General Forum Rules

Subject: General Forum Rules Mon Sep 14 2009, 14:17

These rules apply to all Forum categories.

We take the "Be Polite" rule very seriously. We do not tolerate any rudeness. Any member who is intentionally unpleasant or disruptive may be banned without warning.
If you SPAM our members in any manner, your account will be disabled. Do not contact anyone to suggest your product or service who is not explicitly expecting you to contact them from an advertising forum post. If you glean information from anywhere other than the advertising forums and use that information to contact someone and present an offer, it's SPAM and it will affect your WHT account standing.
Your account is yours alone. You are responsible for any activity createdwith it. You may not share your account login with anyone. If youchoose to ignore this important restriction your account, and anyaccounts associated with it, will be disabled.
Allpublicly displayed messages are limited to the English language. This includes posts, titles, signatures, and any attachments or other formsof public display.
Signature Spam (a post that was made in hopes of showing a signature, as determined by moderators) is forbidden in all forum categories.
You may not post commission, referral or affiliate links anywhere on the forum.
Cross-Posting is not allowed here. Cross-posting refers to posting new duplicate
threads or posts, or the linking to threads or posts already started by the member with the intention of gaining exposure.
[You may not compensate anyone for any review or recommendation. Further, you may not suggest a tone (i.e. "Go talk good about us on WHT").
You may not post on behalf of any banned member in any public manner. This includes all forums, private messages, signatures, and e-mail features.
You may not post words or URLs that are censored by adding spaces, dots, or substituting characters; or by any other means in an attempt to defeat any censors put in place by WebHostingTalk. Please Staff Administrator if you feel a word or URL is unjustly censored.
You may not link, in any manner, to sites or images containing pornography, sexually explicit, gross violence, or are determined by moderators to be detrimental to the
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[You must make five (5) posts before allowed by the system to include an active hyperlinked URL or other vB code features in your posts. If you choose to make meaningless posts to circumvent this restriction, your account will be disabled.
You must make five (5) posts before utilizing the PM and system e-mail features or viewing member profile information. If you choose to make meaningless posts to circumvent this restriction, your account will be disabled.
You may not bump threads. Bumping can refer to posting useless information, posting one-liners or any other action to deliberately keep a thread hot or to bring it to the top of its forum. Moderators will use their discretion, depending on the nature of the post, as to whether to take action or not.
You may not use discussions to recommend, praise, or belittle other products or services, or any company; without first hand experience of those products or services. This includes companies recommending other companies. Any post not
meeting a moderator's criteria will be removed without notice.[/size]
Any posts that encourage illegal intent will be removed and the account disabled.
[Public posts debating these rules and/or moderators' enforcement of such, will be removed without comment. We encourage feedback however and invite you to use our Staff Administrator if you
have any questions or concerns.
Some forum categories have a "minimum (relevant, non-advertising, non-fluff) post count" and/or "minimum length of membership" restriction before a
member is allowed to start a new thread. Please read the Forum Description and the Announcement within if you get a permissions error while trying to start a thread. If you choose to make meaningless posts to circumvent this restriction, your account will be disabled.[/size]
All Promotions (Use of features and forum access) are automatically updated by a crown system that runs hourly. If you
have completed a minimum restriction and have waited over an hour without being promoted, please[/size]Staff Administration[ open a Avacs Webchat

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 solicitating in signatures is also prohibited.

We do not allow selling Avacs installation or upgrade services,
as we offer this already, and we can not condone this type of service offered from anyone on the forums because of the potential security problems it brings up. You should never give out your Avacs customer number or password to anyone, and you should not disclose server logins and/or passwords to anyone except through the Avacs support system. We can not take responsibility if you disclose this information to anyone else.

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 a product or service offered by AK-47 and it is not an affiliate program link for Avacs or any other affiliate program.
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 Avacs community standards. The Avacs 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.

Avatars

Animated avatars are allowed.
Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.
Use of the Avacs logo in avatars is not allowed.

Licenses for Sale

We do not allow people to post that are looking to sell or buy a used Avacs license. While you are allowed to sell and transfer your license to another owner, these forums are not the appropriate place to do this.

Affiliate Programs

The Avacs affiliate program is designed to allow people to
advertise Avacs on their web site and earn a commission on all
sales generated through that link. You are not allowed to post your affiliate link anywhere on the Avacs forums, in your signature or send the link through private messages to other forum users. Anyone that does this may be removed from the affiliate program immediately without notice. This rule applies to all affiliate program links, not just the Avacs program.

Signature Size Limits

All signatures should not exceed the following limits

You can't have both text and images in your sig
For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. 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 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
Animated images in a signature are not allowed

We also have some rules that apply for certain forums

Hosting Forum

The hosting forum is for discussion of hosts and hosting
options for Avacs customers. Advertising of hosting services is not allowed. This includes any host or anyone with a financial interest in or a partnership relationship with a host from replying to questions or requests regarding hosting services. Any posts violating this rule will be removed.
Because of the high rate of software piracy on
'free' hosts, discussion and questions regarding free hosting services are not appropriate for this forum. Please feel free to use this forum to discuss paid hosting services.
The hosting forum cannot be used to promote specific hosts. We will moderate posts and users continuing to excessively promote or advertise any hosts. Anyone
abusing this will lose their right to post in this forum.

Chit Chat forum

The Chit Chat forum is where Avacs owners and fans can gather to chat about almost anything, technical or non-technical in nature. If you have a question that doesn't fit into any other forum, or just want to chat, this is the place.

Reporting a suspected pirated copy of Avacs

Please do not post suspected copies of Avacs on these forums. If you suspect that a forum is using an illegal copy of Avacs, please email the full URL to the forums (not the site's home page) to http://www.avacschat.tk All sites sent to this address will be added to our anti-piracy database and will be investigated. The name of the person submitting the report will always remain confidential. We will be unable to respond with whether this site is properly licensed or not, or our actions, for privacy reasons.

Third-Party Disputes and Customizations

We will not mediate third-party disputes due to third-party
purchases. Third-party purchases include styles, addons, custom programming and modifications, pay-per-post services, purchasing second-hand licenses, moderation fees, advertising fees or any product not directly purchased from AK-47 Enterprises Limited. Purchasing these items from another company is done at your own risk. If you have an issue with a third-party regarding their support or conduct then you
will need to handle it through the means they provide. Any such threads on this topic will be closed.

We cannot provide support for third-party customizations. This
includes contract programming, purchased or free styles, or
modifications downloaded from http://www.avacschat.tk

Moderation

Although the administrators and moderators of Avacs Community 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 Avacs Community Forum, or AK-47 Enterprises Ltd. (developers of Avacs Forum) will be
held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post anymessages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful,threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

The owners of Avacs 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 Avacs Community Forums will be handled in private through the Private Message System or the Support System ticket. If you wish to escalate any issue with staff then please visit www.avacschat.com.

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.

Thanks

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