Forum Rules - All Members Read

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If you're new to BuddyTV, be sure to check over our rules.

How Our Penalty System Works
There are four levels you can be put penalized with for breaking the forum guidelines. The level of punishment will be decided by the mod/admin depending on the severity of the problem:

• Warned: You will not lose any privileges or permissions when warned. This is simply a state in which you should be careful about your actions. If you're penalized and are already in the warning state, you will be moderated or muted (read on to learn more about these).
• Temporarily Banned: Temporarily blocks you from using this forum.
• Permanently Banned: Banning blocks you from using this forum. It is a last resort and is irreversible. If you follow the rules and use common sense you will never have to worry about this.

General Forum Courtesy
In order to keep the forum readable and organized, we ask that you do the following:

• Do not post in ALL-CAPS.
• Do not post off topic. Posts in a thread should have some relation to the subject.
• Give new topics a descriptive subject. "I have a question" is not descriptive. Your subject should give some insight into the purpose of your topic.
• Try your best to use proper spelling and grammar. While we understand that this may be more difficult for some members than others, we still request that you try your hardest to make your posts legible.
• There are different forum sections for a reason. Do your best to post your topics in the proper section.

Summary of the guidelines

• Sigs must be at or under 400x100 pixels and 50KB
• Avatars must be at or under 100x100 pixels and 50KB
• Do not post any pornography
• Do not go crazy with the emotes
• Do not double post
• Do not post anything racist
• Do not impersonate an Admin or Moderator
• Do not point out when a person breaks a rule
• Use common sense netiquette
• Be nice to the Admins and Moderators
• Do not make duplicate accounts

Sig and Avatar restrictions
Because not all members of the board have fast connections or high monitor resolutions, there has been a file and pixel limit placed on sigs and avatars. Avatars can be up to 50 Kb and 100x100 pixels big. Signatures can be up to 50 KB and 400x100 pixels big. Those who break this rule will not get a warning unless they've broken it several times, but they will have the offending sig/avatar replaced. Extremely offensive or inappropriate sigs or avatars will be removed at the administrator's discretion.


Link Spam
Links to other entertainment forums that are similar BuddyTV are not permitted. Links to pornography are also not permitted. These actions are known as trolling. Posters engaging in this type of behavior will lose their membership rights and be removed.


Flame-wars
Off-topic arguments or flame-wars will not be tolerated. If a flame-war takes place all parties involved will be penalized.


Intolerance
We do not tolerate racism, sexism, ageism, or the like in any form here on the forums. Use of intolerant language directed at an individual or group of people is not acceptable in any form.


Impersonating a Moderator or Administrator
The Moderator, Administrator, and other tags are to be used only by those who have earned them. Anyone who uses a tag without having earned them will receive a warning. Fake tags (preferably funny ones) are perfectly fine. Impersonating a mod or admin outside the forum (such as e-mail or IM) is also not acceptable.


Posting About an Infraction of the Rules
Do not post pointing out when a member breaks a rule. This is is off-topic posting and adds clutter. If you wish to help someone avoid a warning, PM them about the rule breakage.


Protesting a warning in public
If you receive a warning, do not make a thread or post about it in the forums. PM an admin if you feel you've received a warning in error.


Duplicate accounts
Do not create a duplicate account to subvert the actions of a moderator or administrator. If you do so, you will be banned along with your duplicate account.