Rules and Guidelines

NB: All Members should show respect to all other members at all times. Be advised that you should also not assume the worst about what anyone posts either in the forum or on the chatbox.

The Forum Guidelines

You may not use the Forums to:

* Transmit any unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, or racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable content.

* Post or transmit sexually explicit images or other content that is deemed by the administrators or moderators to be offensive.

* Impersonate any person including, but not limited to, an administrator or Moderator.

* Post or transmit chain letters or pyramid or money schemes.

* "Spam" by posting frequent and/or annoying messages in the forums.

* Use inappropriate language.

* Create multiple accounts.

Please find below examples of what the above activities may consist in.

Offensive or Damaging Links
Users who post links to "browser bombs," which open multiple windows or sites with offensive content, will be banned.

Harassment
Harassment occurs when a Forums user targets another individual to cause distress, embarrassment, unwanted attention, or other personal discomfort. We do not condone harassment in any form. While you may disagree with someone's point of view, personal attacks, or attacks based on a person's race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disablement, or other such affiliation are prohibited. If you have a disagreement with someone's point of view, address the subject, not the person.

This also extends to likenesses, threatening to, or actually using images of others within photoshop is strictly prohibited within this forum. IF you actually publish any of this material on here, that will result in an instant ban... the only exceptions are where the user in questions has given previous consent IN PUBLIC.

Sexually Explicit Images
EuroSpore prohibits the transfer or posting of sexually explicit images or other content deemed offensive by the administrators and moderators. In addition to the sanctions mentioned above, you may be subject to civil liability and/or investigation and prosecution by law enforcement.

Impersonation
This can involve the use of another persons identity. This includes Moderators and Administrators.

Chain Letters or Pyramid or Money Schemes
Transmission of chain letters or pyramid schemes of any kind is not allowed in the Forums. These materials are considered a nuisance by many users, and certain chain letters and pyramid schemes may be illegal. Users who create Posts for commercial purposes or any Posts that are designed to generate money for themselves will be sanctioned.

Spamming
Your access to the Forums and/or to the Site may be terminated for posting frequent and/or annoying messages in the Forums. An example is posting the same message to multiple Forums.

This also includes Smilie spam within the chatbox. The only time this is exempted is with the addition of smiles - spam is then tolerated for testing and excitement purposes for several minutes, however, after this period, it is NOT tolerated.

Bumping and Necroing
Threads are bumped because they have fallen low down on the lists, both within the forum and on the Latest Topics. Please refrain from bumping any thread that has not been posted in, in the last 24 hours. It is also helpful if you leave thread bumping to the OP Holder (unless allowed by said person).

Any thread that has not been posted in for over 4 weeks can be considered dead (unless stated not to be with the OP or last post). Necroing is considered bad form, but is not specifically against forum rules. Please only necro if it is necessary, continual necroing is considered spam which is against guidelines.

Miscellaneous
This forum does not condone

-double posting (unless this is explicity allowed in the rules of some threads).
-Excessive use of smilies.
-Use of text or 1337 speak.
-Overuse of CAPS, this is considered to be shouting.
-Embedded Flash, people should have the choice to listen or watch.
-Sharing Private Messages without the sender's consent.

Signatures and Avatars

• Avatars are limited to 150x200

• Signatures should be kept within 640x350

All of these rules also apply to Private Messages, if someone uses PM's to break the rules, please inform a Moderator or Admin so that the offense can be dealt with.

We keep full rights to change and/OR edit any of the above statements and rules, that apply to every single member of the forum.[list][*]

Many users have requested changes to their name for various reasons, so here are a few guidelines on this process.

1) You will only be granted ONE name change without question.
2) Do not continually ask for name changes.
3) Do not ask for your username to appear in a different colour, there are proper processes to go through for this. This will be outlined later.
4) Any further name changes will be considered on an individual basis.

ALL Name Change requests are to be forwarded to an Admin via a Private Message. Alternatively, you may use this thread.

Colour Changes

Orange: The default name colour
Cyan: This is the default colour for all members of The European Club (elligibility is based on where you were born, where you live and/or the nationality of your parents)
Yellow: This will be granted to you automatically upon attaining a certain forum points score, this is dependent upon loyalty however, so just because you have attained this score, does not mean you WILL get this.
Light Green: This is attained by being a representative of another club or Video-Game related forum. The club or forum must have at least 50 members.
Green: This is attained if you help keep the forum running smoothly. This is offered to you.

Moderators and and Administrators are even more exclusive and the chances of reaching this are minimal to zero.

Usernames that have changed.

Aap --> Aieru
alien7249 --> Shadow
axell13 --> Rikyudoo
Blazeer --> Blaze
Froststar --> Frostmoon
Icedmask --> Iroh --> Icedmask
NGC --> NGin
Rebecca1208 --> SuperLoki
Reyes1 --> LordRemington
xDoomsoulx --> Xaesheir
Jakster --> Vereor
TheHiveMind --> Pikachu
GM --> geekus_sapiens
Storm --> Mr. Dr. Prof. Walrus
possum95 --> Dormin
Ghost --> Illusionary
Banzai --> Iridescence
OneWarmSlime --> OneDeadSlime
Omnivex --> Vago
34j6_3 ---> TheEmilion
Trickatel --> Trick
Lonestar4 --> Lord_Lonestar
Thomas1134 --> Aletrius

These are the new, updated colors:


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