Defyiant Guild Rules
NOTES While in the Defyiant guild, you are expected to follow the following rules.
Gaia's ToS and R&G
Gaia's Terms of Service and Rules and Guidelines should ALWAYS be followed. Period. Follow them or face the consequences. The Gaia ToS (Terms of Service) and R&G (Rules and Guidelines) will be enforced.
Conduct
Be respectful to each other. Do NOT flame, yell, harrass, or be hurtful to anyone else in the Guild. This includes guild members, guild Staff members, oldbies, newbies, and everyone in between. If you feel like you simply cannot post anything nice, then please just refrain from posting. This is also against the Gaia ToS, which means you can be banned from Gaia for doing it.
Post in the Appropriate Place
Each subforum has a description on the guild home page alerting you to what it is for. While Moderators do have the ability to move topics between the subforums, continual posting in the wrong subforums by any member is wrong and will be considered spam. Please use the subforums to keep the clutter down. If you'd like a thread moved, please PM any Defyiant Moderator to let us know.
Bumping
While bumping your topic IS allowed, we ask that you only bump if your topic has fallen off the first page. This is a large forum guild, please give us time to see your post and respond before you lose all hope and start bumping. Constant, repeated, nonstop bumping will be considered spam.
Attempt to Use Proper English
We aren't English and Grammar teachers, and we understand that some people aren't native speakers of English while others simply aren't good at punctuation. We don't expect perfection, but we do expect an honest effort. If you are not a good speller, type your posts into a word-processing program and spell-check them before posting them. Firefox has a spell checker automatically, if you do not wish to do that. In addition, no netspeak or leetspeak will be tolerated, nor will various "cute" styles of posting such as aLtErNaTiNg CaPs, bolding or italicizing entire posts (to the point where it hurts to read it), or never-ending strings of emoticons. Compliance with this rule will make life a lot easier for our large non-native-English-speaking population as well as Moderators and our regular members. Not to mention it will help all of us understand what the hell you're trying to say! We can't respond to you if we can't understand you! Failure to adhere to this will result in your ban.
Stay On Topic
Hijacking threads and dragging them off-topic for your own purposes will not be tolerated. It is natural for discussions to evolve. It is not natural for them to take 90-degree turns on a dime into a completely unrelated direction just because you feel like it.
Read the Stickies and Announcements
The FAQ and other informative stickies and posts will answer a lot of questions. Read them before you start asking questions. As a member of Defyiant, you are expected to familiarize yourself with ALL announcements, stickies, and FAQs. If you cannot find something, or wish to ask a question, PM GiftTika the question.
Signatures
Signatures are not allowed in this guild. Period. All signatures on posts before 1/31/2008 will be removed by Morrighu. Any signatures posted after 1/31/2008 will cause action to be taken against the user.
Deleting Posts
Do not delete your posts. Crew are not allowed to delete posts unless they break Gaia's ToS, or the Guild's Rules/ToS. The Captain and Vice Captains can delete posts on occasion, to clean out the forums, or when they change things around. We can see when you delete a post, so do not think you are getting away with it.
Editing Posts
If any Crew edits your post and puts the 'MD/VC/C EDIT:' required section at the bottom of your post, you are NOT allowed to delete that from your post. If you didn't want it there, you shouldn't have broken a rule.
Repeat Posting
You are not allowed to copy another thread. Whether it be an official guild thread, or a thread made by another user. Repeat threads will be deleted, and you will receive a warning.
Advertising
Please do not advertise other guilds/threads. Having your whole dream avatar plus it's item list and a big banner for your quest thread as your post format is not okay. Threads made to advertise a thread/guild/website/etc. are not allowed.
Quests
You are not allowed to make quest threads here, sorry. And please do not link to yours. There are places where you can tell what you are questing for, but no links please.
