Forum Wide Rules

Language
Please keep the use of offensive language to a minimum. We are here for people of all ages, and want everone to feel comfortable.

Spamming and Trolling
We do not tolerate spamming or off-topic trolling in any forum. If you do this, you will be warned once, and any further abuse will result in your account being deactivated.
Please stay on topic.

Be Nice!
We pride ourselves in being a tight-knit community that polices itself well, and we want to keep it that way.

Adult Content
No adult content of any type, including images or depictions. Kids visit these forums, and there are plenty of other places to talk about this stuff.

Junk Posting
No posts just to post. This includes topics like 'let's tell a story post by post' as well as tacking on garbage to the end of a thread that has ended.

Name Calling/Attacks
No attacking or name calling. This includes talking about groups of people, not just individuals.

Hate Speech
No hate speech. This will simply not be allowed.

Baiting
No baiting. Dropping things in the forums just to stir the waters will not be tolerated.

Topic Changing
No derailing of threads because you don't agree with their content. If you don't like what you read, find a different thread. Don't take it off topic because you don't like it.

Actions
Don't be stupid. If you can't be mature, find somewhere else to post.

Disclaimers

Changes
The administrators reserve the right to add, modify, or remove any of these rules at any time. Rule changes apply to past, current and future posts.

Disputes
Administrators have the final say in any rule dispute.

Punishments

First infraction
depending on the severity of your infraction, you will either receive a warning or a short ban.

Second infraction
if you made a second minor infraction you'll receive a final warning or a ban that will last 12 hours.

Third infraction and beyond
if you only continue to make minor infractions, they'll eventually increase your ban length but you wont be perma banned, major infractions will increase your ban length considerably and eventually a perma ban.