Animation/Cartoons: Rules and Guidelines

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Animation/Cartoons Forum Rules and Guidelines

Welcome to the Animation/Cartoons subforum, hereafter referred to as A/C. This subforum is for the discussion of all non-Japanese animations and cartoons.

As a member, it is your responsibility to familiarize yourself with the forum's rules before posting. Posting in this forum implies that you read and understand the rules and guidelines and that you accept responsibility for the appropriateness of your thread or post.


Navigation:

1. Introduction
   
2. General Posting Guidelines
   
3. Rules & Guidelines for Posting in A/C
   
4. How to Report

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General Posting Guidelines
Please be sure to follow the Terms of Service and Rules and Guidelines here, as in all forums.

-Spamming: Image spamming is absolutely not tolerated. As amusing as you might think you are, you aren't! This includes, but is not limited to, posting fail macros, or other internet memes in misplaced threads. Off-topic chatter should be kept to a minimum. Remember, all threads should have discussion pertaining to a topic related to Anime, Manga, or comics (also cartoons).

-Copyrights: Requesting or providing links to copyrighted materials such as: manga, television shows, anime etc, is not permitted! The only exception to this rule is official media provided by the owner or publisher, such as official streams.

-Spoilers: It is common courtesy to provide spoiler warnings and/or hide them within white text when discussing them. Maliciously or repeatedly posting spoilers in order to ruin someone's enjoyment of a manga or anime is considered trolling and is a bannable offense.

-Flaming: Do not flame users for any reason! Flaming often involves name-calling and insults. It will only result in you being warned. Please keep all your discussions civil. Pictoflaming, similar to image macro spamming, is not tolerated. Please keep your amusing image macros to yourselves and attempt to discuss in a civil manner

Reporting Problems and Contacting Moderators

If you find Terms of Service violations, or threads that may need moved to a different forum, please use an appropriate report. The procedures for doing so can be found here.

You can find online moderators by following the "View Forum Moderators" link at the top of the forum.

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Rules & Guidelines for Posting in A/C

1. Please use the stickies. Any thread that covers a topic that fits into a sticky will be removed.

• Favorite/Least Favorite Cartoons!
  
• Which Character... (Read first post!)

2. Remember this subforum is not for anime discussion. We have two other subforums for that so please do not post anime threads here.

3. Copyrighted Material: Regarding downloads, threads having links to web sites or other resources containing illegal downloads or streaming episodes of anime and/or manga are not permitted on the forums. Asking for or giving out such content is a warnable offense and any topics or posts created for such a purpose will be removed. Note: Linking to a site that contains copyrighted materials, even if you aren't linking to the materials in question, i.e. a picture gallery when the site contains a media page with downloads of manga, is still considered linking to copyrighted materials and a ToS violation. Any and all threads asking for download links of any sort will be removed from the forum and the creator punished if necessary. The only exception to this rule will be sites with streaming episodes that are officially provided by the original or licensing companies. (e.g. toonamijetstream.com)

4. Regarding "Official" Threads: We'd like to stress the fact that outside of the stickies, and the threads highlighted within the stickies (should there be any) there are no "Official" threads in AMC. All threads that bear the title "Official" and are not mentioned in said stickies, or a sticky themselves, are nothing more then user created threads.

5. Polls are not discussion. Anything that can be answered by simply voting in a poll is not suitable for A/C.

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How to Report

Abuse of the report system will result in a warning or ban of your account.

Report a Post

Use the button when an individual post in a topic contains inappropriate content.

Reasons to Report a Post:


• The content of the post violates the Terms of Service or forum rules.
  
  
• The content of the post is off-topic.
  
  
• The member who made the post has a signature which violates the rules.

Report a Topic

Use the Report this Topic button at the bottom of the page when a topic is not appropriate for the forum.

Reasons to Report a Topic:


• The topic violates the Terms of Service or forum rules.
  
  
• The topic is in the wrong forum and should be moved to a more appropriate forum.

If you need to contact a moderator via Private Message, please use the "View Forum Moderator" link at the top of this forum to find a moderator.



Report Hacking, Scamming or Abuse & Harassment?

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Report A Hacking
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Report A Scamming
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Report Abuse or Harassment
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