The Law

Member Conduct

You agree that you will not use this service to perform the following actions:

1. Offensive Posting

Posts of an offensive nature are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Using vulgar, profane, or genderually explicit language
  
• Using race, religion, genderual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a means of insult.
  
• Using genderual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or form.
  
• Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language.
  
• Posting or requesting links to or material from ponyographic, obscene, or hate-speech web sites.
  
• Posting links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a clear warning.

2. Censor Bypassing

NED RP's message boards use a swear filter, which censors certain offensive words. Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed. This applies to topic titles and user information pages also.

For example, if "nigga" is a banned word:

• Not allowed: n-i-g-g-a, nig*a, n****.

3. Flaming (Insulting Other Users)

Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")
  
• Direct insults ("Screw you")
  
• Offensive orders ("Go f*** yourself")
  
• Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")

4. Trolling (Inciting Flames)

Posts intended solely to annoy and/or offend other posters by going against the clear nature of a board or topic are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Provoking other users to respond with flames
  
• Making misleading topic titles
  
• Asking obviously useless questions

5. Illegal Activities

Posts that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, asking for or providing, in any way, shape, or form:

• Illegal copies of copyrighted software (ROMs, Warez)
  
• Methods of circumventing copyright protection (Cracks, CD Keys, mod chips, bios)

6. Spamming

Posts that clearly advertise a service or product are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Unsolicited commercial or personal web site advertisements
  
• For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices
  
• "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes
  
• Advertising for another message boards or anime streaming sites.
  
• Users are allowed to include a web site address in a signature, request comments on their personal site in a social setting, or providing only once an interesting or relevant link to another site.
  
• Posting to get your post count higher is strictly banned. If you have something to say and you were the last to post, then just edit your post and say what you have to say.

7. Off-Topic Posting

The main purpose of the NED RP's Message Boards is to provide a discussion forum. Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all boards, so take the extra time to post on the proper board.

8. Disruptive Posting

Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited, to:

• Message posts or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally
  
• Large blank or content-free posts
  
• Bumping old or "dead" topics without a reasonable cause
  
• Posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" topics
  
• Topic titles or posts consisting of all or mostly capital letters (Images cannot be larger than 600 pixels wide).
  
• Intentionally hard-to-read posts (i.e. using all, mostly, or alternating capital letters; using no spaces, capital letters, or punctuation)
  
• M/S's forums are all English-language forums, except for the Guild, Introductions, and Off-topic areas.
  
• Flooding the board with multiple disruptive topics or posts
  
• Posts that are not easily replied to, or are "chat room" style replies (This is a forum, not a chat room. As such all posts must provide content in which they can be replied to. As a general rule of thumb, if your post is less than four words long it probably falls in this category.)

9. Impersonation

Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for impersonating other boards users by creating and/or using a message board account with a name clearly intended to impersonate, mock, or antagonize another user, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another message board member.

10. Harassment/Stalking/Privacy

Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of an creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of explicit or implicit threats is strictly prohibited. Posting private information without permission is also prohibited.

11. Unauthorized Access

Accessing or attempting to access any NED RP user account not belonging to the user in question without permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for immediate loss of all known accounts.

12. Bugs and Exploits

Using exploits or tricks in the NED RP code to gain privileges, access, or abilities not clearly intended by the board design is prohibited. While you are more than welcome to try and find any exploits away from the public eye, making them public or using them for personal benefit is grounds for immediate loss of all known accounts.

Forum Terms Violations

Topics and message posts that violate the TOS will be deleted from the boards, and additional penalties may be applied at the moderator's discretion. Re-posting deleted violations (yours or those of others) is also considered a violation.

Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of NED RP and its designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of NED RP and its designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by NED RP and whoever it designates as moderators. You agree that the decision of the moderators and administrators is final, and you may not legally contest their rulings.

Intentional, repeated, or severe violations are cause for the banning of your account, all use of the boards from your IP address or your entire ISP, and NED RP contacting your ISP or other relevant parties concerning your activities.

These rules were not of my own. I do not take full credit for the format of this post.