Read These Rules!

Subject: Read These Rules! Sun Mar 02, 2008 9:13 pm

Here are the Rules for the CP igloo forums

Swearing:
Please don't try to get around these swearing filters by putting symbols or stars instead of letters, you must never say a swear word. Don't even say lighter ones that you might not consider to be a swear word, as these milder ones can be offensive to other people.

Flaming:
Flaming is a fancy word for been mean and cussing, flaming could be when you call someone stupid, or something that isn't really nice. This is not tolerated, as well as swearing, and you could be in for a ban .

Advertising
Do not advertise on these forums, even if you are advertising another site that may not be property of yours, please do not link to any other sites. But, you may put pictures, or videos in posts, if you wish.

Personal Information
Do not give away ANY personal information, you don't know who is at the other side of a computer, a grown man could be your best friend on the other side, but don't tell anyone any personal information on these forums. These infos can include: City, town, village name, House number, Telephone number, Credit card numbers. And any others that you wouldn't tell a random stranger.

The use of personal messaging
Personal messaging is allowed here, but none of the above and belows rules are any different. Personal Messaging (Pm) is fine to use in a safe way, if you need to contact a moderator or admin about a problem forums, please use the forum entitled 'Forum help' if it is private or you don't want it known to other you may pm it. Remember that an admin can always trace pm so watch out!

Asking to be a mod!
Admins will chose mods, so asking will lower you chance a lot.

Double Posting
Double posting is when a forumer posts twice, one after the other. If you could not do this, as it can be used to boost your posts

Grammar
If you could use good grammar on the forums that would be great.

No bumping!
Bumping is when you post in topic that is more than a week old.You can check if it is too old by looking at the top of the previous post.

Amendment 1: by KMS (6/25)
Partially repealing the bumping rule
You may now bump in games, jokes and riddles, General chat, and hellos and byes.

Amendment 2: by KMS (10/1)
no Wide Spamming
No excessively long names or long posts so that the forum gets fat. It is a new rule, there are increased numbers of fat forums because of long posts in topics. So don't do that.