Forum Rules

Forum Guidelines

Due to the recent incidents involving the site with respect to moderation and banning of individuals etc it has been decided to publicise the following forum guidelines to give a guide to the, until now, unwritten rules, that moderators use when editing/deleting threads.

Firstly, if you have a post that is moved/edited/deleted etc you will ALWAYS get a PM from the moderator who edited/deleted the post explaining the reasoning behind the edit/delete and referring you back to these guidelines.

When will my thread be edited/deleted?

Your thread or post will be edited/deleted if it contains

1) Pornography, links to Pornography or links to other inappropriate sites. This site is accessible to people of all ages and there are plenty of other means to get access to inappropriate sites if you really want to.

2) Xenophobia, racism or personal abuse. This forum is not the place for these sorts of discussions. See also Banning of Individuals

3) Deliberately inciting a flame war within this or any other forum.

4) Deliberately advertising or sale of illegal material. Fairly obvious this one�

5) Anything invasive of a person's privacy.

6) Contains links to other clan sites or servers aimed at drawing away our players without first asking for permission

Your thread or post may be edited or deleted if it contains

1) Swearing and offensive words including offensive words embedded in images. Again, children access the site and appropriate parts of posts/threads will be edited to remove the offending words/images. If this is not possible then the offending post/thread will be deleted.

2) Spam or any other form of unauthorised advertising. This includes unauthorised posts of a commercial nature.

3) Flagrant disregard for the interests of the community(anti community spirit)

4) Any copyright-infringing material (either text or graphic). Again, the relevant part of the thread/post will be edited. If this is not possible then the thread will be deleted.

5) When the thread contains any material that is deemed �potentially libellous� in the eyes of the moderator editing/deleting the thread i.e. anything that can be considered damaging to a company or individual that cannot be proven by facts. If the moderator believes that the post/thread to be potentially libellous then it will be removed and advice sought from the individual poster to try and obtain the facts and reasons behind the post. If suitable facts and reasons are given then the post will be reinstated.

When will I be banned from the site?

Banning of individuals from the site is not something that the moderators wish to resort to without good reason. A person will be banned from the site if that person repeatedly and blatantly ignores these forum guidelines. In the first instance, a warning of their conduct will be issued and their future posts will be monitored closely. If the person then continues to ignore the warning and post material contradicting these guidelines then the person will have their account suspended from the forum for 1 week. If the person then returns and continues again, they will be permanently banned from the [CPC] website.

Forum Guidelines
Users are requested to appreciate other users of the site and keep the size of their signatures to a reasonable size. A reasonable size is a maxium height of 125 pixels or 5 lines of text. Signatures may be edited if too large.

Libel, Slander and Defamation
If the [CPC] Clan is provided with a valid court order finding that a post made on the [CPC] forum is slanderous, libellous, defamatory or otherwise illegal the [CPC] Clan will remove the post. Claims of defamation submitted from a solicitor will result in posts being removed whilst legal proceedings commence against the poster.

New Applications will not be approved if profiles contain links to sites deemed inappropriate by the admins

no spamming

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