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Rule 1: Posting: Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Members are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning.; Top

Rule 1.1: Your message must add something of substance to the discussion: Do not post silly or incoherent messages, or one liners, just because you are bored, or for any other reason.; Top

Rule 1.2: You will not double post: You are able to edit your posts if you have additional information to add before anyone has responded. Simply click the EDIT button that appears next to your post.; Top

Rule 1.3: You will refrain from posting religious and political topics: Such topics are unwanted on these forums as they generally get out of hand quickly and lead to arguements and hatred amongst members. There are other forums on the Internet suited for exactly this type of discussion, and ask that you please conduct such discussions on those forums.; Top

Rule 1.4: No Topic Bumping: If a topic you created has no replies, you may not post again in it, although you may edit the post. If you made the thread because you need help with something, you may post again as long as you include additional information about your problem. The fact that you really really want it fixed does not count as additional information. You must post this in the same thread, and you are not allowed to create more than one thread per topic.; Top

Rule 2: Be Tolerant and Respectful Of Your Fellow Visitors: 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. Criticism of ideas and opinions is welcome, but you may not attack other pfutebol.com members in any way. You will find every opinion imaginable here, so you may want to find another forum if you are not able to keep your cool when someones viewpoint offends you. There are no excuses for breaking the rules. It doesnt matter if you were angry at the time and werent thinking straight. It doesnt matter if you were only kidding around. If you break a rule, it does the same damage, regardless of your reasons for breaking it, and you will be punished all the same. Please try to keep all discussions at most PG-rated.; Top

Rule 2.1: You will respect the personal privacy of others: Anyone who repeatedly violate these rules, intentionally or not, will be permanently banned from viewing or posting on pfutebol.com. Please do not post here at all if you disagree with anything in this message.; Top

Rule 2.2: RACISM AND DISCRIMINATION WILL NOT BE TOLERATED: We have found that religious and Politically motivated posts often lead to extremely tense situations and often result in bans or warnings. We ask that politics and religion be omitted out of respect to all of the members on the forum. You may not insult members based on their religion, race, sex, 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 catagory you insult. pfutebol.com is a place where everyone is equal, and discrimination will NOT be tolerated!; Top

Rule 2.3: No Bullying: Do not pick on other members. The worst kind of bullying is where new members are picked on. This hurts the member as well as the forum.; Top

Rule 3: Back Seat Staff: 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 staff. Please use the post report feature to report posts. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly act as moderators may be warned.; Top

Rule 4: Pornography/Offensive Text: 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. This includes nude pictures and unkindly acts. Such content does not belong on pfutebol.com. A censor system is in place as a backup. If you see words in your post being replaced with ****, you have done something wrong. Please edit your post and tone it down. To edit a post, click the Edit button. Cheating the censor system is against the rules.; Top

Rule 5: Copyright: Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Please source your information if possible.; Top

Rule 5.1: No Illegal Activity: You are not allowed to break the law using pfutebol.com. This can get pfutebol.com into legal trouble. Posting download links to copyrighted material is illegal, so this counts as a violation of this rule.; Top

Rule 6: Spam Is Not Tolerated: Please do not spam our forums. Our Moderators are able to ban users that are spamming to much! Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, solicitation etc. Recruiting members for your own projects (moderators, designers, professional MOD work, etc.) is not permitted and is also considered spam. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.; Top

Rule 7: You will not use the forum to advertise any product or site: Anyone caught posting unsolicited advertising on the forum, private messages, or pfutebol.com e-mail forms will be banned and reported to their internet service provider and/or site host. You may provide one discreet link to your site in your signature as long as its clear you are genuinely interested in contributing to the conversation. Please contact admin if you wish to advertise.; Top

Rule 8: Spelling, Punctuation and Grammer: 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.; Top

Rule 9: Topic Titles: Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic.; Top

Rule 9.1: You will not start a new topic if the topic already exists: Always search for an existing topic to reply to, and only start a new one if you are sure the topic hasnt been discussed recently. The internal search engine link is on the top every forum page.; Top

Rule 9.2: You will post your topic on the correct forum: With hundreds of messages posted every day, it is necessary to have several forums dedicated to the more popular conversation topics. Please think about which forum your topic belongs in before posting your message.; Top

Rule 10: Abuse of Moderative Powers will not be tolerated: As a staff member, your job is to help the people, not harm them. You may only use your powers for the purposes that they have been given to you for. There is no limit on how much you may be punished for this severe offense as this must be stopped at all costs to protect the people. This means that if you abuse your powers, there is a good chance you will be permanently banned.; Top

Rule 11: Staff Rights: The staff reserve the right to edit, remove or put on moderation queue any post at any time. Please note that guests who make a post are automatically placed in the moderation queue and will be approved/disapproved according to the present Rules. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users.; Top

Rule 12: Private Messaging: 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 revocation of private messaging, all private messages can be checked by the staff without prior consent should we feel you have broked any of the above rules.; Top

Rule 13: Lifting Content of the Forum: Any member who copies anything off this forum and uses it on any other form of media (eg Forum/emails/chat rooms/newsletters)without prior permission of the admin, will receive a warning.; Top

Rule 14: Fake Email: We will send a email to any potential new member to check its not a fake email, should it could back as undelivered we will delete the account as we will class you as spam and/or a trouble maker.; Top

Rule 15: Usernames: We reserve the right to ask you to change your username should we deem it to be too generic, inappropriate or not within the spirit of our forum, we will email you to ask you to select a new username.; Top

Rule 16: You will not publicly criticize the forum or its management: ll issues should be taken up by private messaging to the admin. The forum will not tolerate this, and failure to follow this rule will result in warnings and the posts will be moved.; Top

Rule 16.1: No Threatening to Leave the forum: You may not make posts threatening to leave the forum.; Top

Rule 17: No Hacking: This should go without saying, but you are not permitted to hack the forum. Guessing someone elses password and succeeding counts as hacking. Members who hack will instantly be permanently banned without any warnings.; Top

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