FORUM RULES

Like any community, the Rydan Workshop Forums have rules and regulations that each user, staff, and moderator must abide by. We reserve the right to update these rules as necessary.


General Tips:

• Familiarize yourself with the rules and norms of a forum before posting.
• Sticky threads and posts in the 'Announcements' area supplement the forum rules and you are expected to abide by them.
  
• Do not antagonize or insult any other forum users.

Registration and Forum Accounts:

• Users must supply a valid email address, or else registration will probably not work. You are signing up for these forums at your own risk.
  
• Obscene, racist, defamatory, or otherwise offensive usernames, signatures, avatars, and avatar subtitles are not allowed.
  
• Usernames, signatures, avatars, and avatar subtitles that depict/endorse illegal activity are not allowed.
  
• Avatars are required to be within 90x90 pixel size and 6kb in weight. No porn or offensive/racial slogans are allowed on any avatars or signatures.
  
• Impersonating another user or staff member is absolutely not tolerated.
  
• Please use a unique, non-simple password for your forum account. Account security is your responsibility.
  
• Forum administrators may edit your account information for any reason.

Posting Guidelines:

• Thread titles should clearly indicate the content of the post.
  
• Forum posts are expected to be on topic and deliver a certain level of content and legibility. "Spam" and other posts without value are not allowed and may be edited or deleted at the sole discretion of forum moderators.
  
• Be aware of any special rules or conditions of particular forum areas. These will be called out in threads pinned to the top of that particular forum area.
  
• You may not post obscene, racist, defamatory, or otherwise offensive material.
  
• You may not personally insult another user.
  
• You may not pointlessly criticize the website and its staff. Constructive criticism however is welcomed and encouraged.
  
• Do not post on threads for the sole purpose of upsetting other individuals. This includes posting rude or overtly offensive comments about artwork or responding harshly to negative criticism of your artwork.
  
• No Harassing other Members via threads or PM.
  
• Do not intentionally change the topoic of discussion of a thread. If it made you think of a good topic you really want to discuss, make a new thread.
  
• You may not post another individual's personal information.
  
• You may not post copyrighted material without permission from the copyright holder, or anything violating U.S. law.
  
• We will not tolerate plagiarism. Do not post any content you are not responsible for creating without giving proper credit to the original artists.
  
• You may not post or discuss anything involving illegal activities.
  
• These topics are strictly off-limits: politics, religion, sexual orientation.
  
• For posts including images, images with pornographic content are not allowed.
  
• Do not make any attempt to impersonate a forum moderator/admin or staff member, whether in your posts, user name, or signature. This includes jokes that could easily be misunderstood by new forum users.

Moderation Policy:

• If any of the above rules are broken, it will be at a moderator's discretion to hand out a warning to all offending parties. Warnings can be followed up by harsh penalties and possibly permanent bans.
  
• Extreme situations can still result in an immediate permanent ban at the discretion of moderators.