GENERAL RULES:

• Always treat others with kindness and respect, even if you don’t agree with them.

• Stay on topic, don’t intentionally derail threads, don’t troll, don’t spam.

• Use appropriate language.

• Do not intentionally insult or offend others.

• We don’t tolerate hate speech, intimidation, harassment, sexual, racial, or ethnic slurs, and discrimination.

WE DON’T TOLERATE:

• Posting your own as well as other people’s personally identifiable information (i.e. name, address, email, phone number, place of work, etc.).

• Posting links to phishing sites, malware, or spyware.

• Impersonating forum moderators or other users.

• Spamming, bashing, flaming or trolling

• Any kind of encouragement towards taking drugs or drinking alcohol.

• Creating multiple accounts.

• Posting something that is knowingly false.

• Thread bumping, hijacking or posting comments that are unrelated to the original topic and make it difficult for others to follow the discussion.

• Posting pornography, inappropriate or offensive content, and things that are generally considered not suitable for work.

• Linking to cracks, key generators, pirated content and promoting piracy overall. However, discussions about piracy are generally acceptable.

• Threats of violence, harassment or privacy breach - even as a joke.

• Using a third party’s intellectual property (full or partial scans of articles, books, full transcriptions of articles, etc.) unless you have permission to do so.

• Selling (including real-life or in-game trading), advertising, referrals, links to other stores, auctioning - unless this applies to giveaways.

• Use of language that is abusive, vulgar, hateful, defamatory, obscene, profane, threatening, privacy-invasive, or law-violating.

• Encouraging anyone else to break these rules.

• Taking any other actions that are deemed inappropriate by TSE at our sole discretion.

• Political discussions not related to Diamondback Terrapins is not permitted. Groups created exclusively to talk about politics will be locked. Users who ignore this rule repeatedly will be met with moderation.

HOW WE MODERATE:

• If you see a person breaking the rules, don’t attempt to moderate - let TSE Staff or TSE Community Moderators know and ignore the post(s), threads, etc.

• If you should break any of the above rules, you will get a warning from one of TSE Staff or TSE Community Moderators. Should you proceed to break any of the rules again, you will be banned from posting on the forum. The only exception to issuing a ban without giving a warning are situations in which drastic disrespect of the rules occurs – in such cases we will make sure to inform you of the reasons behind our decision. Depending on the gravity of your misdemeanors, you might be banned for a minimum of 1 week. If you repeatedly break forum rules despite warnings and previous bans, or if your misdemeanors are extremely serious, you may be permanently banned from posting on the forums. If your offense violates the law, your account may be suspended and relevant authorities may be notified of your misconduct.

• All decisions with regards to post moderation (edits and deleting) and user warnings are made by TSE Staff or TSE Community Moderators, whereas thread locking, temporary and permanent bans are made by TSE Staff. In both cases they are final and not up for discussion. However, constructive criticism and suggestions are welcome, provided they are directed to the forum moderators and not disputed within the forum itself.

• We don’t warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any posts published on the forums.

• We reserve the right to edit or delete any post that we feel breaks any of the rules stated within the hereby Forum Code of Conduct.

• If you are confused about any particular action taken that involves you, please contact us.

• Official communication with any member of TSE Staff should be considered as valid as correspondence with all moderating authorities. Abusive and/or aggressive attitude towards TSE Staff may constitute grounds for further penalties.