Post by Hooves Reloaded Admin on Aug 20, 2013 21:15:21 GMT -5
Rubber Duck Software reserves the right to amend or change the rules of conduct at any time without notice. You are responsible for following these Rules of Conduct.
1. Appropriate language and content
You are responsible for using appropriate language and content on the Hooves of Fire Forum. Language and content must be both appropriate and respectful at all times.
Rubber Duck Software reserves the right to revoke the account of anyone who advocates or encourages expressions of violence, bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity. Racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious slurs will not be tolerated. Referencing controversial religious topics, notorious people or organizations, or sensitive current or historical events may also be considered inappropriate if they are deemed to be disruptive.
Inappropriate language and content can include any language that looks like, sounds like, stands for, hints at, abbreviates, or insinuates any of the following:
• profanity
• sexual content
• slurs (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, and religious slurs)
• illegal drugs/controlled substances
• illegal activities
2. Appropriate use
You are responsible for your own behaviour and actions on the Hooves of Fire Forum.
Hooves of Fire Forum is NOT TO BE USED TO;
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others. Harassment takes many forms, and is not necessarily limited to the type of language used, but the intent. Repeatedly targeting a specific player/moderator/administrator/employee with harassment and or abuse will lead to a permanent ban of your Forum and Hooves of Fire game account.
- Publish content that is harmful, abusive, vulgar, sexually explicit, defamatory, libelous, obscene, infringing, embarrassing, unwanted, invasive of another's right of privacy or publicity, hateful or racially, ethnically or, in a reasonable person's view, otherwise offensive or objectionable.
- Distribute or make available any material that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other right of any party.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any purpose, unless specifically allowed.
- Disrupt the flow of chat in chat rooms with vulgar language, abusiveness, “spamming,” or flooding.
- Improperly use in-game support or complaint buttons or make false reports to Rubber Duck Software administrators.
- Impersonate or create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
- "Trolling", that is, to incite controversy, conflict, cause annoyance or offence. Trolling includes creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forum, causing disturbances in forum threads, such as picking fights, making off topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters and posting non-constructive posts.
- Discuss Disciplinary Actions. This includes the following:
creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player, including chat logs and email correspondence between a player and an administrator/moderator.
creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player or account on the forums
discussing a thread that has been locked or removed
Posts that have been locked or removed by the moderator have a reason behind the moderation. It is your responsibility to review the Forum rules and determine what you did wrong, learn from your mistake and ensure that future posts do not break the forum rules.
- Make non-constructive posts. This includes but is not limited to:
Cross posting – Posting the same topic or thread in more than one forum is considered cross posting.
Spam - repeated posting of the same topic or text or posts that are designed to annoy other forum users.
Bumping - posting on threads in order to keep them at the top of the forum list. This includes adding non constructive comments at the bottom of threads to bring them to the top again. Commenting on obsolete or old topics (greater than 2 weeks old) to bump them into discussion is also prohibited.
Petitioning - posts that “petition” for game features, additions, changes, or other issues. Suggestions or ideas can be posted to the boards under "Feature requests" but you may not create a ‘petition’ for others to sign.
Lobbying – continually bringing up the same topic in numerous threads or as an off-topic post in official threads.
"I’m quitting", "I'm leaving" or "The game is dying" threads.
Conspiracy Threads - posts, claims or complaints about Hooves of Fire/Rubber Duck Software or any of its employees acting in collusion with or showing favouritism to a group or player
Posting game exploits. If you find and exploit, please private message the administrator.
Ranting or posting with redundant and non-constructive comments. Please post your thoughts in a concise and clear manner.
Posting team members/staff names in the title or body of the thread. We understand that you would like your post acknowledged and responded to, however, posting staff members names to gain attention will not make this happen. Threads in violation of this guideline will be deleted.
3. Privacy
You are responsible for maintaining your privacy on the forum. We encourage you not to publish personally identifiable information. Do not use the service to collect personal information about others, including e-mail addresses, or use such information to send unsolicited emails.
4. Security
You are responsible for keeping your computer system safe. The service is not to be used to upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files or data, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of the Services or other users' computer.
Guidelines for Avatars and Signatures
Keep your signature and avatar in good taste, the contents of your signature must be acceptable for the forum: no vulgarity, lewd men/women, profanity or insults to other forum members.
If you use an image as your signature, it should be no larger than 486 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. Your avatar will be limited to 100 pixels by 100 pixels.
Animation should be kept to a minimum and both your signature and avatar shouldn't be too distracting.
Do not include spam, harassing links or affiliate links in your signature.
Comments and/or links that represent direct competition are not allowed.
Any signature violating these rules will be considered spam. The signature will be deleted and the offending member will be addressed by our moderators.
Forum policing
The Hooves of Fire Forum operates on a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days, or a permanent ban depending on the severity of the offense.
Arguing with moderators/administrators after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this warning exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban or other moderator action will lead to a permanent ban of your Forum and Hooves of Fire account(s). Circumvention includes re-registering or using an already registered account under a non-banned username. Other examples include changing IP addresses, using a new email account or other action that can be taken to evade moderator action to hide your identity as the owner of the sanctioned account.
An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact administrators or moderators personally (via any method) and post insulting, abusive, libelous, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
Permanent bans are used as a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While Rubber Duck Software may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time, this is a rare occurrence.
Account suspension and termination
Your use of the Hooves of Fire Forum is subject to your compliance with the Rules of Conduct and the Hooves of Fire Terms of Service. Failure to comply with these Rules of Conduct may result in Rubber Duck Software taking any or all of the following actions:
Remove any material or postings you have made to the forums;
Issuing a warning;
Suspend or Ban your Hooves of Fire game account and/or your use of the forums;
Disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as Rubber Duck Software feels is reasonably necessary; and/or
Pursue legal action against you.
Rubber Duck Software excludes all liability for:
(i) any action taken in response to breaches of these Rules of Conduct. The responses described in the Rules of Conduct are not exhaustive, and Rubber Duck Software may take any other action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate;
(ii) any loss or damage arising from the use of the forum by you;
(iii) any content posted or uploaded by users of the forum which shall include, without limitation, any liability for offensive and/or defamatory posts.
1. Appropriate language and content
You are responsible for using appropriate language and content on the Hooves of Fire Forum. Language and content must be both appropriate and respectful at all times.
Rubber Duck Software reserves the right to revoke the account of anyone who advocates or encourages expressions of violence, bigotry, racism, hatred, or profanity. Racial, ethnic, sexual, or religious slurs will not be tolerated. Referencing controversial religious topics, notorious people or organizations, or sensitive current or historical events may also be considered inappropriate if they are deemed to be disruptive.
Inappropriate language and content can include any language that looks like, sounds like, stands for, hints at, abbreviates, or insinuates any of the following:
• profanity
• sexual content
• slurs (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, and religious slurs)
• illegal drugs/controlled substances
• illegal activities
2. Appropriate use
You are responsible for your own behaviour and actions on the Hooves of Fire Forum.
Hooves of Fire Forum is NOT TO BE USED TO;
- Defame, abuse, harass, stalk, threaten or otherwise violate the legal rights of others. Harassment takes many forms, and is not necessarily limited to the type of language used, but the intent. Repeatedly targeting a specific player/moderator/administrator/employee with harassment and or abuse will lead to a permanent ban of your Forum and Hooves of Fire game account.
- Publish content that is harmful, abusive, vulgar, sexually explicit, defamatory, libelous, obscene, infringing, embarrassing, unwanted, invasive of another's right of privacy or publicity, hateful or racially, ethnically or, in a reasonable person's view, otherwise offensive or objectionable.
- Distribute or make available any material that infringes any copyright, trademark, patent, trade secret, or other right of any party.
- Advertise or offer to sell or buy any goods or services for any purpose, unless specifically allowed.
- Disrupt the flow of chat in chat rooms with vulgar language, abusiveness, “spamming,” or flooding.
- Improperly use in-game support or complaint buttons or make false reports to Rubber Duck Software administrators.
- Impersonate or create a false identity for the purpose of misleading others.
- "Trolling", that is, to incite controversy, conflict, cause annoyance or offence. Trolling includes creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forum, causing disturbances in forum threads, such as picking fights, making off topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters and posting non-constructive posts.
- Discuss Disciplinary Actions. This includes the following:
creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player, including chat logs and email correspondence between a player and an administrator/moderator.
creating posts or threads to discuss disciplinary actions taken against a player or account on the forums
discussing a thread that has been locked or removed
Posts that have been locked or removed by the moderator have a reason behind the moderation. It is your responsibility to review the Forum rules and determine what you did wrong, learn from your mistake and ensure that future posts do not break the forum rules.
- Make non-constructive posts. This includes but is not limited to:
Cross posting – Posting the same topic or thread in more than one forum is considered cross posting.
Spam - repeated posting of the same topic or text or posts that are designed to annoy other forum users.
Bumping - posting on threads in order to keep them at the top of the forum list. This includes adding non constructive comments at the bottom of threads to bring them to the top again. Commenting on obsolete or old topics (greater than 2 weeks old) to bump them into discussion is also prohibited.
Petitioning - posts that “petition” for game features, additions, changes, or other issues. Suggestions or ideas can be posted to the boards under "Feature requests" but you may not create a ‘petition’ for others to sign.
Lobbying – continually bringing up the same topic in numerous threads or as an off-topic post in official threads.
"I’m quitting", "I'm leaving" or "The game is dying" threads.
Conspiracy Threads - posts, claims or complaints about Hooves of Fire/Rubber Duck Software or any of its employees acting in collusion with or showing favouritism to a group or player
Posting game exploits. If you find and exploit, please private message the administrator.
Ranting or posting with redundant and non-constructive comments. Please post your thoughts in a concise and clear manner.
Posting team members/staff names in the title or body of the thread. We understand that you would like your post acknowledged and responded to, however, posting staff members names to gain attention will not make this happen. Threads in violation of this guideline will be deleted.
3. Privacy
You are responsible for maintaining your privacy on the forum. We encourage you not to publish personally identifiable information. Do not use the service to collect personal information about others, including e-mail addresses, or use such information to send unsolicited emails.
4. Security
You are responsible for keeping your computer system safe. The service is not to be used to upload files that contain viruses, Trojan horses, worms, time bombs, cancelbots, corrupted files or data, or any other similar software or programs that may damage the operation of the Services or other users' computer.
Guidelines for Avatars and Signatures
Keep your signature and avatar in good taste, the contents of your signature must be acceptable for the forum: no vulgarity, lewd men/women, profanity or insults to other forum members.
If you use an image as your signature, it should be no larger than 486 pixels wide by 100 pixels tall. Your avatar will be limited to 100 pixels by 100 pixels.
Animation should be kept to a minimum and both your signature and avatar shouldn't be too distracting.
Do not include spam, harassing links or affiliate links in your signature.
Comments and/or links that represent direct competition are not allowed.
Any signature violating these rules will be considered spam. The signature will be deleted and the offending member will be addressed by our moderators.
Forum policing
The Hooves of Fire Forum operates on a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days, or a permanent ban depending on the severity of the offense.
Arguing with moderators/administrators after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this warning exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban or other moderator action will lead to a permanent ban of your Forum and Hooves of Fire account(s). Circumvention includes re-registering or using an already registered account under a non-banned username. Other examples include changing IP addresses, using a new email account or other action that can be taken to evade moderator action to hide your identity as the owner of the sanctioned account.
An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact administrators or moderators personally (via any method) and post insulting, abusive, libelous, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
Permanent bans are used as a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While Rubber Duck Software may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time, this is a rare occurrence.
Account suspension and termination
Your use of the Hooves of Fire Forum is subject to your compliance with the Rules of Conduct and the Hooves of Fire Terms of Service. Failure to comply with these Rules of Conduct may result in Rubber Duck Software taking any or all of the following actions:
Remove any material or postings you have made to the forums;
Issuing a warning;
Suspend or Ban your Hooves of Fire game account and/or your use of the forums;
Disclose such information to law enforcement authorities as Rubber Duck Software feels is reasonably necessary; and/or
Pursue legal action against you.
Rubber Duck Software excludes all liability for:
(i) any action taken in response to breaches of these Rules of Conduct. The responses described in the Rules of Conduct are not exhaustive, and Rubber Duck Software may take any other action, in its sole discretion, it deems appropriate;
(ii) any loss or damage arising from the use of the forum by you;
(iii) any content posted or uploaded by users of the forum which shall include, without limitation, any liability for offensive and/or defamatory posts.