[KingVinnie]

In order to keep the FasterComputers.com forums running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forums here.
If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact one of the Staff Members.

General Rules

• Posts that are obscene, vulgar, drug/crime related, sexually-explicit, hateful, threatening, insulting or in any way inflammatory are not allowed. We want to keep this a friendly and family forum.
• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed. Bandwidth cost money!
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members.
• Do not post photos, articles, profiles, etc. that are not your own material, unless you give credit to the person who did the work and contact them for permission that you may post their work.
• Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts. For general post this should be at least 24 hours.
• We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate community standards. The staff team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
• Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
• Do not abuse or bash another member because you don't like him/her or you disagree with him/her. Contact an Administrator or Moderator and they will help you with the situation. Do not take things into your own hands.
• We reserve the right to remove offensive or useless posts without notice.
• If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
• Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
• You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right.

Advertising Services and Solicitation
We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitation in signatures is also prohibited.

Links in signatures must follow these guidelines

• Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided it is not a product or service that competes with FasterComputers.com and it is not an affiliate program link.
• Promotional text for a commercial product or service is ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
• A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate FasterComputers.com community standards. The FasterComputers.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
• Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.

Signature Size Limits
All signatures should not exceed the following size limits, and you can't have both text and images

• For text signatures: 5 lines. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
• Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
• For images in signatures: 1 image up to 500 pixels wide, 100 pixels tall and 20k in size
• Animated images in a signature are not allowed

Moderation
Although the administrators and moderators of the Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of the Forum, nor FasterComputers.com will be held responsible for the content of any message.
By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.
The owners of FasterComputers.com Community Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

Staff Disputes
Any disputes with the staff of the FasterComputers.com Community Forums will be handled in private through the Private Message System.

Addendum
We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.
Basic rules are to be friendly, kind, and civil.

If you have any concerns, comments, or would simply like to share your feelings about these rules then please feel free to contact an Administrator or Moderator on the forums about them.

~Staff Team