RULES - READ BEFORE POSTING

Site Admin Joined: 07 May 2005 Posts: 38

General Forum Rules

1. No attacking or swearing at other members of the board. This board is meant for all age groups. Administrators and moderators will not tolerate this type of behaviour. If you are found to be participating in an exchange like this you will receive an official warning via PM or will be banned depending on severity.

We take the "Be Polite" rule very seriously here at StoneRocket. We do not accept any rudeness. Any member who is intentionally unpleasant or disruptive will receive an official warning via PM or will be banned depending on severity.

2. Excessive "spam" posts including just posting a smile, one word, a large image that distorts/slows the boards, distorted TeXt, kool t@lk, and random off-topic responses will resulting in a warning via PM or a ban from the forum depending on severity.

3. Anything posted that is not your own original writing must be contained within quote bbcode. All code posted to the forum must be contained in bbcode. If more than 1 post within 3 days violates any rules you will be banned without warning.

4. All posts must be in easily understandable English. Members that do not make a good effort at posting in correct English will receive an official warning via PM. Posts and members that are reported or that are found are handled on a case by case basis.

5. Do not double post. If you need to add something, edit your previous post. Double posts will be deleted without notice. Duplicate topics will also be merged and/or deleted.

6. Do not post referral links or ask our members to join a website, game, service, forum, or other program in exchange for anything. This is considered spam and will result in an official warning via PM.

7. If a thread is in the wrong forum, a moderator will move it to the appropriate forum without notice. Please check around the boards for your post before posting in the help forum or PMing a moderator to ask where it is.

8. Any discussion threads on the topic of illegal downloads/pornography/warez and so on will be deleted promptly and the thread starter will receive an official warning via PM or will be banned.

9. You may advertise your site through your signature and signature only. There will be no new topics started to advertise your site as they will be closed immediately. You may not send PMs of any kind advertising anything. This will be considered spam and you will be removed from the forum.

10. You may not at any time use the custom titles to impersonate staff or use the custom title "Banned" to emulate a banned member.

Be original and start a lively conversation. You will find it much more enjoyable if you do.

Signature Rules

1. Your entire signature, including images and text, must not be any larger 4 lines of normal text at 1024x768 resolution. Calculated into pixels the maximum will be 500px wide and 100px tall.

2. Only one animated banner (must be no bigger than 50KB) and 5 animated similes allowed per signature.

3. Do not place referral links, links to websites that compete with StoneRocket or links to websites that would exceed the Universal content limit of the Heavy Chat forums.

4. Do not ask our members to join a website, game, service, forum, or other program in exchange for anything. This is considered spam and will result in an official warning via PM.

5. Do not evade URL or word censors for any reason at any time. Evading a word censor could cause you to be banned.

6. Do not place dynamic signatures that display personal information about visitors in your signature.

7. Do not post avatars or links to MP3 download sites in your signature.

8. Do not place any sounds in your signature that play on mouse over or upon page load. You may place a play button that the user can activate.

9. Do not place quotes of other forum members in your signature. This includes but is not limited to instant messenger conversations, forum posts on StoneRocket or other forums, and other methods of communication.

10. Do not make your signature too processor intensive.

Avatar Rules

1. Avatars may contain no profane, suggestive, offensive, copyrighted, illegal, or otherwise undesirable material of any kind.

2. Avatars may not exceed 100px in height and 100px in width.

Punishment Notes

We at Heavy Chat want to foster a fun and happy environment for our members to enjoy. As we move forward we are bound to see a few come in to disrupt our community.

If you receive 3 or more PM warnings within 90 days you will be banned from the forum for a cooling off period of at least 30 days.

These rules may be amended at any time for any reason. Check this post often for the latest updates.

Rules are subject to change without notice