Forum Rules and Guidelines

Welcome to TeamWarfare! The administrative and senior staff works hard to provide you with the best competitive atmosphere we can. There are a few guidelines and processes that should be followed that will make your lives - and ours - as easy as possible!

This is a game specific forum. Please post all game specific topic threads here and not general posting. Additionally, please do not post recruiting or site support questions here as we have forums for those as well (click on links!).


BAN GUIDELINES

• Posts, usernames or private messages which are defamatory, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, sexually oriented, threatening, or invasive of a person's privacy.
  
• Ignoring staff warnings or testing patience / boundaries.
  
• Racism
  
• Posting information not pertinent to the thread with the sole purpose of derailing the discussion (trolling).
  
• Flaming, bashing or threatening of any individual or group.
  
• Troublemaking. Starting problems for the sake of stirring up waves will get you removed.
  
• Porn, nudity, links to porn will not be tolerated. We are not a thumbnail gallery nor are we a link database. If you're that hard up, Google your way to happiness.
  
• Abuse to staff will not be tolerated under any circumstances. The staff are volunteers, but they didn't volunteer to take your abuse.
  
• Abuse to other TeamWarfare members will not be tolerated either.
  
• Using our forum to promote some other gaming league / ladder or server rentals will earn a lock, deletion and ban (not necessarily in that order).
  
• Posting links to cheats and cheat websites.
  
• Posting for someone who is banned can warrant up to a site ban. Additionally, creating a new account to post if you have been banned is strictly prohibited.
  
• Editing or altering any text left by Forum Staff in your post.
  
• Creating "Free" banned member threads.
  
• "Bumping" of any topics. If you do not have something to add to the discussion you should not post small, generic or empty content simply to increase your post count or the post count of the thread.
  
• Posts that contain names of suspected cheaters.
  
• Quoting someone, then editing their quote in an attempt to make them look bad or get them banned.
  
  Please note that this is not an exhaustive list. Content may still be deemed inappropriate even if it does not specifically fall under one of these rules.
  

LOCKABLE GUIDELINES

• Blatant stupidity.
  
• Flaming and insults (can result in ban).
  
• Cheat accusations. Email the Forum Admin
  
• Duplicate threads - by that I mean creating a new thread on a topic already covered in an existing thread. Stay on topic in the original thread and you can avoid this sort of thing.
  
• Discussing methods used to aid in the illegal proliferation of copyrighted material is not allowed. If you want to make a political statement by declaring your resolve in not purchasing MP3 music is one thing, but discussing methods on the distribution of such will get your thread locked or deleted. Making a habit if this will get you banned.
  
• Disgruntled that your favorite drug is illegal? Email your congressman This is not the site to make such statements.
  

The Forum Moderator may note the reason for the lock in the final post; however, this is not required.

MOVED POSTS

Posts may be moved for a number of reasons, but primarily, it is because they were posted in the wrong forum. If you can't find a post where it was originally posted, try looking in a more appropriate forum.

SIGNATURE GUIDELINES

These guidelines must be followed. Edits will ensue if they are not. If we need to repeatedly edit your sig we'll be forced to take other action.

Again, to see the full set of guidelines, go to the Signature Guidelines thread.



• No nudity whatsoever, obvious, implied or otherwise. Bathing suits are fine, skimpy bikinis are not. Violating this is an instant ban.
  
• Sig width no more than 500 pixels, height no more than 150 pixels. This is more than enough room for your creativity.
  
• Sigs must be under 60kb. There is no reason for a jpg that is 500x150 to be over 60kb.
  
• No embedded sounds in sigs, not even on mouseovers.
  
• Symbols or insignia of fallen oppresive/murderous regimes or terror organizations will result in the sig's removal.
  
• Sigs that cause extremely slow page loads due to slow hosts will be immediately removed and a warning will be placed in your sig area advising you this. Putting it back and causing the pages to load slow again will be an immediate ban. Please respect the others that visit this site.
  
• Abuse of your HTML privelages (example: causing java popups when opening a thread) will result in an immediate ban. Length to be determined by Senior Operations Staff.
  
• Usage of deragatory terms and profanity in sig images is highly discouraged, and frowned upon by staff.
  
  
  Testing the boundaries will probably get you banned as well. We may add to this list.
  
  Below is a sample of the maximum size allowed.
  
  

To see a list of TeamWarfare staff click here.


Psicotic1
TeamWarfare Quality Control Manager