Forum Rules (Non-Register page version)

~~~ Admin edit: this topic is OUTDATED! You can find the latest version of the "offline" (non-Register page) Rules in this new topic: https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/t22990-forum-rules ~~~



Since I feel like we should have the rules somewhere usable/see-able by members, I'm suggesting they be in this post.

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- Aggressive or slanderous messages, as well as personal insults and critics, the coarseness and vulgarities, and more generally any message contravening the French laws are prohibited.
- Messages who promote - or evoke - illegal practices are prohibited.
- If you post informations which come from another site
, look first if the site in question doesn't forbid it. Show the address of the site in question in order to respect the work of their administrators!
- Please post your messages only once. The repetitions are unpleasant and useless!
- Please make an effort on grammar and spelling. SMS-style language (ex: r u sk8ing?) is not advised!

Any message contravening the listing above will be edited or removed without additional notice or justification within deadlines which will depend on the availability of the moderators. Any abuse will involve the cancellation of the registration. Internet is neither an anonymous space, nor a space of no-right! We reserve ourselves the possibility of informing your access provider and/or the legal authorities of any malevolent behavior. An IP address of each poster is recorded in order to help us to make you respect these conditions.

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Rules Update: 14-07-2013

To keep the Forum a nice and "clean" place for everyone, please abide by these rules. If you don't want to respect our rules, do not create an account. By registering your account, you're agreeing to our rules.


Here are our most important rules:

1. Do not double post or spam - Please edit your message rather than leaving another reply, if you are the last poster in a topic. Posting numerous replies in a row is considered spamming at this forum. Multiple posts in a row by the same author will be merged into one by a Moderator. We try to read all our posts, so "bumping" isn't appreciated and is considered spamming. If you feel that your problem has been overlooked, please PM a team member to notify the team, if you didn’t get a reply within 24 hours. No sooner than that though. Abusing this "system" will result in a warning or a mute. If you have more than one problem regarding the same game or software, keep everything in the same topic and DO NOT open more than one topic about the same problem with the game or software in question. Double-posting, spamming and/or posting your problem all over the forum will result in a warning and eventually a (permanent) ban! OPEN YOUR OWN TOPIC FOR YOUR OWN PROBLEM(S) AND DO NOT POST YOUR PROBLEMS IN OTHER TOPICS, even if seems like you're dealing with the same issue! 


2. DO NOT post ANY personal information - You may not post any personal information on this Forum. If you post personal information, despite this rule, your message will be edited by a Moderator or Administrator as soon as we can and you may get a warning or mute. If you keep posting personal information, we'll have to ban you eventually. We do care about privacy and due to the nature of what we do, we take this rule VERY seriously.


3. No Profanity, Obscene Content (including, but not limited to, Pornographic Content) and Inappropriate Language - Such content does not belong on this Forum. A censor system is in place as a backup. If you see words in your post being replaced with ****, you have tried to use a forbidden word. Please edit your post and tone it down. To edit a post, click the "Edit" button in the upper-right corner of your post. Cheating the censor system is against the rules.


4. No Advertising - You are not allowed to make money using this Forum. Do not use the member list to obtain user information to harass people to purchase a product from you. If you want to advertise something on this Forum, you must get permission from one of the Forum Administrators. If you advertise without permission, you may get a warning or a mute. Spamming your advertisement will usually result in a direct permanent ban.



5. No Hacking - You are not permitted to hack other's accounts nor the Forum. Guessing someone else's password and succeeding counts as hacking. Members who hack (or try to do so) will instantly get a permanent IP ban, without any warnings.




6. No outside links - Any links to content that has not been pre-approved by a member of our team will be censored. We don't want anyone to get in trouble after downloading something at our Forum and we will not take responsibility for downloads we haven't had a chance to review. This includes, but is not limited to torrents and .Sims3pack files. Genuine software (like GameBooster, drivers, etc.) is permitted, as well as content from Nraas, MATY and Modthesims. We would ask that you post a link to a page rather than a direct download link though, so users can review the material before deciding to download it.


7. No Discrimination or racism - You may not judge or insult members based on their religion, race, political beliefs, or sexual orientation. This is worse than flaming, because it hurts other users as well. This rule includes the use of words that are generally considered offensive or insensitive to certain groups of people.



[i]8. No Bullying - Do not pick on other members. Be patient and respectful to everyone, especially new users. Bullying doesn’t fit in to the spirit of our forum.
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9. Do a good search before asking something - Please use our search button, because almost all questions have been answered before. Also be sure to check out all the "Fixes" sections first, prior to posting your problem. If your problem is unique, or wasn’t fixed after reading other topics on the subject, feel free to open a new topic. Please try to post your topic in the appropriate section. No questions in the “fixes” section please, those topics are clearly marked with “do not post any questions in this thread” messages and any questions or problems regarding these fixes will be deleted.


If you break one of these rules, the following penalties will apply (first time, second time, third time...) with the exception of breaking the rule "No Hacking" which immediately results in a permanent IP ban:

1. Warning - Depending on how serious a violation is, you will be issued a warning first.
2. Muting - Muting for a certain time.
3. Temporary ban - People who cause more problems after being muted for a certain time, will be banned from the Forum for a certain time.
4. Permanent (IP) ban - At this point it is obvious that you're only here to cause problems, thus, a permanent ban is necessary to get rid of the problems you cause.



These rules will be updated when we think a new rule should be added. If you still have got any questions or suggestions, feel free to open a topic for your question(s) or suggestion(s) in our “Suggestion box”, located near the bottom of the Forum. If you want to report a post because you think it violates the rules, use the “!” button in the upper right corner of the post.


Thanks for keeping this Forum a nice and clean place for EVERYONE,

Also, there is no rule 7.

Edit: Updated to how Admin change around the Rule's on the Register Page.
Edit: Updated post to reflect Rule Changes on 26-1-2013.
Edit: Updated to have the rule 3 update I didn't do in previous edit.

Admin edit: Topic moved and Forum Rules updated. (17-7-2013)

- ADMIN




Mod edit: Topic moved from "Off-topic"-section to the basket, un-stickied, and locked. (01-03-2016)

- Carlos

Hehehe...

Anyway +1 here, this is needed.

I didn't see any none-pornographic stuff rule so either we start sharing pics of nude girls or you add rule number 7

Hello there,

Almogpas wrote:Hehehe...

Anyway +1 here, this is needed.

I didn't see any none-pornographic stuff rule so either we start sharing pics of nude girls or you add rule number 7

https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/register wrote:3. No Profanity, Obscene Content or inappropriate language - Such content does not belong on this Forum. (...)

I'll fix the rule 7 in a few minutes.

As for posting the rules, that would, indeed, be a good idea. The reason I probably never did so was because we already have so many "Global Announcements", which makes things a little bit messy. Besides, I don't think anyone would actually re-read the rules.

I'll see what I can do though. Perhaps any suggestions?

I put the link to this page in my signature, mainly because my signature was/is mostly empty anyway.

Admin wrote:Hello there,

Almogpas wrote:Hehehe...

Anyway +1 here, this is needed.

I didn't see any none-pornographic stuff rule so either we start sharing pics of nude girls or you add rule number 7

https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/register wrote:3. No Profanity, Obscene Content or inappropriate language - Such content does not belong on this Forum. (...)

I'll fix the rule 7 in a few minutes.

As for posting the rules, that would, indeed, be a good idea. The reason I probably never did so was because we already have so many "Global Announcements", which makes things a little bit messy. Besides, I don't think anyone would actually re-read the rules.

I'll see what I can do though. Perhaps any suggestions?

Profanity means offensive language. Obscene Content doesn't exacly means pornographic/sexual content, but actually it means the overall of Offensive Content, which can also be murder.

I think you should add 2 1 rule, no pornographical content (Not all know what obscene means anyway).
The 2nd rule touches me greatly because all around the world people find some time to post an anti-semical word about Jews like me or using the word "Nigger" to describe people with a darker shade skin Just add the words "No" and "Racism" in rule num.7 and you should be fine.

Almogpas wrote:

Admin wrote:Hello there,

Almogpas wrote:Hehehe...

Anyway +1 here, this is needed.

I didn't see any none-pornographic stuff rule so either we start sharing pics of nude girls or you add rule number 7

https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/register wrote:3. No Profanity, Obscene Content or inappropriate language - Such content does not belong on this Forum. (...)

I'll fix the rule 7 in a few minutes.

As for posting the rules, that would, indeed, be a good idea. The reason I probably never did so was because we already have so many "Global Announcements", which makes things a little bit messy. Besides, I don't think anyone would actually re-read the rules.

I'll see what I can do though. Perhaps any suggestions?

Profanity means offensive language. Obscene Content doesn't exacly means pornographic/sexual content, but actually it means the overall of Offensive Content, which can also be murder.

I think you should add 2 1 rule, no pornographical content (Not all know what obscene means anyway).
The 2nd rule touches me greatly because all around the world people find some time to post an anti-semical word about Jews like me or using the word "Nigger" to describe people with a darker shade skin Just add the words "No" and "Racism" in rule num.7 and you should be fine.

Hello,

In my opinion "Obscene Content" is clear enough. And anyone who thinks he/she can join a download/gaming Community and post that kind of stuff...- Doesn't know Admin yet.
Anyhow, as for the racism part, I think 6 and 7 are clear in that:

https://games4theworld.forumotion.com/register wrote:
7. No Discrimination - You may not insult members based on their religion, race, political beliefs, or whether they are gay or straight. This is worse than flaming, because it also hurts other members of the Forum who fall into the category you insult. You may have fun on the Forum, but if you think a post contains discrimination, please report such posts, using the '!' in the upper-right corner of the post.


8. No Bullying - Do not pick on other members. The worst kind of bullying is where new members are picked on. This can hurt the member.

It's not like if the rules don't say anything about "No racism", we automatically approve discrimination and/or racism.

Of course not but, please agree with me that not everyone that joins a gaming community forum is born with a dictionary in hand is over the age of 16.

Anyone below age 16 is likely to ignore rules without clear meanings, I know that because I'm currently testing it myself for my Psychology Tesa.

Hello,

It's not a problem for me, takes me a minute to edit anyway. If it makes you feel better, what do you think:

Forum rules wrote:3. No Profanity, Obscene Content (including, but not limited to, Pornographic Content) and Inappropriate Language -
Such content does not belong on this Forum. A censor system is in place
as a backup. If you see words in your post being replaced with ****,
you have done something wrong (Or sometimes the system is wrong). Please
edit your post and tone it down. To edit a post, click the "Edit"
button in the upper-right corner of your post. Cheating the censor
system is against the rules.

7. No Discrimination or racism
- You may not insult members based on their religion, race, political
beliefs, or whether they are gay or straight. This is worse than
flaming, because it also hurts other members of the Forum who fall into
the category you insult. You may have fun on the Forum, but if you think
a post contains discrimination, please report such posts, using the '!'
button in the upper-right corner of the post.

Updated my post to reflect the rules again, just noticed you managed to unbold Rule 7's title.

Perfect!

t2sink wrote:Updated my post to reflect the rules again, just noticed you managed to unbold Rule 7's title.

Hello there,

I didn't, that happened when copy + pasting, don't ask me why.