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Shondoleon

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Saturday, July 25th 2009, 10:52am

Board Rules

Gates of Andaron – Board Rules


Each User agrees with his/her registration to the following board rules. The Board Staff holds up the right to warn, censor and ban Users if the
Users do not follow the rules.

§1 User Accounts
  • Every User may register and use one account.
    Multiple registrations and usage of several accounts may lead to a banning of all accounts. In cases where two or more users are either usually, sometimes or on occasion sharing an IP address and have accounts on the board, board staff MUST be informed. Failure to do so may result in a permanent ban. Report any instances of IP sharing to the BA or a Smod.
  • In extreme cases which are defined on each case individually Users might be banned ingame and from IRC as well.
    The same goes vice versa. The rules do apply for forums posts and personal messages (PMS).


§2 Board Behavior
To guarantee a relaxed atmosphere between all participants on the forum, some posting restrictions are needed.
  • The Board language is English. No other Language is to be used anywhere on the Forums, e.g. in Posts, Signatures, Avatars etc.
  • Posting contents and links of pornographic, politically extremist, immoral and offensive material which may breach applicable laws are forbidden. It is also not allowed to post keys, hacks, cracks or other things of illegal nature, including illegal download pages and "warez". Discussion of such items will lead to an immediate warning.
    The announcement of contents which come under the law of data security or copyright as well as requests for posting something like that.
  • Posting of any personal messages or discussions, without the consent of all involved parties are forbidden.
  • Posting of contents which do not belong to the topic/ relevant forum (Spam/Offtopic) are undesired and may lead to a warning.
    An exception of this is the Spamboard. Quoting more than 5 posts consecutively is seen as a quotepyramid and excessive quoting and will be warned as spam.This includes postings which only point out breaches of the rules (Backseat Modding).This is up to the board team. 'Bumping' old threads is also not allowed. Backseat Modding also include the case where a user posts as mod, for example posting :qatc: or :closed1: exception is given to threadstarter only).
  • Double posting and posthunting ( posting just to get a higher postcount) results in a warning or in extreme cases in a direct ban. Posting twice within the allowable time to re-edit the original post shall be considered double posting/posthunting.
  • Spamming of emoticons (5 smilies per post) and images is not allowed due to the fact that it may freeze peoples’ computers. Images or postings which are side exceeding (means one has to scroll vertically or/and horizontally to read all) are not allowed.
  • Contents, links, user Names etc. with the only aim to flame and insult other participants of the community are forbidden. Same goes for trolling: posts solely intended to annoy other people or incite flames.
  • Contents of inappropriate language and excessive cursing are not allowed.
  • Advertisement and linking to other games not owned by Gameforge, is not allowed on the whole forums. Links to games with
    the aim to count every visitor are not allowed. (Bite Links)
  • It's not allowed to post for banned people. If you do so, it results in a warning for you. The sharing of accounts with people who are banned from the board will also incur a ban for the account holder.
  • Impersonation of a Staff member (Name, Avatar, Signature) may lead to a warning or in extreme cases to a ban.
  • Misuse of the report button is forbidden.
  • Discussion of board/ game bans or warnings is not permitted in the public forums, this may result in further bans or warnings. Please discuss these issues with the Moderator/ Game Operator involved or their superior only.
  • In extreme cases a user might be punished with a permanent ban on the board without having received warnings. Also a temporal ban may be adapted by evaluating the type of warnings given.

§3 Signature
Signature Pictures may not exceed the following measurements:
  • Height: 100 px
  • Width: 500 px
OR
  • Height: 150 px
  • Width: 450 px
  • No more than 80KB

Anything that is used as an exploit to circumvent the rules, means posting at the end of the post siglike pictures and other that makes the sig
appear larger, is not allowed.
Staff members may be permitted to have larger signatures at the discretion of the Administration.
Note: The dimensions of the signature are only for the purpose of informations, because the board limits them too.

§4 Forum Staff and User Responsibilities
Each Forum participant has to obey to the Rules. If you feel warned unfairly, first contact the Mod who gave the warning. Then you may get in contact the Smod. In extreme cases you have the right to talk to a Board Admin. The Board Admins’ word is final.
The same applies if your Topic gets closed. Please do not open several threads on the same topic and try to use the search.
Several warnings may lead to a ban from the Forum. Each case is looked at individually. Reregistering a second account after a time ban from the Forums leads to a permanent ban. In extreme cases a User can be banned without having warnings.

§5 Notes
  • Board Administrators and Smods (in emergencies) have ban rights (sigs and Users), Custom Title and user name Changing rights.
  • Complains about Smods go to a Board Administrator.
  • Complains about a Board Administrator go to another Board Administrator or the Community Manager
  • Please be aware that certain boards may have additional guidelines. Please check before posting.
  • Board Rules may change at any time. It is the users' responsibility to keep up to date on them.

The whole forum is included in the Terms and Conditions of Gates of Andaron. Therefore German Laws apply on the whole board. It also means that the GatesofAndaron.com Owners are not responsible for any posted pictures or links which are copyrighted.

The Gates of Andaron Team as well as the GameForge Staff reserve the right to modify these rules any time it might be necessary.
If you have questions, do not hesitate to use the TICKET SYSTEM
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Dixie

Naughty but Nice :P

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Monday, August 24th 2009, 11:26am

Quoted from "Shondoleon"

All posts must contain a minimum of 4 words; Less words will be considered as spam and warned accordingly. Any forms of acronyms such as: ICU, BRB, LOL, ROFLMAO, will be considered one word. Smiley does not count as a word.


*BUMP*

minimum words per post rule added

bf.ro, bf.fb, tanoth.uk, bk.us & 4story.ro BA
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Dixie

Naughty but Nice :P

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Friday, October 16th 2009, 10:39am

Quoted

Double posting and posthunting ( posting just to get a higher postcount) results in a warning or in extreme cases in a direct ban. Posting twice within the allowable time to re-edit the original post shall be considered double posting/posthunting.


Spamming of emoticons (5 smilies per post) and images is not allowed due to the fact that it may freeze peoples’ computers. Images or postings which are side exceeding (means one has to scroll vertically or/and horizontally to read all) are not allowed.
Double posting/post hunt rules added and emoticons limted to 5 smilies per post

bf.ro, bf.fb, tanoth.uk, bk.us & 4story.ro BA
This post has been already reported.
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Trinity

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Sunday, December 20th 2009, 2:51pm

Update to the Board Rules:

Quoted

[*]All posts must contain a minimum of 4 words; Less words will be considered as spam and warned accordingly. Any forms of acronyms such as: ICU, BRB, LOL, ROFLMAO, will be considered one word. Smiley does not count as a word.


This has been removed and there is no longer a word limit. Please use your judgment in posting! Just because the word limit is gone doesn't mean your post can't be considered as spam.

Signatures can now be up to 80KB.

Two notes were also added:
* Please be aware that certain boards may have additional guidelines. Please check before posting.
* Board Rules may change at any time. It is the users' responsibility to keep up to date on them.

If any questions, please feel free to contact me. :umum:


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