Rules
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 11:54 amWelcome to the Albany Club Forum
We're pleased you're here, and hope you enjoy our forum. As an Albany Club Forum Member, it is your responsibility to read, know, and abide by these rules as you will be held accountable for them whether you read them or not. It is also your responsibility to check back regularly as these rules can and will change as need dictates, with or without notice. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask a Mod or Admin. . .we're here to help you.
The owners, administrators, and moderators of the ACF reserve the right to delete, edit, move, or close any thread at any time for any reason. Furthermore, ACF reserves the right to deny entrance to anyone who we feel will be disruptive or detrimental to the ACF forums. Membership here is a privilege and not an obligation on our part. While we will do our best to police the forums, ACF has no responsibility/liability for the materials posted to the forums. If you have an issue with any material that is posted, or if you are the owner of material that is posted and do not wish for it to appear here, please advise us of this and we will promptly remove such material without delay, and amend our rules accordingly to prevent future posts of such material.
The following rules are expected to be followed at all times. If you're caught breaking these rules, you could be warned, banned and even IP banned from the site.
General Code Of Conduct
ACF is a community of club fans, by club fans, for club fans and members. As a member you are a part of our community, and we encourage you to take part in the conversations, debates, and share what you want to share (within Posting Rules). However, we ask that all members treat each other with respect at all times. As we do promote a fun and light atmosphere, good-natured teasing and joking is absolutely allowed and even encouraged. Anyone who unreasonably disrupts our community will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including being permanently banned.
Behavior
ANYONE engaging in flaming, vicious character attacks, racial insults, religious insults, sexual preference insults, or general wholesale nastyness will be dealt with swiftly and severely. ALL are welcome here. Hate and Prejudice will absolutely not be tolerated in any form.
Multiple Accounts
Members may not have multiple usernames/accounts. Such actions may result in your being banned from the forum.
Impersonations - Members are not permitted to impersonate anyone such as a celebrity, sports personality, superstar, etc.
Conduct of our Members:
Please maintain respect to all individuals on the board at all times. As we are a different community, there are a wide range of opinions, experiences, backgrounds, religions and ages. It is your responsibility to read and follow these rules for everyones enjoyment.
These rules are subject to change at any time. Please respect, and follow these rules.
General Forum Guidelines:
* No Systematic foul language.
* No languages other than English. This is an English only forum.
* No trashing of other peoples topics. (i.e. SPAM).
* No abuse towards other members or racist dialogue or content.
* No aggressive behavior or flaming in the forums.
* Advertising is allowed in your signature. Do not advertise excessively.
* Do not mini-mod. We encourage and thank members to use the report button.
* No streaming vids
General Posting Guidelines:
* Password protected files that are legitimately password protected are allowed.
* No bumping. (All bumped threads will be deleted).
* No topic hijacking (going off topic).
* Search for topics before posting and/or requesting. Its probably already been posted somewhere.
* Do not mini-mod. We encourage and thank members to use the report button.
Avatar & Signature Rules:
* Avatar's are to be no more then 110X110 in size.
* Avatar's are not to be offensive in nature (rape, death etc.)
* Signatures should not be oversized. 250X150 is a good size.
* Signatures should also be non-offensive in nature. (Same applies here as it does to Avatar's)
* Small userbar's, or small text with a site name in a signature is allowed.
* Things like "rapidshare support me" files in sigs are allowed.
Explicit guidelines:
* Sticky Requests: Please do not request a post to be stickied. Only exceptional posts will be stickied if there is room.
* Topics which use a poll to petition a sticky are not allowed.
* To have your username changed please PM a Moderator or Admin.
* Asking any staff member if you can be a part of the staff will hinder your chance of ever becoming one. The same applies for VIP as well.
* Do not mini-mod. We encourage and thank members to use the report button.
We're pleased you're here, and hope you enjoy our forum. As an Albany Club Forum Member, it is your responsibility to read, know, and abide by these rules as you will be held accountable for them whether you read them or not. It is also your responsibility to check back regularly as these rules can and will change as need dictates, with or without notice. As always, if you have any questions, feel free to ask a Mod or Admin. . .we're here to help you.
The owners, administrators, and moderators of the ACF reserve the right to delete, edit, move, or close any thread at any time for any reason. Furthermore, ACF reserves the right to deny entrance to anyone who we feel will be disruptive or detrimental to the ACF forums. Membership here is a privilege and not an obligation on our part. While we will do our best to police the forums, ACF has no responsibility/liability for the materials posted to the forums. If you have an issue with any material that is posted, or if you are the owner of material that is posted and do not wish for it to appear here, please advise us of this and we will promptly remove such material without delay, and amend our rules accordingly to prevent future posts of such material.
The following rules are expected to be followed at all times. If you're caught breaking these rules, you could be warned, banned and even IP banned from the site.
General Code Of Conduct
ACF is a community of club fans, by club fans, for club fans and members. As a member you are a part of our community, and we encourage you to take part in the conversations, debates, and share what you want to share (within Posting Rules). However, we ask that all members treat each other with respect at all times. As we do promote a fun and light atmosphere, good-natured teasing and joking is absolutely allowed and even encouraged. Anyone who unreasonably disrupts our community will be subject to disciplinary action, up to and including being permanently banned.
Behavior
ANYONE engaging in flaming, vicious character attacks, racial insults, religious insults, sexual preference insults, or general wholesale nastyness will be dealt with swiftly and severely. ALL are welcome here. Hate and Prejudice will absolutely not be tolerated in any form.
Multiple Accounts
Members may not have multiple usernames/accounts. Such actions may result in your being banned from the forum.
Impersonations - Members are not permitted to impersonate anyone such as a celebrity, sports personality, superstar, etc.
Conduct of our Members:
Please maintain respect to all individuals on the board at all times. As we are a different community, there are a wide range of opinions, experiences, backgrounds, religions and ages. It is your responsibility to read and follow these rules for everyones enjoyment.
These rules are subject to change at any time. Please respect, and follow these rules.
General Forum Guidelines:
* No Systematic foul language.
* No languages other than English. This is an English only forum.
* No trashing of other peoples topics. (i.e. SPAM).
* No abuse towards other members or racist dialogue or content.
* No aggressive behavior or flaming in the forums.
* Advertising is allowed in your signature. Do not advertise excessively.
* Do not mini-mod. We encourage and thank members to use the report button.
* No streaming vids
General Posting Guidelines:
* Password protected files that are legitimately password protected are allowed.
* No bumping. (All bumped threads will be deleted).
* No topic hijacking (going off topic).
* Search for topics before posting and/or requesting. Its probably already been posted somewhere.
* Do not mini-mod. We encourage and thank members to use the report button.
Avatar & Signature Rules:
* Avatar's are to be no more then 110X110 in size.
* Avatar's are not to be offensive in nature (rape, death etc.)
* Signatures should not be oversized. 250X150 is a good size.
* Signatures should also be non-offensive in nature. (Same applies here as it does to Avatar's)
* Small userbar's, or small text with a site name in a signature is allowed.
* Things like "rapidshare support me" files in sigs are allowed.
Explicit guidelines:
* Sticky Requests: Please do not request a post to be stickied. Only exceptional posts will be stickied if there is room.
* Topics which use a poll to petition a sticky are not allowed.
* To have your username changed please PM a Moderator or Admin.
* Asking any staff member if you can be a part of the staff will hinder your chance of ever becoming one. The same applies for VIP as well.
* Do not mini-mod. We encourage and thank members to use the report button.