Rules

All members need to read, understand and adhere to the Rules and Guidelines of this forum.

The primary reason for this forum is a helping hand for Newbies. Troublemakers are not welcome; will be banned and other action instigated against them as seen fit by the moderators.

RULES:

Forum Username:
   The username may not contain any form of offensive content.
   Any form of racist content within a forum username is also not allowed
   Advertising is not permitted in the forum username

Avatars:
   Avatar dimensions should be less than or equal to 65x65 pixels and the size must be less than or equal to 50 kilobytes.
   No Pornography/Racism/Indecency/Advertising content allowed in Avatars
   No URL link allowed in the avatar. i.e. The avatar must not be clickable

Signatures:
   Must not contain Pornographic/Racist/Indecent content.
   Signature text is to be less than or equal to 5 lines.

Topic Names (Thread titles):
   Topics must be in English only
   Topics in any other language other than English will not be allowed.
   Empty topic names will not be allowed.
   No Pornographic/Racist/Inflammatory Topics will be allowed.
   No single word Topics will be allowed. i.e. No topics like 'Hey'.
   Topics should be relevant to the forums in which they are posted.
   The topic name should be relevant to the message posted.
   Topics must not be links to other sites or web content
   Topic Spamming is not allowed

Posts:
   Posts should be in English
   Posts in any other language other than English will not be allowed.
   Empty posts will not be allowed.
   No Pornographic/Racist/Inflammatory posts will be allowed.
   No Pornographic/Racist/Indecent Images allowed in posts.
   No single word posts will be allowed. i.e. No messages like 'Hey' or LOL or '....'
   Posts should contain at least one complete sentence.
   Posts containing only of a URL , Image or Emoticons will be deleted.
   Posts must be relevant to the topic.
   The dimensions of any images in posts should be less than 640x480 pixels.
   Spam posts are not allowed.

GENERAL RULES:
   All violations of the forum rules detected by forum members should be reported to the mods or admins either by Report Post feature in the Forums or via PM.
   NO ONE is allowed to flame another person via the forums or PM.
   A member who gets five or more PMs against him to any one Mod/Admin will be immediately banned for life. The five or more PMs should come from individual members of the forums (one PM per member) and it should not be from other Mods. Those who sends the PMs must be active participants of the forums who has a post count of at least 50 posts. The PM should give valid reason for the request.
   All rule violators will get a single warning before action is taken against them. The actions may include total banning from the forum boards.
   When a topic is locked by a moderator the topic creator must PM a request to any of the Moderators/Admins to unlock the topic and the request should contain valid reasons as to why the topic should be unlocked. If no request is sent after 5 days of locking the topic, it will be queued for deletion.
   Upon request, a forumer's topic will be converted to a Sticky topic, provided valid reasons are given. (A PM should be sent to any Mod/Admin requesting this)
   Foul Language within the forums is not allowed.
   These rules are subject to change without any notice.