1] Do not use offensive, unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, hateful, racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable language toward users of the board.
Do not post anything that encourages conduct that could constitute a criminal offense or give rise to civil liabilities, or is unlawful in any other way.
There will be no discussion based on a national, religious, sexual or ethical nature.
2] If you have a question, please use the search function first before asking it. There is a good chance that your question was already asked and answered before.
3] You may not submit any content protected by intellectual property laws or by rights of privacy, unless you own the rights thereto or have received all necessary consents. You shall be solely liable for any damage resulting from any infringement of copyright, trademark or other proprietary rights.
4] It's not allowed to make any false representation, including impersonation of any person or entity or misrepresentation of your affiliation with any person or entity. Including the Staff of Speedblade and the volunteers around it.
5] Do not make use of Message Board for commercial purposes, such as advertising any products or services, reselling or publishing the information posted or transmitted.
- Advertising other WOW Server is not allowed, however, other games are fine and so GFX Forum but with an approval of a Moderator.
6] Signature Rules.
Graphic Dimension limits: 400pixels in width, 170pixels in height and file size maximum of 220kb.
Text Line Count with Graphic: Each line of text is equivalent to 15 pixels + Graphic Dimension, should not surpass limits as stated in #1. (6 lines of normal default editing text)
User Bars: Maximum of 2, both should not exceed 400 pixels with the maximum height of 30 pixels each and the file size of 120kb, combined total file size of 2.
Quote: Maximum of 2 lines of text, where each line corresponds to 3 lines of regular text. No additional text outside quote is allowed.
Image / Avatars: Should not be offensive in anyway, that will merit violation.
Smilies: 2 rows is the maximum allowed.
Multimedia Imbeds: Music/video imbedded in the signature is not allowed.
* Pets (Like dragons, Pokemons etc): Maximum allowed number of pets is two.
RIP: Do not RIP someone's work without the permission of the author.
7] In addition to the above rules, all topics within Speedblade forums are to remain on topic. A notice will be posted on the thread if it is determined to be going off topic. Continuation will result in thread locking, in which the author of the thread may request reopening. Threads in Help Section and General forums are to pertain to Speedblade_WoW.
Threads in the Spam Zone are at the discretion of the thread author. If they request the thread remain on topic, then it shall be.
8] Power posting, posting back to back (multi posting), spamming and bumping will result in the post being locked or removed without further notice.
Mass Spamming of a thread will result of the following
•1st spamming offense - infraction
•2nd spamming offense - ban from thread for 24 hours
•3rd spamming offense - ban from thread for 3 days
•4th spamming offense - ban from forum for 24 hours
9] If you have a problem with any member of our community and you can't talk that over with him via PM, please contact a moderator by PM.
If you have a problem with a moderator and you can't talk that over with him, please contact the Lead Moderator.
10] If you want to contact only 1 person, or a certain group of posters, please use PM, In-Game mail or Instant Messaging to contact them.
11] While it is ok to use colors, larger and bold/italic words in your post, keep it to a few words. If everyone would use a different color for their posts this forum would give everyone a headache.
Full colored posts will be edited out by the moderators. So lets not use them in the first place.
12] We will in no way restrict these forums in terms of which MMOGs you can and cannot discuss. However, this discussion must be constructive. We will not permit insults directed at our competition.
13] PM's, emails and instant messaging conversations received from the Speedblade Satff are considered personal and are not to be posted on this forum or otherwise made public without permission from the person who send the PM, email or instant message.
14] Abusing the reputation function is prohibited. That function is used to award people for good deeds and punish people for spam. Abusing the reputation function means awarding negative or positive reputation to a person without an appropriate reason / comment.
In addition, it is not allowed to award people with reputation for 2 months (+) old posts. This is to prevent intended abuse.
DO NOT abuse reputation function. Adding Reputation to someone unnecessarily is ABUSE. DO NOT +REP anyone in SPAM ZONE, If you do you will be WARNED for it.
15] If a person is banned, the HGM or MOD that banned him/her should make a thread stating the banned person and IMMEDIATELY close the thread, in order to prevent useless spam like "good job',"good work","gratz+rep" etc... In the Banned Section should be just a (1)Notice about banned person, (2)reason why that person was banned, and (3)what the reason was of banning the person. Banned Accounts can always contact with the Team using the PM function.
16] In report section, moderators should delete IMMEDIATELY all needless comments like, "good work", " keep it up +REP", if thread not closed. Best if the thread will be closed at once, in order to prevent stop needless spam.
17] In Humor Section section the maximum allowed is 5 jokes per person in one day, otherwise it is Spamming. If someone exceeds that limit, he will be WARNED for spamming.
18] If you believe you were Warned Unfairly you can always talk it over with the Administrator. Since there is a chance you were warned unfairly, if the Administrator concludes that you are, the warning will be WITHDRAWN.
19] IF you saw an offense or a bad thing (Nudity, Porn, Swearing, Insults, etc.) on server/forum and you reported it, PLEASE BE PATIENT. The Staff has MANY things to do. Do NOT worry your report WILL be read and problem WILL be Correctly Handled.
20] In reporting you must provide -
Name (of the person you are reporting), :
Reason why you reporting him/her. :
The most important is SS (ScreenShot), :
Make sure you have enough and good evidence to prove your point. Without a screen shot or video (in case of ingame hacks/abuses) the report will be useless and it will be ignored
On reporting Foul Language it must be.
Always take screen shot on full chatbox, so the admin/GMs can see entire conversation to evaluate the report. You can make full chatbox by pressing F4 on your keyboard. Keep pressing F4 key until your chat box become largest of all.
Always take more than one screen shot before posting here to make clear on your report.
Here is example of screen shot with full chatbox link:
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21] In the case your Forum Account was TEMPORARILY BANNED, DO NOT attempt to create/make a new one. Our Forum has special tools to trace IP addresses and interconnected accounts, and if you are found doing this, you wil be PERMANENTLY BANNED
22] You're only allowed to bump a thread in Market Section every six (6) hours. You can also bump your thread in Report/help section if NO ONE writes there.
If you have any problems with your thread write your problem to Mod, Gm or Admin by PM(Private Message).
In all the rest of the sections, it is prohibited to BUMP any thread. Doing this, and being caught will be punished by a Moderator.
Thread at non-Spam and Market Zone that are 1 month old and no one posting there, you must don't post anything there and give comments. because if it happened, that/Your post will be considered as bumping old thread.
23]Changing Names:
Regular Members: They can change their name every 6 months, Must have at lease 500 posts.
Premium, VIP Members and Forum Heroes: They can change their name every 3 months.
To request a name change, PM Community Manager Stone. To Request a Name Change Please Contact a Community Manager or Lead Moderator
24]If you have any request related to the forum such as Creating new Guild Halls, Add/Remove Moderator(Guild Hall Section), etc. PM Commiunity Manager or Lead Moderator
25] Respect Whole Speedblade Team because they are working to improve server performance and quality. REMEMBER you playing here for FREE so, respect the Team who helps you. All foul language or Insults to a Staff Member or the Staff it self will be punished with an Infraction or a Ban, depending on how much it hurt the Staff Member/Staff
26] Do Not Abuse the ChatBox, if you post more than 5 times in a row, remember that our Moderators are allowed to infract you. This Rule Is Applied to avoid the Lag caused by spams to the forum, and for a Better Performance of It.
Do Not Use the ChatBox for Advertising, Flamming, and Other purposes, Sell/Buy Items, We Have a Market Section for that... And Remember that all the Forum Rules are Applied in ChatBox
27] Have FUN!
