OFFICIAL FORUM RULES {updated 26 Sep 2010}

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OFFICIAL FORUM RULES {updated 26 Sep 2010}

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GENERAL
  1. The only language spoken/written in this forum is English.
    This board is aimed at a general audience: all over the world.
  2. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Kindly use the search function and read the forum descriptions before posting.
  3. Remember this is adiscussion forum. We can not tolerate articles copy-pasted from somewhere. Just speak your mind.
  4. The topic names should be as much descriptive as possible. Avoid short topic names.
  5. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated.
  6. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated.
  7. Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or colored text, etc.
  8. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes but not limited to posting irrelevant website links, advertising stuff unless specifically allowed, flooding the forums with meaning-less topics etc. Commercial links are allowed ONLY IF they contain a back-link to this forum. Spammers will be warned and their post removed.
  9. The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users.
The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging.

SIGNATURES
  1. Signatures may contain up to 255 characters of text or one image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6kB (6000 Bytes) in size. The image must be linked from external sites.
  2. Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, emoticons, and so forth.
  3. Your Web Links in signatures and Profiles are permitted provided the target page contains a back-link to TalkBangalore.com
AVATARS
  1. User defined avatars are to be no larger than 80 pixels square and may not exceed 6kB (6000 Bytes) in file-size.
  2. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth.
WARNING SYSTEM
  1. A maximum of 3 warnings can be given to a member of this forum.
    These can be earned by breaking any of the above rules.
  2. Arguing with team members after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
  3. Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the relevant team members. If they feel you were treated badly they remove a warning. Their decision is final.
  4. Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While TalkBangalore.com may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurence.
BECOMING A TEAM MEMBER

Let us know if you feel you can do better becoming a moderator/admin.

If we think you are doing great and will need more members in the team we will contact You.

We appreciate the time You took to read these RULES. Enjoy Your stay here.

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