Below are the rules and guidelines of this forum. All of these rules apply to ALL PARTS of the forums! We expect all to read and abide by them. Otherwise, something bad will happen to your account.

Behavior
Behavioral guidelines are to keep everybody's experience here a pleasant one. Remember the Golden Rule: Do onto others as you want done onto you. Thus, be nice and everyone will be nice to you.

1. Please be polite, courteous and respectful of other members. That means, no personal attacks or insults on another member. While you may not share the same opinions, there is absolutely no reason you should resort to personal attacks on someone else. Anything of this nature will not be tolerated. You will only be warned once. Afterward, you will be banned. If you have an issue with another member, please bring it to the attention of an Administrator.

2. Please use correct spelling and grammar. While we realize not everyone is an English speaker, please try your best to follow the rules of good speech and writing. That means, try not to use tYpInG lIkE tHiS, l33t sp34k, or similar.

3. No flames or wars. This is in accordance to rule #1. If you start or participate in war, you will be subject to whatever the Administrators and Moderators deem appropriate. Enough said.

4. No character bashing! Just say good things, okay? Offending, torturing, saying hateful comments against another character, biased comparison of characters is an absolute NO-NO.

5. Do not create hateful topics! That's forbidden and will be punished.

6. No spam(read the spam definition). Except in the spam forum. There is only one place spam is allowed and that is here. Otherwise, no spam is allowed in the forum. Stay on topic. Say something of substance. If you are caught excessively spamming, you will be made read-only (meaning, no more posting!).

7. Try not to use profanity. Let's keep it clean here.

8. Do not insult the Administrators or Moderators. If you have a problem with a staff member, you can bring up the issue with the Administrators. If you make a post insulting a staff member, you will be banned automatically. You can bring up issues anonymously here.

Your Control Panel
Below are a few guidelines having to do with your control panel:

1. You can have an avatar up to 150x150 in size. Anything larger will be rejected. If you wish to have an animated avatar which is larger than 50KB you can use a remote avatar by linking it externally to sites like Imageshack and TinyPic.

2. Your signature has been limited to 500 characters. You can have a maximum width of 500px and a maximum height of 300px for Images in your signature. You cannot have more than 3 links in your signature. Also, try not to use big and blindingly colorful fonts.

3. Administrators reserve the right to edit your signature if we deem it inappropriate.

4. You can choose a smiley set in your profile settings. There are currently 7 custom sets.

Posting Guidelines
While each forum will have its own set of unique posting guidelines, keep in mind some general things which apply to EACH and EVERY part of the forum:

1. When posting a topic, use a descriptive and relevant subject line.

2. Don't start a thread with just one sentence or question. Try to engage fellow members in conversation. Say something important and ask for feedback. Start conversations, not "yes/no" questions.

3. Please don't use polls excessively. If this feature is abused, your ability to create polls will be taken away.

4. Do not attach/upload/post anything illegal (music, videos, etc), its ok however to share links to Medias hosted in external sites.

5. Mark all spoilers. Not everyone read/watch as much as you and you don't want to make them lose their fun by reading, do you? Use spoiler tag to hide spoilers in a post. If the topic you're posting has lots of spoilers, say so in both the subject and the first paragraph of your post.

6. Do not double post. There is a "edit" post feature so be sure to use it! All double posts will be deleted and excessive double posting will get warned!

7. Do not post very large images (more than 640x480) in a post. If the image is larger, post a thumbnail or just the link. We don't want our forum to be veeeeeery slow, do we?

8. Do not post redundant topics. Check if there isn't already a similar topic posted, coz chances are there is. If there was a thread started like a month ago on a similar topic, reply to that one instead of starting a new one. Only when you have something new to discuss, start a new topic. 'Double topics' will be deleted.

9. If you're posting screenshots or pictures larger than 640x480px, make sure it's either thumbnailed or post only link. Consider image hosting options like ImageShack, Photobucket or just use 'Upload to TinyPic' option found while creating/replying to topics

10. Do not claim someone else's artwork/product/piece as your own.

11. Always credit where appropriate, whether it be the artist, scanner, or owner. If you want to post something someone else made, please give proper credit by linking or putting their official name/username.

12. Do not direct link (unless it's something like Photobucket or File Hosts) unless you have a permission to do so.

Rules regarding Different Password Protected Clubs :

1. Only the authorized members with the password can access those clubs/sections.

2. The existing member are not to give the password to other members without the consent of the Council Members (Moderator) / Class Representatives (Staff Members).

3. Only the Council President/Vice President/Members and Class Representatives can access the clubs without being the member of the clubs.

4. If any existing member enters the club from another account using the password then he/she will be banned.

5. If any unauthorized member hacks and enters the club without receiving the password from a Council Member (Moderator) / Class Representative (Staff Member) then he will be banned.

6. If any Council President/Vice President/Member and Class Representative enters a club/section and behave in a rude way/hurt the feelings of the people in that club then he/she will be punished.