Forum Rules

[Perseus]

The new forum rules:

• Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting.
• Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Be tolerant at any time. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated.
• Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue they are welcome to bring it to the attention of moderator by pm. Do not respond to such topics yourself.
• Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts.
• Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got an error!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "New Game: Perseus - SomeOtherPlayer", "Two Knights Defense: Fritz Variation and sidelines", etc.
• Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance.
• Continuously linking your own website to promote it is not allowed. You may use your signature (which will come up beneath all your posts) for this purpose.
• Administrators (Admins) and Moderators (Mods) reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. is up to them and not to forum members.
• Aforementioned Admins and Mods reserve the right to edit this list of rules at anytime.

[Perseus]

Since I cannot edit the first post in this section I'll use a reply; these rules have since been added:

• Members should refrain from posting without adding to the discussion. Posting just to increase postcount is not allowed.
• Warez are intellectual property (software/music/movies/tv-series/tv-shows/etc) either through download, serial, or crack in a manner that breaks its copyright and/or license. You are not allowed to give/link to/ask for/advocate/provide information for obtaining warez.
• Books published before 1920 are considered free of copyright and e-books thereof are not warez. Books published after 1920 with permission from the author are considered free of copyright and e-books thereof are not warez provided it can within reason be established that permission has been given. All other books are considered copyrighted and e-books thereof are considered warez.
• Off topic posts are limited to active members who have actually posted on-topic in one of the chess-oriented sections in the past. Posts in the Introduction section do not count.