Rules

Section 1 - Introduction

Pasters.cc is a user based community, concentrated on Technological Development, Game Analysis, and General Discussion. Therefore, in addition to employing voluntary moderators, we allow users the freedom to act the way they think is best. This system is designed to provide an organic environment for users, while maintaining a certain degree of control against violation of site rules.

Therefore, while we do bestow several site rules, it’s up to the users to apply common sense to decide how they act. This structure is designed so that perpetrators will be punished within the social hierarchy of the community. Nonetheless, if you see content that violates any rule on this page, disagrees with your common interest, or has an inappropriate connotation; you are obliged to address it to our staff via the report button.

By creating an account you acknowledge and agree to behave accordingly to the rules below.


Section 2 - Forum Rules

a - Cross-Posting:  Duplicating a thread or topic in multiple different sections of the forum is prohibited.
b - Double Posting:  The act of posting numerous times without another user's response in between is prohibited.
c - Single Word Posting:  When posting a thread or a post, more than one word must be used.
d - General Spam:  The act of spamming is prohibited.
e - Wrong Section Posting:  Do not post your thread in an irrelevant section in relation to your topic.
f - Respectful Posting:  Being excessively and unreasonably mean, rude, or offensive towards other users is prohibited.
g - Pornographic Content:  Posting pornographic text, images, links, or any content in relation to that category, will not be tolerated.
h - English Language:  Our community is an English-speaking environment and we do not have support for any other linguistic languages.
i - Writing Style:  You are required to participate in a legible, mature, and comprehensible manner.
j - Topic Titles:  Titles may not be short, uninformative, irrelevant to the central message, or ‘clickbait’.
k - Moderating:  All staff members reserve the right to edit, remove, or place any post on moderation queue at any time.
l - Private Messaging:  All site rules apply to the Private Messaging system.
m - Multi-Accounting:  The registration or use of multiple accounts for malicious use is prohibited. Examples of malicious use include Ban Circumvention and Scamming.
n - Necroposting:  Do not post or revive any old, inactive threads.
o - Filter Evasion:  Do not attempt to bypass any site restriction, such as but not limited to the 20-character limit.
p - Homophobia and/or Racism:  Homophobia and racism are not tolerated on our site.
q - Perverted Exploiting:  Do not post scripts, codes, exploits, or demonstrations of sexual or perverted videogame exploiting.
r - Fraud/Carding or Identity Theft:  The sharing of credit card or explicitly private information of anyone is prohibited.
s - Actual Money:  Sharing of accounts or information related to Banking or any other payment websites is prohibited.
t - Unauthorised Sales:  The resale of another person's work is not permitted.
u - Sale Quality:  The quality of original content may need to be verified by staff, especially in the case of eBooks, when being sold.


Section 3 - Avatars

a - Size:  Avatar images must be less than 180x220 pixels to be displayed on our website.
b - Display:  Avatars may not portray any symbolic representation to official status such as fake titles or staff member models.
c - Etiquette:  Images are subject to the same rules regarding, but not limited to pornography and vulgarity outlined above.


Section 4 - Offsite Linking

a - Pornography:  Pornographic links, or links leading to content with a pornographic connotation is are not permitted.
b - Gore:  Links to content containing gore are prohibited.
c - Download links:  Download links are permitted when accompanied by a virus total link displaying a scan of the download.
d - Evidence:  You must accompany download links with videos to prove the validity of the file when deemed appropriate.
e - Malware:  Downloads links to files containing or having any relation to malware are not permitted.
f - Trollware:  Do not post files that are not what you say they are.
g - Etiquette:  Do not post links to hateful, violent, gruesome, terrorist, or generally inappropriate content.
h - Embedding:  Any link embedded into our website will be considered an external link.
i - Encryption/Obfuscation:  Encryption or obfuscation of links is prohibited.
j - Piracy/Torrenting:  Links to magnet or .torrent files are prohibited.
k - Advertising & Donations:  Advertising sites, or requesting money (donations, begging, etc) for the sake of personal or community gain is prohibited.


Section 5 - Signatures

a - Content:  Signatures may contain up to five lines of text and/or two images.
b - Display:  Signatures may not portray any symbolic representation to official status such as fake titles or staff member models.


Section 6 - Enforcement

a - Five Strike Policy:  Users will be warned a maximum of five times for any and all offences in a three month period.
b - Disputes:  Aggressive and Excessive arguing after being warned will result in an additional warning.
c - Complaints:  If you feel unjustly warned, you may appeal by responding to the warning private message.
d - Circumvention:  Attempting to circumvent a ban or moderator action will result in a permanent ban of your account(s).
e - Warning Exceptions:  The staff team withholds the right to bypass or neglect the five strike policy.
f - Permanent Bans  Rationalization and contemplation play huge roles in the moderation team before issuing a permanent ban.


Section 7 - Privacy

Privacy Policy:  The sharing of any explicitly personal information of anyone, including non-users is not permitted.


Section 8 - Chat Box

a - Moderation:  All site rules apply in the chatbox.
b - Bots:  With the exception of passive bots, chatbox bots are not permitted.


Section 9 - Reputation

a - Asking for rep  Do not ask for/imply you should be given reputation under any circumstances.
b - Selling rep  Do not sell, exchange, or attempt to use reputation as a form of currency.
c – False reputation report  Reputations are opinions and should not be reported just because you disagree with an opinion.
d – Scam reputation links  All reputation that is given claiming a user is a scammer MUST be accompanied by a scam report link in the deal disputes section.
e – Multi reputation links  Similar to the above guideline, calling someone a multi-accounter without providing evidence of the claim in a reputation is not allowed.