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This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of all members of the UNFLUX.net Support Forum.

Please read it and become familiar with it, as by posting anywhere on this board you agree to it. If a rule is broken you shall be warned and your post / options may be modified.


UNFLUX.net Support Forum Policies

1. General 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 respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on free commercial fonts, site passwords, download links, warez, crackz, etc. or distributing, re-printing materials and software without permision will receive a warning and their post will be removed. The definition of cracks also includes, but is not limited to, threads or links pertaining to the subject of cicumventing any security or privacy measures intentionally placed by manufacturers in their fonts, products, and/or software.
   4. Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". Please use full, complete sentences when speaking on the forum, and avoid shortcutting it by using "chatspeak" or "leetspeak." That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.
   5. Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got an error!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "Configuring Email in Outlook", "Do you support Flash?", etc.
   6. Members are welcome to use the test forum for general test purposes, such as: 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.
   7. Spam is not tolerated here. This includes offering products or services, etc. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information.
   8. The moderating and support 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 Team Members and not users.
   9. 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 revokation of private messaging.
2. Signatures
   
   1. Signatures may contain up to three lines of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 300px wide and 15KB in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include two lines of small size text. Any signature may contain up to a maximum of 2 total links.
   2. Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, etc.
   3. Links are permitted in signatures. Such links may be made to personal material, commercial ventures, etc. Links are included within the text and image limits above. Links to offensive sites may be subject to removal.
   4. Users abusing these rules will be warned.
3. Avatars
   
   1. Users are permitted to utilize a gallery avatar or to upload one of their own. User defined avatars are to be no larger than 80 pixels by 80 pixels, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimiking ranks or copying avatars of team members), and may not exceed 7KB in filesize.
   2. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, etc.
   3. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.
4. Policing
   
   1. UNFLUX.net Support Forum operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offenses 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 moderators 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 Forum Admin: UNFLUX. If we feel you were treated poorly then we may remove the warning. Our decisions are final.
   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 moderators or admin 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 UNFLUX.net Support Forum may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurence.

Please note: We reserve the right to modify these rules and policies at any time.

Last Updated: Wednesday, July, 7 2004