General Rules & Regulations

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Basic Forum Rules-

Purpose
The purpose of the forum is to provide a place where visitors to this website may ask questions, discuss interests and share their experiences. Anyone is entitled to use the forum as long as they adhere to these rules.

Rules
Please note if ANY of these rules are broken it may result in you being banned, so please ensure you are aware of and conform to all the rules.

1. While we all have opinions, please keep your posts polite and friendly. Be respectful of others opinions even if you don’t agree - We will not tolerate spamming or flaming.

2. Posts relating to illegal topics, pornography etc. will not be tolerated.

3. You may not ever represent yourself as another person, company or entity.

4. Naming names will not be allowed if used in a negative way or pointing remarks towards another member of the forum or outside guest!

5. We have a word censor in place to avoid having curse words used. DO NOT out-smart the censor by putting a space or a dash in words that you think may be censored. Please note that we try to keep the list of censored words as short as possible and expect members to keep profanity to a minimum to keep it that way.

6. We reserve the right to remove any posts that we consider to be unnecessary advertising.

7. Users agree not to use the email addresses of any members of the forum for any other purpose than individual personal communication. Any mailing in bulk to the forum members or any unsolicited marketing email to members will result in immediate suspension of your membership.

8. If a post does get out of hand and rules have been broken, the post may be locked, deleted and/or edited to remove any flaming or cursing.

9. Please notify the forum administator if you feel there is a problem with a thread or a member. Do not try to take matters into your own hands.

10. We do not endorse fundraising for individuals on this site and we do not want the site utilized to aid collecting funds - This is to protect individuals from fraudulant members. We all think we know each other and trust each other but this is the Internet and it is very easy to take advantage of people. Rescue groups are the only exceptions!

11. Every picture, graphic, some articles and links are copyrighted on this site. So therefore, no material may be removed or copied from this site unless a written permission is granted by the forum administrator or the postee that owns the copyright. Alot of our members create their own graphics and do not wish for them to be displayed or linked on unknown websites. So please have courtesy for the rightful owner and give them credit provided you have the proper copyrighted permission.

12. Please remember that we can not have a rule for everything, and because of unique situations or a few people who may abuse our forums or cause other problems (even if those are not listed in the rules), the Comicpalooza board reserves the right to react to these issues in a way that protects both the boards and the members.

13. If you are permantly leaving the forum of your own free will and post a goodbye to all thread - please be advised that your membership will be deactivated immediately.

Warnings and Bans
For a 1st offense you will be issued a warning which means that you and your posts will be monitored and at a 2nd offense, you will be immediatly banned.

Sometimes it will be necessary to go straight to a banning depending on what has happened - this is based on a majority-rules decision of the administrator and the severity of the offense(s).

Thank You-
The Comicpalooza Administrator

[comicpalooza]

Images are a fun way to display creativity and personality and we have no problems with users posting images for all to enjoy. Here are a few guidelines to the posting of pictures.

1. Avatar images can be no bigger than 120 x 120 px. You may upload your avatar image from your computer to our forum or you may link from an outside source, such as photobucket.

2. Signature images are limited to 560 x 180 px

3. Images posted inside the forums must be no larger than 640 x 480 px and MUST be linked from an outside source, such as photobucket. Simply upload your image to photobucket and be sure to choose the SIZE setting before upload. Once uploaded, copy the URL to your picture. Once you create a new topic, Click on the Img button and then paste the url between the tags.

4. Images that are too graphic, gory, or pornographic will not be tolerated and you will be banned from this forum for posting such content.

Thanks a bunch!

[comicpalooza]

Please take the time to read the forum Rules & Regulations if you haven't done so already...

Also, check out your User Control Panel, located in the upper left hand corner. There you can edit things like your avatar image, signature, e-mail address, instant messenger settings and password. The changing of user names must be approved and performed by the site administrator.

Please contact a moderator if you are having any problems.

Welcome and have fun!!