The Forum Rules

[Rules]

These are the rules for now. (Thanks Krome)

The Official Forum Rules

List

1. You will not Spam
2. You will not Flame
3. You will not Troll
4. You will not Advertise
5. You will not post goodbye or welcome back threads. They will be automatically deleted.
6. You will not be counter productive
7. You will not complain about disciplinary actions
8. You will not post long messenger (msn,aim,yahoo,gmail) conversations
9. Your signatures will be kept to 650x200 dimension maximum
10. You will not include inappropriate content in your signature or posts such as pornographic images or open text links to other forums or sites other then hosting accounts.
11. You will respect your fellow members. We work off the Golden Rule here!
12. You will NOT make second accounts for any reason other than to discuss a previous ban with a staff member. Multiple accounts are regarded as a form of forum and portal abuse.
13: You may post forum games unless the moderating team or admins can tell that you haven't put thought or effort into making it up.
14. If you are not contributing to TA in a positive capacity then you are not welcome on T
15. No doubleposting.
Description:

Definition of contributing explained -

-Contributing by animating and submitting your work to FA or the forums.

-Contributing by attempting to get better at animating and not just for the sake of getting past this rule.

-Contributing by helping out other members of FA with animating advice or how to properly utilize the site/forum or how to find information.

-Contributing by taking on the responsibility's of management such as admins, mods or specially selected groups.

-Contributing by being involved in productive or constructive threads other then the MAIN section of the forum. Example, reviewing other members work or taking part in debates.


Troll - An "Internet troll" or "Forum Troll" is a person who posts outrageous messages to bait people to answer. Forum Troll delight in sowing discord on the forums. A troll is someone who inspires flaming rhetoric, someone who is purposely provoking and pulling people into flaming discussion. Flaming discussions usually end with name-calling and a flame war.

Advertise - ADVERTISEMENTS, PROMOTIONS, SOLICITATIONS, and PROPOSITIONS. Do not advertise on FA forums! It is considered unethical to promote other forums or sites on FA forums.

Golden Rule – Do onto others as you would have done onto you...

Complaining about disciplinary actions – From time to time I will delete threads, posts or even ban members of FA forums. It is essential that the forums be kept clean. From time to time members may feel that there posts where wrongfully deleted. It is reasonable to ask why your post or thread was deleted. However, if you complain about it or complain about a temporary ban then you risk being permanently banned.

Signatures - Signature are limited so all images in your signature are to be 500 px Width by 200 px Height. Music signatures are allowed unless they are:
1) Really small
2) Doesn't have a Play/Pause button
3) Start's off automatically.
This also applies to content, again no open links to forums/sites or pornographic images of the like.

Abusing the Rules

If anyone abuses the rules it will be up to Yurkovskiy, krome or the Moderating team to handle the issue. Sometimes this may result in a simple private warning via PM. Other times it may result in an immediate ban regardless of a warning. There is no rhyme or reason to what deserves a warning or a ban. I suggest you follow the rules, you may think that we are strict but you will know that we are fair…

Thanks.