Title: » Regulations & Guidelines
Description: LAST UPDATED - 12/10/07
Sabrina. - February 13, 2007 08:58 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 ratherbe called. If you don't cooperate, we'll ban you. Easy as.
[2] Be careful about which username you choose, because we won't change it unless you have a good reason.
Rules Regarding Artist Rankings;;
[3] Simply post your gallery in the member section, and someone will sort you within the month of posting. Put your newest stuff in, and put as much as you can in, and you're more likely to be promoted higher. 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 back 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, the admins will begin evaluating every gallery that has been posted in the sections, as longas it is active. [We require you to post a date at THE TOP of your gallery.] There are 6 different ranks that you can be promoted to, depending on your graphic making ability. [Read artist guidelines for further information.] The admins have the final decision, and have the power to demote you if they see necessary. The other staff members also have a strong input on to who moves up. It is advised that you keep your gallery up to date throughout the entire month, however, because we're always glancing through galleries anyway.
Rules Regarding Posting;;
[10] 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 admins and they will check it out. Also, if we hear anything about members abusing other members vis the PM system then we will be very angry and may do things you won’t like particularly much. In other words, play nice.
[11] Do not spam. 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.
[12] All advertisements must be kept to the identified advertising forum. If you advertise your site on our board, it is expected that you advertise our board on yours, or, at least have a place where we can post our advertisement without registering. If these rules are not kept to your advertisement will be deleted and we'll leave a note somewhere on your board informing you of it.
[13] 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 countsas advertising =]. [Read the CBOX Rules for further information.]
[14] Most of all enjoy yourself!
Additional Rules;;
[15] No personal pictures allowed, anywhere on the site, be it in requests or in your signature/icon. This is to protect you guys - if you want to willingly show your picture to others, in a designated topic, go ahead. But nowehere else, thanks.
[16] Don't rip anything from this site, and I mean it. We here at rcR are very nice and understanding people - but if you piss us off, that's that. We've got over 1,000 members here - and we would find out if you stole anything from our site, be it graphics, words or anything else. If it's ours, you've ripped it without permission. In doingso, your accounts here will be banned, including your IP adress, and we'll report it to IF. You'll also be confronted about it, and made to look like an idiot. Save us all the bother, right, and don't bother.
[17] 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', 'spaz' 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.