Forum Rules
1)Definition
2)Hotlinking and framing
3)Registration
4)Netiquette
5)Legibility of Posts
6)Advertisement
7)Posting in the correct forum
8)No individual welcome-threads
9)Searching
10)Avoiding cross- and multi-postings
11)Avoiding nonsense posts
12)Forum-Trolls
13)Avatars
14)Personal photo
15)Signatures
16)Pictures in postings
17)Warnings
18)Exception to the rule
19)Restrictions
20)Responsibility clause
21)Legal Clause
23)Additional guidelines
Internet Netiquette
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Last revision: 27 July 2010
2)Hotlinking and framing
3)Registration
4)Netiquette
5)Legibility of Posts
6)Advertisement
7)Posting in the correct forum
8)No individual welcome-threads
9)Searching
10)Avoiding cross- and multi-postings
11)Avoiding nonsense posts
12)Forum-Trolls
13)Avatars
14)Personal photo
15)Signatures
16)Pictures in postings
17)Warnings
18)Exception to the rule
19)Restrictions
20)Responsibility clause
21)Legal Clause
23)Additional guidelines
- Definition
- Hotlinking and framing
- Registration
- Netiquette
Defamation and insulting other users on this board is forbidden. You will be excluded from the community by the board administrators if you don't comply to this rule.
Please note:
- Posting or requesting links to warez is strictly forbidden!
- Racism and discrimination on this forum is not tolerated and will result in exclusion of the community and may result in legal prosecution.
- Abusing copyright or posting copyrighted materials as yours is strictly forbidden and can result in a permanent exclusion of the community.
- Asking for release dates in this community is not appreciated, please avoid asking on purpose. Abuse will result in a warning!
- Double posting, miss-usage of the font sizes and caps-lock writing is not tolerated and will result in a warning.
For other illegal and not tolerated post content, please review the Internet Netiquette and the law.
- Legibility of Posts
Posts should be written in a way, that everyone can understand easily. This is including a legible style with punctuation marks and so on. Codes, unusual abbreviations, dialects and board-foreign languages should be avoided to the extent possible..
You should read each of your Posts again carefully, before you make it public, to ensure its legible and understandable quality!
- Advertisemen
Any kind of commercial or non-commercial advertising as well as advertisements not related to the themes of this board are not allowed without a prior, written, dated authorization. Unauthorized advertisers will be punished and might be excluded from this community!
- Posting in the correct forum
This community features a number of different forums. Each forum has a purpose and we expect you to post the topics in the right forums. If you happen to place a post in a wrong forum, a moderator or administrator will move the post to the correct place.
- No individual welcome-threads
Please use this thread to introduce yourself to the community. All individual welcome and presentation threads will be deleted by the board team without prior notice.
- Searching
This message board has an excellent search function. Please use this tool to look for topics and posts that might answer your question before you start a new thread on your own. The chances are high that a person had a similar question before. The advantages are a) you might get a faster answer and b) this will also avoid that the same questions are asked over and over again.
- Avoiding cross- and multi-postings
The creation of multiple topics or posts with the same Question/request/comment in one or several forums is not tolerated on our message board. Only the quality of the post determines if you get attention or not. Besides, if there is no one who knows an answer to your problem, there is no reason to bump or post your topic over and over.
- Avoiding nonsense posts
Nonsense posts are not welcome here. That also applies to so called Smiley-Posts which consist of only a smiley or one-two words. We don't count the amount of posts you gathered, therefore is no need to spam or bump topics back to the top. Those messages will be deleted by the board team without prior notification!
- Forum-Trolls
Trolls won't be happy in our community since we don't condone their existence. This message board may not be used as a show-stage for self-adulation. Users which are constantly disrupting discussions with flameposts will be dealt with, and may even be excluded from the community.
- Avatars
All custom avatars must comply to these specifications:
Your custom avatar may not exceed 120x120 Pixels (height& width), with a maximum size of 150kB (filesize) and with one of following file extensions: .gif / .jpg / .jpeg / .png. The use of animated avatars is tolerated in a limited manner, this means that if your avatar distracts too much from the posts and disturbs members or visitors, we are authorized to remove your avatar without prior notice.
- Personal photo
All personal photos must comply to these specifications:
Your personal photo may not exceed 150x150 Pixels (height& width) , with a maximum size of 150kB (filesize) and with one of following file extensions: .gif / .jpg / .jpeg / .png. The use of animated personal photos is tolerated in a limited manner, this means that if your avatar distracts too much from the posts and disturbs members or visitors, we are authorized to remove your avatar without prior notice.
- Signatures
All signatures must comply to these specifications:
Signatures might be composed of userbars, banners or text. Videos are strictly forbidden and will be removed without prior notice!
The whole signature may not exceed 140x640 Pixels (height&width) as well as 350kB (filesize). The use of animated signatures is tolerated in a limited manner, this means that if your avatar distracts too much from the posts and disturbs members or visitors, we are authorized to remove your avatar without prior notice.
- Pictures in postings
All posts with pictures must comply to these specifications:
A maximum of 15 pictures per post in gif, jpeg ,jpg and png format. The pictures need to be kept as small as possible (filesize) At present time we have no restrictions regarding fileze but if a pictures is found slowing down the forums or disturbing, we are authorized to remove the picture(s) without prior notice.
- Warnings
On Emergency-Planet, we make use of a warning system. In this system you can get up to 4 warnings till your account is temporary or permanently suspended. Depending on the severity of your offense you will be awarded between one and three warnings or a temporary or permanent ban.
A warning can be contested if you feel you where wrongly warned. Board administrators will then review the warning. For more information, please contact a board administrator.
- Exception to the rule
There may be exceptions to the rules posted above, but only the board team may decide on a case to case basis, if an exception is the right way to go! If there is the need to "bend" one rule, we have legitimate reasons for doing so.
- Restrictions
Emergency-Planet reserves the right to temporarily or permanently terminate its services without prior notice. Also, Emergency- does not guarantee all time use of its services or uptime of the community.
Emergency-Planet reserves the right to perform maintenance, updates and (emergency) repairs on the board or on our servers with or without prior notice.
- Responsibility clause
Emergency-Planet, sub domains of Emergency-Planet and affiliated sites do not accept any responsibility in case copyrighted texts, photos, videos, music or other copyrighted materials are posted on the site by a member or visitor from this community. We will do our very best to avoid the
placing of copyrighted materials but we cannot be held accountable for materials provided or placed by guests, users or other third parties.
If you feel your copyright is violated please contact a board administrator. We will cooperate to make sure the violation is ended.
Emergency-Planet, sub domains of Emergency-Planet and affiliated sites do not take any responsibility for advertisements, personal profiles, statements, pictures, videos, (links to) websites, or other content posted on this community by members, visitors or other third parties. All users and guests are solely responsible for the contents of their posts, messages, personal profile and other contents they place on this community.
Emergency-Planet, sub domains of Emergency-Planet and affiliated sites do not take any responsibility for advertisements, personal profiles, statements, pictures, videos, (links to) websites, or other content posted on this community by members, visitors or other third parties. All users and guests are solely responsible for the contents of their posts, messages, personal profile and other contents they place on this community
- Legal Clause
If differences between a member of visitor of this community occur, and mediation efforts fail, these differences will be settled in a Dutch court chosen by Emergency-Planet.
- Applicability
By registering on, posting on, downloading from or using other services provided on or by this community you agree to have read, understood and accepted these terms of use You agree to abide the rules mentioned in these terms of use and accept all liability for your own actions, posts and your other contributions.
Emergency-Planet has the right to change these terms of use at any given time. We agree to notify each user of a change in the terms of use via our forum and via an e-mail. If a user submitted an invalid or inactive e-mail address he or she is responsible for the consequences of not receiving the changed terms of use.
Any user that does not agree with the change of the terms of use can request an account deletion by contacting a board administrator. Any user that did not an account deletion two days after the changed terms of use automatically agree to the newversion of those terms!
Internet Netiquette
How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Last revision: 27 July 2010
