WARNING SYSTEM

Each member has a personal warning bar under their avatar. Moderators and Administrators are able to warn members who break the rules and issue the penalty associated with that rule.

The penalties are as follows:

Warning Level	Penalty
1 (min) 2 3 4 5 (max)	1 day posting suspension 2 day account suspension 3 day account suspension 4 day account suspension Lifetime ban

Example: If Jeff recieves 1 warning for Flaming another member he will be suspended from posting for 1 day. If he comes back a week later and recieves 2 warnings (therefore increasing his warn level to 3) he will be suspended for 3 days.

GENERAL RULES

1. Flaming Minimum Penalty - 1 Warning Point
While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts.

2. Spam Minimum Penalty - 1 Warning Point
Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts. Repeat offenders will be warned, and possibly moved into New Members Chat.

3. Warez Minimum Penalty - 1 Warning Point
Do not post information or requests for illegal software, downloads, TV shows etc. This includes requesting serials or cracks.

4. Racism Minimum Penalty - 2 Warning Points
Trials-Forum is open to people from any race, gender, physical or mental condition, sexual preference/orientation, IQ, age or religion, and as such intolerance of other people's beliefs, culture, IQ, gender, physical or mental conditions, sexual preference/orientation or age is unacceptable.

5. Advertising Minimum Penalty - 1 Warning Point

• Advertising your personal site is encouraged, do this in the 'Web Site Updates' forum.
• Advertising of other forums is NOT accepted, this is considered as very bad 'netiquette'.
• Advertising of sites which sell products is not accepted. This includes placing links (clickable or not) in signatures, custom member titles and avatars.

Repeat Offenders will be warned.

6. Adult Content Minimum Penalty - 1 Warning Point
Posting or linking to Adult Content of any nature is not allowed.

GENERAL POSTING RULES

Do not bump topics more than once every 24 hours.
Do not type in ALL CAPS.

LASTLY

This is a privately owned forum and all decisions on how it is run are ultimately made by the administrator. The Administrator's decision is final. Once the decision is made you are expected to comply with it. If you disagree with a decision take it up privately.

The rules are likely to change without warning, therefore it is recommended that you read the rules on a regular basis.