Board-wide Policies

This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at www.crawlinaz.com. Please read it and become familiar with it.

Forum 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.
2. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way should be kept to a minimal.
3. Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a Moderator . Members who consistenly "act" as moderators may be warned.
4. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. must be marked and/or labeled with an % rateing for offenseiveness.
5. 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. Members are welcome to use the test forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. . Users posting in the test forum just to increase their post counts will be warned.
6. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.
7. The Administrator and Moderators 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 Moderators and not users.
8. 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.
9. Help build the Community.
   
   The success of our forums depends upon the quality posts of our participants. We are proud of the success of our forums and give our thanks to those who have chosen to make our forums their out-of-game home. To ensure continued success we are posting these guidelines so that all participants of the Crawlinaz forums understand what is considered unacceptable behavior in the forums and can result in a temporary suspension or a permanent ban.
10. You have the ability, as you register, to choose your username. We advise that you keep the name appropriate. With this user account you are about to register, you agree to never give your password out to another member, for your protection and for validity reasons. You also agree to NEVER use another member's account to post messages or browse this forum.
11. Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
12. While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts or the sort of 'ooh look, yet another bulletin board' threads. Also, we would appreciate it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other boards.
13. 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.

Signatures

1. Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6KB in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text.
2. Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts.
3. Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages or sites. Linked sites may be commercial in nature. Links are included in signature size limits. Users abusing these rules will be warned.

Avatars

1. Users are permitted to utilise a gallery avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be no larger than 120 pixels square, may not exceed 6KB in filesize and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).
2. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth.
3. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges

Policing

1. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences 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 get excessive a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
3. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the relevant Moderatror. If you feel their decision is also unfair you may contact the Adminstrator. Their decision is final. Contacting group members over warning matters should be done so as a very last resort .
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 rule applies when users contact Moderators 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 Crawlin Az may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurence.Board-wide Policies

   This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at www.crawlinaz.com. Please read it and become familiar with it.

   Forum 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.
   2. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way should be kept to a minimal.
   3. Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a Moderator . Members who consistenly "act" as moderators may be warned.
   4. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. must be marked and/or labeled with an % rateing for offenseiveness.
   5. 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. Members are welcome to use the test forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. . Users posting in the test forum just to increase their post counts will be warned.
   6. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.
   7. The Administrator and Moderators 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 Moderators and not users.
   8. 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.

   Signatures

   1. Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6KB in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text.
   2. Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts.
   3. Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages or sites. Linked sites may be commercial in nature. Links are included in signature size limits. Users abusing these rules will be warned.

   Avatars

   1. Users are permitted to utilise a gallery avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be no larger than 120 pixels square, may not exceed 6KB in filesize and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).
   2. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth.
   3. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges

   Policing

   1. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences 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 get excessive a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
   3. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the relevant Moderatror. If you feel their decision is also unfair you may contact the Adminstrator. Their decision is final. Contacting group members over warning matters should be done so as a very last resort .
   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 rule applies when users contact Moderators 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 Crawlin Az may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurence.