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Craig Suffolk
ProBoards.com Staff
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Posts: 141,725
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Forum Rules/Info
« Thread Started on Sept 25, 2006, 5:11pm »
Hello and thank you for being a member of ProBoards.com Support boards. We would all like to begin our experience here as fast as possible, however, as does any community, be it big or small, there are some rules each and every member has to follow.
The following is written for you and for your comfort while browsing through here. Hopefully you decide to read all of it and in the future, when the time comes, you are ready to follow what this post has to offer to enjoy a good environment yourself as well as other thousands of members.
Enjoy your stay.
* List of Contents
Section 1: General Rules
Section 2: Copyright and source citing
Section 3: Signatures and Advertising
Section 4: Polls
Section 5: Attitude towards other members and/or staff
Section 6: Staff impersonation and support
Section 7: Warning levels
Section 8: Member ranks and custom titles
Section 9: Useful Links
* Section 1: General Rules
1. Do not post any support related posts. There are specific boards for that.
2. Don't make a post announcing your new wonderful post count or asking for a custom title. Once you have 5,000 posts. PM one of the Staff Members with the custom title you would like.
3. Participants may not use the forums to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind. This includes promotion of PB forums.
4. Don't post pictures you made and ask for people to rate/comment on them. To discuss about graphics, please go over to the graphics discussion board, by clicking here.
5. Don't post misleading subjects. Make the subject of your thread relevant to your topic.
6. Do not reply to obvious spam threads. Spam is considered any thread that lacks any point of discussion or is inappropriate to be discussed at ProBoards. If the first post should never have been made, then replies to it are considered as spam.
7. Do not create a thread saying you are leaving, you are back, or that you love peanut butter.
8. Do not post any 'I'm Bored' threads, there are plenty of other topics for you to post in, or maybe even consider reading a book, or catching up with the sun.
9. Do not create threads where the subject at hand is already being discussed
10. No "word games" or any threads which result in many just 1 or 2 word replies at fast intervals
11. Staff may lock a thread at any time for any reason. If the reason is not obvious, a justification post will be made to explain the action. Do not make threads about locked threads.
12. Do not post any material that may cause distress to others, this includes flashing images (triggers epilepsy), and 'Screamers' (images that suddely change to a screaming face)
* Section 2: Copyright and source citing
1.Due to copyright issues and general confusion it is now advised that quoting large sections of someone else's work, news etc is not permitted here.
Please provide a link to the article and if need be a brief extract of that story.
2. Any thread that purports to be based on historical fact yet has no widely known information or has no credible sources will be considered spam and locked. This will mean that they are locked after a page or less of replies if there is no sources or credibility provided.
Example:
Quote:
Square Enix today announced an official North American release date for Dragon Quest VIII
Playstation News
* Section 3: Signatures and Advertising
1. Personal banners and signature areas (in the event of text) are limited to a size of width 500 and height 250.
[image]
Please follow this size and consider those with a smaller screen resolution when adding an image to your signature.
2. Logical size of the signature should not exceed 250KB.
3. When signing your post, please don't do it as a link, you have plenty of space in your signature area and in your profile for links.
4. Avatars should be kept under 50KB in logical size.
5. there is a maximum text size of 4 in your signature area.
Click here for a useful Screen Ruler
6. Out of consideration to those with epilepsy, flashing avatars and signatures are not allowed.
7. Do NOT post affiliate links here. They are unwelcome and you will receive a warning for posting them.
8. General advertising is not allowed anywhere on the forum.
9. Do not use banners that display IP's, while they seem to be a novelty, we don't know what the banner hosts do with the information they collect.
* Section 4: Polls
1. Polls must have at least 2 choices.
2. When making your poll, be sure to promote discussion, to back up the choice they made (why did they choose that option).
3. The poll starter should post their choice and why.
4. Think carefully before posting the poll, do some research if needed (don't want to miss an option).
5. No Tournaments.
Any poll that does not follow the above guidelines will be locked.
* Section 5: Attitude towards other members and/or staff
1. Posts that belittle other members will not be tolerated.
If someone comes here and asks for help, please give them a sensible answer and point them in the right direction. Do not make fun of them solely because they are new. We were all new one day and we all might have needed help likewise.
2. If you cannot be civil when replying, please do not reply. This is a friendly community.
3. We do not appreciate members belittling derogatory terms that relate to Special Olympics and to those that partake in them.
4. Please do not try to convert anyone to your way of thinking whether it be your internet browser/religion preference/or any other kind of preference or choice. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and should not be made to change theirs because you don't agree with it. If someone does ask for help with anything relating to 'their opinion', then either help them in a friendly way or ignore the thread/post.
* Section 6: Staff impersonation and support
1. At no point in time will a staff member ask you for your password. Administrators of ProBoards.com have global access power and thus do not require your password to log in. The only password an administrator might ask you for is the original board password and that only in a Personal Message (PM) and only by an administrator (noted by a red name and red stars under the name, or namely Patrick Clinger, Martyn Dale, Craig Suffolk, Ryan Herbel (Nevermore), Adam Petersen, or Mary).
2. There have been several tries of people impersonating staff members, specifically over instant messaging software, such as AIM and MSN. ProBoards.com staff do not offer help through instant messaging software and as such, never ask for help over such a client. Please direct your questions to the support forum, which is the only reliable source of help. Giving out details over an instant messaging program might infringe your security on your forum.
* Section 7: Warning levels
There are 3 levels of warnings per member position currently in effect.
1. New members who haven't yet found the rules, they would usually be reminded of where the rules are, and which one applies.
2. Members with 50+ posts are members who should have found the rules for each board they post in, so would get a percentage on a warning bar.
3. Members with 200+ posts would be more established, so should know better, partly because of the rules, and partly because of their past record. These members would get a higher percentage warning.
Members with a custom title that receive a warning will have the custom title removed. The title can be restored after the warning is gone.
The warning percentage is only visible to staff and the member. Other members cannot see your warning level, unless you have received a written warning for a bigger offense.
Do not post about your warning or your warning level. If you have a question about your warning, PM a mod/gmod.
* Section 8: Member ranks and custom titles
- Member Ranks
Posts Rank Stars
0 New Member 1
200 Junior Member 2
500 Full Member 3
1000 Senior Member 4
2500 Pro Member 5
5000 Veteran 7
10000 Part of the Furniture 8
25000 Legend 10
- Custom Titles
Basically, there are two ways to get a custom title now, and they are as follows:
1. By gaining 5000 posts - When you have 5000 posts, you may PM a staff member and request a custom title, and you should get your custom title inserted into your profile, however, we reserve the right to deny any member a custom title for any reason.
2. You can be offered a custom title, otherwise known as foozlebootz law. If we feel that a member here deserves the right to a custom title, we will offer that member the opportunity to have one. However, I must stress, that this is purely at our discretion, and we will choose the members. If anyone PM's a staff member to request one, this will result in a note being put on the account which may result in a custom title refusal at a later date (see 1).
ProBoards.com Staff
*****
Joined: Sept 2001
Gender: Male
Posts: 141,725
Location: Ipswich, England, Britland
Forum Rules/Info
« Thread Started on Sept 25, 2006, 5:11pm »
Hello and thank you for being a member of ProBoards.com Support boards. We would all like to begin our experience here as fast as possible, however, as does any community, be it big or small, there are some rules each and every member has to follow.
The following is written for you and for your comfort while browsing through here. Hopefully you decide to read all of it and in the future, when the time comes, you are ready to follow what this post has to offer to enjoy a good environment yourself as well as other thousands of members.
Enjoy your stay.
* List of Contents
Section 1: General Rules
Section 2: Copyright and source citing
Section 3: Signatures and Advertising
Section 4: Polls
Section 5: Attitude towards other members and/or staff
Section 6: Staff impersonation and support
Section 7: Warning levels
Section 8: Member ranks and custom titles
Section 9: Useful Links
* Section 1: General Rules
1. Do not post any support related posts. There are specific boards for that.
2. Don't make a post announcing your new wonderful post count or asking for a custom title. Once you have 5,000 posts. PM one of the Staff Members with the custom title you would like.
3. Participants may not use the forums to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind. This includes promotion of PB forums.
4. Don't post pictures you made and ask for people to rate/comment on them. To discuss about graphics, please go over to the graphics discussion board, by clicking here.
5. Don't post misleading subjects. Make the subject of your thread relevant to your topic.
6. Do not reply to obvious spam threads. Spam is considered any thread that lacks any point of discussion or is inappropriate to be discussed at ProBoards. If the first post should never have been made, then replies to it are considered as spam.
7. Do not create a thread saying you are leaving, you are back, or that you love peanut butter.
8. Do not post any 'I'm Bored' threads, there are plenty of other topics for you to post in, or maybe even consider reading a book, or catching up with the sun.
9. Do not create threads where the subject at hand is already being discussed
10. No "word games" or any threads which result in many just 1 or 2 word replies at fast intervals
11. Staff may lock a thread at any time for any reason. If the reason is not obvious, a justification post will be made to explain the action. Do not make threads about locked threads.
12. Do not post any material that may cause distress to others, this includes flashing images (triggers epilepsy), and 'Screamers' (images that suddely change to a screaming face)
* Section 2: Copyright and source citing
1.Due to copyright issues and general confusion it is now advised that quoting large sections of someone else's work, news etc is not permitted here.
Please provide a link to the article and if need be a brief extract of that story.
2. Any thread that purports to be based on historical fact yet has no widely known information or has no credible sources will be considered spam and locked. This will mean that they are locked after a page or less of replies if there is no sources or credibility provided.
Example:
Quote:
Square Enix today announced an official North American release date for Dragon Quest VIII
Playstation News
* Section 3: Signatures and Advertising
1. Personal banners and signature areas (in the event of text) are limited to a size of width 500 and height 250.
[image]
Please follow this size and consider those with a smaller screen resolution when adding an image to your signature.
2. Logical size of the signature should not exceed 250KB.
3. When signing your post, please don't do it as a link, you have plenty of space in your signature area and in your profile for links.
4. Avatars should be kept under 50KB in logical size.
5. there is a maximum text size of 4 in your signature area.
Click here for a useful Screen Ruler
6. Out of consideration to those with epilepsy, flashing avatars and signatures are not allowed.
7. Do NOT post affiliate links here. They are unwelcome and you will receive a warning for posting them.
8. General advertising is not allowed anywhere on the forum.
9. Do not use banners that display IP's, while they seem to be a novelty, we don't know what the banner hosts do with the information they collect.
* Section 4: Polls
1. Polls must have at least 2 choices.
2. When making your poll, be sure to promote discussion, to back up the choice they made (why did they choose that option).
3. The poll starter should post their choice and why.
4. Think carefully before posting the poll, do some research if needed (don't want to miss an option).
5. No Tournaments.
Any poll that does not follow the above guidelines will be locked.
* Section 5: Attitude towards other members and/or staff
1. Posts that belittle other members will not be tolerated.
If someone comes here and asks for help, please give them a sensible answer and point them in the right direction. Do not make fun of them solely because they are new. We were all new one day and we all might have needed help likewise.
2. If you cannot be civil when replying, please do not reply. This is a friendly community.
3. We do not appreciate members belittling derogatory terms that relate to Special Olympics and to those that partake in them.
4. Please do not try to convert anyone to your way of thinking whether it be your internet browser/religion preference/or any other kind of preference or choice. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions and should not be made to change theirs because you don't agree with it. If someone does ask for help with anything relating to 'their opinion', then either help them in a friendly way or ignore the thread/post.
* Section 6: Staff impersonation and support
1. At no point in time will a staff member ask you for your password. Administrators of ProBoards.com have global access power and thus do not require your password to log in. The only password an administrator might ask you for is the original board password and that only in a Personal Message (PM) and only by an administrator (noted by a red name and red stars under the name, or namely Patrick Clinger, Martyn Dale, Craig Suffolk, Ryan Herbel (Nevermore), Adam Petersen, or Mary).
2. There have been several tries of people impersonating staff members, specifically over instant messaging software, such as AIM and MSN. ProBoards.com staff do not offer help through instant messaging software and as such, never ask for help over such a client. Please direct your questions to the support forum, which is the only reliable source of help. Giving out details over an instant messaging program might infringe your security on your forum.
* Section 7: Warning levels
There are 3 levels of warnings per member position currently in effect.
1. New members who haven't yet found the rules, they would usually be reminded of where the rules are, and which one applies.
2. Members with 50+ posts are members who should have found the rules for each board they post in, so would get a percentage on a warning bar.
3. Members with 200+ posts would be more established, so should know better, partly because of the rules, and partly because of their past record. These members would get a higher percentage warning.
Members with a custom title that receive a warning will have the custom title removed. The title can be restored after the warning is gone.
The warning percentage is only visible to staff and the member. Other members cannot see your warning level, unless you have received a written warning for a bigger offense.
Do not post about your warning or your warning level. If you have a question about your warning, PM a mod/gmod.
* Section 8: Member ranks and custom titles
- Member Ranks
Posts Rank Stars
0 New Member 1
200 Junior Member 2
500 Full Member 3
1000 Senior Member 4
2500 Pro Member 5
5000 Veteran 7
10000 Part of the Furniture 8
25000 Legend 10
- Custom Titles
Basically, there are two ways to get a custom title now, and they are as follows:
1. By gaining 5000 posts - When you have 5000 posts, you may PM a staff member and request a custom title, and you should get your custom title inserted into your profile, however, we reserve the right to deny any member a custom title for any reason.
2. You can be offered a custom title, otherwise known as foozlebootz law. If we feel that a member here deserves the right to a custom title, we will offer that member the opportunity to have one. However, I must stress, that this is purely at our discretion, and we will choose the members. If anyone PM's a staff member to request one, this will result in a note being put on the account which may result in a custom title refusal at a later date (see 1).