Forum Rules

[RazorDOX]

You must read these rules, and you must abide by them. They are mandatory. The rules are not 'recommended reading'. They are important for keeping the forum organized, productive, and awesome. We reserve the right to lock posts, delete posts, remove avatars, edit signatures, and ban users for not following these rules, or for any other reason at our discretion.

1) Post in the correct section.

2) DO NOT SHOUT. We can hear you just fine. Using all capitals is often interpeted as rude, so please don't.

3) You must make sense. Tiping lyk thz iz n0t kewl.

4) Only 1 forum account per user is allowed. Creating duplicate accounts will lead into a permanent ban of your main account as well.

5) You only need one exclamation ! or question mark ? It's really obnoxious when people post like this: "How do I do this ??????????????????" or "That's awesome !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" C'mon people. We get the point just as well if you only use 1 or 2. Thanks.

6) Thread titles must be descriptive and specific -- NOT generic. You need to use descriptive thread titles. The following are examples of thread titles that are NOT ALLOWED:
"Help"
"Please help"
"I need help"
"Can you help"
"HELP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!"
"Tutorial request"
"Feature request"
"Plugin request"
"Looking for..."
"Looking for a tutorial / feature / plugin"
"Can the DDL do this" ('this' is complete ambiguous here)
"I'm a newbie"
"Hello"
"I'm new"
also, putting "HELP!" in any title is also not allowed, it's really quite obnoxious. We know you want help, that's why you're posting in the first place.
etc.
This pollutes the forum with generic threads and makes it impossible to navigate. Imagine if everyone posted with thread titles like this and we had pages full of "Help!!", "Please help", "Please I'm a newbie" or even "Hi" or "Pony" ... it would be stupid. Just like you should be doing with e-mail, write your subject line for the recipient, not the sender. Here's the important part: from now on, threads with generic titles will be locked and/or deleted. Without warning. This rules posting is your warning.

this in your thread title: RICK READ THIS THREAD!!! That is extremely rude and annoying.


7) Posting inappropriate images or using inappropriate words is a quick way to get yourself banned. For example, the word "gay" is not an insult. Neither is the word "retarded". Photographs of people, whether modified or unedited, should not be of a "seductive" or lecherous nature. "Erotic art" is not permitted. Remember, this is a family-friendly board. Let's keep it that way. If you want to show off that kind of art, then please get an account at Deviant Art.

8) Putting images in your signature is fine, however, annoying, blinking, or especially inappropriate images will be removed.

Avatar size requirements: They must not be wider than 120 pixels, nor taller than 160 pixels.

9) Signature size requirements: The combined size of all images in your signature must not be wider than 500px, nor taller than 200px. There is no specific limit as to the number of lines of text permitted in signatures, as we understand that text can render differently in different browsers, but if you have text in addition to an image of the maximum 150px height, please keep it down to two lines. Ideally, text and images in your signature should be around a 200px combined maximum height.


10) All forum activity must be in ENGLISH. However, you can use whatever language you want when sending private messages to other forum members.

11) Do not 'bump' your own thread unless it has received 0 replies and it has been 24 hours since you posted it. ('Bumping' refers to posting simply to get your post moved to the top of the list--"Is anyone listening?", "I really need some help here!", "Can't anyone help me?", "Help!", "bump", "up", etc.)

12) Never 'bump' someone else's thread.

13) Please code all external links.

*) Spam. Any spam posts will be deleted as soon as they are discovered by a support team member . The user will be banned, as will their e-mail and IP address. Depending on the e-mail and IP, their subnet and e-mail domain may also be banned. If you are banned by accident, then please contact a support team member for assistance.

Rules revised on the 29th of March 2015.