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January 30th, 2004, 06:48 PM
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* Please read new rules! Lots of changes *

2K Sports | Forum Rules

While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, move, close or otherwise edit any topic at any time should they see fit. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

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Below are the full rules for the 2Ksports.com forums:

These rules are in place to ensure the 2K Sports forums continue to be a friendly place where members and non-members can learn and share information about 2K Sports videogames-related topics.

2K Sports Questions
Although 2K Sports moderates the forums, it is not possible for 2K Sports to respond to every post or question. Posts asking 2k Sports questions must follow the guidelines in this section. Posts titled, “FORUM ADMIN…” are not an effective way to communicate. It’s best to ask your question directly and title it accordingly.

Account Names
Inappropriate forum account names will not be tolerated. Please do not attempt to impersonate official forum administrators or moderators.

Announcements
Please read the announcements at the top of the forums before posting. We’ve placed these here to help save time for you and others. Please take a few moments and read over these.

Advertising
Advertising or soliciting members to buy, sell or peruse any products or services through this discussion forum is not permitted. Chain letters and junk mail are also strictly prohibited. Topics/posts that contain this will be edited and locked or deleted.

Flaming
Material that is knowingly defamatory, illegal, abusive threatening or harassing is strictly prohibited. As with anything, please use good common sense when posting. Posts containing personal attacks on another user will be edited/deleted (this includes posts such as "nflgamer234 is cheese..."

Right to Privacy
You will not violate a person’s privacy by publishing information that is private and personal against another member’s will.

Spamming
Posting the same message in multiple forums is considered spam. Additionally, posts that are complete nonsense will be deleted at the moderators discretion.

Racism
Posts containing such material will be deleted accordingly.

Porn
Posts containing material that is sexually or otherwise obscene is not permitted on these forums. Posts containing such material will be deleted.

Post Pumping
Posting messages with the express intent of boosting your post count is considered spamming and will be dealt with accordingly.

Cross-posting
Posting the same thread in more than one forum is not allowed. These posts will most likely be deleted.

Petitions
Please do not spam petitions to the forums. Petitions are not an effective means of voicing your opinion. If you have concerns, please contact 2K Sports Tech Support

Upper Case Text
Text in upper case is significantly more difficult to read than lower/mixed case text; moreover, it implies that you’re shouting. Please refrain from writing thread titles & messages in upper case text. If you would like to emphasize something, consider using the bold [ B ] [ /B ] tags.

Signature Size

To keep the page loading time and visual noise to a minimum, please keep your graphical signatures to 40 x 600 pixels maximum or 15K file size - whichever is reached first. Alternatively, three lines of text (max) can be used as a signature. Do not pad your text lines with blank lines. (a line of text is defined such that it does not wrap when viewed at a resolution of 800x600 with normal text settings)

If these boundaries are exceeded, a moderator will contact you requesting the appropriate changes to your signature. If no change is made within a reasonable period of time, your signature may be disabled.

Your signature must not contain inappropriate content, either in text or by links to offensive sites. Users with inappropriate signatures will be warned or have their accounts disabled without warning.

Avatar Size

To keep page loading time to a minimum, please keep your avatars to 100x100 pixels and no larger than 50K file size. If these boundaries are exceeded, a moderator will contact you requesting the appropriate changes. If no change is made within a reasonable period of time, your signature may be disabled.

What should I do if I see objectionable content on the forums?

Due to the real-time nature of the forums, the moderators cannot monitor all the content of posted messages and rely on members to inform them of objectionable material.
To report a post, please PM on of the forum moderators listed below the forum names on the forum index page
Please keep in mind that moderators cannot always respond immediately to such notices and a period of time may pass before action is taken.

What happens if I break the rules?

At best your post will be edited by one of the moderators & you will be issued a warning. If your offense is more serious, your post will be deleted or locked. Posting, “why was my posted deleted…” will only make matters worse, so please refrain from that.

If you have been already issued a warning(s), you will be issued a temporary ban. Your posting privileges will be disabled for 3-4 days, but you will still be able to view the forums as a guest.

The accounts of persistent & deliberate rule-breakers will be deleted. This means you are no longer welcome on the forums and your account will not work. If you re-register, your new account will be deleted immediately.

Suggestions

- This forum is visited from people all over the world of different ages, genders, etc. and each are entitled to their own opinions, so please be civil and courteous.

- Please make sure your post topic best fits the forums you are posting in. This is for your benefit such that you get the best possible response to your post.

- Please use the search function before posting particularly if the question is problem-oriented. Most technical questions have been answered before.

- Read the announcement/sticky threads at the top of each forum.

- Quote only the pertinent parts of a message you are responding to & not the entire message. This makes it easier for others to follow and read.