Forum Rules and Policies

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Rules and Policies

• The Administrators and Moderators of Medarena.com are making every effort to keep this forum a friendly and productive place for all members. Mutual respect is within the guidelines by which the forum will be Administrated and Moderated. This respect is shown towards ALL users of the forum who will be treated with courtesy and in return members are expected to show the same respect and courtesy to the forum staff and other members.
  
  
• It is of the utmost importance to comply with any reasonable request made by an Administrator or Moderator as they are guided by and adhere to the rules laid down by the forum guidelines. Examples may simply involve an edit to a post where it is seen to be made in anger or taunting/abusive language is used. Users who do not comply with a reasonable request will be reported to the Admin. or a Moderator who are at liberty to remove the post completely without further question.
  
  
• Depending on the severity of the post and including argumentative/abusive, e-mails/PM's the user account may have a temporary ban enforced or 'restrictions' placed on the user's account until the matter can be resolved through a 'civil' approach. Trying to circumvent a restriction and or ban by re-registering with another user name or changing of an IP address will not be tolerated and in this case a permanent ban may be deemed necessary. This type of ban is very rare and in most cases will be avoided unless the intent of a user is obviously seen as disruptive and subsequently detrimental to other members of the forum.
  
  
• The Administrators and Moderators respect a member's rights to request in the correct manner by PM or e-mail for the restriction or ban to be re-considered if the member feels in anyway they have been unfairly treated. The matter will be discussed openly with all staff to ensure that total fairness will be applied to the user account in question.
  
  
• All Admin. and Moderators are here to help and assist the forum members in whatever way possible therefore remember to approach any staff with respect as abusive language and/or threats will not be tolerated at all.
  
  
• The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing forum rules and policies. As a user you agree to any information you have entered on the Forum being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, the administrators and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

Thank you for complying with the Rules and Policies of the forum and for your help in furthering the development of medarena.com by complying to the rules stated.

In addition to our Terms of Service
below is a general breakdown of the terms that all members must follow:

Forum-wide Rules

Forum Rules

1. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
2. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting.
3. Users should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated.
4. The moderators of this forum reserve 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 at the moderator’s discretion using the guidelines provided to them by the forum administrators.
5. Users are asked to not act as ‘back seat moderators’. If users note an issue which contravenes something in these rules and regulations they are welcome to bring it to the attention of either, sohrz or Admin.
6. Users should remember that this forum is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning and possible ban.
7. Users should use an appropriate title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include: "Help me!", "I'm stuck!" etc. Examples of good titles include; "Need Help opting Subjects" etc.
8. Users should not post a topic/reply in CAPITALS, the reason being is that this is considered as shouting.
9. The above forum rules apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings and/or the removal of your private messaging privileges.
10. Multi Usernames.
    More than one username is not allowed. If anyone wants to change their username, ie: spelling, not appropriate, PM the Admin for a requested change. After the preferred choice of username the Admin will delete the other/s username/s.

Signatures

1. Putting links advertising websites (eg. Free Hosting click here) or linking to auction websites is strictly forbidden.
2. Users abusing these rules will be given One(1) warning only. If the offense is repeated, they will face a possible ban.

Avatars

1. Image must be 81 pixels wide by 81 pixels high.
2. Image cannot exceed 9KB in filesize.
3. Hotlinking (using this forum as a host) is expressly forbidden.
4. There are no restrictions as to where you can use your Avatar, however, do not link via a url to the Avatar on this Forum (Hotlink)
5. Links to images on slow servers e.g Lycos or those prone to failure will be removed.
6. Users abusing these rules will be given One(1) warning only. If the offense is repeated, they will face a possible ban.

Please be advised that if you got banned lately for some reason or NO SPECIFIC REASON, there is absolutely no need to ask for the reinstatement of your account. All your queries will be left un-answered. The forum management reserves the right to penalize or cancel your membership ANYTIME and for ANY REASON.