*** Updated on June 1st, 2010 @ 12:55 AM ***
Making Threads
There are a few things to remember when it comes to making threads. In the wrestling sections, please put some effort into your threads. “CM Punk rocks. Thoughts?” is not thread-worthy, at all. Also – this applies to any section – don’t make “Official” threads without asking about it first. Ask anyone on staff. We’ll figure it out and get back to you with our decision ASAP. Any “news” that you post MUST HAVE A SOURCE. Where did you get it from? Also, don’t just post news and then write, “Thoughts?” Share your thoughts, too. For tapings of Superstars, Smackdown, ECW, and iMPACT!, there are spoiler sub-forums. USE THEM. If you plan on posting any kind of spoiler in the Word Games section, then user spoiler tags. It's easy.
Flaming/Cursing
If you want to joke around with each other, be our guest. WCF is a very laid back site, for the most part. Any legitimately heated flaming will not fly, though. We’re not going to give infractions right off the bat, but if the flaming begins to take a thread off course or goes on too long, then we’ll intervene. As far as watching your language, a little cursing never hurt anyone. Just be reasonable about it. There’s no reason to curse up a storm. There definitely no reason be using any racial or sexual slurs, either. Cursing is allowed, but anything sexual or racial is not. Here at WCF, we know that jokes are jokes, but make sure you know who you’re joking with. Not everyone is going to share your sense of humor.
Spamming
The basis of WCF is that we’re creating both a laid back and fun site for people to spend their time at, AS WELL AS a forum that offers up some of the best discussions you’ll find on the net. So, with that being said, be sure to keep the spamming in the Word Games forum, please. As far as I’m concerned, spam is any response that doesn’t add anything constructive to the thread. So, basically, any off-topic comments, inside jokes, separate conversations, double posting, or the like would fall under that category. WCF isn’t run by Nazis. We’re not going to hit you with infractions immediately, but if it becomes a reoccurring issue then we’ll deal with it accordingly.
Also included in the spamming rules is our scrolling text BBcode. For those of you who don’t know, scrolling text can be done by simple wrapping the text in [*scroll] [/scroll*] –- minus the asterisks. Be sure to keep this in your signatures or the Word Games forum, please. This will be considered spamming. We don’t need scrolling text in every thread.
Signatures & Avatars
The sig limits here at WCF for registered users are 450 x 400 or 700,000 Bytes, whichever comes first. The avatar limits are 150 x 200 or 250,000 Bytes, whichever comes first. If you're a VIP member these aren't your requirements. Sig limits for VIP members are 500 x 500 or 2,500,000 bytes, again whichever comes first. Finally, avy limits for VIPs are 200 x 200 or 400,000 bytes.
If you don’t know how to check the dimensions of your images, simply right click and check the properties. Whatever image hosting site you’re using should tell you the dimensions and file sizes, so there’s really no excuse for you to not be aware of these numbers.
Also, make sure that there’s nothing too obscene in any of your images. Sigs, avys, and profile pictures should NEVER contain nudity, and keep any goriness to a reasonable limit, please. If you need to know what we’re going to consider a reasonable limit, you can always consult with any of the admin. We’re all pretty similar in how we see things.
Advertising
Here at WCF, we allow you to advertise in your signature – and ONLY in your signature. There’s one condition for anyone who runs or is one of the administrators at the site they’re advertising, though. If either of those apply to you, then in order for you to advertise here, you must agree to let us advertise at your forum. It’s only fair, right? Also, if it's obvious that you've joined just to advertise and are not interested in contributing to the forum positively with your posts, you'll be warned, given an infraction, and possibly banned depending on how long you wanna push your luck. Just don't spam so that people see your forum in your sig. Make posts that are worth posting.
Hopefully people can hear us out on this and be reasonable with what were about to put into place. Personally the staff would rather see everyone be happy in one way or another.
