I'll keep this simple.

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• You are 18 years of age or older
• You agree to follow the rules or suffer the consequences

The rules:

You cannot:

• Troll, or feed trolls the attention they crave
• Flame or flamebait
• Advertise a product or service without the admin's personal approval.
• Harass other users, sexually or otherwise
• embed adult images/movies in your posts, except where otherwise marked by the admin
• Embed any flash in your posts that does not have an explicit start/stop button
• Use leetspeak without irony
• Use racial epithets except in the context of a discussion of same, or make personal insults
• Threaten other users
• Hack, crack, or otherwise mess with the server(s) on which this site runs, or threaten to do so

You can:

• Link to adult content, if you clearly mark it with [nsfw]
• Curse, swear, etc. Fuckin' Eh
• Do anything not prohibited by a rule.

You must:

• Use proper grammar, punctuation and spelling at all times. Zeta Channel provides a spellchecker supporting .uk, .ca, and .us English. If in doubt, use it.
• Keep threads at least marginally on-topic. If it goes too far, the mods and admin reserve the right to fork it off into a new thread.
• Start threads in the appropriate boards. Threads that don't fit can and will be moved at mod/admin discretion.

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This forum allows you to create a signature, and attach it to your posts. If you choose to use this option (and we encourage you to do so!), your signature should not have more than five lines of text. If you like, you may include one non-animated image in your signature, no larger than 40 pixels high by 100 pixels wide. Smilies do not count toward this limit; you may have smiley of your choice, out of the ones zCh provides, in your signature.

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On this forum, you will, most likely, eventually come across statements you find offensive. That's fine; you have every right to take offense at anything you like, or don't like. What's not fine is expecting the staff to censor someone's writing just because you don't like it. You do not have a right to be protected from being offended, and I'm not extending any similar privilege.

These rules are subject to change, and it's your job to keep abreast of the changes. Punishments for violations are at the admins' and moderators' sole discretion.

The mods and the admin have lives outside the forums and, based on all available data, are not your mother.  While moderators and admin will do their best to accommodate you, if you have a disagreement with another poster please attempt to resolve your differences on your own before bringing it to a moderator/admin's attention.

Edit to Add Jul 19, 2008:  If you say you're going to leave the mod staff will be sure to help you along.  Threatening to leave the forum as a dramatic technique will not be tolerated.  If you say you're going to leave the forum the mod staff will ban you account to help you follow through on your actions.  We're here to help.

So, who are the mods? And will there be a user list like there is *looks again*, uh, was, on xenofile?

GRR MAKE EVERYTHING WORK NOW HOW DARE YOU NOT HAVE EVERYTHING UP AND RUNNING I AM ANGRY COMPLAIN COMPLAIN COMPLAIN.

Great job, Kyle.  Everything looks great.

Ooh, looks nice.

Just needs some kittens here, a few throw pillows here, and a hammock.  Lovely!

God I hope you're being ironic.

Wait, Sparky, you want to exclude people from countries which don't have a capitol or who don't live in a capitol? Isn't that unncessarily elitist? :-P

I... but...

*hangs head in shame*
*slinks away*

I'm assuming we're free to ignore the agreement we signed to get forum access?  I don't know what TMI would be like if we weren't allowed to post anything "sexually explicit"...

So, since we're all newbies here, do we fight to the death for supremecy and cool points? Or do we simply gan status by not acting like total jerk offs? I'm for either, really.

Kyle and I are both pretty adamant about no-pics-in-sigs.  I know this mainly because he mentioned it as I was wandering around on Gaia the other day.  Rest assured, that'll make its way in (if it hasn't yet...err, sweetheart?).