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Ten Commandments
for GWOnline.Net's Forums
1. Thou Shalt Not
Flame or Troll.
Even if you strongly hate the content of a post, and detest the individual to whom you're responding so strongly you dream of seeing
Char Axe
Fiend playing
football with his internal organs, please exercise restraint and post without flames. (You are allowed, however, to make rude facial expressions and socially unacceptable hand gestures as you press "submit.") Do not bypass the word filter.
Your behaviour is judged not just here, but elsewhere. If you slander or
libel this site or the site staff on another website, forum, or by other
public means, your membership in GWOnline.Net's forums may be terminated without
notice.
2. Thou Shalt Not Spam or Engage in Posting Wars.
Post it once, and post it nice, and please don't ever post it
twice. (There's a song there somewhere.) Pick a forum, pick a
message, and that's that. Don't post in every forum with the
same message. If it's a general post, use one of our general
forums. If it's specific to a class… well.. you follow the
drift. (If it's major news, then mail it to:
And we may share it with the world on
our front page news.
It gives us a warm feeling in our tummies that you care
about your post count and your forum ranking here at
GWOnline.Net. But if we see you posting meaningless tripe to
edge up the count, or using the forum for a chitchat better
suited to ICQ or AIM or one of our chat
room room we'll ask you to stop. And reset your
post counter to -450. Yeah, we're evil like that.
3. Thou Shalt Not Advertise.
We do not intend to serve as a linking service or a search engine to other sites. Links that wouldn't be allowed anywhere on the forums (including signatures, and location) would be to links to sites (commercial OR personal) that have:
a.
Pornographic, racist or illegal materials, including game cheats or hacks
b. Profit sites (any get rich quick sites). This is sites that earn the
poster a profit/commission or sites that give points for incoming links
c.
Sites
offering similar or the same content as GWOnline.Net. It has taken many 'man' hours to compile the sites' content and as such our commitment to the promotion of that content is total. Neither do we allow visitors to use our forum membership as a means to build their own sites from, using our Private Messaging system to recruit writers and/or their content or membership drives for their own forums.
d.
Sites carrying ad-busting software
4. Thou Shalt Not Post Naughty Links or Graven
Images.
This is beyond advertising. Do this, you earn a drop kick into the
next timezone and an instant account deletion, without a second
glance. We all know there are a
ton of kids of varying ages and lots of different types of
people who play Guild
Wars
and who visit our site. Even if this
wasn't the case, we just don't want porn and other yucky stuff
on our boards. No images can be posted. Sorry, you don't
get to vote on this one. No way of telling if someone will post
up a rude image, or pull from a slow server, causing the pages
to load for everyone at the speed of a slug. Better, we think,
to just bag the whole idea of images [apart from in the Pal
forum]. We graciously give you an Avatar, and that's the limit
of your "visual self-expression," as the interior
designers, say.
5. Thou Shalt Not
Pimp
or aid the Pimping of hacks and Cheats.
Hacks
and Cheats are 3rd party programs that
allow you to alter the way a player
interacts with a game. We do not support the use
of these. You may not ask for help in
creating a hack/cheat, a link to where you
can find one, provide a link to where
people can download one. However,
the morality of using these programs is
sometimes discussed and we allow these
[within reason], unless it violates any
other rule
We do not allow
adverts for item and or gold farming or links to sites which engage in
this or any of their affiliates.
6. Thou Shalt Not Engage in Unnatural Bumping.
We have a "bump up" feature, where the post with the
most recent addition goes to the top of the forum listing. If
your post is good, it'll be responded to. If it's responded to,
it'll undergo the process we call Natural Bumping. Natural
Bumping = good. Unnatural bumping = bad. Unnatural Bumping is
where someone posts, "I'm adding this to put this thread
back at the top." Do it, we slap your hand. Do it often,
you pull back a bloody stump.
7. Thou Shalt Not Spoof.
Don't make up an account name designed to
resemble another poster.
If an account is registered that could be
confused (unintentionally) for a moderator
or admin we reserve the right to offer the
member the ability to change the name to
something else. We reserve the right
to close the account if that offer isn't
accepted.
If you're banned for some reason, don't keep coming back
with "Fred," "Fred the
Undead" and "Fred Yet
Again." If you were banned, take it
like a man… wellll, take it like a
reasonable person, and accept your fate. We
ban
the person not the account so registering
under a new nickname will result in that
account being banned too.If you wish, you may appeal the account
closure to the
staff.
Oh, and for goodness sake, don't make up
additional accounts to respond to
yourself. (People who talk to themselves
used to be burned at the stake as witches;
we still hold to that belief system, here
at GWOnline;)
8. Thou Shalt Not Get Territorial.
If you post or submit something to our site or forums -- be it an article, a news item, a strategy guide, or a suggestion -- it becomes the
property of the GWOnline.Net. That means if we leave it in the forum, post it to our
Strategy Compendium or put it into a Hall of Fame or whatever, it is still
your work, but we have rights to it as well. If we allow it to be present
on the site(s), or use it in any form, you agree that you have no financial
claim against the site. We do not demand that items be exclusively ours,
but once something it submitted to us for publication or posted in our
forums, its removal is entirely at our discretion.
9. Thou
Shalt Accept the Admin's Decisions.
We [GWOnline.Net and its admins] reserve the right to ban [temporarily or permanently] or place on Probation [limit
privileges] any member of GWOnline.Net without warning. We reserve the right to edit, move or remove any post made on
GWOnline.Net without warning or explanation. We reserve the right to edit any portion of a member profile without warning. You will accept all this gladly and with open arms because we do it with love.
10. Thou Shalt Not Mention "Freedom of Speech."
Or we'll vomit. All over your Courtly
Armor, we promise you. This
is a private forum, and you are our invited guests. The
administrators have a tough job, trying to keep the forums clean
and presentable while not willingly stifling open discussion. If
a thread or post is locked or deleted, that was the necessary
step to take in the judgment of the administrator. Please don't
bandy irrelevant constitutional law and hope to plea the case
for less "censorship." Don't start a vote, don't throw
food, don't throw a hissy fit, don't light up torches and mob
our central office. We don't censor, we exercise judgment and
quality control on something in which we invest a lot of time
and effort. We only accept posts written in English.
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