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Please take a few moments to review the following information. We
reserve the right to modify the terms herein at any time, with or
without notice.
All guidelines and policies apply to all forums, threads, posts,
comments, private messages, profiles, gallery photos, avatars and
signatures. Ignorance of the rules is never acceptable.
If you are questioning yourself on whether or not your actions are in
violation of the site rules then, you should refrain from doing that
action and ask an Admin or Moderator before proceeding.
Keep in mind that Moderators/Administrators have final say about what
happens on this site and their decisions are final.
Moderators and Administration
Moderators and Administrators of these sites monitor your compliance
with the rules of the site and dispense disciplinary action at their
discretion. Any question regarding disciplinary action must be sent
through PM's and/or e-mail correspondence and should not be publicly
posted. If you have concerns regarding an incident, please feel free to
discuss the matter with Moderators/Administrators via an e-mail or PM.
Do not create a new topic simply for the purposes of questioning a
moderator's decision.
Any posts containing inappropriate content will either be edited or
removed from the forums and posting such words/phrases/content after
being warned can result in being suspended from the Airyness Community
for a given amount of time defined by the infraction and the Moderators.
If you are consistent about posting this sort of content after you have
been warned you will be permanently suspended from the site.
Anyone impersonating or acting like they are an administrator or
moderator is not allowed and can result in disciplinary action. If a
user finds a thread or post that is inappropriate please report the
thread or post and let the administration and moderating staff handle
the situation.
Moderators and Administrators are held to an even higher standard for
following the rules than regular users. If you have an issue with
actions taken or displayed by a Moderator please report it to an
Administrator. If you have an issue with an Administrator please report
it to the administrator.
PG13 Guidelines
This forum is open to members that are 13 years of age or older.
Therefore, content posted in all open areas must be intended for readers
13 years of age and older and may be inappropriate for any minor under
the age of 13. We recommend that supervising adults not allow such
minors to read 13+ content.
Horror and violence may exist at a moderate level, but not extreme.
There may be mild references to sex, drugs or alcohol, but do not exceed
mild levels. Mild swearing may be used, but no use of the harsher
sexually derived words may be found.
This is applicable to all open forums, threads, posts,
gallery/profile/arcade comments/shouts, profiles, avatars and
signatures.
Private Groups
Also, some groups may be assigned their own private sections. Some
groups may be subject to restricted access based on member age, staff
position or for various other reasons. We reserve the right to revoke
access with or without notice at our discretion.
If you find that your access is revoked, please send a private message
or email to the administrator to request the reason if you did not
receive one. In addition, different rules may apply to private groups.
Please make sure that you have read and understand the rules for using those areas.
In addition, as per the user agreement, please be sure to accurately
represent your age in your profile. If you would like to include ages
for a character that you plan to write, you may do so in the field that
is provided specifically for character information. Presenting
misleading information may delay the group approval process.
Member Accounts
As stated in the User Agreement, it is important that you do not share
your account password for your protection and for validity reasons.
We also HIGHLY recommend you use a complex and unique password for your
account, to prevent account theft.
If your account should become compromised as a result of your failure to
follow this advice, please be aware that the Airyness Community will not
accept responsibility for any losses such as modification or deletion of
your posts, drafts, private messages, comments, etc.
Modifications/deletions of posts by members can be verified through
logs. Also, Airyness Community reserves the right to take disciplinary
action in the event that you refuse or choose not to comply.
Also see Multiple Accounts.
Personal Information
For your safety and privacy; please do not post personal information
such as, but not limited to; your full name, home or business address,
phone numbers, etc. Your age is visible in your profile and your birth
date as well as the age you’ll be turning is shown on the calendar, but
not the year. (Guests are unable to see the calendar/profiles).
Pictures of yourself, home, school, and work place are also not allowed
in posts or the gallery.
We also recommend that you hide the email address that you have listed
in your profile. This can be done by going to your Account Settings page
and checking the box to “hide email address from the public.”
You understand that Airyness Community is not responsible for personal
injury, property damage, receipt of spam, identity theft, or any other
consequence as a result of members disregarding this policy.
Data Back Ups
Airyness.com will make every effort to ensure that data is preserved by
backing up the database on a daily basis. However, you are encouraged to
keep back up copies of your work in the event that our forum database is
compromised and cannot be restored. This applies to any creative
writing, illustrations, ideas, gallery photos, private messages, post
drafts or anything else that you deem important. Disregard this warning
at your own risk.
Multiple Accounts
Members are only allowed one username per person in a household and are
strongly discouraged from sharing accounts with other family members and
/ or friends. In terms of guideline violations, Airyness Community
moderators/administrators may track multiple shared accounts from single
or multiple computers as one account. If a guideline violation is severe
enough, it may become necessary to ban/delete one or all of the
usernames on the same computer, depending on the severity. You are
responsible for anyone and everyone who uses your account and/or
accesses other accounts from your computer.
The actions of one person could easily directly impact all known shared
message board accounts.
NOTE: This does not apply to Admins/Moderators, as we sometimes need
multiple accounts to test technical issues that come up from various
user levels and to do that properly it requires us to create "test"
accounts.
Impersonation of Other Users
Creating accounts on the site with similar names of existing users in
order to cause chaos or misconceptions towards that user is not allowed
and it can lead to permanent suspension from the site.
Anyone impersonating or acting like they are an administrator or
moderator is not allowed and can result in disciplinary action. In
addition, "back-seat modding" is not allowed.
If a user finds a thread or post that is inappropriate please report the
thread or post and let the administration and moderating staff handle
the situation.
Anyone found to be impersonating Airyness Community staff will be
dealt with immediately and harshly.
Posting
Please post in the appropriate forum. Don't be upset if we move your
post to a more appropriate forum. In the event you find your post
"missing", please attempt to locate it in what might be a more
appropriate forum by using the Search feature.
Each forum has a name and a brief description with them. This makes
information easier for people to find if they have a similar question or
are interested in the same things.
We reserve the right to move, merge, remove, or close any post for any
violations or reasons we deem necessary. (Disciplinary action will be
taken if necessary depending on the severity). This also applies to all
forums, threads, posts, private messages, comments, profiles, avatars
and signatures.
Multiple Posting/Double Posting
Multiple Posting is copying posts/threads several times throughout the
forum or consecutive (one right after another) replies to a thread. One
thread per new subject / one reply needed (use the Modify feature if
you’ve already replied and need to add something).
Multiple postings will be removed, moved, or merged as needed.
English Only
The Airyness Community does not provide support for any other language.
The moderators/administrators and other users must be able to read and
comprehend your posts. To ensure this, we ask that everyone do their
best to post in English.
Favoritism Posts/Polls
This includes posts that indicate who's the best poster, writer, poet,
etc. These often lead to confrontations when a person expresses a
negative opinion about another person. This also applies to all forums,
threads, posts, private messages, comments, profiles, avatars and
signatures.
Flaming
Any posts/topics that are hateful or mean in nature will be removed
immediately. We do not tolerate attacks based on race, religion, gender,
sexual orientation, or political affiliation. Personal threats and
harassment will not be tolerated. This includes posting pictures
representing an attack; debate opinions, not the people behind them.
This also applies to all forums, threads, posts, private messages,
comments, profiles, avatars and signatures.
Irritating Post Styles
This refers to posting styles which make it hard to read and/or
comprehend what a user is attempting to state on their post(s).
Moderators and other users must be able to read and understand what you
are posting. Use of all caps (indicates yelling), caps/lowercase
variances or ‘leet’ speak (I wAnT A wRiTiNg p4rTn3R), poor color choices
for their text vs. forums background colors (such as white text on a
yellow background), excessive punctuation (no!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) or
letter repetition in a word (Yaaaaaaaaay!) are both irritating and
sometimes hard to read. These types of posts will be removed from the
forums/comments or edited by a mod.
Name Changes
Display Names may be changed at any time via user profiles without
permission as long as it is within the guidelines set forth in here.
Usernames may be changed with approval; please contact the
administrator. Limit one username change per year, per member.
Off-Topic/Nonsense Posts
If your post/thread doesn't make sense or is filled with gibberish,
these posts will be removed. While we expect that some topics will stray
a bit, if it completely hijacks the thread and/or disrupts the flow,
those posts will either be removed or split into its own thread.
Personal Issues
Discussions of a personal nature should also be kept to a minimum
throughout the forums. Airyness Community understands the need to vent
from time to time; writing is a great way to release negative feelings.
However, we ask that you confine such writing to the Solo or Poetry
areas and avoid bringing real life drama into the Collaborative stories.
By using the Airyness Community, you understand that the
moderators/administrators are not referees for personal/relationship
disputes. In order to effectively run the community, they must maintain
objectivity, even when those that we consider friends are involved in a
personal argument or have disregarded the rules. Members must understand
that the action taken by moderators or administrators to enforce the
rules does not mean that we do not feel compassion to those that are
suffering and is not meant to be a personal attack in any way.
Scamming
Creating posts in which a user attempts to take advantage of any other
is not allowed.
A scam is the act of acquiring item(s) or any other possession from
another member through misinformation, confusion, or fraud. Posts which
include advertised writing contests or groups that require
entry/participation based on items given to the owner of the event or
group are not allowed.
Signature Lengths
Users should be considerate of other users on the forums. Excessive
signatures cause the flow of the threads to be disrupted and make pages
load slower for some users. Signature lengths over 10 text lines will be
removed from user's profiles.
This also applies to graphics that are larger than 250 x 250 pixels in
length and width size. It doesn't matter how big the font size is as
long as the total dimensions taken up by the signature text & graphic
does not exceed 500 x 200 in pixel length and width.
Spamming
"Spam" refers to posting identical and/or irrelevant messages to one
thread or many different threads that have nothing to do with the
intended subject, or posts that disrupt a thread or fill the message
board with clutter. Mass private messaging people you don't know or who
haven't invited you to PM them; posting for the sole purpose of boosting
your post count, threads with the sole purpose of posting "what I did
today..." (this is a forum, not a blog or chat room), excessive bumping
of threads, one or two letter replies (i.e. ok, LOL, Yes, agreed, nods),
and excessive use of smilies as a response are all considered "spam".
Trolling
Intentionally posting false arguments, flames or personal attacks for no
other purpose than to incite a negative reaction, annoy others or
disrupt a discussion is also prohibited. These perpetrators are known as
"trolls".
Arcade
In order to play in our arcade you must have a total of five posts
accumulated. Thereafter, you will need to post one time on any day that
you would like to play. Cheating the system will not be tolerated. Any
member that is found to be cheating in order to obtain higher scores or
win tournaments will have their account deleted and IP banned
immediately without notice.
Gallery
Images must be approved before they will show up anywhere in our
gallery. They must also be suitable for a PG13 audience. Do not upload
images that contain nudity or foul language. Any images that are found
to be inappropriate will be removed without notice and will result in
disciplinary action.*
Links
As a member, you are able to share useful links with the rest of the
community and may be subject to approval. Links that lead to
pornographic or otherwise inappropriate websites will be removed
immediately followed by disciplinary action.*
* Please try to upload images/post links in their
proper category. If one does not exist, please send a message to the
gallery administrators and one of us will create it for you if
necessary. When in doubt, select the Miscellaneous category.
Karma
The Airyness Community has a karma system enabled. Some members,
depending on post group, may add or take away from the karma of other
users. However, karma is automatically increased every time any user
adds a post in any of the forums.
If you have any questions or need clarification on any of these terms,
please contact the administrator via private message.