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GENERAL RULES:

Last Updated on: 20th of April 2007

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.

Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc.

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.

Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". 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.

Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Users posting spam will be warned or banned and their post removed.

Signing up with an invalid email address will automatically put you in a category of suspended or banned users and your registration will become a subject to removal. You may be also blocked from future access to this forum.

While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.

Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.

Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.

Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.

We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate TownofNorth.com community standards. The TownofNorth.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.

Discussion of illegal activities are not allowed.

Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.

We reserve the right to remove offensive posts and member profiles without prior notice.

If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English translation of your post.

Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.

You cannot post any affiliate or referral links (including links in your registration profile under "Website" in "Memberlist" and in your signature) or links that lead to click-through ads page(s), or post anything asking for a referral. Inactive, "Under Construction", blank page, "Not Found" or "dead" links are not allowed. Such posts and member profiles will be subject to removal.

You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests anywhere on this forum including your profile and signature.

We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules.

Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted.

ADVERTISING SERVICES:

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products or services. Explicit advertising and solicitating in signatures and member profiles and profile homepage links is also prohibited.

You should never give out your TownofNorth.com customer number or password to anyone, and you should not disclose server logins and/or passwords to anyone except through the TownofNorth.com support system. We can not take responsibility if you disclose this information to anyone else.

LINKING GUIDELINES:

Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided it is not a product or service that does not advertise or promote use of any kind of medicine or prescription drugs and it is not an affiliate program link for TownofNorth.com or any other affiliate program. We reserve the right to request removal (or remove them ourselves) of links from your profile and signature that we may consider inappropriate.

Members that do not contribute to the forum and those who do not actively participate in the forum are not allowed any kind of links in their registration profile under "Website" in "Memberlist" nor in signatures. We reserve the right to remove website links and signatures of those members who have not contributed to the forum in any way in the last 30 to 90 days.

A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial, does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) and is not linking to other commercial websites is allowed, provided the site is not a "dead" link, not sexual or does not violate TownofNorth.com community standards. The TownofNorth.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.

Duplicate links to the same URL are not allowed. That includes different URLs with the same root domain (first and second level domain).

Links that lead to or promote any of the following are prohibited:

Affiliate pages with ads (example: Google Ads)
Affiliate programs
Brutal violence
Coarse language
Cursing
"Dead" page/site
Disturbing images
Drug, alcohol and/or tobacco use
Ethno-cultural slurs
Gory scenes (visual depictions of bloodletting or tissue damage, as in a combat, horror, or surgical context)
Mature themes
Medicine, prescription or non-prescription drug sales
"Not Found" page/site
Nudity
Offensive language
Profanity
Racial slurs
Scatological slang and images
Sexual content
Sexual expletives
Sexual violence
Sexually explicit material
Spam (unsolicited advertising)
Substance abuse
Suggestive language
Suggestive scenes
"Under Construction" page/site
Violence
Vulgar expressions

All of the above applies to all linking methods including your website or homepage link in your profile and in your signature.

AVATARS:

Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry for inconvenience.

Avatars that promote any of the following are prohibited:

Brutal violence
Coarse language
Cursing
Disturbing images
Drug, alcohol and/or tobacco use
Ethno-cultural slurs
Gory scenes (visual depictions of bloodletting or tissue damage, as in a combat, horror, or surgical context)
Mature themes
Nudity
Offensive language
Profanity
Racial slurs
Scatological slang and images
Sexual content
Sexual expletives
Sexual violence
Sexually explicit material
Substance abuse
Suggestive language
Suggestive scenes
Violence
Vulgar expressions

Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.

USERNAMES:

Usernames that promote any of the following are prohibited:

Brutal violence
Coarse language
Cursing
Drug, alcohol and/or tobacco use
Ethno-cultural slurs
Mature themes
Nudity
Offensive language
Profanity
Racial slurs
Scatological slang
Sexual content
Sexual expletives
Sexual violence
Sexually explicit material
Substance abuse
Suggestive language
Violence
Vulgar expressions

Usernames that may be confused with official staff usernames are not allowed.


Sincerely,

TownofNorth.com Administration