General Rules:

• Only one account per person is permitted.
• Keep all posts on-topic.
• All posts must be in English.
• Do not astroturf or pretend to be/represent somebody else. Your account will be deleted if found to be in breach of this rule.
• Do not discuss illegal activities. The server is hosted in the USA and so is subject to US law. Please do not expose us to any unnecessary legal liability.
• Check that your question has not been answered anywhere else on the site. Use the search feature.
• Post your comment/question to the most appropriate forum. Any posts deemed to be in the wrong forum will be moved. Do not cross-post the same question to multiple places.
• Make sure you have read the parent post completely before posting a reply
• Choose an appropriate subject line. Try to summarise your comment briefly in the subject line, and elaborate in the message itself.
• No Thread bumping.
• Do not link to any site that contains adult content, sexually oriented material or might otherwise be considered offensive. Any post containing an inappropriate link will be deleted and the poster will receive a warning.
• Do not propose/link to any site that contains warez/copyrighted software/materials that can be downloaded illegally.
  

How to use the Understanding Measure:

• The understanding measure is located on top right corner of the user's comment in the forum.
• The understanding measure is a rating that can be used to judge the overall understanding measure of someone's message.
• Do not abusise this rating
• The measure will only allow user to rate once a person one time every six hours to mitigate the possiblities of abuse.
• The understanding measure can be increased by pressing the 'Increase the Understanding Measure' button.
• The understanding measure can be decreased by pressing the 'Decrease the Understanding Measure' button.
• Please use good justifable judgment when increasing or decreasing the rate of someone's understanding measure.

Signatures:

• Must be setup in your Profile and not manually added to your messages.
• May NOT contain any images.
• May not contain any pricing, sales, product etc. details.
• May contain a maximum of two smilies. Or one animated smiley.
• May include two clickable links. URL's or mailto: - No duplicate links
• May include two colors. Hyperlink color is set by the forum and is not counted as a color.
• Maximum font size cannot be larger than normal.
• Must be kept to a maximum of four lines (at 1024 resolution).
• May not contain links to other threads or posts for the purpose of self promotion
• Your signature is your signature. It is not for sale or rent.
• Any signature or avatar that is offensive or insulting to either us, our members, or our staff, are prohibited.
• We reserve the right to ask you to change and/or remove your signature or avatar at any time, for any reason.
  

At all times:

• Keep all commentary civil, and be courteous at all times. Constructive criticism is welcome, but insults directed towards other users or the site admins will not be tolerated.
• No commercial advertising is permitted.
• Any posts deemed to be self promotion, advertising, or spam can and will be removed. 
• If you feel a post violates any of these rules, or you need to bring it to the attention of a moderator (move threads/close/split), please use the ‘report to modertor’ link to notify the moderators.
  

Failure to abide by these rules may result in an editing, negative moderation or deletion of your post. We reserve the right to ban abusers from the site. We reserve the right to change these rules at any time.