MiniTheatre

General Board Rules

#1.1 MiniTHeatre is aimed at a general audience. This means our site is designed for 13 year olds and older. Everything must be aimed at this age and older. Explicit, vulgar language, drug talk, nudity, porn and so forth is not allowed.

#1.2 Do not mini-mod. We would like to encourage and thank members to use the report button but not add their own criticism.

#1.3 All publicly displayed messages are only limited to English. This includes posts, titles, signatures, profiles and other forms of public display. Other languages can be posted in their specific forum!

Warning System

#2.1 Members who disobey the rules will be warned or banned depending on what the moderator believes is the appropriate punishment.

#2.2 Members can be warned a maximum of three times. On the third, the member will be immediately banned. This does not mean that you have to have a warning to get banned, moderators may ban you without warnings depending on the offense.

If you believe you do not deserve the warn please contact the moderator who warned you. Talking back to the moderator who gave you the warning with no sense of respect will lead to further warnings.

If you do not know why you received a warning, an email and private message would have been sent to notify you of the reason why you were warned and who warned you.

Posting Etiquette (manners)

#3.1 All topics must contain a description.

#3.2 Treat others positively and with respect. Flaming other members or other forums will lead to a warning, possibly even a ban.

#3.3 Topics must be submitted to the relevant forums. Please read the forum descriptions before posting.

#3.4 Topic titles must be descriptive.

Example:

A good example is "Help needed with game".

A bad example is "HEEEEELP!".

#3.5 Bumping is allowed provided that the reply has relevant information that is useful to the continuance of the topic. Short intervals of bumps are not allowed to bump the topic up onto the first page by the same person.

Example:

Allowed: A topic discusses a news event. The topic's discussion has died but there is new striking evidence to turn thoughts around. A reply with such information that is relevant and useful is allowed.

Allowed: Requests (Includes requests in helpdesk) may only be bumped once every 48 hours since the last reply.

Disallowed: Bumping topics continuously to get them up to the first few pages.

#3.6 Double posting may lead to a warning

Also use the edit button when altering your reply if you're the last to post in the topic.

#3.7 Content of posts should not be explicit, offensive, shocking, discussions of demerit commodities unless it is posted in an educational sense.

Example:

Mainly for movies: Mainstream horror, gore and bloody movies are allowed. Videos such as bum fights, real death scenes, cruelty to animals, or anything which is indecent/sick is not allowed.

Disallowed: Hacking, fraud, drug related, porn and political/religious discussions even if educational.

#3.8 No topic hijacking (going off topic).

#3.9 Post count milestones may be posted only in the Spam section in increments of 100 and 1000 up to 5000 and then at 10K - 15K - 20K and so on.

#3.10 Removal of moderated messages is not allowed.

#3.11 Posting mirror links in a topic is not allowed unless you are part of the mirroring team!!!

#3.12 Excessively replying to your own topics to gain first page exposure is not allowed.

#3.13 Members are allowed to double or triple post only if their previous post has exceeded the maximum characters limit.


Spam Rules

#4.1 Excessive posting of similar messages to increase post count is not allowed.

#4.2 You may not have links advertising other websites within your signature.

#4.3 The following one-liner messages are classified as spam [Except in Forum Games]:

Any acronym such as lol.
The use of +1...+X within posts.
The use of an emote only reply (such as ).

These are only guidelines not strictly limited to just these examples.


Private Messaging

#5.1 All rules apply in regard to private messaging.

Avatars and Signatures

#6.1 All rules apply to avatars and signatures.

#6.2 Signatures can only be 100KB or less in total file size.

#6.3 All usernames should not exceed 15 characters, and may not refer to an email or any web site - use good taste here.

Explicit Guidelines

#7.1 Sticky Requests: Please do not request a post to be stickied. If there is room to sticky an exceptional post, we will do so; however, there is only room for six stickies per forum. Topics which use a poll to petition a sticky are not allowed.

#7.2 Asking any staff member if you can be a part of the staff will hinder your chance of ever becoming one.

#7.3 All forum rules apply to each member's profile, no referrers, no porn links, and no warez forums.