General Rules and Regulations

THE ENGLISH COMMUNITY FORUMS GENERAL RULES & REGULATIONS

Disclaimer: By registering to the site you're to abide with the General Rules and Regulations set forth. Failure to abide by these rules can result in suspended or banned membership. If any of the rules below are abused, the offending post may be removed without prior notice and that if you repeatedly violate any of the rules below or otherwise seek to disrupt the forums, Admin will disable or delete your account.

1) Execution of Spam is forbidden. A spam can occur if:

• Posting statements over and over again which does not alter/change what you had mentioned earlier

• A one-liner post wherein the post contains less than 4 words which doesn't contribute to the discussion and seldom to satisfy the need to increase his/her post count

• An off-topic response wherein the response to the discussion is not anymore related to the aforementioned topic/subject

• A smiley response wherein the post only contains a variety of emoticons
  which don't give worthwhile comment thus execute a spam

• Chit/chats/text messagng responses wherein the posts do not contribute to the topic. For example, g2g,brb, I'm OL, cul, gus2, etc

• Posting useless/senseless responses which do not contribute anymore to the discussion making it adverse.

Exception: Some threads may not consider this rule. It will be advisable that you are guided by the guidelines stipulated by the thread.

2) Personal attacks, rudeness, flaming, trolling, baiting, insults to others, or arguments will not be tolerated. Challenge others' points of view and opinions, but do so respectfully and thoughtfully.

Flaming is a searing message in which the writer attacks another participant in overly harsh, and often personal, terms.
Trolling is to deliberately post derogatory or inflammatory comments in order to bait other users into responding.


3) Controversial topics, such as politics and religion, must be discussed with respect for others. If the above rules are broken in discussions on controversial subjects, these subjects will be prohibited.

4) Respect Administrators/Moderators/Staffs, they are authorized individuals in the forum so they shall take appropriate actions whenever possible. Disrespecting towards them may result to banned membership.

5) Text messaging format post, All caps, and sticky caps/Toggle case is strictly forbidden it will just make the discussion ambiguous which can result into adversed ideas.

6) Multiple Posting is forbidden yet reposting is permittable

7) Forumers having multiple accounts is forbidden. Forumers abusing this rule may lead to giving up one of his/her account and retain the other one. It is also possible to ban a member if he/she still continue to execute the offense.

8) English is the primary language of the forum thus everyone is required to converse in English (Local boards are spared from this rule)

9) Posting images/videos that are sexually-oriented and/or shows violence will be removed unnoticeably. Therefore, we don't advise our forum users to post some.

10) Use appropriate Avatars and Signatures considering the size and the content of the Avatar and Signature.

• Avatars: Maximum size of 100x100 pixels

• Signatures: Maximum of 500 x 150 pixels either Animated or not must have a minimum size of 300kb. Having multiple signatures are forbidden. We don't advise forumers that have sginatures with MP3 audio, video, flash and audio for they can affect forum stability.

11) A sanction is right away impose whenever a forumer violates depending
on the gravity of the offense. The offenses are imposed by the Administrators.

12) No trolling proviking our forum users that would lead to giving vehement/violent responses to the discussion.

13) No Flaming posting forms of insults must be observe in the forums.

14) No Bashing posting Responses that are harsh and damaging attacks on a subject/person are forbidden.

15) Post content in the appropriate forum

16) Do not start threads directed solely towards another user. Use the private message function to contact individuals

17) Everybody is oblige in following the Forum General Rules and Regulations. Administrators/Moderators are always on duty to attend to your need. They may execute appriopriate actions if a forumer violates. Forum users are allowed to inform politely our forum users that may neglect some of the rules stated.

18) Any forms of advertising of sites to any member without Administrators' full knowledge shall be dealt with accordingly and might result to a banned membership.

General Forum Etiquette:

• Posting all Caps and Sticky caps are forbidden

• Be respectful of other board members views and opinions

Note: The forum's Rules and Regulations is subject to change without prior notice. We advise everyone to have the interest in checking this page for updates.



Dates of Updation:

April 20, 2013

Wow.. nice Rules.. this one should be
followed.. to prevent the banning..

Hope you guys, follow these Rules..

Rules and Regulations has been updated as of October 8, 2008...