Post by shayne on Dec 28, 2006 12:19:27 GMT 8
I'LL BE REVISING THIS SOON ;D
Ok, so this is simply a summary of all the rules we have put up in the past plus a few additional ones to keep this forum at peace and the admin's head safe.
With regards to signatures, avatars, other graphics:
With regards to forum language, downloads and merchandise:
With regards to your forum behavior/posts
Warning system
It will be indicated by a warning bar at the top of your avatar.
The percentile of your warning level would depend on how much of the rules you have violated. We will inform you of course, before we start banning. Once you see the warning bar on top of your avatar, that means you need to contact me (Shayne) so that we could talk on how you could fix it. I could either ask you to do something for the forum or:
Warnings start applying by January 1st 2007
Ok, so this is simply a summary of all the rules we have put up in the past plus a few additional ones to keep this forum at peace and the admin's head safe.
With regards to signatures, avatars, other graphics:
- no one can use more than one pic for a sig
- all sigs should be less than 500px wide, 250 px tall
- avs should have a max of 100px ht and width
- all who won't follow will have their sigs deleted within the following week.
- Posted pictures are allowed but if you feel that the pic is too big and would load terribly slowly post an url
- Direct linking from other sites are acceptable for me but stealing is not! Do not remove tags from the pictures of others
With regards to forum language, downloads and merchandise:
- Speak in English (with an exemption to the Filipino Board of course) at all times. We do want fans from other Asian countries to join don't we?
- No direct links to album tracks. Album previews are acceptable but posted links to the whole album is strictly prohibited. Private conversations and link sharing is ok simply because we all have rights to our own choice. It's just that as a group of "loyal" fans, we know westlife won't be happy to learn that we support piracy.
- No more public selling of Westlife merchandise. Business is untoppable but i beg you not to use these boards. Still, private deals are beyond what we are to control. Why? Simple. It's because some here are minors and Westlife merchandise often don't come cheap and we wouldn't want to get in trouble do we? Plus, we may have known each other online but there could come a point when some new member could pop up and decide to meet up personally with someone and end up a bad guy. It's for our own safety. Plus, i have heard word for the prices some say it's too expensive, blah blah blah. Well it's not like we as admins could do anything to control this. to play safe and to keep this forum at peace we just have to ban this.
With regards to your forum behavior/posts
- Always keep your cool. If someone has offended you because of a comment, state it calmly. Do not start a fight
- Do not use offensive words. (Do not swear or state malicious bits of phrases/words)
- Always stick to the topic or the conversation created by the topic
- do not repeat posts (i mean personal posts-news items do get posted twice sometimes and it's the mods' job to manage them) that means one statement you've posted on one thread is enough, don't post it again.
- Be ethical, decent and repectable in all your posts. we have minors and visitors who don't tolerate some behaviors
- be friendly and warm to new members
- always try to speak proper english. Few grammatical errors are ok but once we can't understand it, we'll delete it. No questions asked.
- never give out others' personal info. It's not right!
- everything the management finds against any of the rules will be subjected to warning levels, depending on how much think you deserve.
Warning system
It will be indicated by a warning bar at the top of your avatar.
The percentile of your warning level would depend on how much of the rules you have violated. We will inform you of course, before we start banning. Once you see the warning bar on top of your avatar, that means you need to contact me (Shayne) so that we could talk on how you could fix it. I could either ask you to do something for the forum or:
- 25% - 3 days suspension
- 50% - 1 week suspension
- 75% - 1 month suspension
- 100%- banned forever
Warnings start applying by January 1st 2007