Thread: Chatbox Rules: Please read and familiarise yourself with these

These Rules are rules which apply to chatbox. As you have already read the Core rules, We would expect you to understand them in their entirety.

The Chatbox Rules are as follows:

1. No racism/sexism: 


Racism refers to beliefs, practices and institutions that discriminate against people based on their perceived or ascribed "race". Primarily, it refers to an assumption that the human species can meaningfully be divided into races, together with hostility to people of certain races or a belief, conscious or unconscious, that people of different races differ in value. Some people whose thinking about others uses racial categories believe that different races can be placed on a ranked, hierarchical scale. 



Sexism is commonly considered to be discrimination against people based on their sex rather than their individual merits, but can also refer to any and all differentiations based on sex.


2. No hate speech: 


Hate speech is a controversial term for speech intended to degrade, intimidate, or incite violence or prejudicial action against someone based on his/her race, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, or disability. The term covers written as well as oral communication, hence its bearing on this forum.


3. No piracy: 


Piracy entails discussions of pirated goods, how-to guides concerning or related to piracy or reverse-engineering of proprietary software and hardware, links to cracks, "warez" or any other illegal software or similar information.


4. No dealer prices or names in the chatbox: We will NOT tolerate this,ie: the making public of dealer prices and distributor details (what can I get where, kind of thing).
5. No flaming/Insulting: Flaming is seen as posting Slanderous, defamatory, obscene, indecent, lewd, pornographic, violent, abusive, insulting, threatening and harassing comments are not tolerated. etc.,etc.
6. iTrader and CB sales: Please note that if you want to make use of the iTrade system, you still have to have a thread for it. You may thus link people to your sales threads where after they can leave you a rating after the deal has been concluded.

The following rules deal with all images linked within chatbox:

1. Absolutely no sexually orientated images of any kind. This includes pornography, soft porn and erotica.
2. No images featuring extreme violence.
3. No images featuring gruesome or morally offensive scenes.

These rules are binding to any images, images pertaining to points 2 and 3 may (and must) be cleared with a staff member if they're absolutely necessary to a discussion. No images pertaining to point 1 will be considered.