Forum Rules

Please remember that the following rules apply both to forums & shoutbox, younger audience use our forums and the severity of the punishment imposed on you may vary depending on your attitude, the rule broken and how many times you have been infracted/warned before.


Golden rule: Use common sense!
Moderators reserve the right to punish a user if they feel that action is necessary.

Account sharing:
Account sharing is not tolerated. If you are caught breaking this rule, the account(s) involved will be permanently banned.

Advertising:
If you are caught advertising another RSPS or a third party website, you will be permanently banned from the forums. No questions asked. Don't even mention names of other RSPS'. There is no need to even talk about them.

Boosting:
On the forums, boosting is mainly referred to as post boosting and shout boosting, which is basically spamming the forums with useless comments but it also includes thanks/tag/mention/TSO boosting. If you are caught doing that, your account will be infracted and your posts/shouts or whatever you have boosted for removed.

Buying/Selling accounts:
You are not allowed to sell or buy forum accounts. If you get caught on one of these, the account involved will be permanently disabled.

Discussing illegal activities:
We do not harbour criminals at Frissonscape, so we will not tolerate any discussion of illegal activities (besides torrenting). We also do not tolerate profane topics. If you are found discussing any illegal activities, you will be silenced or banned, and if serious enough, you will be reported to the authorities.

Disrespecting staff members and/or their decisions:
All staff decisions are final. Any disrespect, be it public or privately will not be tolerated. If you have a problem with a decision then deal with it in private with the staff member. All staff members watch over each other. If a higher authority believes that an unjust decision was made, then compromise will follow.

Excessive Profanity:
We like to give our users the freedom of speech here at Frissonscape. However, your freedom of speech is a little bit limited. We do not allow excessive swearing, or anything else excessively profane. Why? There are underaged and young children on Frissonscape and they really shouldn't be exposed to such material. Please understand that we are only trying to keep them safe. If the thread is stickied, you will be allowed to post on it regardless of the date.

Impersonating members:
If you impersonate a Frissonscape member, depending on the situation different consequences will be taken. If your intentions are for good, you'll merely be warned. However, if you have devious intentions (eg. scamming, tricking other users) then you will be permanently banned from both our server and our website. No exceptions.

Inappropriate usernames:
Your forum name shall not contain any profanity, racism/derogatory terms, sexual nuances, or an excessive amount of spaces between characters. This should be common sense. If you are to break this rule, a moderator will confront you about it and you will be forced to choose another username.

Insulting other members and trolling:
We take cyber bullying, flaming and trolling very seriously here at Frissonscape. If you harass members in the forums by doing any of these things you will be given a warning to stop, and if you decide to continue, you will be silenced, infracted or banned depending on the severity.

Manipulating staff members:
You will in no way manipulate staff members for personal gain/ranks. If you do so and gain something while not deserving it; it will be confiscated or your account will be banned depending on the "reward". We've had just about enough of this.

Other languages:
English should be the only language to be spoke on the forums. You will be warned the first time we see you speaking any other language other than English and after that warning if caught again, your shouts will be pruned, after that you will be silenced for a period of time. Of course, there are songs in different languages. if the song has no harm in the lyrics, feel free to have some fun. Don't spam the lyrics, enough is enough.

Posting inappropriate content:
Posting pornographic material, morbid images and shock site links will not be tolerated. If you post an image or link containing either of those things you will be infracted/banned immediately. Do not "hide" links using bb code or a website, this goes with links that redirect to a different location. These types of links are made to fool the user into clicking them, and usually are not for a good reason. It may seem obvious, but any type of virus you link on the forums will earn you a permanent ban. Note: this includes over Shoutbox PM, if someone complains about an inappropriate pm they have been sent, and they have sufficient proof, action will be taken.

Posting in the wrong section/Double posting:
Double posting and posting in the wrong section are minor offences, however repeated offences will build up, and your consequence will worsen.

Racism, sexism, religious intolerance or any other prejudice:
Prejudice will not be tolerated at all. If you are racist, religiously intolerant or hold any prejudice against a different race/gender/belief you will be warned and/or banned depending on the situation.

Spamming/Chat flooding:
Spamming in the shoutbox is the same as spamming ingame. Don't flood the shoutbox with small or repeated messages, this means don't spam smileys either. When posting make your posts meaningful, else wise they will be treated as spam, and junked. If you spam enough you will be infracted. Double posting isn't really a serious offense, unless you've been warned about it, and still do it after several warnings.

Evading Punishments:
Players who have received host-bans or host-mutes and decide to evade their punishment will simply be given the punishment once more and have their initial punishment's duration increased. Please also note that evading punishments will significantly decrease the probability of a player's punishment appeal being accepted.


We reserve the right to edit these rules at any time without informing you.
It is your duty to actively check the rules, as you will be held accountable for your actions.