1. Posting discriminatory (based on race, sex, religion, etc), hateful or exceptionally derogatory messages is strictly forbidden. Using the Private Message (PM) system for sharing such content is also forbidden. Such action will result in immediate banning of involved user(s).

2. Posting pornography, hentai, or any pictures and/or text with any sexual content is strictly forbidden. Using the Private Message (PM) system for sharing such content is also forbidden. Such action will result in immediate banning of involved user(s).

3.a. Posting advertisements for other sites or products is strictly forbidden. Advertisements will be immediately deleted and continued violation of this rule will result in being banned from the forum. However, you may put links to another site in your sig.

4.b. Advertising through the Private Message (PM) system is not allowed. Users advertising through PMs will receive a warning for the first offence. Continued violation of this rule will result in the immediate banning of the involved user(s).

5. You are responsible for whatever content posted from the account you have created. If your sibling, friend, brother, etc. makes an illegal or offensive post from your account, you will be banned, no excuses.

6. Signature and Avatar (Sig/Avy) Rules

a. Avatars - May only be equal to, or less then, 100 x 100 in width by height
dimensions. Avatars bigger than this will be deleted.

b. Signatures - May only be equal to, or less then, 500 x 200 in width by height
dimensions. Signatures bigger than this will be deleted.

c. The total size of a user's avy and sig combined can not exceed 30 kb (sig size + avy size must be less than 30,000b).

d. Since sig/avy violations have the potential to effect all users on the forum, users are permitted to pm ME (and only me) if they see any violations of the above rules.

7. Flaming other users is strictly forbidden. Any posts deemed to be flames by a moderator or administrator will result in immediate banning of the involved user(s). Flaming through the Private Message (PM) system is also strictly forbidden.

8. Spam <Stupid. Annoying. Pointless. Messages.> posts are not allowed. Users who spam will receive a warning. Continued violation of this rule will result in the immediate banning of the involved user(s). Examples of spam include: one word/sentence posts, posts with just smilies, repeat posting, or any messages with little or no content/meaning.

9. "Awesome" trades/pulls and bragging posts are not allowed. These include asking such things as: "is this a good trade?" or "look how badly I ripped so-and-so" or "look what I got out of this pack/box". If you would like to know whether a trade is good or not. Pull posts will only be allowed when a new set is released, and these will be created by a mod/admin and made a sticky.

10. Double posting is not allowed. If you accidentally double posted now and then, we will let it go. But if it continuously occurs you will be given a warning.

11. Do not post complaints about YuGiOh Kingdom, the forums or its staff. Any complaints you have should be directed to an Administrator or Moderator, through the Private Message (PM) system. Show respect to the Moderators, Administrators and all users. Remember, being a Mod IS NOT A JOB, it is a volunteer position. The mods aren't paid, get no training and do have lives outside of the forum. You can't expect them to always be here, to catch everything or to be perfect in their decisions. And most importantly, they owe you nothing .... they are not like the managers at McDonalds who you can complain to if your Happy Meal didn't have a toy. They are providing you a service for free (where you had to pay for your happy meal). Consider yourself lucky we have mods as decent as ours are.

12. Do no ask to be Moderators, as the answer you will receive will always be "no". Moderators are selected from a pool of our best, veteran members by the YuGiOh Kingdom staff. Asking once will result in a warning. Repeated requests will result in immediate banning of involved user(s).

NEW ADDITION - Posting comments such as "please lock this" and "this is spam" is also a form of spam. Mods will take care of anything they perceive to be spam, and you are not mods. If you see someone spamming that you don't think the mods have noticed, use the pm system to inform them.

This post has been edited by Master Of Gods on Sep 19 2004, 08:38 PM