Post by toofckngood on Apr 16, 2012 14:46:33 GMT 8
Welcome to our beloved GmasterMU Community!
In order to create an enjoyable community for everyone,
Please take a few minutes of your time to read the following forum rules carefully.
Whether you decide to read or not it is your decision.
Be aware that not knowing a rule isn't an excuse and it does not mean the punishment will be spared.
Note: These rules are only regarding the Forums, you should also read the GmasterMU Game Rules.
Thank you for your time,
GmasterMU Forum Rules:
1] GmasterMU Forums are free to join, and it serves the community as a social site. As such, please do not disturb other users: Do not use derogatory, accusatory, harassing, irritating, and/or provoking language. Do not express yourself through inappropriate or cussing words. Please avoid ‘flaming’ users by all means. With no exception whatsoever, do not base your discussions on matters of sex, race, religion or ethnic background. If you can’t follow this rule you will be warned or infracted accordingly.
2] If you need to report a user, abuser, hacker, cheater, scammer, or any person that breaks the rules either in-game or in-forums, please do so accordingly in the Report Section, and follow the reporting guidelines included in the section. Do not use any other Section. Do not act out of anger and harass or insult the reported person. Respect the staff’s evaluation and decision at all times. If you want to appeal the ruling, you may do so by submitting new evidence through PM to whoever is handling the case. GmasterMU Staff will punish any kind of biased, fraudulent, or dishonest reports either by infraction, temporary, or permanent ban.
3] If you need to contact one specific person and just that person, please do so by Private Message (PM). A PM does not mean that you may bypass Rule # 1. Do not create a thread, or post in that person’s thread with the intent of contact; PM the person, you will save yourself time and an infraction. In addition, PMs are, like its name state, private by all means. You may not publicly post a received PM unless permission is given by the sender.
4] Marketing of any product with the intent to sell is prohibited, but you may review products. For any type of business transaction is illegal to conduct through forums. GmasterMU Forums are intended for leisure and entertainment. Furthermore, advertisement of other MU networks’ services, servers, forums, or related is strictly prohibited. You may, however, create threads and discuss about games unrelated to MU; do so in the Games Section. Breaking this rule will result in an automatic permanent ban from forums
5] Impersonation, or misrepresentation of any user, either staff member or not, and regardless the intent to benefit from it or not, is illegal under this rules. You will be banned permanently for taking upon this action.
6] Abusing your posting power is not allowed, and is called spamming. There are many ways to spam, and in order to avoid any problems please follow the next:
* Do not just think of post-count, think of post-quality. Remember that what you say is more important than how many times you can say stuff. Further, post-count doesn’t make you more important; important words make you important.
* Post accordingly to a thread’s topic, and stay on topic by all means possible. If your post is off-topic, you will be warned. If you continue with this posting behavior you will be infracted for spamming the forums.
* Post as needed! Double and plus posting, posting back to back, power-posting, and bumping are considered as spam. You will be infracted accordingly for posting in such manner.
* Do not irritate users. Spamming (or any other type of abuse of) a user’s Visitor Messages is prohibited. Warnings and/or Infractions will be assessed when needed.
* Bumping thread which has been inactive over a 4 weeks period is NOT allowed either, since the issues or discussions had long expired on them.
7] Abusing User Reputation is strictly forbidden. This includes any type of trading, manipulation or agreement to affect a user’s reputation either positively or negatively. At no exception whatsoever, reputation has to be given out only if a post or thread was helpful, useful, wise, or constructed for the better of forums in any other way. Furthermore, it is not allowed to spread reputation in the Guilds Recruit, Guild Hall, Foreign Languages, Spam Zone or Market Section of the Forum Board. Breaking this rule will result in the following consequences:
* The first offense is a warning or infraction.
* The second offense is half of Reputation Power removed and the disabling of Reputation function for a week.
* Third and final offense is all the Reputation Power removed and the disabling of Reputation function for a month. Every offense after this one will be punished as equal as a third offense.
8] Signature Rules are as follow: Signatures are based off a point system whereas the total points in a signature are 7 points. There are many combinations to distribute the points.
9] Please show ultimate respect to the GmasterMU Staff. The GmasterMU Staff and all of its members work voluntarily to service this community and provide fun free of charge. Any sign of disrespect to any of them will be punished accordingly. If you have a disagreement with any of them, you are more than welcome to discuss such by PM with the person. If you don’t wish to do so, or can’t sort things out, you can also refer to the person’s superior:
* In addition to the previously stated rule; There will be times when staff will contact you individualy to discuss matters of any given topic. Failure to keep this information private will result in punishment administrated by a senior staff member.
10] Every usage of offensive words or anything related to a bad behavior will be given a warning. At 2 warnings your Legend Tag will be disabled, permanently or for an amount of time (depends on how grave the situation was).
We will keep an eye especially on chatbox, not only on general forum posts.
11] Posting any obscene or inappropriate material is strictly not allowed in any part of the forum or used as signature/avatar/other profile image. This includes any gruesome, pornographic substance, female figure that has uncovered the areas of genitals/breasts/bottom or male figure that has uncovered the areas of genitals/bottom, sexual intention like very tight cloths or been in other ways highly suggestive and anything deemed unsuitable for this community forum, posts made unwisely and foolishly which is recklessly and irresponsibly done. At any rate, failure to abide with this will be given a warning/infraction or an immediate ban of 1 - 3 months depending on the level of obscenity.
12] Advertising other websites and/or encouraging others to do illegal actions such as some of the sites to make easy black money online or even worst things is not allowed.
13] Do not use other language than english. If you want to do that, you can go to the foreign languages sections.
If you host a thread in other language than english your thread will be moved to the right section. However if you post in other thread with a foreign language, you will be warned or infracted accordingly.
14]All legitimate events that had been authorized by the server will be posted under Special Events and its subforums. This section is open to anyone who intends to share his or her creations with other forumers, yet it will require approval and feedback from a senior prior to posting. While is allowed to either host, or participate in event outside of this section it shall be made clear that GmasterMU Staff will take no responsability in cases of fraud or scam.
NOTE: In addition to these GmasterMU Forum Rules, many Forum Sections may have their own specific rules posted in a sticky thread. It is your responsibility to read such rules before posting in that section. It is also your responsibility to be updated to changes and amendments done to this Forum Rules; please review them often.