Post by Ashmadai on Feb 22, 2008 21:39:50 GMT -5
The Rules of the Directory
1. Visiting Admins may place their Ad in as many as 3 of the catagories in The Directory as applies. Please try to limit your advertising to the catagories which truly apply. If you can not find 3 catagories, then you may save your remaining ads and suggest new catagories.
2. No posting of Non-Proboard Message Boards.
3. No bumping of threads with-in the forum.
5. When advertising your board, the subject line must have only the name of your board in the title,except where rule #6 applies.
6. If your board is not open to guest viewing you must place the words "Private Board" before the name of your forum in the thread subject line.
7. Message Boards which do not conform to the Proboard Terms of Service (TOS) agreement are not permitted to be advertised on this board.
8. If you have a ProBoards forum and members who are under 13, you can still join here, but please note that it is against ProBoards rules, which comes under California Law, to have members under the age of 13, and your board could get deleted if the moderators and owner of ProBoards find out.
Penalties
First offense: 10% Warning issued.
Second offense: Warning raised to 25%.
Third offense: Warning raised to 50%
Fouth offense: Warning raised to 75% and 24 hour ban.
Fifth offense: Warning raised to 95% and 1 week ban.
Sixth offense: Warning raised to 100% and permanent ban issued.
Circumventing the ban: deletion of account.
If you feel that you were treated unjustly, then please present your case to the Main Admin by PM or Email. Do Not create a new account and start spamming the board.
Warning Level Reductions and Reinstatement
A time limit will be set on all warnings, when the "sentence" is served, the warning level drops to zero.