Before we will explain to you what we do not tolerate on our board, we shall list the penalties that will be issued in case of a breach:
Warning - A warning is a public announcement that mentions your name and that you have broken a rule. The moderators will determine whether you knew what you were doing was wrong or whether a warning is necessary to explain it to you. If the moderators do not give a warning, they will skip ahead to the next step in the penalty list.
Muting - Muting means that your posting ability will be revoked for a said amount of time. You may, however, still view the forums.
Temporary Ban - A temporary ban is a short-term suspesnsion from using the board.
Permanent Ban - You may never use the board again.
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Now that you are clear about what our possibilities are, here are the most important "Dont's":
No Hacking - This should go without saying, but you are not permitted to hack the board. Guessing someone else's password and succeeding counts as hacking. Members who hack will instantly be permanently banned without prior warnings.
No Discrimination - You may not insult members based on their religion, race, sex, political beliefs, or whether they are gay or straight. This is worse than flaming, because it also hurts other members of the board who fall into the catagory you insult. This board is a place where everyone is equal, and discrimination will NOT be tolerated!
No Bullying - Do not pick on other members. The worst kind of bullying is where new members are picked on. This hurts the member as well as the board.
No Flaming - Flaming harms the atmosphere of the board. It also causes thread's to go off topic, and most importantly, it hurts the person being flamed. The victim may defend himself/herself against any accusations made to them, but may not make any additional accusations to the flamer (which also counts as flaming).
No Profanity or Obscene Content - Such content does not belong on this board. A censorship system is in place as a backup. If you see words in your post being replaced with ****, you have obviously done something wrong. In that case, please edit your post and rephrase it, before one of the moderators has to do it. (Note: Cheating the censorship system is against the rules.)
If you break one of the rules above, the following penalties will apply (the first penalty applying when a rule is broken once, the second penalty when a rule is broken twice, etc.):
Warning - Depending on how serious a violation is, you may be issued a warning first.
Muting - Muting for 3 days.
Temporary ban - People who still cause trouble after being muted for 3 days will be banned for a week.
Permanent ban - At this point, it is obvious that the user will never learn his/her lesson, thus, a permanent ban is necessary.
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Please, do also regard the following rules:
No Advertising - You are not permitted to make money using this board. Furthermore, you are not allowed to use the member list to obtain contact data for advertisement purposes.
No Illegal Activity - You are not allowed to break the law using this board.
No Double Posting or Spamming - You may not post more than once in a row in the same thread. Posting lots of times in a row reduces the quality of the board, is a waste of the board's memory, and provides the culprit with ill earned post count points. Double posts will be merged into regular posts.
Warning - Depending on how serious a violation is, you may be issued a warning first.
Muting - Muting for 1 day.
Muting - Muting for 3 days.
Temporary ban - People who still cause trouble after being muted for 3 days will be banned for a week.
Temporary ban - People who still cause trouble after being temporarily banned for a week will be banned for a month.
Permanent ban - At this point, it is obvious that the user will never learn his/her lesson, thus, a permanent ban is necessary.
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The following are a set of amendments to clarify the rules.:
Amendment 1 - There are no excuses for breaking the rules. It doesn't matter if you were angry at the time and weren't thinking straight. It doesn't matter if you were only kidding around. If you break a rule, it does the same damage, regardless of your reasons for breaking it, and you will be punished all the same.
Amendment 2 - Staff abuse will not be tolerated. As a staff member, your job is to help the people, not harm them. You may only use your powers for the purposes that they have been given to you for. There is no limit on how much you may be punished for this severe offense as this must be stopped at all costs to protect the people. This means that if you abuse your powers, there is a good chance you will be permanently banned.
Amendment 3 - Harrassing the administration about punishments is not allowed. The admins are only trying to do their job, and many times they have to make difficult decisions. You may post your opinion in the thread that announces the punishment, so long as you do not flame anyone. If this thread gets out of hand, it will be closed, and you may not complain elsewhere on the board, or by other means including, but not limited to: private messages, instant messaging programs, email, telephone calls, and house visits. You also may not make threats against administrators (or other members for that matter...). Punishments for harrassment range from a 5 day mute for minor harrasments to a permanent ban if serious threats are involved.
Amendment 4 - If you break more than one rule, the punishments will stack up to a maximum of 2 months, or a permanent ban if neccessary. If a sentencing length is 10 days or less, it is a mute, otherwise, it can either be a temporary or permanent ban.
LUI v3: Board Support
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If you are having a problem with LUI, please give as much information as you can.
Please do not post things like:
(insert random thing here) isn't working.
I got an error.
Acceptable bug report posts:
After doing (whatever you did; we won't judge you) , (insert random thing here) stopped working. (more details help)
I was doing (whatever you were doing) , and got the following error: (paste error here) (again, more details help)
If you have some experience with coding and are able to fix the problem yourself, please post what the problem was and how you fixed it so that we can get that fix implemented for all the users of LUI.
DoTs are like STDs, just because the person that gave them to you dies, doesn't mean you are cured.
