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# Offensive Posting
Posts of a patently offensive nature are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
* Using vulgar, or sexually explicit language
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult
* Using sexual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or form
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language
* Posting or requesting links to or material from pornographic, obscene, or hate-speech web sites
* Posting links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a clear warning
* Descriptions or details about any sexual act or sexual organs

# Flaming (Insulting Other Users)
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:

* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")
* Direct insults ("Screw you")
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself")
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")


# Trolling (Inciting Flames)
Posts intended solely to annoy and/or offend other posters by going against the clear nature of a board or topic are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:

* Provoking other users to respond with flames
* Provoking fans of a particular system or game, especially on boards dedicated to that system or game
* Making misleading topic titles
* Asking obviously useless questions
* Posting false information as fact


# Illegal Activities
Posts that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, asking for or providing, in any way, shape, or form:

* Illegal copies of copyrighted software (ROMs, Warez)
* Methods of circumventing copyright protection (Cracks, CD Keys, mod chips)
* Illegal copies of copyrighted music (MP3s), movies, videos, or any other type of media
* Methods of cheating in online games


# Spamming
Please put all of your spam in the Spam forum. Breaking of this rule repeatedly will result in having your posts to be previewed by a mod or having your posting rights removed indefinetly.

# Off-Topic Posting
The main purpose of the Forums is to provide discussion forums for this mod. Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all boards, so take the extra time to post in the proper place.

# Disruptive Posting
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:

* Message posts or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally
* Large blank or content-free posts
* Bumping old or "dead" topics without a reasonable cause
* Posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" topics
* Topic titles or posts consisting of all or mostly capital letters (Images cannot be larger than 600 pixels wide).
* Intentionally hard-to-read posts (i.e. using all, mostly, or alternating capital letters; using no spaces, capital letters, or punctuation; using large amounts of "1337 speak", et cetera)
* Post counting (i.e. "First", "100th Post")


# Flooding, Invading, and Board Wars
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for:

* Flooding a board with multiple disruptive topics or posts
* Invading another board (flooding a board as a group with multiple topics or posts)
* Instigating, participating in, or retaliating in an invasion.
* Announcing or inciting a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of another board


# Impersonation
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for impersonating other boards users by creating and/or using a message board account with a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize another user, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another message board member.

# Harassment/Stalking/Privacy
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of an creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is strictly prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited. Requesting someone's age is also prohibbited, unless it's done by the board administration/staff.

# Unauthorized Access
Accessing or attempting to access any user account not belonging to the user in question without permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for immediate loss of all known accounts.