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Your Responsibilities and Our Expectations of You

 
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 25, 2007 10:44 pm    Post subject: Your Responsibilities and Our Expectations of You Reply with quote

Your Responsibilities and Our Expectations of You

This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities and expectations of community members and non-registered visitors here at the Documents Illustrative Forums. Please take a moment to review our various rules concerning the use of this forum detailed below. By using our forms, you agree to abide by our terms and rules.

Please read it and become familiar with it. Its terms are retroactive. By using this forum, you agree to these terms and agree to be governed by them.


  1. Forum rules

    1. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).
    2. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
    3. Members are asked to not act as “back seat moderators”. If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a Moderator Team Member. Only do this if a moderator team member has not replied within 6 hours. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who consistently “act” as moderators may be warned.
    4. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting **** or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
    5. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
    6. Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.
    7. Members should post in a way that is consistent with “normal writing” using a “matter of fact” writing style. Users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons and should refrain from the excessive use of large and small text that seemingly serves no useful purpose other than making your posts difficult to read. Similarly, users should not SHOUT or use excessive expletives (i.e. !’s) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.
    8. Members should use appropriate, descriptive titles when posting a new topic and not use derogatory or inflammatory words.
    9. Members are welcome to use the test forum for general “test purposes.” These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. (subject to previous points on decency, warez, etc.). Users posting in the test forum just to increase their post counts will be warned.
    10. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering products or services (charged or free,) solicitations, etc. Recruiting of any sort, be it for paid or unpaid jobs, is not permitted either. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.
    11. The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to said Team Members and not users.
    12. The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging.


  2. Signatures

    1. Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6kB (6000 Bytes) in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text. Animated images are not allowed.
    2. Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth.
    3. Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages or sites. Documents Illustrative Team Members are allowed additional links to aid in rendering support for the Documents Illustrative Forums. Linked sites may be commercial in nature. You may not link to warez, **** or political, racist or other similar hate sites. Links are included in signature size limits.
    4. Users abusing these rules will be warned.


  3. Avatars

    1. Users are permitted to utilize a gallery avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be no larger than 80 pixels square, contain no animation, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of team members), may not exceed 6kB (6000 Bytes) in file size and must have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).
    2. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to decency, and so forth.
    3. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.


  4. Policing

    1. The Documents Illustrative Forums operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days.
    2. Arguing with Team Members after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
    3. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the relevant team leader, e.g. if warned by a moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel you were treated badly they remove a warning. If you feel their decision is also unfair you may contact a Group member. Their decision is final. Contacting group members over warning matters should be done so as a very last resort ... group members do not want to be bothered unless vital.
    4. Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new email account of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user.
    5. An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact team members personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
    6. Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While the Documents Illustrative Forums may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time, this may be considered a rare occurrence.

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