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1. Thou Shalt Not Flame. Even if you strongly hate the content of a post, and detest the individual to whom you're responding. (You are allowed, however, to make rude facial expressions and socially unacceptable hand gestures as you press "submit.")

2. Thou Shalt use the right forum. Post it once, and post it nice, and please don't ever post it twice. (There's a song there somewhere.) Pick a forum, pick a message, and that's that. Don't post in every forum with the same message. If it's a general post, use one of our general forums

3. Thou Shalt use common sense with links. We do not intend to serve as a linking service or a search engine to other sites - Please use the 'Spam' section to advertise personal or relevant sites. Links that wouldn't be allowed anywhere on the forums (including signatures) would be to links to sites (commercial OR personal) that have: 1. Pornographic, racist or illegal materials, including game cheats or hacks 2. Profit sites (any get rich quick sites). This is sites that earn the poster a profit/commission or sites that give points for incoming links 3. Sites carrying ad-busting software

4. Thou Shalt Not Post Naughty Links or Graven Images. You won't really get much of a warning. Beware.

5. Thou Shalt Not Engage in Unnatural Bumping. We have a "bump up" feature, where the post with the most recent addition goes to the top of the forum listing. If your post is good, it'll be responded to. If it's responded to, it'll undergo the process we call Natural Bumping. Natural Bumping = good. Unnatural bumping = bad. Unnatural Bumping is where someone posts, "I'm adding this to put this thread back at the top." Do it, we slap your hand. Do it often, you pull back a bloody stump.

6. Thou Shalt Not Spoof. Don't make up an account name designed to resemble another poster. If you're banned for some reason, don't keep coming back with "Fred," "Fred the Undead" and "Fred Yet Again." If you were banned, take it like a man… wellll, take it like a reasonable person, and accept your fate. If you wish, you may appeal the account closure to the staff. Oh, and for goodness sake, don't make up additional accounts to respond to yourself. (People who talk to themselves used to be burned at the stake as witches.)

7. Thou Shalt Not Get Territorial. If we allow it to be present on the site, or use it in any form, you agree that you have no financial claim against the site. We do not demand that items be exclusively ours, but once something it submitted to us for publication or posted in our forums, its removal is entirely at our discretion.

8. Thou Shalt Accept the Admin's Decisions. We reserve the right to ban [temporarily or permanently] or place on Probation any member without warning. We reserve the right to edit, move or remove any post made on this site without warning or explanation. We reserve the right to edit any portion of a member profile without warning. You will accept all this gladly and with open arms because we do it with love.

9. Thou shalt type intelligibly. This isn't an Instant Message program, there's no reason why you shouldn't type properly. Overuse of acronyms also reflects badly on yourself. It's just that it's much nicer to read a post that someone's put a bit of time and consideration in.

10. Endless threads are forbidden to be posted anywhere but the Spam section. Endless threads with no further purpose but their own existence are not to be posted at all.

11. READ the FAQS!. There's a comprehensive list of a lot of Frequently Asked Questions.

12. Swearing - There is no filter. The Abyss is a pretty liberal forum: however, using offensive words as part of a flame just makes it worse, therefore most likely will constitute a ban. Please be sensible.

[* Psst. Dread says: *]
12 ½. At 440 posts, the messageboard consumes your soul.
[* End of Dread interference *]

13. Thou shalt not have avatars over 120*120 pixels, and not over 30kb in size. Signature images should also be limited to on or below 100 pixels in height, and not more than 500 in length: the same filesize limitations still apply. This is to prevent abnormal widening of tables, and to allow the forum to be easily read by those with slower internet connections,.