In order to keep the forums running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forums here. If you have any questions or problems, please contact one of the VM Staff Members.
Our goal at VM is to keep a fun, clean, family-friendly environment, these rules help ensure that people of all ages and backgrounds will enjoy this board.
Verbalize Me has very specific content geared forums, members are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting to ensure they are posting in the correct forum. This rule is very forgiving, but users who repeatedly post in the wrong forum despite corrections from a staff member may be given a warning.
VM is geared toward a general audience and therefore posts that are sexual in nature, contain pornographic content, or are generally offensive in nature such as text, images, links etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to an immediate warning. If a username is found to be offensive, it will be immediately changed and the user PM'd a request to choose another, more appropriate username.
Members are not to post obscene, vulgar, racist, graven, offensive, illegal, posts, links or images on Verbalize Me, posting of such content will be removed and could lead to a warning if necessary.
Members are not allowed to flame other members or groups of members. Flaming includes, but is not limited to: Ridiculing, insulting, or demeaning another member or group of members, such behaviour will not be tolerated and may lead to a warning and the offending posts removed or the topic locked.
Members are not allowed to bait other members. Baiting is an attempt to anger and provoke another member. Such behaviour may lead to a warning and offending posts removed or topic locked.
Members are not to harass or abuse other members in topics, private messages, signatures, avatars or profiles. This includes stalking other members, both online and in real life. Such behaviour will lead to a warning or a ban.
Members are not to violate the privacy of other members by publicly posting identifiable personal information about them; e.g. full names, addresses, e-mail addresses or telephone numbers. This includes re-posting the contents of private messages or e-mails without the prior permission of the sender. Exceptions may include notifying a staff member of a violation through private channels such as the board's Private Messaging System.
Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed.
Members are asked not to post using l33t speak, txt speak, abbreviated expletives, posting in ALL CAPS in posts, or topics. Repeatedly posting in these methods will result in a warning.
Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, solicitation etc. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.
Promoting one’s own site or forum is not allowed on VM, this includes self promotion, advertising and advertising related posts, notices for contests and show off posts and topics. Users may not promote their site through their posts, such posts are considered spam and may lead to a warning.
Recruiting members for your own project (moderators, designers, professional work, etc) in posts and topics is not permitted on VM and is considered spam.
Members are asked to keep signature images relatively small so that the topics may load quickly. Signature images are limited to a size of 520px wide and 150px high. Signatures may contain mild animation, but must not be flashy or attract attention with the animation. The use of Flash is not allowed in signatures.
Text sizes must not be larger than a font-size of 100%, 5 lines of text is the maximum with no images, or 2 lines of text with images. Random text signature script counts as a single line.
Links in signatures are limited to 5 links and must be unique pages or sites (i.e. 5 links pointing to the same external page/site are not allowed), Linked sites may not be overly commercial in nature. Subtle self-promotion is allowed in signatures.
Signature content must adhere to normal board rules with respect to decency. Signatures may NOT contain any of the following: Obscene, Racist, Sexually Explicit, Graven / Graphic, Offensive, Illegal or anything deemed Not family friendly. Offensive content will be removed and the user PM'd or warned as necessary.
Avatars may NOT contain any image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status on VM (such a mimicking ranks or copying avatars of staff).
Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to decency, and so forth. Avatars may NOT contain any of the following: Obscene, Racist, Sexually Explicit, Graven / Graphic, Offensive, Illegal or anything deemed not family friendly. Offensive Avatars will be removed and the user PM'd or warned as necessary.
Back seat moderating is not allowed on VM. If you notice an issue which may be against board policy, please use the Report Post feature located on every post, and a VM Moderator will address the issue. Members who constantly act as moderators will be warned.
Administrators may be required to read specific private messages in an investigation to verify a rule breach or illegal actions through the private message system.
The Staff reserves the right to edit, lock, or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Staff Members and not users. VM also reserves the right to ban anyone who wilfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right.
While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently VM reserves the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
All rules stated here apply to the entire site, including but not limited to private messages, photo galleries, blog posts comments, and the chat room.
Members are asked to not contact staff members for moderation (moving/splitting/merging/deleting) of topics or posts. Please instead use the report post feature located on a post. Members are also asked to not abuse the report post feature. Excessively contacting staff members for non-urgent moderation or abusing report post feature may result in a warning.
If a member breaches a minor board rule, they will be issued an alert via Private Message by a staff member. This is not counted toward the official warning count of the member.
Arguing with Staff Members after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a suspension (temporary ban) will be put in place.
Rule breaches in the chat room such as arguing or flaming or if there is need to promote peace and enforce a short time-out period, a 30 minute to 24 hour suspension may be mandated at staff discretion. This is not counted towards the official warning total of a member.
There are no profanity filters in the chat room. This does not mean it is allowed. Swearing in the chat room will result in your messages being deleted. Continued swearing after being spoken to by a Staff Member may result in a suspension from the chat room and/or an Official Board Warning.
Flooding and bots are prohibited in the chat room. Any attempt to flood the chat room will result in a suspension from the chat room. Repeated acts of this nature may result in a longer/permanent suspension from the chat room.
Purchasing a Premium Membership Plan is an optional choice. Purchasing a Premium Membership Plan does not give a user any entitlement to special privileges or status beyond those listed on the Membership page.
Premium Members may not share any information or files listed in the private VIP forums outside of the private VIP forums or to non-Staff users via e-mail, Private Message, or any other means. Premium Members found divulging private VIP forum information or files will be warned and removed from the VIP Group without refund.
Users are not allowed to contact Staff or Premium Members asking for private information or files that are only privileged to the Premium Groups. Users found contacting Staff or Premium Members for private information will be warned.
Although Premium Members are given a special rank on VM, at no time are Premium Members exempt from any VM rule listed on this page. Premium Members may still be warned and banned as necessary without refund.
