Board-wide Policies This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at www.southafricanforum.com.au. Please read it and become familiar with it, it's terms are retroactive and agreed by team and group members. Back to top
Forum rules
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 (see policing below).
Members should post in a way that is respectful of
other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be
tolerated and will lead to a warning.
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 member of the Moderator
Team. Only do this if a moderator team member has not replied
within 6 hours. Do not respond to such topics yourself.
Members who consistenly 'act' as moderators may be warned.
Members should remember this board is aimed at a
general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text,
images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a
warning.
Members are asked to respect the copyright of other
users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information
on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permision
will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
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.
Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title
when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; 'Help
me!', 'I'm stuck!', 'I've got an error!', etc. Examples of good
titles include; 'Getting an TABLE FULL error upon login', 'Cannot
restore a backup', etc.
Members are welcome to use the test forum for
general 'test purposes'. These may include checking signatures,
testing a link or image, etc. (subject to previous points on
decency, warez, etc.). Users posting in the test forum just to
increase their post counts will be warned.
Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance.
This includes offering hosting services (charged and free),
installation services, etc. Users posting spam will be warned and
their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking
for more information.
The moderating, support and other teams 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 Team Members and not users.
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 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 (6000 Bytes) 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. Animated
images are not allowed.
Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and
normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as
posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth.
Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of
four unique pages or sites. Linked sites may be commercial in
nature. You may not link to warez, porn
or political, racist or other similar hate sites. Links are included
in signature size limits.
SouthAfricanForum operates a three strike policy. 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.
Arguing with team members after having received a
warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this
exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are
welcome to contact the relevant team leader, e.g. if warned by a
moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel
you were treated badly they remove a warning. If you feel their
decision is also unfair you may contact a Group member, primarily
SHS` or theFinn. Their decision is final. Contacting group members
over warning matters should be done so as a very last resort ...
group members do not want to be bothered unless vital.
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.
An exception to the three strike rule applies when
users contact team members personally (via any method) and post
insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to
an immediate permanent ban.
Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is
given before implementing them. While SouthAfricanForum may consider lifting
permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurence.
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