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General Rules
•While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness,
profanity (or attempts to bypass profanity filters), insulting posts, personal attacks
or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters. •Please
refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or
the such. •Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is
not allowed. •Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using
the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private
message systems to spam other members. •Please wait a reasonable amount of time
before bumping posts. For style changes and general 'how-to' questions this should
be 24 hours. For specific troubleshooting issues, use 12 hours as a guideline. •We
also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate vBulletin
community standards. The vBulletin team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does
and what does not violate community standards. •Discussion of illegal activities
such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are
not allowed. •Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple
accounts is not allowed. •While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative
conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts
or the sort of 'ooh look, yet another bulletin board' threads. Also, we would appreciate
it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other boards. •We reserve the right to
remove offensive posts without notice. •If you are going to post non-English on
these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post. •Posts arguing
about company policies are not allowed. You can fill out a support ticket if you
have issue with company policies. •Posts discussing moderator actions are also not
allowed. •Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate
everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate
to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way. •You cannot post
any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts
will be subject to removal. •You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
•All post must be made in English •Support tickets should be considered to be confidential
information. Support tickets posted in the forums will be deleted. •We also reserve
the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our
support forums are a privilege and not a right. A banned customer is still entitled
to support from the support system. Advertising Services and Solicitation We do
not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users
here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit
advertising and soliciting in signatures is also prohibited. Note: The only exception
to this is for language pack submissions as described below. We do not allow selling
vBulletin installation or upgrade services, as we offer this already, and we can
not condone this type of service offered from anyone on the forums because of the
potential security problems it brings up. You should never give out your vBulletin
customer number or password to anyone, and you should not disclose server logins
and/or passwords to anyone except through the vBulletin support system. We can not
take responsibility if you disclose this information to anyone else. Links in signatures
must follow these guidelines •Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided
it is not a product or service that competes with a product or service offered by
vBulletin Solutions and it is not an affiliate program link for vBulletin or any
other affiliate program. •Promotional text for a commercial product or service is
ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed. •A link and
promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s)
and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate
vBulletin community standards. The vBulletin team shall be the sole arbitrator of
what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites
about drugs and/or sex.) •Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not
allowed. •All signatures must be made in English Avatars •Animated avatars are not
allowed. Sorry. •Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not
allowed. •Use of the vBulletin logo in avatars is not allowed. Licenses for Sale
We do not allow people to post that are looking to sell or buy a used vBulletin
license. While you are allowed to sell and transfer your license to another owner,
these forums are not the appropriate place to do this. Affiliate Programs The vBulletin
affiliate program is designed to allow people to advertise vBulletin on their web
site and earn a commission on all sales generated through that link. You are not
allowed to post your affiliate link anywhere on the vBulletin forums, in your signature
or send the link through private messages to other forum users. Anyone that does
this may be removed from the affiliate program immediately without notice. This
rule applies to all affiliate program links, not just the vBulletin program. Signature
Size Limits All signatures should not exceed the following limits •You can't have
both text and images in your sig •For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines
small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank
lines count as lines.) •Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous
item •For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and
20k in size •Animated images in a signature are not allowed We also have some rules
that apply for certain forums Hosting Forum •The hosting forum is for discussion
of hosts and hosting options for vBulletin customers. Advertising of hosting services
is not allowed. This includes any host or anyone with a financial interest in or
a partnership relationship with a host from replying to questions or requests regarding
hosting services. Any posts violating this rule will be removed. •Because of the
high rate of software piracy on 'free' hosts, discussion and questions regarding
free hosting services are not appropriate for this forum. Please feel free to use
this forum to discuss paid hosting services. •The hosting forum cannot be used to
promote specific hosts. We will moderate posts and users continuing to excessively
promote or advertise any hosts. Anyone abusing this will lose their right to post
in this forum. Chit Chat forum The Chit Chat forum is where vBulletin owners and
fans can gather to chat about almost anything, technical or non-technical in nature.
If you have a question that doesn't fit into any other forum, or just want to chat,
this is the place. vBulletin Language Packs Forum When submitting a language pack
you can include a link in your thread pointing to a link where people can donate
to you for proving this language pack. There can be no restrictions or charges for
the use of a language pack, but asking for donations in the original post is permitted.
Reporting a suspected pirated copy of vBulletin Please do not post suspected copies
of vBulletin on these forums. If you suspect that a forum is using an illegal copy
of vBulletin, please email the full URL to the forums (not the site's home page)
to http://www.vbulletin.com/piracy.php All sites sent to this address will be added
to our anti-piracy database and will be investigated. The name of the person submitting
the report will always remain confidential. We will be unable to respond with whether
this site is properly licensed or not, or our actions, for privacy reasons. Third-Party
Disputes and Customizations We will not mediate third-party disputes due to third-party
purchases. Third-party purchases include styles, addons, custom programming and
modifications, pay-per-post services, purchasing second-hand licenses, moderation
fees, advertising fees or any product not directly purchased from vBulletin Solutions,
Inc. Purchasing these items from another company is done at your own risk. If you
have an issue with a third-party regarding their support or conduct then you will
need to handle it through the means they provide. Any such threads on this topic
will be closed. We cannot provide support for third-party customizations. This includes
contract programming, purchased or free styles, or modifications downloaded from
http://www.vbulletin.org. Moderation Although the administrators and moderators
of vBulletin Community Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off
this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express
the views of the author, and neither the owners of vBulletin Community Forum, nor
vBulletin Solutions, Inc.. (developers of vBulletin) will be held responsible for
the content of any message. By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will
not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening,
or otherwise violative of any laws. The owners of vBulletin Community Forum reserve
the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason. Staff Disputes
Any disputes with the staff of the vBulletin Community Forums will be handled in
private through the Private Message System or the Support System ticket. If you
wish to escalate any issue with staff then please visit: http://www.vbulletin.com/go/sales.
Addendum We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the
community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.