Rules

These rules are valid for every post in this forum without any exception. Please check your inbox for Private Messages (PM) daily because staff members of http://gamecentral.heavenforum.org/ usually communicate with you via PM.

1. By using this forum I accept its rules
By registering every user agrees to these terms and is obliged to follow them.

2. The staff members are allowed to change the rules anytime
The staff members of http://gamecentral.heavenforum.org/ are allowed to change the rules anytime but will gave a notice and/or special advertising.

3. The moderators keep the forum clean and peaceful
First of all the moderators are responsible for keeping the forum rules and ensuring polite discussions. Users who don't heed the rules will be warned, banned and/or deleted (4).

4. Users who violate the rules will be asked to heed the rules and if they violate the rules again, they will be admonished. Each admonishment involves a ban.
Moderators and administrators may permanently ban user accounts, if the moderator or administrator in question deems this necessary.

5. Creating multiple accounts on these boards is illegal and will result in deletion of the multi as well as possible infraction on the original account depending on rule violations committed by the multi.

6. Be Polite and respectful
Polite and respectful behavior is required. Flames and insults are not tolerated and will be punished (4).
Also excessive usage of colors, capitalization and spaces between words are not tolerated. NOTE: The use of white text, except in the case of using periods to meet the minimum character requirement, will not be tolerated.

7. Advertisements, spam, pornography, etc. are strictly forbidden
Exaggerated or commercial advertisements, spam, pornography, violent, disgusting, graphic or adult pictures, serious insults, inflammatory against persons or companies, radical political or inhuman posts or any other things or statements.

8. The same goes for external links who have such (7) content.
Mislabeling links to inappropriate sites is worthy of an automatic ban.

9. Avatars and signatures
The moderators are free to decide if the size and content of an avatar or a signature disturbs the clarity and usability of the forum or offends the forum rules. They will inform the user of the reasons and request the user change it immediately. If the user doesn't follow the request, the administrator will change or delete the avatar/signature and the user will be warned if needed (§2a).

Signature images found to be too large, distracting, or inappropriate may be removed without notice. Members with signature images found to contain inappropriate material (bad language, extreme violence, etc.) will be banned for no less than 1 week. Members with signature images found to contain pornographic images may be permanently banned.

10. Deputies are not tolerated
Only the moderators are responsible for the order of the forum. If you dislike something or see something which violates the rules, please report it. "Deputies" who are doing nothing but showing the rules or making comments like "close please", are not tolerated.
Only the thread starter may ask for closing, editing, deleting, or moving the thread.
Being a deputy only applies to publicly threatening or requesting bans, deletion, or any other act of moderating. Such requests are fine if they are done in private in a message to a moderator.

11. Threads should be posted in the correct forum
Before you post a thread, please have a look if you have chosen the right forum. Otherwise the thread will be moved or closed.

12. Moving topics
The moderators are free to move a thread into another forum without leaving a shadow topic or notice in the old forum.

13. Cross postings
Posting a topic in several forums ("cross posting") is not allowed, except for announcements by staff members of http://gamecentral.heavenforum.org/. Cross posts will be deleted and the user be warned if needed (§2a).

14. Editing posts
The users are obliged to edit their postings to avoid double postings.

15. Posting topics with same content
It is prohibited to open a new thread with the same topic (except when permitted by a moderator), when a moderator has closing the old one. Violations will be punished with warnings if needed (§2a).

16. The content of private messages doesn't belong into the forum
The content of Private Messages (PMs) other private conversations (ICQ, AIM,...) are not allowed to be posted in the forum without the permission of the author(s).

17. English is the only language allowed
All members of the http://narutofansite.friendhood.net/ forums are expected to be able to read and write in English. All posts must be written in English so that they may be understood by all forum members, including the forum staff, who is responsible for monitoring the content of the forum. The forum staff may edit or delete posts in other languages and warn or punish players who do not follow this rule (§2a).

18. Inappropriate language is not allowed
One or two swear words in a long post are acceptable but we do not want to see something like “for f**k’s sake what is this f**king a** ra**ping ba**tard f**king talking about… s**t?” – if we see something like this delete the post and send you a warning, if we see it a second time we will give you a ban for 1-2 weeks. If after your ban you come back and do the same you will get a longer ban. Also their is filter but users who attempt misspell words to evade the language filter to do so will be treated as if the actual word had been used without the language filter.

19. The http://gamecentral.heavenforum.org/ forum staff reserve the right to delete individual messages, posts and threads without giving notice but will gave the author a reason after if asked.

20. Forum bans are not to be discussed on the open forum. Any questions or comments related to bans must be privately discussed with a member of the forum staff.