Board + Signature Rule

Dear Digital Gladiator forum User's,

Here with the board-administration wants to point out this forum's rules for you in order to prevent chaos and to ensure a peaceful atmosphere between members.

We ask you to pay attention to these rules and also to follow them. Otherwise the board's staff will have to take measures to prevent you from violating rules which means infractions and in the worst case bans.
We also want to give you some additional information for special cases which occur from time to time.

- RULES -

• be nice / friendly
  
• try to be helpful
  
• if you got problems with some members DON'T flame
  
• if a relatively new member did something wrong, please direct him to these rules and/or report
• the rule-violating post by clicking on this icon without insulting/flaming him
  
• if you have a question you don't want to post on the forum, feel free to PM a moderator, he will do his best to help you

- CONSEQUENCES FOR VIOLATIONS -

• if you post files which include trojans / keyloggers etc you definitely will get banned instantly.
  
• if you flame / insult other members you will get an infraction.
  
• if you post a question in a release section (which is marked with [NO QUESTIONS]) you get a warning (if it was your first time you'll get a warning , if you continue doing this you'll get an infraction).
  
• if we get you were using two account you will permanently banned (you only need to register new account when you already got banned).
  
• referrer links are forbidden; if you post one it will be considered spam and will end up in an infraction
  
• advertising without a link back to Digital Gladiator is forbidden and will be punished with an infraction (warning if it's for the first time)
  
• advertising similar sites to Digital Gladiator Forum is forbidden and will result in a ban (even if you've put a backlink on that site).
  
• advertising your own forum hosted at a free-forum provider is not allowed.
  
• if you post racist comments, you will receive an infraction (a ban in harder cases)
  
• if you want to spam, go to the offtopic and post there, but remember that even the off-topic is not a unlegislated area! Spamming in other areas will end up in infractions / warnings
  
• doubleposting, or pushing up really old topics is not allowed and ends up in an infraction / a warning
  
• using survey download mirrors (e.g. sharecash) is prohibited unless there is another mirror option
  
• posting pornopraphic content (no matter what your definition of pornographic content is) will be punished with an infraction and in harder cases a ban
  
• using any avatar/signature/usertitle which could make members think you are a member of the staff though you are not, is forbidden and is to be punished with an infraction or in harder cases a ban
  
• abusing your avatar to add fake or custom ranks/badges isn't allowed
  
• abusing the thanks-system is prohibited; you are not allowed to sell or buy thanks from another
• member, only give thanks for useful posts!
  
• if you have 3 active infraction-points you will receive a ban
  
• you can type any language you want, English are recomended
  
• we do not support gambling for money. Accordingly all gambling-threads which require payment for
• participation are prohibited. Gambling for free (actually it's just sharing) is still allowed.
  

- SIGNATURE RULES -

• width : not wider than the post table width.
  
• height : not higher than 200px.
  
• size : not larger than 300kb.
  
• no links to infected files.
  
• no insulting content.
  
• no racist contents.
  
• no pornographic content.
  
• no referral links (exceptions so far are: Facebook-Links, MySpace-Links [and their likes]).
  
• no advertising links without a link back to Digital Gladiator.
  
• using another member signature without permission are forbidden.

- ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / MISCELLANEOUS -

• if you want to be part of the board's staff feel free to post your application here: Joining Digital GLadiator but please read through the sticky threads there first!.
  
• the administration won't ban you after you request it; if you want to leave the forum just deactivate any kind of e-mail-issue in your User CP and don't visit the forum anymore.
  
• multi-accounting (having more than 1 non-banned account here) is forbidden and results in a ban of all accounts but the oldest (in special cases of just all accounts)
  
• in case your statistics are being forged (thankspush etc) by yourself (referral to multiaccounting) you will get banned; if they are being forged by someone else without you having your hands on it please report it to an administrator;