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The World United Forum Overall Rules

Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:01 am by Ryan

Each Thread has their own individual rules but this is the main overall forum rules that has to be fallowed at all times.
These rules are not in order, they all have to be fallowed all at the same time.

I hope your not color blind. Rules are required on many forums and to know and understand these rules.

1. No Advertising / Spamming / Selling Products of other things on that matter.
2. No flaming / argueing with other members of this forum, or risk account may be deleted.
3. No Swearing / People from all around the world may view this forum from ages 5+ and many can be offended.
4. Rated "R" Material such as pictures are prohibited and will be deleted, also risking your account to be deleted.
5. This is a worldwide forum, so people of nations that hate other nations is strictly prohibited. The forums is not a war zone.


Thank you for understanding the rules, read more information below to see what forums are all about. Or click this link to go to the forums: http://worldunitedforums.forumotion.net/forum.htm

Information about forums and how a forum works:

An Internet forum is a web application for holding discussions and posting user-generated content. Internet forums are also commonly referred to as Web forums, newsgroups, message boards, discussion boards, (electronic) discussion groups, discussion forums, bulletin boards, fora (the Latin plural) or simply forums. The terms "forum" and "board" may refer to the entire community or to a specific sub-forum dealing with a distinct topic. Messages within these sub-forums are then displayed either in chronological order or as threaded discussions.
A sense of virtual community often develops around forums that have regular users. Technology, computer games and/or video games, sports, fashion, religion, and politics are popular areas for forum themes, but there are forums for a huge number of topics.

Membership - Registered Members

Registered members of a forum, who are identified by unique usernames, may have additional privileges, such as the ability to edit their previous posts, start new topics, and control their individual settings and profiles. The profiles tend to include graphical avatars and signature blocks which are appended to their future posts, sometimes consisting of elaborate shoutboxes. Members also have the ability to send personal messages to each other. In certain cases, members have been given the ability to close their own topics, edit previously posted comments, or delete posts in topics they have started.

Admins CrownAdministrators (admin color is gold) and Moderator CrownModerators (mods are silver)

A forum administrator typically has the ability to edit, delete, move or otherwise modify any thread (topic or posts) on the forum. Administrators also usually have the ability to close the board, change major software items, change global skins (the look of the forum), modify the board, and ban, delete, or create members. Moderators have a subset of these powers, which may include editing, deleting, and moving threads, warning members for offences, and changing minor forum details. It is often possible for moderator privileges to be assigned to other forum members. Thus if the administrator trusts members with these privileges and will not use them for unreasonable acts.

A board's moderation system can include moderation of the moderators via a meta-moderation system. The board software may also allow administrators to create wordfilters, automated scripts which strip undesirable text from users' messages. Other features may include sticky threads, allowing moderators and administrators to cause significant threads to display at the top of the forum's index.

Multiple posting of same posts - Double posting

One common unnacceptable rule on internet forums is to post the same message twice. Users sometimes post versions of a message that are only slightly different, especially in forums where they aren't allowed to edit their earlier posts. Multiple posting instead of editing prior posts can artificially inflate a user's post count. Multiple posting can be unintentional; a user's browser might display an error message even though the post has been transmitted or a user of a slow forum might become impatient and repeatedly hit the submit button. Multiple posting can also be used as a method of trolling or spreading forum spam. A user may also send the same post to several forums, which is termed crossposting. This problem was inherited from Usenet and is a common complaint in many forums.

In many forums which have editing allowed they have rules asking people not to make multiple posts, and also use a common plug-in to merge double posts (without an administrator/moderator having to manually delete or merge the posts).

Spamming - Unneccesary Posts

Forum spamming is a breach of forum rules where users repeat the same word or phrase over and over, but differs from multiple posting in that spamming is usually a wilful act which sometimes has malicious intent. This is a common trolling technique. It can also be traditional spam, unpaid advertisements that are in breach of the forum's rules. Spammers utilize a number of illicit techniques to post their spam, including the use of botnets. A different form of spamming is making posts that have little or no meaning (example: "x2r9vhwd74hkd94hgh").

Trolls - Multiple rule breaking for purpose acts.

A troll is a user that repeatedly and intentionally breaches the rules, often posting derogatory or otherwise inflammatory messages about sensitive topics in an established online community to bait users into responding, often starting flamewars. They may also link to shock sites or plant images on networks that others may find disturbing in order to cause confrontation. Trolls known as gravediggers purposefully post in old and irrelevant threads simply to bring that thread to light again.

For more information and links about forums go to <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_forum>.

Additional rules: Swearing is not aloud. Any numbers or abreviations of swear words is prohibited. Risking acount deletion.

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