www.cpgnuke.com rules and regulations

[DJMaze]

This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at www.cpgnuke.com. Please read it and become familiar with it, it's terms are retroactive and agreed by team and group members.

Board-wide Policies

1. Forum rules
   
   
   
   1. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see policing below).
      
   2. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
      
   3. Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Moderators Team. Only do this if a moderator team member has not replied within 6 hours. Members who consistenly "act" as moderators may be warned.
      
   4. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
      
   5. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permision will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
      
   6. Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([img][/img]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed.
      
   7. 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. Users consistently abusing this will be warned.
      
   8. 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; "Getting an TABLE FULL error upon login", "Cannot restore a backup", etc.
      
   9. Members are welcome to use the test forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, etc. (subject to previous points on decency, warez, etc.). Users posting in the test forum just to increase their post counts will be warned.
      
   10. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, etc. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information.
       
   11. Members are asked to not post topics or replies containing information which may detail a security vulnerability in CPG-Nuke. If you believe you have found a hole or other issue please contact security AT cpgnuke DOT com. NOTE that this address is not to be used for general support questions. If you do email this address for a support issue do not expect a reply.
       
   12. The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users.
       
   13. The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revokation of private messaging.
   
   
2. Signatures
   
   
   1. Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6KB in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text.
      
   2. Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, etc.
      
   3. Links are permitted in signatures. Such links may be made to non-CPG-Nuke material, commercial ventures, etc. Links are included within the text and image limits above. Links to offensive sites may be subject to removal.
      
   4. Users abusing these rules will be warned.
   
   
3. Avatars
   
   
   1. Users are permitted to utilise a gallery avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be no larger than 90 pixels square, contain no animation, contain no image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here (e.g. mimiking ranks or copying avatars of team members), may not exceed 6KB in filesize and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).
      
   2. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, etc.
      
   3. Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges.
   
   
4. Support of CPG-Nuke product
   
   
   1. www.cpgnuke.com exists to support CPG-Nuke 8.x as made available for download on this site. No support will be given for versions of CPG-Nuke released or made available from other sites. This includes but is not limited to; mirrors, modded boards, modularised CPG-Nuke components, etc. Users of these boards should seek support at the site from where they obtained the package.
      
   2. Similarly no support is given to versions of CPG-Nuke 8.x obtained via CVS.
      
   3. Members who have others install their forum for them should firstly direct support requests to that person/company. CPG-Nuke is designed to be easily installed and members are strongly encouraged to install the software themselves. Support is available for specific questions on installation.
      
   4. Likewise the support forums are not to be used to ask questions on MySQL, Apache, Linux, etc. Questions regarding the applications CPG-Nuke requires should be directed to the support site of the relevant software.
      
   5. Support is offered only via these forums. Do not contact team members privately (via any method) to ask for support. Users found to be contacting team members asking for support will be warned.
      
   6. Before posting a support question users are asked to try and solve the issue themselves. This includes reading the documentation enclosed with CPG-Nuke (INSTALL.txt) and using Search ( http://cpgnuke.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=search ). Users who persistently ask questions without showing any desire to help themselves should expect to receive at best a delayed response and at worst no response at all.
      
   7. When posting a support question bumping is permitted only after six hours have elapsed since the last post to that topic. Users who abuse this will be warned.
      
   8. Members should note this software and board are maintained on a voluntary basis. No team member receives payment of any kind for time spent here. Users should therefore not post demanding support, bug fixes, etc. Users who disrespect the work of team members will be warned.
      
   9. Your working with freeware so if you use the software to raise money from it, then you will not get support unless you donate a fair amount of money to the authors by using the paypal links. Ofcourse you may contact a developer personal and ask if he wants to do custom programming.
      
   10. Members are requested to retain the full copyright as shown in the footer of every page "Interactive software released under GNU GPL 2, Code Credits". If for good reason this message cannot be displayed we request at least the "credits" link be retained ... said message should be plainly visible and not hidden in the background colour, etc..
       
   11. Members who remove (or fail to display on their own template) this message will receive no support here. Users found adding copyrights back for a short period and then removing them after obtaining support will find that future aid will not be given.
   
   
5. Support of Mods, themes, etc. and linking offsite
   
   
   1. If the author of a Mod, theme, etc. maintains their own support board (or uses someone elses board) they may direct users to a specific forum or topic on that board. Alternatively authors may maintain a topic here at www.cpgnuke.com (in the appropriate forum) for each item they produce, directing users to that topic where appropriate. Such topics are intended for support only and not for advertising the availability of other items.
      
   2. Linking to 3rd party sites containing CPG-Nuke software, support, Mods, themes, etc. is subject to the following conditions. Members may direct users to localised support boards where it is obvious said user cannot speak English (the language of this board). Members may direct users to specific items on 3rd party sites which are not carried here at www.cpgnuke.com, e.g. Mods, images, themes, etc. Please note that www.cpgnuke.com offer no support for software and other items downloaded from 3rd party sites. If members have trouble with such software they should contact the relevant author.
      
   3. Members who maintain localised (non-English) cpgnuke support forums may be allowed a link within the Support section of this site. Members should contact the website team leader to propose their site.
      
   4. General linking to a site (rather than specific forum, topic or item) even to "offer" Mods, etc. not available here will be deemed equivalent to spamming and the user will be warned.
   
   
6. Policing
   
   
   1. CPG-Nuke operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days.
      
   2. Arguing with team members after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
      
   3. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the relevant team leader, e.g. if warned by a moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel you were treated badly they remove a warning. If you feel their decision is also unfair you may contact a Group member, primarily DJMaze or Akamu. Their decision is final. Contacting group members over warning matters should be done so as a very last resort ... group members do not want to be bothered unless vital.
      
   4. Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new email account of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user.
      
   5. An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact team members personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
      
   6. Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While CPG-Nuke may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurence.