Forum Guidelines

[Mod-DudeMan95]

Thank SporeMasterBlackBird for the following:

Welcome to the new unofficial Spore forums, SporeChat! This is the place to chat about your thoughts on anything and everything Spore in a brand new environment!

Forum Guidelines

Our goal is to maintain a friendly forum environment with a new look and feel. We've organized some guidelines to keep in mind when posting.

Here’s a quick rundown on what to do and what to avoid in order to help us keep the forums running smoothly.


Posting Etiquette:

• Keep subject titles direct, descriptive and accurate
• Use caps and repeated punctuation judiciously
• Do not create multiple threads for one topic or post your thread in every category
• Do not post blank messages
• Keep signatures limited to 500 characters max, and limit signature images to 670 wide x 128 high. Overall your entire signature should not exceed an area of 670 x 160px.
• Use bbcode to clean up extremely long signature links by displaying link text rather than URLs.
• Bump threads judiciously. If a thread has no new posts since the last bump, please don't bump it again.
• Limit embedded image dimensions to 680 wide x 544 high.
• Do not post unbroken text strings longer than 60 characters (this includes links - Use BBCode).
• Do not make posts requesting the locking of another user's thread within a thread. Please use the alert button or PM system to contact a moderator if you believe a thread is in violation of the forum rules. Note that you may receive an error after pressing alert, however the CS team will successfully be notified.
• When creating a poll, options must be able to fullfill to everyone's opinions. No "Yes"/"Yes" polls. When asking a yes/no question, a neutral option (eg. "Maby") must be givin aswell.
• Use search! Avoid posting duplicate threads about questions that have already been answered.


Behavior:

Help keep the forums a fun place to discuss Spore. Remember that the Sporum is a place for people of all ages to discuss Spore. Please restrain from using fighting words, especially since the other person may be a child.
• Keep posts relevant to the topic of Spore
• Work out differences politely
• Be respectful when posting about religious, political, or otherwise controversial content
• Keep posts clean: free of vulgarity, racism, profanity, and bigotry
• No personal attacks: don't flame, troll, insult, harass, threaten, rant
• Do not impersonate others
• Do not post personal information about others
• No advertising/spamming in forums other than Off-Topic and Spam
• Do not send repeated PMs or encourage other players to PM bomb any forum member
• Have a sense of humor!


Illegal Activities:

What to avoid
• Do not post copyrighted material
• We do not support posting links to images of creatures based on copyrighted materials
• Do not discuss illegal activities
• Do not share accounts
• Do not return to the forum on a duplicate account if any of your accounts is currently suspended
• Do not ask for or give out serial numbers
• Do not post spam or off-topic posts out of the Spam and Off-Topic sections


Moderator:

We're here to help, keep peace and make use of the mighty lockmobiel and banhammer.
• Respect the decisions of the moderators
• Do not publicize private conversations between yourself and the moderators
• If necessary, we may have to remove posts or users who repeatedly violate our rules
• We may need to edit your posts and topics. If we do, except our changes and respect our decisions

Mods:
Admin-TheSerpent <-- Main Moderator and Creator of SporeChat
Mod-DudeMan95
Mod-Zaroas
Mod-cj81499
Mod-gtriff07
Mod-Insanity
JackRaid <-- Honorary Moderator


Thanks for abiding by our rules, we hope you enjoy the discussions on our boards.

If you notice something inappropriate posted on the boards, please alert a staff member so that we can address it.


Other Guidelines:

• The Science Section Guidelines

• The Guidelines to Roleplaying


That's all you need to know to not get banned.