have MANY things to do. Do NOT worry your report WILL be read and problem WILL be Correctly Handled.
20] DO NOT abuse reputation function. Adding Reputaion to someone unescessarily Is ABUSE. DO NOT +REP anyone in SPAM ZONE, If you do you will be WARNED for it.
21] Post a Topic in a right section
22] If your Forum account is TEMPORARILY Banned, DO NOT make new accounts. The Team has a program to check your IP adress and if they catch you, IT WILL NOT HELP YOU. You will then be Permanently Banned.
23] No spamming
24] Respect Whole Forum Team , expecially Admins , Head Game Masters , Head Moderator , and Moderators beacuse they are working to improve server performance and quality. REMEMBER you playing here for FREE so, respect the Team who helps you. All foul language or Insults to Team will be Infracted OR BANNED, Depending on how much you hurt the team member.
25] Have fun