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Listen up you primitive screwheads!

Policy Change Effective Immediately

On Politics and Religion: Real Life Politics and Religion are topics that are not allowed. We have found that even in the very rare occasions when these topics can be discussed civilly, they require a great deal of moderator attention. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis if such discussions relate directly to gaming, though this is at the sole discretion of our moderators. Any thread that the moderators decide requires too much moderator attention may be locked. There are message boards designed specifically for the discussion of politics and religion, if you must discuss these topics, please do so there, most of the moderators can give you a push in the right direction if you need to get it out of your system. This policy MAY be revised in the future at the administration’s discretion if it believed that user maturity and respect levels warrant such a review.

TSE Rules, Guidelines and Expectations:

About the Moderators: They are kind folks who volunteer their free time to help me maintain this forum and keep it clean of abuse. Note the emphasis on "volunteer" and "free time." Forum moderating is always hard work, and it's impossible to please everyone given the cultural and social diversity of this forum. Do not question the decisions they may make--not publicly at least. This will get your account suspended quickly. Each of our great Moderators is EXTREMELY non-biased and treats everyone fairly.

In order to maintain the civil atmosphere and keep things reasonably organized, Moderators may move, lock or delete threads that do not belong in these forums or break the Rules. Remember, this is not a democracy. This is a semi-benevolent dictatorship.

No Piracy: DO NOT post links to 'warez sites'. Do not discuss pirating games, bragging about pirating or anything else. In addition to being illegal, if Spoony were to be approached by a media group (not unlike what occurred with Screwattack.com) it reflects very poorly on him, his moderators, and his website to condone piracy and other illegal activities. Repeat offences will get your account suspended or banned. The only possible thing you CAN discuss is the so-called 'cracks' for no CD operation. SOME Games don't work on some peoples CD-ROM's. This is because of a special copy protection called 'Safe Disc'. But that is it. Anything else is considered pirating.

Be Clean: Adhere to decency and refrain from abusive or hateful language, while cussing isn't censored, please don't direct the words towards someone in a hateful or demeaning way. Cussing 'just to be cussing' will land you with an account suspension if it becomes too much. Also, don't make a habit of putting an expletive in the title of your post. It will be deleted.

While in a debate, or have a difference of opinion, please do not take it as an attack. We will close accounts of people that attack others, be it in a subtle way, or a deliberate loud way. The only exception is in the specially designated areas (such as the Flame On thread). Your sense of humor is located somewhere under your right lung. Find it and make use of it. Not every post is intended to offend.

Posting Links to, or linking to images that depict ANY pornographic material will be dealt with via Ban. This is a site that Minors visit. It shows bad taste, and is just sick. If it is risqué or pushes the boundaries of what you think is reasonable, without dancing a jig all over the line, mark it as NSFW and don’t feel too upset if it’s edited by the staff. Do not link to material that could be construed as 'hate' literature.

Be Nice: No posting of material that antagonizes, harasses or creates hostility toward another user or group of. If you are angry with someone in the forum, take it up with him/her through private channels like e-mail or PM or ICQ in a respectful manner. At the same point, a certain level of snark is expected and endorsed here, try to remember that. Take a few seconds before posting to see if your response breaks the rules, or if the post you're responding to is actually as harsh as you interpret it to be. We come from all over the world, and many of us are non-native english speakers. Take a few seconds to give them the benefit of the doubt before blasting them with balefire. As one of our Moderators advised, if something upsets you, count to ten, take a walk, cool off, and reply in a more courteous manner than a series of harsh invectives and you'll do well here.

Be Courteous: No posting to purposely interfere with normal dialog flow. Please practice general netiquette at all times. Do not write your messages in ALL CAPS, as it makes you look like as if you're screaming. Do not troll by saying pointlessly provocative titles. Do not use this board as a place to organize trolling of other forums or web communities, nor discussion/praise of those who do. We don’t want people doing it to us, treat them with the same respect, whether you agree with their views, or not. As a corollary, don’t bring baggage, vendettas, grudges, etc from other communities here. “What happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas,” Keep issues and problems restricted to the area they came from.

Be Polite: No targeting of another user by harassing or giving unwarranted attention to or attacking ones race, gender, ethnicity or country (unless it’s Canada). Also, respect each person's views and questions--this includes attacks on NEW users. After all, we were ALL newbies once.

Be Prudent: Before you post a message or question, take a few seconds and check over your post. Review it for spelling, obvious grammar mistakes, tone (especially if a topic is getting heated taking a few seconds to step back and look at how it might be construed by others). If it’s too harsh, seriously consider revising it, it could save us from having to lock a topic, or give you an unplanned vacation of a possibly permanent nature. Also attempt at least a cursory glance to see if a similar topic has already been posted.

Be Spam Free: Do not post the same material to multiple areas. Posts like "me too" and 'no topic' posts are not allowed-- it's a waste of space. TSE will not tolerate commercial type postings of any kind in any of the Forums, unless relevant to the discussions and serves to satisfy a query. A brief mention and link to a product is allowed, but otherwise no member is allowed to come in and self-promote their own products or web sites.
You may also put a URL in your Signature, although we do NOT allow any type of BANNERS or other 'ads images' to be posted to your sig.

Posting a message to Test your sig is fine, but you only need to use up 1 post. You can edit your 1 post as many times as you wish. There is no need to post 10 messages testing your sig. Also, once you get it fixed, delete the test post. (You can delete your own posts).

If you decide to just have a TEXT sig, please limit it to 3-4 lines. If you want an Image AND text, you must keep the text to 3 lines. This will be enforced. Any sigs breaking this rule will be edited to meet the requirements without warning.

Also, if you see a thread/post deleted or closed, DO NOT post a new message asking where the thread/post went or why it was closed. These types of questions can be answered by emailing your administrator or moderating team. The larger the image in your sig, the longer it takes for others to load it, moreover, overly large sig images are REALLY annoying. Your text sig or 'tagline' must not exceed 300 characters as well.

Be Understanding: We reserve the right to delete any message we feel violates any of these rules. Please report any abuse to the sysop. Repeated violation of any rules results in your termination, and IP Subnet ban.

Be Observant: Read the instructions that are presented on the screen. Many frustrations can be avoided, by educating yourself on proper the usage of our system. If you have any questions though, email me and I'll help you out.

Be Trustworthy: Do not post private email from others that you have received directly from them. If they want their words public, let them post it.

Be Responsible: Do not post slanderous, libelous or any defamatory statements on the TSE Forum, we will not be held responsible for your posts, but just the same, we'd rather not go there! Posts that appear to be defamatory should have supporting references included.

Be Careful: Nobody at TSE will ask you for your password. Keep your password in a safe place.

Warn before you Spoil: A spoiler is something that reveals information about a plot twist or the location of some object/character/hidden place in a movie, book, TV show, or game. Spoilers are by their nature subjective - you will need to use your judgment to determine what these are. The majority of people don't like finding out about a plot twist before they were meant to. (Like someone telling you the ending of a movie before you see it) As a courtesy to other board members who may not have gotten as far in the game as you have, please abide by the following when requesting or revealing spoiler information: Do NOT reveal the spoiler in your title. Put a SPOILER tag in the title so people know you will be revealing spoiler information. Put spoiler spaces just before the part where you are revealing the information.

Ranks and Avatars: The little words under your name that appear on the board is your current TSE Forum rank. Ranks are an indication of how many posts you have made - NOT of board seniority or level of respect in the community. Spamming to gain rank will not be tolerated. You will receive 1 warning, then a Deduction in posts and rank.

Remember folks, I'm doing this for kicks, in my spare time. I don't get paid for it, except for donations from time to time. This means, like waitresses and bar staff, I hold the right not to deal with you if you're being abusive to me. This is, of course, different to criticizing my work. Calling me by any expletive will likely get you - yes, you've guessed it - banned.

Finally, don't come to me with freedom of speech arguments. This is a house. If you insult anyone or act a fool inside my house, I make you leave. And remember, the Moderators on these forums may be little more capable than capering monkeys, but they're your capering monkeys. If you have issues with a poster or a post, report it to a moderator. Do not engage offensive posters or lower yourself to their level.