General Board-wide
- #1.1 KGROUND is aimed at a general audience. This means our site is designed for 13 year olds and older. Everything must be aimed at this age and older. Explicit, vulgar language, drug talk, nudity, porn and so forth is not allowed.
#1.2Do not mini-mod. We would like to encourage and thank members to use the report button but not add their own criticism.
Warning System
- #2.1 Members who disobey the rules will be warned or banned depending on what the moderator believes is the appropriate punishment.
#2.2 Members can be warned a maximum of three times. On the third, the member will be immediately banned. This does not mean that you have to have a warning to get banned, moderators may ban you without warnings depending on the offense.
#2.3 A warning can have a time bomb unless you're banned. If a time bomb is set, your warning will automatically expire after a certain number of days.
If you believe you do not deserve the warn please contact the moderator who warned you. Talking back to the moderator who gave you the warning with no sense of respect will lead to further warnings.
If you do not know why you received a warning, an email and private message would have been sent to notify you of the reason why you were warned and who warned you.
Posting Etiquette (manners)
- #3.1 All topics must contain a description.
#3.2 Treat others positively and with respect. Flaming other members or other forums will lead to a warning, possibly even a ban.
#3.3 Topics must be submitted to the relevant forums. Please read the forum descriptions before posting.
#3.4 Topic titles must have an appropriate description.
Example:- An example for a good description is "Help needed with my computer".
An example for a wrong description is "HEEEEELP!".
#3.5 Bumping is allowed provided that the reply has relevant information that is useful to the continuance of the topic. Short intervals of bumps are not allowed to bump the topic up onto the first page by the same person.
Example:
- Allowed: A topic discusses a news event. The topic's discussion has died but there is new striking evidence to turn thoughts around. A reply with such information that is relevant and useful is allowed.
Allowed: Requests (Includes requests in Advice) may only be bumped once every 48 hours since the last reply.
Disallowed: Bumping topics continuously to get them up to the first few pages.
#3.6 Double posting of the same links may lead to a warning, especially if you have your own independent topic for a set of links and yet still post the same links in related topics with the intention of gaining exposure.
Also use the edit button when altering your reply if you're the last to post in the topic.
#3.7 Images must be hosted on image hosting websites.
A list of free image hosting sites:
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#3.8 Content of posts should not be explicit, offensive, shocking, discussions of demerit commodities unless it is posted in an educational sense.
Example:
- Mainly for movies: Mainstream horror, gore and bloody movies are allowed. Videos such as bum fights, real death scenes, cruelty to animals, or anything which is indecent/sick is not allowed.
Disallowed: Hacking, fraud, drug related, porn and political/religious discussions even if educational.
#3.9 All links must be coded - including, but not limited to, e-mail addresses, passwords and internal links (eg [code]Link placed inside here[/code]).
#3.10 No topic hijacking (going off topic).
#3.11 The use of unusual presentation methods within topic titles and descriptions with the intent to gain attention is not allowed.
Examples and exceptions:
- Not allowed:
Words/phrases such as but not limited to:
**** MUST HAVE****, L@@K, LATEST, NEWEST, LOOK HERE, *Newest*
or other words along these lines including symbols.
#3.12 Excessively replying to your own topics to gain first page exposure is not allowed.
Replies such as:
'You're welcome', 'no problem', 'thanks for replies' or similar
are only allowed a maximum of twice per page.
#3.13 Members are allowed to double or triple post only if their previous post has exceeded the maximum characters limit.
#3.14 Trades of any kind and selling are only allowed in the Buy, Sell, and Trading Post forum.
- An example for a good description is "Help needed with my computer".
Spam Rules
- #4.1 You may only promote your website once.
#4.2 If you choose to post a link it should benefit everyone and must not be a site of the following categories:- Web hosting. Referrals. Affiliation. Discussion forums. Sites that require registration, subscription or a fee to access. Links within posts that links to a 3rd party in order to gain access to the content (e.g. Link protectors).
#4.3 Excessive posting of similar messages to increase post count is not allowed.
Private Messaging
- #6.1 All rules apply in regard to private messaging.
Avatars and Signatures
- #7.1 All rules apply to avatars and signatures.
#7.2 The total maximum dimensions for images/text in a signature is 500px (width) by 100px (height) horizontally only.
#7.3 Signatures can only be 80KB or less in total file size.
#7.4 All usernames should not exceed 15 characters, and may not refer to an email or any web site - use good taste here.
Explicit Guidelines
#8.1 Sticky Requests: Please do not request a post to be stickied. If there is room to sticky an exceptional post, we will do so; however, there is only room for six stickies per forum. Topics which use a poll to petition a sticky are not allowed.
#8.2 To have your username changed please PM any admin or staff seen on.Code:Content visible to registered users only.
#8.3 Asking any staff member if you can be a part of the staff will hinder your chance of ever becoming one. The same applies for VIP as well.
#8.4 All forum rules apply to each member's profile, no referrers, and no porn links.
#8.5 All forum rules apply to every image posted in messages, signatures, avatars and PM's. Images must not contain URL's of websites (or any advertisement of another discussion forum, URL or not), words that bypass our word censor or any type of serial number. The sole exception to this is when a URL in an image is presented as a password (provided that the URL is not censored).
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