[Dave|Xoxide]

These are the rules of the forums, these rules apply to every single member on the forums, as well as the Administrators and the Moderators, unless otherwise noted.

Dog Forums Staff reserves the right to edit, remove or alter any member's post, signature, thread or userdata at any time with out notice. If you do not agree with this policy you are asked to please discontinue your membership at our forum.


1. There is to be No SPAMMING in the Off Topic Area as well as the rest of the Board

2. If you're caught insulting someone, no matter what the reason, warning points will be added to your account.

3. If you disregard an Administrator or a Moderators decision or do anything that directly hurts the forums you will have warning points added to your account. We aren't here to have you scream at us, argue with us or flame us. We are here to help you, let us help you!

4. Accusing a Moderator or Admininstrator without evidence. If you accuse someone in the staff, of anything, without proving it, you will lose your posting privledges forever.

5. Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators".
If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Moderator Team. Only do this if a moderator team member has not replied within 6 hours. Members who consistently "act" as moderators may be warned.

6. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience.
Anyone who posts pornographic content, warez, illegal subject matter, drug related content, any other offensive materials, or tries to bypass the swear filter will have warning points added to their account.

7. Each Dog Forum member is limited to one ACCOUNT/ALIAS, unless otherwise authorized by a Dog Forum Administrator. Protect your password and your account. You are responsible for your account regardless of compromise or stolen password. RE-REGISTRATION after a temporary or permanent ban will result in non-negotiable permanent 'no appeal' ban on all accounts you have created.

8. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc.
Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.

9. Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites.
The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.

10. Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing".
Users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or
colored text, etc. Similarly, users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.

11. Members should use an appropriate, descriptive and specific title when posting a new topic.

12. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance.
Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.

13. Thread Hijacking and Thread Crapping is not tolerated here under any circumstance.
Those who "Hijack" and "Crap" other member's threads and continue to go off topic will be warned. Taking other member's thread off topic and spamming them up is a very rude and ignorant practice and behavior of that sort is not tolerated here. Respect your fellow forum members topics.

14. Arguing, flaming, insulting or threatening a Staff members is grounds for permanent banning.

15. The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time.
The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users.

16. You may not post links to competitors websites and you may not advertise other businesses. There is positively NO ADVERTISING allowed on this website unless the member themselves are the sole owner and operator of the posted business and have gotten clearance from Dog Forums Administrators. Members who are caught posting advertisements to other businesses, competitors or any other type of money making schemes without clearance and full permission and clearance from the Dog Forums Administrators will be warned and/or possibly banned.

17. The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging.
Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging.

18. Making new forum recruit threads or posts will not be tolerated.
These will be deleted, and the member will be warned.

19. Off Topic Section: If any of these rules are broken in the Off Topic section, the Moderators and Admins reserve the right to shut down the section for a certain time. Times will be decided depending on the magitude of the offense. This punishment is in effect because the Off Topic section is our gift to you, it doesn't need to be here to make a good Computer Modification Forum. If one person makes an offense, they hurt everyone -- in that Off Topic will be suspended if it is abused.

20. Finally, when a user receives a total of 10 warning points they will receive a temporary ban for 7 days. If they are banned again it will be for 14 days. After that, it's a perm-ban. There are general guidelines for warning points but moderators and administrators are free to issue any number of points for any offense as long as they feel that it is justified. That includes issuing 10 points (which would be an automatic ban) for a single offense.
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Announcements and new updates can be found at the top of the forums in the Announcements and General Rules section. Look there frequently to find the new changes and upcoming events at the forums.
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These rules are subject to change at anytime and there may be additional rules and guidelines stickied in some of the sub-forums.

Please familiarize yourself with these rules and follow them. Try to enjoy your time spent here and do your best to make other members time here enjoyable as well.

Thank you.
Dog Forum Staff