Eva Monkey Forums
Guidelines and Rules
Version 2 June 27, 2007

Welcome to the Eva Monkey Forums Guidlines, below you will find everything and anything you might need to know about the Eva Monkey Forums.  If you are a new member, please take the time to briefly read over these rules, as you will be expected to adhere to them during your membership of the Eva Monkey Forums.  Failure to comply will result in warnings.  Failure to comply to guidelines after warnings will result in a temporary or permanent banning depending on the severity of the offense.  Rules and guidelines are here to insure that everyone's membership is as pleasant and productive as possible.

Purpose

The purpose of the Eva Monkey forums is to provide Eva fans a pleasant and mature forum for the discussion of Evangelion and Evangelion-relevent topics.  The forums also serve as an extension of the Eva Monkey site's content and services. 

Staff

Staff is composed of all Administrators, Super Moderators, Moderators, and members with special posting privleges.  Staff will be courteous to each other, as well as the rest of the members of the board.

• Head Forums Administrator(s)
  Has senority and control over the forums and shall carry out duties with complete atonomy.
• Assistant Forums Administrator(s)
  Oversees the entirety of the forums.  Assistant administrators shall only ban members on their own initiative in extreme cases of abuse.  Assistant administrators may moderate any post in any forum.  Administrators may issue formal warnings in cases of abuse.
• Super Moderators
  Oversee all forums and may moderate any post in any forum.  Super Moderators will report offenses directly to administrators.  Super Moderator's may not issue formal warnings, though they remind users to observe the code of conduct.
• Moderators
  Moderate posts in their designated forum(s).  Moderator's shall not issue warnings.  Moderator's will report warnable offenses directly to the administrators.

 Members

Members shall adhere to the rules and guidelines set out by the board staff.   Members shall be courteous and respectful to each other as well as the staff.

 Posting Guidelines

Posts
Posts shall be composed in English.  No excessive l33t, slang, foreign language, abreviations, acronyms, or plain bad english allowed.  Use sentences, punctuation, grammer, etc.  Don't type as fast as possible and hope for it to make sense.   Make sure that your sentences are coherent and understandable.   Avoid using altered font (color, style, size) unless it serves a purpose.

Please don't set your font to look like this.

Threads
Shall be posted by any member where permitted.  Threads are to be created in their appropriate forums.  Threads placed innapropriately will be moved to their appropriate location.  If no appropriate location exists, the thread will be closed and placed in the graveyard.  Please be sure to title threads appropriately.

Spam
Keep posts on topic.  A post that doesn't advance the topic of discussion or contribute to the discussion is spam.  Spam should be kept to a minimum, and will result in warnings in extreme cases.

Tangents
Also known as threads that go off topic.  Any topic that goes off topic for an extended period of time can and will be closed without warning.

Flaming
Flaming should be kept to an absolute minimum.  You are permitted to poke fun at someone provided that it is made obvious that the comment is in good fun.    Participation in a flame thread/war will result in consequences, regardless of who started it.  Contributing to a flame will not be tolerated.

Trolling
Attempting to provoke a reaction from any member anywhere on the forum is not allowed.  Users who engage in trolling will be dealt with on a case by case basis.

Swearing
we're not going to tell you its innapropriate to say "fuck", as it is even in Evangelion more than once.  But please, use it sensibly.  If you always put the word "fucking" in front of an adjective, that is not sensible use.  Don't use pervasive language.

Image Posting
Posting replies in the form of an image should be avoided, and may constitute a warning.  Posting images relevant to a thread is allowed.  Please text link large images rather than posting them with the [img] tag.  Do not use the [img] tag to link to images on another website.  Use an Imageshack or Photobucket to post images wherever possible.

Eva Hentai
Posting Eva Hentai, or telling people where to find Eva Hentai is not allowed under any circumstances.

Copyrighted Media
Posting links to torrents or telling people where to find copyrighted media is not allowed.   Exceptions are minor content such as images, articles, translations, etc.  Administrators reserve the right to link to copyrighted media on a case by case basis.

Linking to sites with copywrite or plaigarism issues
Linking to sites with media downloads or information on media downloading is not permitted.  Linking to sites that have plaigarised materials from other sites is not permitted.

 Other Guidelines

Avatars
Shall be no larger than 125x125 pixels and 30kb.  Be sensible with what you set your avatar as, no graphic imagery of any kind.  If you don't know how to create avatars or are unsure of the quality of an avatar, please browse the avatar gallery for one you like.  Avoid using an avatar in use by another member if possible.

Signatures
Signatures should be as small as possible.  Signatures are "signatures", they say who you are, where you're from, and what you're working on.  You can put your name, an add for a website you work on, etc.  Avoid excessive quotes, what anime you're watching, etc.  Signatures should be used as such.  Images are not permitted in signatures.

Bans
Will be performed in extreme cases by administrators.  Bans will be either temporary or permanent, depending on the severity of the violation.  Admin should inform banned users as to the reason and nature of their ban.