Forum Rules & Regulations

Registration to this forum is free. We do insist that you abide by the rules and policies detailed below.

Although the administrators and moderators of UST Judo Forums 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 UST Judo Forums, nor Simple Machines LLC 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, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

The owners of UST Judo Forums reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

We welcome you to participate in our community however as with everyday life there are a few rules you must abide by in order to maintain your active membership within these message boards.

1. No Graphic Material of either a macabre or pornographic nature. Racism and/or sick jokes is not permitted. Any posts or links to such content will not be tolerated.

2. No Warez (links), & software cracks: help, requests or posts that discuss circumvention. This includes linking to software, posting about it, and suggesting to get it.

3. No audio or video files outside of the media zone.

4. No Cursing or Swear words. We actively encourage you to use this forum to debate topics, but please use proper adjectives to express yourself. We do not tolerate circumvention of our word filter or abuse upon another member.

5. No Racism, No Threatening, No (citing) Victimization (via PM) or Hateful posts / Retaliation of any kind against a member, or group of members.

6. No Flaming, Personal attacks such as flaming, instigating "flame bait", verbal abuse or mocking of members in forum posts are not tolerated. Such posts will be deleted on sight and moderated accordingly. If you are a long standing member, act like one. Lead by example and assist other newer members rather then attacking them. We look upon our veteran members to use this opportunity to teach the newer members the appropriate way to use these message boards.

7. Posts in a particular forum need to stay on topic. If you want to talk about something that is drastically removed from the topic of a forum, please take it to Miscellaneous. This was set up and designed for members to discuss issues not related to a specific forum section. We welcome most general conversation in the Miscellaneous Forum, but discourage it from other forums. Use a title that describes the content of your post. Don't use all caps or special characters to draw attention.

8. No Avatar & Custom Title Abuse. These are a luxury and abuse of them will result in them being lost and your account being restricted. We also have signature and avatar guidelines that outline what image (type, dimensions & file size) we find acceptable.

9. In relation to private information we request that you do not post the private addresses or telephone numbers of people without their prior permission. You are however allowed to post contact information for an organisation or their representatives if it is publically available.

10. No spamming. Spamming is characterized by the initiation of threads or posts that contribute nothing to a forum, be it off topic or on topic. Examples include: empty bodies, bodies with few words that have no relation to the current thread or discussion and those posts that state they are spam, either to annoy, advertise (Except in the 'Gear Gallery' forum) or increase a member's post count. Resurrecting old forum posts is also not appreciated unless it serves a worthy cause to the forum. This determination is made by the forum Moderator or Administrator and is not up for discussion.

11. UST Judo requires that members respect the decision of moderators. Threads and posts questioning the actions or decisions of forum moderations will be deleted on sight, and the appropriate action taken (up to and including forum bans) against the thread starter and/or participants. However, as a member you reserve the right to PM any moderator or administrator regarding action taken.

12. UST Judo reserves the right to change or alter these rules at any time and an Administrator’s word is final .

13. When posting use proper English. Due to an increased use of poor spelling and grammar we ask all our members to post in proper English. We ask members to refrain from posting in "text talk" buy shortening words too much or by using "slang". If people cannot understand what you are saying then you will be warned. Continued use of poor English will result in your account being suspended. Posting properly not only helps our non-English speaking forum members to understand what is going on and also allows everyone else to understand what is going on!


Signatures
Signature images appear below your posts and on your personal profile.

+ Maximum dimensions are 300px wide by 100px high. Any signature larger than these dimensions will be removed without notice.
+ We ask that filesize is kept to around 30kb. Any signature exceeding this limit will be removed without notice.
+ Signatures may only contain one image, with the exception of small "blinkers" (additional images or emoticons usually smaller than 5kb)
+ Large "moving images" in signatures, such as animated gif files taken from music videos or other sources are permitted, as long as the file is within the size guidelines. If your animated signature or avatar is too large the administrataion team reserves the right to remove them without asking.
+ Pornographic, violent or otherwise offensive images or language are forbidden and will be removed. Your account may also be suspended.
+ Overtly distracting images, for example bright flashing colors or animated signs are frowned upon.
+ We do not permit audio clips to be incorporated in signatures. Respect the peace of other members!