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Left4DeadForums Forum Rules

1. MEMBERSHIP AND MEMBER ACCOUNTS

1.1 - Age Requirement
You must be 13 years of age or older to gain membership to and/or participate in Left4DeadForums.

1.2 - Single Account
You may only have ONE account on Left4DeadForums.

1.3 - Sharing of Account
You may not share your Left4DeadForums account with any other forum members or individuals. This rule applies especially to the sharing of accounts with temporarily or permanently banned members. In all cases, you are responsible for any content or activity that originates from your member account.

1.4 - Member Names
Member names may not contain any offensive, racist, sexually explicit, profane, abusive or otherwise objectionable terms. Also, you may not use an intentionally misleading member name, or a member name that is confusingly similiar to that of an existing member, administrator or moderator.

2. GENERAL FORUM ETIQUETTE

2.1 - English Only
Left4DeadForums is an English-only forum. All content posted in publicly viewable areas of the forum must be written in English.

2.2 - Insults/Flaming
Personal attacks, insults, rudeness, racism, threats, name calling or unnecessarily inflammatory posts will not be tolerated. Posts of this nature will be edited or deleted by the forum staff without notice. It is important to keep in mind that Left4DeadForums is a global community and what might be acceptable behavior or language in one country may not be acceptable in others. Common courtesy, politeness and respect for fellow members and forum staff, along with constructive posting of opinions is essential in preventing posts from being edited and/or deleted, or having threads locked.

2.3 - Threats/Intimidation
Real life threats of bodily harm, injury or assault (either explicit or implied) or any form of intimidation are STRICTLY PROHIBITED on any part of the Left4DeadForums website and will ALWAYS result in a ban from the forum.

2.4 - Personal Information
Revealing real world information about a member, administrator or moderator is STRICTLY PROHIBITED, regardless of the source, public or private. This includes any information about a forum member that reveals an individual's legal name, address, occupation or other sensitive or personally identifiable information. All such content WILL BE DELETED, and may result in a temporary or permanent ban from the forum.

2.5 - Private Communication
Posting the content from a private communication in a publicly viewable area of Left4DeadForums is not permitted. Private communications include any medium where the involved parties have a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as: emails, chat logs, instant messenger logs, private messages, private forum posts, private social group posts, reputation comments, etc. Such private communications are to remain private, not shared with third parties. Any such private communication content posted on Left4DeadForums WILL BE DELETED.

2.6 - Shouting
You may not shout (all capital letters, and/or excessive punctuation) in posts or thread titles. Use caps and punctuation only for minimal emphasis.

2.7 - Illegal Content
Any discussion of, or links to web sites promoting software piracy, warez, illegal downloads, cracks, cd keys, illegal file-sharing, pornography, illegal drugs, or any other illegal or similar content WILL BE DELETED without notice. Such discussions and links are totally inappropriate on Left4DeadForums (and often illegal in the US, Europe and most other countries).

2.8 - Affiliate Links/Solicitation
Advertising real life items or services, the posting of affiliate or referral links, or any other form of solicitation is not permitted on Left4DeadForums (this includes member profiles or any other publicly viewable area). If you would like to advertise on Left4DeadForums, please use the Advertise link at the bottom of any forum page to inquire. Similarly, promotion of or posting links to charities or other services soliciting donations or money is not permitted.

2.9 - Excessive Website Promotion
Excessive promotion or spamming of links to personal websites, gaming forums, etc. is not permitted. Members are welcome to add links to their website in their signatures and/or profiles. However, any member found to be abusing this privilege by spamming links, or making useless/frivilous posts simply to display a signature (sig spamming) may receive a ban from the forum.

2.10 - Spamming/Flooding/Trolling/Sig Spamming
The following are not permitted on Left4DeadForums:

Spamming - Posting the same thread in multiple forums, or posting the same post in multiple threads, or sending unsolicited private messages to members.
Flooding - Posting many times in succession in a single thread.
Trolling - Constant harrassment of a member, or repeated off-topic and/or rude posts in a thread.
Sig Spamming - Creating pointless, off topic, or otherwise frivilous posts for the sole purpose of displaying a signature.

2.11 - Administrator/Moderator Criticism
Criticism of these forum rules, or Forum Staff implementation of these forum rules is NOT permitted in any publicly viewable area of the forum. Such content WILL BE DELETED without notice. If you disagree with how the forum is being moderated or administered, please use the Contact Us link at the bottom of any forum page to contact the Forum Staff. If you are unclear about the purpose or interpretation of one of the forum rules, please contact a moderator or administrator via private message.

DEFINITIONS

Publicly Viewable:
Forum threads, posts, member profiles, blogs, signatures, custom titles, reputation comments, thread tags, social group messages, calendar events and descriptions, public profile messages, Left4DeadForums chatroom text, gallery images and comments, member album images and comments, or any other area with content viewable by other members or visitors.

Forum Staff:
The owners, operators, administrators and moderators of Left4DeadForums.com.

NOTES

While the above rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate all circumstances. Consequently, the Forum Staff reserves the right to take any actions deemed appropriate to ensure that the forum is not disrupted or abused in any way, or to protect Left4DeadForums staff and members from fraud, harassment or abuse.

Please be aware that it is impossible for the Forum Staff to review all content posted on Left4DeadForums. The Forum Staff does its best to keep discussions positive, on topic and polite, and to enforce the forum rules fairly and consistently. We encourge members to help us in this effort by making use of the Report Post tool (the red triangle located in the lower left corner of each post) whenever one feels a post is offensive, inappropriate or violates these rules. This will enter the offending post into the moderation queue, and will result in quicker attention from the Forum Staff. For other content that may be in violation of these forum rules or otherwise objectionable, please use the Contact Us link at the bottom of any forum page to alert the Forum Staff.

The Forum Staff reserves the right to edit, delete, alter or remove any content that violates these forum rules or the Left4DeadForums Terms of Service with or without notice. The Forum Staff also reserves the right to restrict the permissions or ability of any member to access any or all parts of Left4DeadForums.com for violation of these forum rules or for any other reason.

The more general right to refuse access, ban a user, block an IP address, or otherwise restrict the functionality of Left4DeadForums.com content or services in any way and for any reason is reserved by the Left4DeadForums administrators.

Circumstances and situations may arise that periodically require a revision of these forum rules. As such, Left4DeadForums administrators reserve the right to modify and/or expand the official rules of this forum at any time. We encourage you to periodically visit this page to advise yourself of the latest rules.

The Forum Staff shall be the sole and final arbitrators of what does or does not violate these rules and/or Left4DeadForums community standards.

The decisions of the Forum Staff are final.

These forum rules are supplemental to the Left4DeadForums.com Terms of Service Agreement. In any case of conflict or contradiction, the Terms of Service Agreement supersedes these forum rules.

Left4DeadForums.com Forum Rules effective as of May 1, 2009.

Left4DeadForums.com Forum Rules last modified on Oct 24, 2009.

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