General Rules
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Welcome to Planet Iceberg. Thank you for taking the time to read these rules. Following the rules will make your visits here much happier for both you and the Planet Iceberg community. If you have any questions, or problems, please feel free to PM an administrator (or moderator). If you can't manage the PM system, try emailing Xander at planet-iceberg dot com. If you can't manage email, well, perhaps this whole internet thing just isn't for you.
General Directives
- Keep a cool head.
- Be friendly. It's hard to detect sarcasm on the internet, and things will go a lot more smoothly if you take EVERYTHING lightly. There are plenty of rapier wits out there on the board, and well, just remember, it's the internet.
- Fights happen. Insults are bandied about. People take things personally. We're of the general opinion that occasional public sparring is fine. However, polluting random threads with personal attacks is not acceptable, and will be removed.
Posting And You
Posting here at Planet Iceberg should be a fun and enjoyable experience for everyone. To that end, we ask that you follow a few simple rules.
One, stay on topic. If you are in the Halo section, don't start a thread about David Duchnovy's new movie, Against The Grain: The David Hasselhoff Story. Here is a list of the available forums, and their appropriate threads:
- Projects: This is pretty much what Planet Iceberg is about. If you're a starving flim maker who wants to make a machinima series, here's where you'd want to post ideas, or 'cast-wanted' stuff.
- Gaming: It kinda speaks for itself. Most of the original members of Iceberg are hardcore gamers. Just keep the Halo topics in the Halo category.
- General Discussion: Post topics here if there is no other place to put them.
- The Media: Movies, Music and TV. Please try not to bash on other peoples taste.
- In The Headlines: This forum is for current events and/or extremely topical discussion. This should be plain. Please no political debates. If you've got a news article (link required) you want to discuss, post it here.
- Artistic Expression: This forum is for artistic creations by our users. Please post anything and everything you create. But not that of other artists, and not just general art talk.
- Questions, Reports and Suggestions: If you'd like to give us a pointer on web design, board moderation, the state of the internet, whatever, take it here. Complaints welcome as well, of course. Odds are only the admins and the diehards are going to read it, so don't try to start anything insightful down here.
- Updates: This is check up on only. If you're at all interested on the progress of the site, and changes that are made.
Not only should you stay on topic with regard to the specific forum that you're reading, but you should also endeavor to stay on topic within threads. Going off-topic dilutes your point, clutters up the thread you're in, and generally is BAD. Try to stay on topic!
Two, before posting a new topic, decide if you're contributing something useful. Look at what you've typed and ask yourself: Is this contributing to the discussion? Is it intelligent, insightful, interesting, or funny? Are there no similar topics already posted? Are the title and subtitle as descriptive and specific as possible? Is the topic likely to receive more than one reply? If you're asking a question, is there enough information provided to receive a meaningful answer? If the answer is NO to any of these questions, you should consider holding back until the answer is YES. Most of these suggestions also apply to posting replies.
Three, make sure you're following the copyright and forum-specific rules that apply to your post. Short form: don't post or ask for anything that is illegal to copy. If in the Tour forums, don't scalp.
Lastly, please do not post FORBIDDEN things. Short-form: things that are illegal, or that are unnecessarily annoying, images that are possibly offensive.
Crime And Punishment
It happens. You've broken the rules. Well, you've made a mistake, and now you've gotta pay. Odds are your post will be moved, locked, or possibly, removed. In any of these cases, do NOT re-post whatever it was that was moderated. If you think you should be allowed to do whatever was moderated, PM a mod or admin, or post in Reports and Suggestions.
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