How To Act Aboard Galactica

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This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of
community members here aboard Battlestar Galactica. Please read it and become
familiar with it as its terms are retroactive and agreed upon by team
and group members.

Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning.
Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
Members are asked to not act as “back seat moderators”.
If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Moderator Group. Please use the “post report” feature to report posts. Do not respond to such topics yourself. Members who constantly “act” as moderators may be warned.
Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on , crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
Members are asked only to post in English, as this is an English speaking community.
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 coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users
consistently abusing this will be warned.
Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, solicitation etc. Recruiting members for your own projects (moderators, designers, professional MOD work, etc.) is not permitted and is also considered spam. Users posting spam will be warned and their post
removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information.
The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit, remove or put on moderation queue any post at any time. Please note that
currently any very first post is automatically placed in the moderationqueue and will be approved/disapproved according to the present Rules.
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.
Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above)
and/or the revocation of private messaging.

Policing

Battlestar Galactica operates a five strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of fives times for any and all offences in a three month period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban
will be put in place of between 1 to 7 days.
Arguing with team members after having received a
warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceedthree strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are
welcome to contact the relevant team leader, e.g. if warned by a moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel you were treated badly they remove a warning.
Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban or other
moderator action will lead to a permanent ban of your account(s). Circumvention includes re-registering or using an already registered account under a non-banned username. Other examples include changing IP
addresses, using a new email account or other action that can be taken to evade moderator action to hide your identity as the owner of the sanctioned account.
An exception to the three strike rule applies when
users contact team members personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is
given before implementing them. While Battlestar Galactica may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence.