Please read this post before posting and become familiar with it, its terms are retroactive. It clarifies the various responsibilities of community members here at Silver Dragon Breath dragon forums


General


1. A post should be placed in the relevant forum so please read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).

2. A post should contain text that is respectful of other users so no flaming or abusing users. The user will be warned.

3. These forums are aimed at a general audience, including children. Because of that, posting pornographic, sexually oriented, obscene, vulgar, slanderous hateful, discriminating, indecent or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated. Such text, images, links, etc. will be removed, the user’s account will be deleted and the user will be permanantly banned.

4. These forums aren't advertisement boards so posts that can be seen as pure advertisement will be removed and the user will be warned, unless those posts are placed in the Members site show off forum. The general rules and the site show off rules are applicable (one show off for active members only).

5. Posts may contain a single image. Advised is an image of no more then 500px wide, 500px high and 20KB (20000 bytes) in size. Larger or heavier images in posts can be removed if they slow down the forum to much. The user will be notified and will be asked to resize the image if such is the case. If the user refuses to cooperate, the image will be removed and user will be warned.

6. Images that can be seen as pure advertisement will be removed, the user will be warned.The judgement is up to the Administator or the Moderator.

7. The copyright of other users, sites, media, artists etc. must be respected. Posts, signatures, images or avatars containing copyright infringement will be removed. The user will be warned.

8. Direct linking or hotlinking to an image on someone else's server without permission of the owner to do so is not allowed. It's called theft of bandwidth. If such is found out, the link will be removed. The user will be warned.

9. Links or referrals to other sites in posts are allowed if needed to illustrate the post or the topic. Non-illustrative links or links that can be seen as pure advertisement, will be removed without further notice. Links to commercial, political, religious or offensive sites will be removed without further notice.The judgement is up to the Administator or the moderator. The user can be warned.

10. Spam is not tolerated here. Posts like "yeah”, “you’re right”, me too" etc. also constitute spam if no reasonable arguments are given. Such posts will be seen as pointless actions, only to increase one’s post count and will be deleted without further notice. Same policy will be used on bumping one’s own topic (replying to your own post when no other member has replied yet). If no other member has replied to your topic, the topic obviously isn’t (yet) interesting enough for other members and bumping won’t make it any more interesting. It would be a better idea to simply remove your topic or edit it to make it more interesting to other members. Chatspeak is not allowed here. It is spam. The poster has to use propper punctuation, correct words and correct grammar/spelling. The spam post will be removed and the user can receive a warning.

11. Non dragon-related topics can only be posted in "General discussions" or in "Debate" in case of a statement. Such topics will be moved without further notice if placed elsewhere.

12. The Administrator reserves the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to the Administrator.



Username


1. A username must start with a letter from the alphabet and cannot contain any other characters.
2. The username must be a decent name, suitable for a general audience (obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, sexually-oriented, discriminating etc. names are not allowed).
3. The account of a user offending these username-rules will be deleted without further notice.



Signatures


1. Signatures may contain up to three lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 400px width) of text (of small or normal size).

2. Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, etc.

3. Links to non-commercial dragon related or fantasy sites are permitted in signatures. Links are allowed within the text limits as mentioned above. Links to political, religious or offensive sites will removed without further notice. The judgement is up to the administrator.

4. A small image is allowed. Banners (small or large) to other sites aren't allowed.

5. Users abusing these signature rules will be warned.



Avatars


1. Registrated users can use an avatar fron the gallery or link to one legally hosted by another server. Theft of bandwidth will lead to a warning.

2. The avatar has to be no larger than 90 pixels square (90x90 px), may contain no animaion, and may not exceed 20kb (20000 bytes) filesize.

3. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts (respect, etc).

4. It is not allowed to mimick or copy one of Silver Dragon Breath's images by an avatar, nor is it allowed to mimick or copy an Administrator's or Moderators' avatar.

5. The dragon avatars in the dragon gallery are made by © Sylvia R.B. Walther and can be used here on Silver Dragon Breath forums or on other forums. Usage on other forums requires saving the images to your own computer, because hot or direct linking to images from this site to other sites is forbidden - it would be theft of bandwidth - and finding your own host to host the image for you. It is not allowed to remove the copyright notion, altering the image in any other way also is not allowed.

6. Registrated users abusing the avatar rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.



Private messaging


1. The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revokation of private messaging.



Policy


1. The Administrator of the forums is Syrobe, the global moderators are DarkDragon, QueenoftheShadows and Namhias, the moderators are Jaden, albvan and Ragnarok (see the forum index to find out what forum they moderate).

2. We encourage new registered users to participate to this community in an active and contributing way, inactive accounts or zero-posters can be deleted without further notice. If the user of an newly activated account does not log in at least once during the first ten days after activation has been given, the account will be seen as inactive and it will be deleted.

3. Posting obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, sexually-oriented, discriminating, pornographic, indecent or generally offensive text/links or signatures will lead to a delete of the account and a permanente ban without further notice. The judgment is upto the Administrator.

4. Registrated users will be warned by the Administrator or Moderator a maximum of three times for any of the other offences. The user will be temporary banned for a maximum period of three months without further notice.

5. Arguing with the Administrator or with one of the Moderators on the forums after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes, the user will be temporary banned without further notice.

6. Re-registration with an other username while being temporarily banned will result in a permanent ban.

7. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the Administrator or the moderator who gave the warning via Private Messaging. The Administrator’s decision made after that will be final. The user will be contacted via Private Messaging.



Disclaimer


1. The Administrator and the moderators disclaim any obligation or responsibility for the content of posts or links made by users.
2. The owner of an image or a site of whom the copyright is being infringed or of whom bandwidth is being stolen is asked to warn the Administrator. The Administrator will end the copyright infringement and/or the theft of bandwidth on Silver Dragon Breath dragon forums by removing the image and the link at once if the warning contains a valid accusation. The poster will be warned. The Administrator and the moderators disclaim responsibility for further actions.