Title: Regulations & Guidelines
Description: updated 1/31/10
prosper. - March 4, 2009 06:15 PM (GMT)
Rules Regarding Registering
1. Your username of choice cannot be extremely offensive. If we decide it is too offensive or inappropriate you will change it and you will receive a warning. Nothing rude please folks, let's be mature about this, hey? If you register as ur_a_whore or whatever, we'll PM you and ask you what you'd rather be called. If you don't cooperate, we'll ban you.
2. Be careful about which username you choose, because we won't change it unless you have earned enough RGP for a name change.
3. You MAY NOT register multiple usernames. Each person may have one. If you are caught with multiple usernames you will be warned. If you are caught requesting on multiple usernames, you will be banned.
Rules Regarding Artist Rankings
3. Simply post your gallery in the member section, and someone will most likely sort you within the month of posting. I say most likely, because the staff is sometimes busy and might get around to it in exactly a month. Also, be sure to check and see if you need to fill out a form to be considered for a promotion. DON'T PM anyone saying “Can I be promoted?!?!?!!?!?!?!” You will be ignored, and if you try it twice we’ll warn you.
4. If you’re not completely satisfied with the artist category you’re sorted into, do not just PM the person who sorted you and abuse them. Do not PM another admin asking to be resorted. If you really have an issue with the group you’re sorted into then just politely PM the admin who sorted you and state that you’d like to be group evaluated. What will happen then is the all of the admins will review your gallery and will vote whether or not to change your status. After this has happened if you’re still not happy with your ranking, then too bad, live with it.
5. Promotions, yeah, we all know you want to hear how this works. Promotions work on a month by month basis. Towards the end of each month, an admin will make a post here alerting you to promotions. In that post will be the rules and requirements for that month.
6. Graveyarding. This is something that goes along with promotions. When a gallery is deemed inactive it's sorted to the graveyard in order to avoid clutter. Graveyarding happens once every month. There will always be a thread posted in the Newsletter area letting you know the specific rules for graveyarding each month.
Rules Regarding Posting
7. You are not permitted to insult other members, especially if the insult is based on or targeting someone's race, religion or political views. If you have a genuine, fair issue with a member, you may direct your issue to one of the staff and they will check it out. DO NOT take it into your own hands. I promise it will end badly. The staff is here to help you. Use us. Also, if we hear anything about members abusing other members via the PM system then we will be very angry and may do things you won’t like particularly much. In other words, play nice.
8. Do not spam. (The exception is in specific spam topics) If you spam you will be warned, but you will find that the administrators have a very short tolerance level for spammers. If you find a topic is getting too far off track then take it elsewhere. Oh, and one more thing: The edit button is your friend, use it. Double posts are not allowed - especially not when updating your gallery.
9. All advertisements must be kept to the identified advertising forum. If you advertise your site on our board, it is expected that you will place our button on the forum. Further rules can be found in the advertising area.
10. Please keep your signature sizes limited to 500 x 200 px or less, and the amount of buttons you place in your sigs to a minimum. This way we can keep threads relatively neat and aligned while not being overwhelmed by giant signatures.
NEW RULE: 10a. Advertisements in signatures are limited to button size, with one button per site. They may not be your full signature (i.e. 500x200), and you may not have multiple buttons advertising one site.
11. Absolutely NO spamming or inappropriate conduct in the C-Box. Also no posting links to other sites in the C-Box, invisionfree or not. We are not trying to accuse anybody or point fingers, but this is just added as a general warning. We have been lax about this, but starting now if we see anything that may be even a toe out of line, we'll take it away forever no questions asked. It is supposed to be used as a quick communication tool so you can talk to the other members, nothing more or nothing less. Also, don't beg/advertise your requests in there, that counts as advertising =]. [Read the CBOX Rules for further information.]
12. Most of all enjoy yourself!
Additional Rules
13. No personal pictures allowed, anywhere on the site, be it in requests or in your signature/icon. This is to protect you guys. There is one exception: a designated topic in general chat has been made for exactly this sort of thing. But nowehere else, thanks.
14. Don't rip anything from this site, and I mean it. This includes, graphics skins, ideas, writing, codes, anything! We have a no tolerance system here. You will be banned, reported to invisionfree, and then reported to other major websites/forums. It's not fun for anyone. Just avoid it.
15. Keep offensive words to a minimum, please. The occasional swear word - okay. But please avoid using words which could be in any way discriminative of certain people. Therefore - words such as 'gay', 'retarded', etc and other similar ones aren't really accepted here. Please try to lessen your use of them here if you're someone who uses those words often.
Rules Regarding Requesting
The full list of rules regarding the request section can be found here.