Last Updated: January 20, 2008
1. Accepting The Terms Of Service and Use
This is an agreement between the user, and the operators of the MechaCon™ Forums. The user agrees to abide the terms set forth herein and likewise agrees to follow the guidelines of the TOS as well as the recommendations of the MechaCon™ Moderator Staff and Administrators. Failure to abide by this agreement will result in appropriate disciplinary actions as spelled out in this document. This TOS applies to the following areas: MechaCon Forum Announcements, MechaCon Convention Announcements and Discussion, Creators Workshop, and Photo Galleries.
2. No Prohibited Content
You may not post, upload, link to, or e-mail any content that is in violation of applicable local, state, or federal law or contains, promotes, instructs about, or provides prohibited content of the like listed below:
a. Content that infringes upon any domestic copy rights [ex. MP3s and ROMs] (including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks. Discussion of unlicensed fan-subs is allowed .)
b. Abusive, threatening, defamatory, racist, obscene language or libelous speech.
c. Viruses or any other harmful computer software.
d. Chain letters, Pyramid schemes, or unsolicited advertisements.
e. Gambling or Illicit drugs.
f. Terrorism or incitement to cause bodily harm, or death or damage and/or destruction of private or public property.
g. Discussion of or links to hacking materials or information.
h. Warez, Roms, CD-Keys, Cracks, Passwords, or Serial Numbers. This includes hacking or cheating for internet/online games.
i. Pornography, nudity, or discussion of sexual acts or material of any kind.
j. Invasive of privacy or impersonation of any person/entity.
The above items are violations of the MechaCon™ Forums Terms of Service and are cause for immediate banning from this board. MechaCon™ Forums will also fully cooperate with law enforcement officials should their involvement become necessary in the event of prohibited content which is in violation of applicable
local, state, or federal law.
3. No Multiple Accounts
Each user is allowed one user name, and one user name only. If you wish to change your account name, please contact one of the Mods or Admins to help you out with your request. Multiple accounts will be deleted upon their discovery. Creating another account shortly after a suspension will result in that user being banned.
4. No Flaming/No Personal Issue Conflicts
Disagreements may arise during discussion. Please keep to a mature tone and not result to name-calling or insults. If you are unable to do this, take the discussion elsewhere and off of these boards. If you and another party have a disagreement over something that happened on this board, a different board, or even in something that arose in person, do not bring it here. Resolve your differences privately and peaceably through other venues.
5. No Swearing
This is the open and public area of the forums as they relate to the promotion of our convention. Because of this, please keep the language and topics here clean enough for our under-aged visitors and for their parents’ peace of mind. The board's Swear Filter is already primed to filter out the infamous "Seven Dirty Words," their altered spellings, their synonyms, and their derivatives. This filter may be updated as warranted.
6. No Prohibited Content within Avatars and Signatures
Users may not have avatars and/or signatures that contains adult content, nudity, adult language, or depictions of illegal drug use.
7. No Hot-Linking
Do not steal bandwidth from other sites. Upload images that you wish to post onto your own image host or server for display on these forums.
This is an agreement between the user, and the operators of the MechaCon™ Forums. The user agrees to abide the terms set forth herein and likewise agrees to follow the guidelines of the TOS as well as the recommendations of the MechaCon™ Moderator Staff and Administrators. Failure to abide by this agreement will result in appropriate disciplinary actions as spelled out in this document. This TOS applies to the following areas: MechaCon Forum Announcements, MechaCon Convention Announcements and Discussion, Creators Workshop, and Photo Galleries.
2. No Prohibited Content
You may not post, upload, link to, or e-mail any content that is in violation of applicable local, state, or federal law or contains, promotes, instructs about, or provides prohibited content of the like listed below:
a. Content that infringes upon any domestic copy rights [ex. MP3s and ROMs] (including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks. Discussion of unlicensed fan-subs is allowed .)
b. Abusive, threatening, defamatory, racist, obscene language or libelous speech.
c. Viruses or any other harmful computer software.
d. Chain letters, Pyramid schemes, or unsolicited advertisements.
e. Gambling or Illicit drugs.
f. Terrorism or incitement to cause bodily harm, or death or damage and/or destruction of private or public property.
g. Discussion of or links to hacking materials or information.
h. Warez, Roms, CD-Keys, Cracks, Passwords, or Serial Numbers. This includes hacking or cheating for internet/online games.
i. Pornography, nudity, or discussion of sexual acts or material of any kind.
j. Invasive of privacy or impersonation of any person/entity.
The above items are violations of the MechaCon™ Forums Terms of Service and are cause for immediate banning from this board. MechaCon™ Forums will also fully cooperate with law enforcement officials should their involvement become necessary in the event of prohibited content which is in violation of applicable
local, state, or federal law.
3. No Multiple Accounts
Each user is allowed one user name, and one user name only. If you wish to change your account name, please contact one of the Mods or Admins to help you out with your request. Multiple accounts will be deleted upon their discovery. Creating another account shortly after a suspension will result in that user being banned.
4. No Flaming/No Personal Issue Conflicts
Disagreements may arise during discussion. Please keep to a mature tone and not result to name-calling or insults. If you are unable to do this, take the discussion elsewhere and off of these boards. If you and another party have a disagreement over something that happened on this board, a different board, or even in something that arose in person, do not bring it here. Resolve your differences privately and peaceably through other venues.
5. No Swearing
This is the open and public area of the forums as they relate to the promotion of our convention. Because of this, please keep the language and topics here clean enough for our under-aged visitors and for their parents’ peace of mind. The board's Swear Filter is already primed to filter out the infamous "Seven Dirty Words," their altered spellings, their synonyms, and their derivatives. This filter may be updated as warranted.
6. No Prohibited Content within Avatars and Signatures
Users may not have avatars and/or signatures that contains adult content, nudity, adult language, or depictions of illegal drug use.
7. No Hot-Linking
Do not steal bandwidth from other sites. Upload images that you wish to post onto your own image host or server for display on these forums.
