Forum Guidelines

A. Warnings, Suspension and Banishment

* Be respectful. You may express your opinions but once you cross the line into personal attacks and insults, you risk having your account suspended or possibly banned. All violations of forum policies will be reported to the Student Welfare and Formation Office for further investigation and for corrective action.
* Corrective action will be taken against users who continue to break the rules. This is how it works:
1. First offense: Warning. The member being warned will be notified via this forum.
2. Second offense: Suspension from the privilege to access this forum for 7-30 days, depending on the severity of the offense. The member will be notified via this forum.
3. Third Offense: Suspension from this forum for six months.
4. Fourth Offense: Banishment or indefinite suspension from the privilege to access this forum.

B. Inappropriate Language

* Profane, offensive and strong language is filtered. Deliberately going around these filters will not be allowed on this forum. Special characters and other methods to bypass the word filters is unacceptable. This includes using *(or other characters/symbols) in place of another letter.
* Using similar sounding words, phonetic spelling methods, or non-English languages to evade the forum filters is not allowed. Using any method to post a word that is normally filtered will result in a warning.

C. Harassing and Flaming

* If the administrators see post content that they feel is "attacking" or harassing other forum members, users concerned will be warned once, then banned.
* Posting person-to-person damnation/cursing, or ill-wishing a person's present physical state of being and/or surroundings will be subject to corrective action.

D. Signatures and Avatars
*Must be IMAGES and TEXTS only.
*Signatures must be limited to only 500x240 in dimension per image.
*Avatars are in default 100x100 in dimension.
*limit your images to 2(rectangular) or 4(square) for animated and 4 for still (regardless of shape).
*Use of Inappropriate (Pornographic, Offensive, Profane) signatures and avatars are strictly prohibited.

E. Spam, Flooding and Double Posting(03/15/2007)
*one word posts shall be considered spam.
*4 and above consecutive posting shall be considered flooding.
*Do not post a new topic that has been already discussed.

Authority: A moderator's decision is final. Penalties shall be strictly given to those won't follow these simple rules.

If you have any concerns, contact the Moderating team via Private Message (PM).

These rules are not just for the good of the forum, but also to promote harmony among each other. Thank you for your support.

- the OD Team