Code of Conduct

GENERAL RULES:

• Always treat others with kindness and respect, even if you don’t agree with them.

• Stay on topic, don’t intentionally derail threads, don’t troll, don’t spam.

• Use appropriate language.

• Do not intentionally insult or offend others.

• We don’t tolerate hate speech, intimidation, harassment, sexual, racial, or ethnic slurs, and discrimination.

WE DON’T TOLERATE:

• Abuse or encouraging abuse of the reputation system and the “report as spam” system - for the explanation of how our forum features work, have a look at the Forum and feedback section in our FAQs here.

• Posting your own as well as other people’s personally identifiable information (i.e. name, address, email, phone number, place of work, etc.).

• Posting links to phishing sites, malware, or spyware.

• Impersonating forum moderators or other users.

• Spamming, bashing, flaming, trolling, or abusing the reputation and/or “report as spam” function.

• Any kind of encouragement towards taking drugs or drinking alcohol.

• Creating multiple accounts.

• Posting something that is knowingly false.

• Thread bumping, hijacking or posting comments that are unrelated to the original topic and make it difficult for others to follow the discussion.

• Posting pornography, inappropriate or offensive content, warez, unreleased game content, and things that are generally considered not suitable for work.

• Linking to cracks, key generators, pirated content and promoting piracy overall. However, discussions about piracy are generally acceptable.

• Posting cheats, hacks, game exploits, and game spoilers - unless you clearly note that this is what your post is about at the top of it.

• Threats of violence, harassment or privacy breach - even as a joke.

• Using a third party’s intellectual property (full or partial scans of articles, books, full transcriptions of articles, etc.) unless you have permission to do so.

• Selling (including real-life or in-game trading), advertising, referrals, auctioning - unless this applies to giveaways.

• Use of language that is abusive, vulgar, hateful, defamatory, obscene, profane, threatening, privacy-invasive, or law-violating.

• Encouraging anyone else to break these rules.