Announcements

[David]

1. No flaming, flamebaiting, trolling, or insulting other members.
Flaming is the often deliberate act of posting messages on forums that have the intent of insulting or creating dissent within a group. These posts may be filled with excessive profanity and/or personal insults. Insulting other members (calling someone a moron, retard, idiot, etc.) falls under this category. Insulting other members includes members of the DFOSource staff.
Flamebaiting is the act of posting a message with the intent of provoking an angry response.
Trolling is posting inflammatory or or off-topic messages on forums with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

2. No negative or disparaging remarks against any race, culture, beliefs, sexuality, gender, or nationality.
Discrimination of any kind is not allowed.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

3. No spamming.
Spamming is posting messages with no real content in them, or off-topic posts. These posts are often one-liners, and will be deleted. Please ask yourself if your message contributes to the thread or is constructive before you post it. Spamming images or image macros falls under this category, and so do PMs.
Exceptions: Spam & Forum Games
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

4. No thread hijacking.
Thread hijacking is the act of trying to steer a thread off-topic by discussing a subject entirely unrelated to the subject of the original post.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

5. Do not double post or create duplicate threads.
The edit button is there for a reason! Use it. If for some reason you accidentally double post, delete it or report it so an admin/moderator may delete it for you. If you accidentally post in the wrong section, report it and an admin/moderator will move it.
Exceptions: You may bump your thread in the Marketplace and Questions & Answers after it is no longer on the first page.
Excessive offenses (i.e. posting 5 times in a row, three times a day): 1 week ban

6. No advertising products or referral links via threads, posts, private messages, and signatures.
This includes referral URLs and advertising in signatures. Please report bots, they will be permabanned.
Exceptions: Links to selling threads
First offense: 1 week ban
Second offense: 1 month ban
Third offense: Permaban

7. Do not post links to hacks/how to hack/screenshots of yourself hacking.
First offense: 1 week ban
Second offense: 1 month ban
Third offense: Permaban

8. No sharing or posting pornographic images, videos, or links of any kind (including in avatars and signatures).
First offense: 1 week ban
Second offense: 1 month ban
Third offense: Permaban

9. Do not link to sites that may cause harm to another user's computer.
First offense: 1 month ban
Second offense: Permaban

10. No sharing or posting links or files pertaining to piracy of any kind.
First offense: 1 week ban
Second offense: 1 month ban
Third offense: Permaban

11. No hotlinking images from sites where permission has not been allowed.
First offense: 1 week ban
Following offenses: 1 month ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

12. Do not ask for other members to add to your reputation in posts or signatures.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

13. Do not abuse the reputation system
This goes without saying, really, but the reputation system is not something to be taken too lightly. Frivolous reputation modifications will results in warnings, and subsequent violations will result in bans.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

14. No transactions involving NX or any other real life item.
DFOSource will not be held responsible for those straying from this rule and privately organizing these transactions.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

15. Keep Custom User Titles appropriate.
If you are unsure whether or not a custom title you want to use is appropriate, please PM a moderator or myself.
Any offense: Infraction

16. Moderators: Do not abuse your power
If you feel that a moderator is abusing his/her power, please PM David with proof.
Any offense: Depends on the severity. Moderator status may be taken away.

17. Do not create alternate accounts or ban dodge.
Wait out your ban. If you were banned permanently, that means we don't want you back. Ever. Any accounts you create in the future will be immediately banned. All ban appeals should be PMed to the staff, do not make threads about them. If you are able to prove you are indeed innocent, your main account will be unbanned. If you feel you were banned unfairly, you may create an alternate account for the sole purpose of PMing the staff a ban appeal. Do not post on it.
Any offense: Alternate account permabanned

Infractions/Rule Violations
Posts/threads breaking the rules may be deleted/closed. Infractions last 10 days. Upon receiving three infractions of any kind, you will be automatically banned for three days. Repeated violations of the same rule may cause you to be banned upon your second. Scroll up for details on repeated violations. If you feel you have received an infraction unfairly, please PM the staff, do not make a thread about it.

Marketplace Rules
See Marketplace Rule Set - Read First.

The Report Button
Do not hesitate to click this button! When posts are reported, we will always do something about them whether that is deleting the post/handing out infractions/banning users if the report is legit. If posts are not reported there is NO possible way that we will catch each and every post that needs to be dealt with.

Do not abuse the report button
On the other hand, spurious post reports are frowned upon; it wastes moderators' time sifting through them. If you give clearly unhelpful reports (e.g. reporting something that is clearly not advertising as advertising) you may receive a warning PM about this, although not an infraction; repeated abuses may lead to losing the ability to submit post reports.

Thanks,
The DFOSource Staff