by Site and Board Rules
- 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 Team using the 'report post' feature. #
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 warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permision will receive a warning and their post will be removed. #
Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, solicitation etc. Recruiting of any sort (moderators, designers, professional MOD work etc.), be it for paid or unpaid jobs, is not permitted either. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. This includes blatant spam via signatures and avatars or the various other profile elements. #
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. #
Users seeking phpBB support should not contact any team member via pm or private email. All support questions should be posted in the relevant forum on the board. #
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
- KTUK operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month period. The third warning received will trigger an automatic 30 day ban. #
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.
Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the Admistration. If they feel you were treated badly they will remove the warning. Their decision is final. #
Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new email account of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user. #
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 KTUK may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurence. #
phpBB Related
- Please be aware that this site is not a phpBB support site. The board owner kindly allows karlsemple to keep a phpBB section on the board. Users flooding the shoutbox or other areas of the board with phpBB related ramblings will get a warning. #
On our chat network the general chat room is not for phpBB related content, all phpBB related chat should take place in the phpBB support chat room or in a privately created chat room. #
Users are requested not to pm other board members for phpBB support. All support should be sought from the relevant topic on the message board in the relevant section. #
Please Note
- Users should also pay attention to forum specific rules which will be at at the top of the page when viewing a forum, breeching these could also result in a warning. #
Ktbabe's 'say' is final! #
User accounts which have been created and not activated will be deleted after one week. #
User accounts are required to keep an active E-mail address set for their account. Accounts found to have an invalid E-mail address set will be deactivated. #
