Just a reminder for everybody of the rules of the forum to keep this place nice and friendly. I have had numerous complaints on various issues which basically fall down to a failure to keep within the guidelines and spirit of the place.
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Signatures - These are supposed to be a couple of lines long with possibly a quote, info about yourself or a link to your own/others websites that may be of interest to other members. We would appreciate it you would leave out graphics, whilst initially looking good they soon get boring and they also take up valuable space and bandwidth, not everybody has broadband and these can serious slow page loading. Plus the space they take up on the page soon pushes other posts on to other pages to quickly.
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Quoting other posts - Please do not re-qoute long posts with graphics, its one thing to mention a line from another post or reply to a previous post but completely copying a post is a waste of time and space again.
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Political Posts - To be avoided at all costs in most areas except for alt history, due to the global nature of the forum its very hard to not offend somebody else especially if voicing a personal opinion. Due to the sensitivity and over reaction to some subjects even speculative posts relating to alternate history where the politics is a key factor in structuring your alternative timelines is generating over reactionary responses. Please remember that alt history posts are just that and members expect constructive critisim and eductated discussion to formulate thier timeline and not to get dragged into a reactionary argument.
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Posting images - there are a number of images being copied and posted these days, please remeber to quote the source as you never know if the originator if the image is on the forum or not !!!!!.
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Sniping - Its getting noticaible that some posts can generate a negative reaction resulting in a snipe or a slap down at the memeber who posted it. This is very bad form and can lead to serious disagreements, the same goes for putting down other forums or people, whilst you may or even we may disagree with whats occuring elsewhere on the net its not our place to be hostile. This can lead to serious problems to the forum and members should it get out of hand.
Minor breaches of the rules will result in a friendly warning, further breaches or a blatant breach will result in a suspension of posting rights. Continued breaches in the guideline will result in membership being revoked and a permament ban.
Sorry to get so politically correct boys but its all about respect of the forum and its members, failure on either can lead to a rapid decline in the standards and a decent into chaos.
We are a modelling forum focused on the 'What-if' aspect of the hobby and its associated areas of interest.
The Mod Team