Terms of Service
These are the rules and guidelines you accept when joining/posting on Kagerou Studio's forums. We welcome all members to our community with open hands, yet with our given services we expect all users to show respect by giving us and the mods certain courtisies.
Accounts and Registration
Please note that you as a member are solely responsible for your account! If somebody posts on your count in a rude way, gets your password, etc. you are still responsible regardless. This includes spamming member accounts!
However, if you feel there was a situation out of your hands then you may feel free to contact a forum leader and discuss your issues.
Forum Violations
You agree that you will not use this service to perform the following actions:
1. Offensive Posting
Posts of a patently offensive nature are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
* Using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language
* Using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, handicap, nationality, or gender as a
means of insult
* Using sexual preference terms as a term of insult in any way, shape, or form
* Using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language
* Posting or requesting links to or material from pornographic, obscene, or hate-speech web sites
* Posting links to web sites with potentially offensive content without a clear warning
* Descriptions or details about any sexual act or sexual organs
2. Censor Bypassing
Kagerou Studios' message boards are programmed with a list of words that are considered vulgar under any context,
and these words are not allowed to be posted. Attempting to bypass the censor by misspelling, inserting
spaces or symbols, transposing letters, using look-alike symbols, or any other method is not allowed.
The only acceptable method of posting one of these vulgar words is to completely obscure it, making it
impossible to determine what the word is without context. Additionally, certain words are prohibited
from being used in topic titles and user information pages; bypassing the censor to post those words
where they are restricted is also disallowed.
For example, if "gris" is a banned word:
* Not allowed: g-r-i-s, gr*s, g***, 9|-1$, girs, gryeeeas, grizznizz, **** (rhymes with "bris")
* Allowed: ****, ****ed, ****ing, g'ed, g-word
3. Flaming (Insulting Other Users)
Posts clearly insulting other board members, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
* Name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron")
* Direct insults ("Screw you")
* Offensive orders ("Go kill yourself")
* Insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?") or insults towards family ("Your mom...")
4. Trolling (Inciting Flames)
Posts intended solely to annoy and/or offend other posters by going against the clear nature of a
board or topic are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
* Provoking other users to respond with flames
* Provoking fans of a particular system or game, especially on boards dedicated to that system or game
* Making misleading topic titles
* Asking obviously useless questions
* Posting false information as fact
5. Illegal Activities
Posts that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed. This includes, but is not
limited to, asking for or providing, in any way, shape, or form:
* Illegal copies of copyrighted software (ROMs, Warez)
* Methods of circumventing copyright protection (Cracks, No-CD Patches, CD Keys, mod chips)
* Illegal copies of copyrighted music (MP3s), movies, videos, or any other type of media
* Reprints of material from other web sites (pay or free)
* Methods of cheating in online games
6. Spamming
Posts that clearly advertise a service or product are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to:
* Unsolicited commercial or personal web site advertisements
* For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices
* "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes
* Advertising for another message board
Users are allowed to include a web site address in a signature, request comments on their personal site in a
social setting, or providing only once an interesting or relevant link to another site.
7. Off-Topic Posting
The main purpose of the Kagerou Studios' Message Boards is to provide discussion forums for Kagerou Studios projects. Topicality is expected and will be enforced on all gaming boards
for current and recent systems, all system boards, and all special interest boards. On these boards,
topics designed to get hundreds of posts with little or no content, topics that have nothing to do
with the board's category, and other "social" topics are not allowed.
* On system, gaming, or other topical boards with no corresponding Social board, new topics must
clearly be related to the game, system, or topic in question. Discussions may vary broadly, but must
essentially be about the topic in question.
* On gaming boards with a corresponding Social board, new topics must clearly be related to the actual
gameplay or story of that game. Things such as Tournaments, RPGs, pass-along stories, fan fictions,
and the like should be posted on the corresponding Social board.
8. Spoilers without Warning
Posting "spoilers" (critical plot details) about games, movies, time-delayed broadcast events, or
other media in the title of a topic or in a message without advance warning is prohibited.
* To discuss such information in a topic, users should leave the title of the topic as vague as possible
and include a warning (i.e. "SPOILER") in the topic title.
* In a message post in a non-marked topic, users should leave several blank lines in a post after a
warning before revealing any vital plot information.
9. Disruptive Posting
Posts that disrupt the message boards for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited.
This includes, but is not limited, to:
* Message posts or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally
* Large blank or content-free posts
* "Bumping" multiple older topics (posting in them well after the last post)
o The only current exception to this rule is in the Mature Discussions forum, where any "bumping" posts have to have as much thought put into them as expected of an MD-forum post.
* Posting multiple identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" topics
* Intentionally hard-to-read topic titles (i.e. ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtE cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation, 1337 speak, et cetera)
* Posting multiple hard-to-read or nonsensical messages in a single or multiple topics
* Posting large ASCII art (except in social topics specifically calling for it)
* Post counting (i.e. "First", "100th Post")
10. Flooding, Invading, and Board Wars
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for:
* Flooding a board with multiple disruptive topics or posts
* Invading another board (flooding a board as a group with multiple topics or posts)
* Instigating, participating in, or retaliating in an invasion of a Kagerou Studios' message board or
any other online service
* Announcing or inciting a "war" or any conflict with the regular members of another board
11. Impersonation
Users will be immediately banned (along with any associated accounts) for impersonating other boards
users by creating and/or using a message board account with a name clearly intended to impersonate,
mock, or antagonize another user, or otherwise falsely claiming to be another message board member.
12. Harassment/Stalking/Privacy
Continual harassing behavior directed towards a certain individual or group with the intent of an
creating an intimidating, offensive, or hostile environment on the boards, with or without use of
explicit or implicit threats is strictly prohibited. Posting private information without permission
is also prohibited.
13. Unauthorized Access
Accessing or attempting to access any Kagerou Studios' user account not belonging to the user in question
without permission is prohibited. Accessing another user's account in this manner is grounds for
immediate loss of all known accounts.
14. Bugs and Exploits
Using exploits or tricks in the Kagerou Studios' code to gain privileges, access, or abilities not clearly
intended by the board design is prohibited. While you are more than welcome to try and find any
exploits away from the public eye, making them public or using them for personal benefit is grounds
for immediate loss of all known accounts.
15. Usernames, Profiles, and Forms
Violating any of the above rules with a username, any part of the user profile (signature, quote,
e-mail, IM), or via feedback forms (such as the Mark for Moderation function) is considered a
severe violation.
16. Robots and Automated Programs
Board users are not allowed to run a robot or other any other automated
browsing or posting programs on any message board server at any time. Most of
these robots use huge amounts of server resources for the benefit of a single
person. Users caught running robots may have all of their known accounts
revoked, and the abuse of resources reported to their ISP.
17. Other
Any other activity that is clearly detrimental to the flow of conversation and normal activities
of the boards and its users may also be deleted.
Violations, Acts Taken, and Contact
Violations against the forum terms of service may vary depending on the offense. However, it normally works like this.
60% : Temporary 1 week ban.
80%: Temporary 2 week ban.
100%: Permanant ban!
Warn levels may go down for good behavior. Over all we're just trying to create a friendly place for all users. So just be courteous and you should be fine!
If you feel if you were wrongly moderated for an offense then you have the right to talk to a forum leader regarding your problem. If your problem isn't corrected by a forum leader then your warn is final. Arguing, flaming, or accusing mods will result in a permanant ban. Just don't do it!
