DQN will go a lot more smoothly if we all lay out a comprehensive set of well thought out rules for everyone to follow.
Well? Rules, anyone?
be civil, people~ I personally am all loving - I ban people of every race, color, whatever you can think of.
dont care what people you are and what rights you have to be racist or whatever. Ill just kill this thread if the crowd here just isnt smart enuf for it (as expected~)
2. Flaming/flagrant "fanboism"/etc. will not be tolerated.
3. Threads should not devolve into flamewar. Constructive criticisms are both allowed and welcomed. Inciting or encouraging such activity will not be tolerated.
4. All posts should pertain to video games, their consoles, etc. Threads should remain on topic and stay in theme with the board. Don't post errant material.
5. Please refrain from reposting. If possible, try to skim the board for threads pertaining to your topics/info that may have already been posted.
6. Game help and long-term discussions should be posted to world4ch's /games/ board. Threads on world4ch are not pruned, and the code is better suited for text as opposed to image-posting.
Rules
Rules are (perhaps sadly) needed everywhere, and this forum is no exception! These rules are very important and must be adhered to at all times in every area of the website. Not only are internet watchdogs kept happy by them, but they ensure smooth running and safety for all our users. Breaching these rules is considered very serious, so the action taken by the forum staff is likely to be severe! You have been warned!
Underage content: Underage content is defined as anything relating to any person under the age of 18. There are underage people here so observations or posts relating to them are not banned. However, there must be NO sexual connotation of any kind.
Overage content: Overage content is defined as anything that would be suitable for a rating above PG in the cinema. As this is an open forum, any post containing such content MUST contain information to that effect and the extent of it in the thread title. There should be no posts made with overage content in a thread with a title that does not specify its presence. Users should start new threads if they wish to take a discussion into that domain. Users under the age of 18 should not enter topics designated for those over the age of 18 only and certainly should not post inside them.
The Constitution:
Each entry in the contents below is clickable to take you directly to that article.
Article 0: Contents
Article I: Mission
Article II: Ethos
Article III: General Information
Article IV: Rules
Article V: Guidelines
Article VI: Registration
Article VII: Forum Staff
Article VIII: Full, VIP and Honoured Members
Article IX: Private Boards
Article X: Blogs
Article XI: Gallery
Article XII: Chatroom
Article XIII: Donations
Article XIV: Thanks
Full Members are bronze, VIP Members appear silver with Honoured Members gold in the active users list on the forum, and receive additional privileges within the forum, including but not limited to:
1. A private board only accessible to yourself and the other VIP or Honoured Members.
2. Automatic access to the Adult board without requiring application.
3. Much larger capacity for storing your private messages on the forum.
4. Greatly increased bandwidth allowance for downloads from the forum gallery.
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7. Capability to e-mail users (who have allowed this option) directly using the board software.
8. Better control over your own posts after submitting them.
9. No time restriction on forum searches.
10. Priority support with any and all forum issues.
Users who have reached at least Poster status may create blogs hosted at the forum. Users who have reached at least Newbie status may post links to external blogs, and read blogs belonging to other users. The staff appreciate that blogs are personal but the same rules apply to blogs as to the forum in general. More explicitly on a few issues:
Try to make more than one-liner posts, as this is a professional site and therefore content is often king. One line can not be seen as content.
Sanctions:
1. Warning Level 1
1. Post/item being deleted, warn level increment of 25% and a PM warning.
2. You will recieve this warning if you:
* Violate rules:
o 1.a | 1.b | 1.c | 1.e
o 2.a (depending on severity)
o 5.a
o 6.c | 6.d
o 7.a | 7.c | 7.g
2. Warning Level 2
1. Post/item being deleted, privilege(s) removed, warn level increment 50% (added to exisiting) and PM notification.
2. You will recieve this sanction if you:
* Repeat Warning Level 1.
* In affect for rules stated in Warning Level 1.
3. Warning Level 3
1. Post/item being deleted, privilege(s) removed, automatice temporary ban, warn level reduced to 0% and a PM notification.
2. You will recieve this sanction if you:
* Repeat Warning Level 2.
* Violate rules:
o 1.d
o 3.a
o 4.a | 4.b
o 6.a | 6.b
o 7.b | 7.d | 7.e
4. Warning Level 4
1. Post/item deleted, privilege(s) removed, extended temporary ban, warn level at 75% (does not lower if value is higher), PM notification.
2. You will recieve this sanction if you:
* Repeat Warning Level 3.
* The high severity of the instance of all rules being violated.
5. Warning Level 5
1. Your account will be permanenty banned.
2. You will recieve this sanction if you:
* Repeat Warning Level 4.
* The extreme severity of the instance of all rules being violated.
* Concensus between staff to ban you because of other problems arising.
Please note that these rules have been redesigned in order to cause less confusion and be more straight forward.
Do not post the same message more than once on a message board or on many boards. Duplicate messages can be frustrating for other members, especially for those whose time and energy is limited. Weeding through the same message in multiple locations can be not only frustrating, but downright annoying. Duplicate messages will be deleted.
Anyone who breaks the rules of this board will be given a orally warning.
Anyone who posts yaoi-chan will die.
You will die if you copy & paste it.
You will even die if you're shopping in 801th shopping district.
The Five Commandments
Abusing wakabamark to make a post reaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy wide is forbidden.
You will die if you've never even heard of yaoi-chan.
Everyone dies eventually.
MAJOR BOARD ANNOUNCEMENT
OKAY, OKAY! Please, STOP emailing me, PMing me, and CALLING me about this. No, Squeeks is NOT real. He was made by registered forum members as a mascot character, that's all. You cannot get in touch with Squeeks by bothering me! He doesn't "live" with me, because he isn't real!
From now on, ALL board members who ask me ONCE how they can contact Squeeks will lose 3 karma and 3 user levels. A second attempt takes 5 more karma and levels, along with their avatar and signature. Three and posting rights are also removed for a month. One final offense earns you a ban, forever.
Do not, and I repeat, DO NOT ask me how you can find Squeeks. You will NOT be happy with the results.
I'm an alien who implanted a piece of metal in >>1's body.
The other day I visited the earth, abducted >>1 as a sample of the earthlings. I tampered with his body to gather data of the earthlings.
But I made a terrible mistake.
>>1's fat body is a nonstandardized article as an earthling.
He is unemployed, and on top of that he has no friends.
All day long he is sitting in front of the personal computer, clattering clattering, clattering the keyboard.
I am fed up with this job.
Boss from mother planet yelled at me for this failure.
He said, "Select your specimen more carefully!"
This is the first penalty I get since I have been assigned to The Earth Observation Party.
The human mutilation is not easy task.
Next year I am demoted to the charge of the cattle mutilation.
I am just about to go to The Area 51.
As for >>1, I leave him entirely up to you. Do as you like.
I'm an alien who implanted a piece of metal in >>1's body.
The other day I visited the earth, abducted >>1 as a sample of the earthlings. I tampered with his body to gather data of the earthlings.
But I made a terrible mistake.
>>1's fat body is a nonstandardized article as an earthling.
He is unemployed, and on top of that he has no friends.
All day long he is sitting in front of the personal computer, clattering clattering, clattering the keyboard.
I am fed up with this job.
Boss from mother planet yelled at me for this failure.
He said, "Select your specimen more carefully!"
This is the first penalty I get since I have been assigned to The Earth Observation Party.
The human mutilation is not easy task.
Next year I am demoted to the charge of the cattle mutilation.
I am just about to go to The Area 51.
As for >>1, I leave him entirely up to you. Do as you like.
Do not post Chopin piano etudes. They are completely off-topic for this forum. If you are caught posting Chopin piano etudes you will receive a warning, if it happens again you will be banned from this board. NO EXCEPTIONS.
( ´ω`) Don't bother me.
>>123 THAT'S A 50 DKP MINUS!
Abusing wakabamark to make a post WWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY Is strictly forbidden
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Thread necromancy is to be punished with seven days imprisonment in the stocks, with public floggings every day at noon.
What about thread necrophilia?
>>131 is BANNED for AN INDEFINITE PERIOD
REASON: Thread Necromancy
Stupid mods.
MODD = FAGG
Rule 1&2: Every time you hear someone talk about anything even remotely related to DQN, you have to tell them they're breaking rules 1&2. This makes you cooler than them.
Rule 4: If you overhear someone talking about Rule 1&2, you have to insist it applies only to raids. This makes you even coolerer.
Subsequent rules up to 33 should be one-ups on people who invoke the previous rule.
I've saved Rule 3 for personal reasons.
Rule 3: rules saved for longer than 5 days will be recycled
Rule 3: Don't visualize anything you read here.
Example: 2 goatse 1 cup.
2 girls 1 cup challenges tubgirl to a game of battleshits
DOHOHO
Anti-Dance Rule: Thread necromancy is allowed if it's expressly used to catch dancers in old threads.
>>139
I see you
>>140
You're just necrobumping to push other threads off the main page.
>>141
I had no sinister goal in mind when I bumped this thread, unless you consider pointing out thread dancers sinister.
You should use Peter Suber's Nomic as the structure for the rules.