The CBR Community STANDARDS & RULES

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GENERAL ACCOUNT AND POSTING RULES

MODERATOR DECISIONS ARE FINAL

When a moderator makes a decision or tells users to stop what they’re doing, it is not an invitation for debate and is not to be discussed on the forums. If you have an issue with a decision a moderator has made and feel you need to be heard, contact them privately, but understand they are under no obligation to defend or explain themselves to you. Questioning or ignoring a moderator’s decree on the forums may result in a ban from the site, as will ignoring any warnings issued privately.

STAY ON TOPIC

Posts or comments that are deemed off-topic to a thread's subject will be deleted at the moderator’s discretion. Repeated instances of off topic behavior, with or without a warning from the forum’s moderator, may result in punitive action.

NO MULTIPLE ACCOUNTS

CBR does not permit users to have more than one account. All multiple accounts discovered will be banned, and those caught attempting to circumvent this rule may face expulsion from the site. This is especially true for accounts that have been temporarily banned from the site; any attempts made to circumvent one's temporary ban will result in either an immediate ban length increase or a permanent ban.

NO DISPOSABLE E-MAIL ADDRESSES

In order to reach you should the need arise, a legitimate e-mail address is required when you register at CBR. Any addresses discovered to be from a disposable e-mail service will result in your account being temporarily banned (until you give us a real address to update your account with) or deleted (if we catch it when the account is newly registered).

USERNAME CHANGES

Users cannot change their own account’s usernames. You may make a request to the administrators in the Name Change Request thread on the Q&A forum, but understand that they are under no obligation to fulfill your request as they have more important site issues that occupy their time. Requests made within a year of a previous request will be ignored. Creating a multiple account (see above) to circumvent this system may result in a ban from the site.

NO SELLING/SPAMMING

We do not allow users to sell anything on the forums. Selling items, linking to online stores or auctions (including but not exclusive to eBay) with the intent of profit are not permitted. There is a trading thread on the Collected Editions & Classic Comics forum if you wish to swap items but monetary exchanges are not permitted. Spammers are banned immediately.

REPORT SPAM, DON'T REPLY TO IT

We have a report post function on the forums, help us out and use it when you see spam. Whatever zinger you have to say in reply to spam isn't as hilarious as you think it is, trust us. By replying to spam instead of reporting it to us you may also be helping that spammer promote their message, and that may result in consequences for your account. People caught replying to/quoting/or responding to spam may receive temporary bans from the site. Be a part of the solution, don't add to the problem.

NO FLAMEBAITING

Do not inform someone when you are reporting their post, or that they’re going on (or are on) your ignore list. Simply do it or don’t, the audience doesn’t need to know. Do not create threads to deliberately target, ridicule, or mock other users, they will be deleted and action will be taken.

SIGNATURES

Signatures may consist of text but not images. Please make your signatures relatively small and unobtrusive. The Community Rules extend to signatures; insulting or offensive material will result in ban from CBR. Inappropriate or unsuitable signatures may be modified or deleted without notice. Posting images at the end of your posts to circumvent not being able to add one to your signature may result in a ban from the site.

COPYRIGHTED MATERIAL

Users must keep copyright issues in mind during their time at the CBR Forums. No more than three pages of any given comic should be posted at any one time (which should be plenty for review purposes).

NO PROMOTION OF ILLEGAL MATERIAL

Links to illegal download/viewing/streaming sites or material are not allowed. It should also go without saying that discussions/suggestions of obtaining copyrighted material by those means are not allowed either. Public domain material, as well as previews, trailers, and clips are fine.

NO PLAGIARISM

If you want to quote from another site, news article, or whatever else, put a small quote in there and then a link back to the original source if need be. Do not outright lift words from somewhere else and claim them as your own to fill out your entire posts.

DO NOT REPRODUCE PRIVATE MESSAGES IN PUBLIC

Private messages are private for a reason. Unless you have permission from the author, reproducing private messages on the forums is forbidden. If you have an issue with a private message you’ve received or feel you’re being harassed, use the Report Private Message function.

SELF-PROMOTION

Posting for the sole purpose of drawing traffic to your own blog, website, forum, video, etc. is generally not allowed and such posts or threads may be deleted. Excessive self-promotion on multiple forums and/or in multiple threads will be treated as spam and the users responsible may be banned from the site. The only forums appropriate for personal/independent comic self-promotion are Artist & Writer Showcase, Independents, or CBR Community (please choose one, not all three).

DO NOT BUMP THREADS

Posting just for the sake of bringing a thread to the top of the forum’s first page is not permitted. This causes threads with actual ongoing conversation to slip down the forum and is unfair to their participants. Bumping posts will be deleted, may result in the thread being closed or deleted, and users responsible may face punitive action regardless of whether their bumping resulted in resurrecting discussion or not. Resurrecting old threads with genuine posting content is permitted.

NOTE: These rules are subject to change and enforced at Community Administrators discretion.