Forum Rules

In order to keep the forums running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forums here. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact one of the Staff Members.

Terms and Conditions:

For your reference, here is a copy of the agreement you entered into when signing up to DS-Scene:




General Rules:

• You cannot post links or discuss places to download WAREZ and/or any other illegal content including but not limited to: computer games, music, videos, torrent files, digitial magazines or any other retail material which should not be distributed for free without the owners consent.
  
• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
  
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
  
• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
  
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
  
• We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate DS-Scene community standards. The DS-Scene team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
  
• While we are quite happy to have constructive comparative conversations about competitor's products, we will not tolerate blatant adverts or the sort of 'ooh look, yet another bulletin board' threads. Also, we would appreciate it if you refrain from blatant bashing of other boards.
  
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
  
• If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
• Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
  
• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
  
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our support forums are a privilege and not a right. A banned customer is still entitled to support from the support system.
  
• All of the rules here apply to private messages and or the email system provided herein.

Any threads/posts of these types will be deleted.

Advertising Services

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products or services. Explicit advertising and solicitating in a users signature is also prohibited.


Avatars and Signatures

Avatars and signatures are available for members to personalise their posts by adding their own custom images or text. Do not abuse this right, or it will be removed.

Obscene, vulgar or sexually explicit images or any image that the DS-Scene admin staff feel are not appropriate are not allowed in signatures and will be removed WITHOUT notice and may result in an increase of the members warning level.

The following image is an example, to help you understand the average size of a main signature graphic.
You may go under and over the 400x125 pixel guideline as long as it doesn't appear too big. We will be lenient on this, so just don't make your signature ridiculously large.



Signatures or Avatars that the DS-Scene Staff find are too big or violate the rules set herein will be removed without notice. The member in question should receive a PM from the Staff member explaining why their signature was removed or reduced.


Enjoy Yourselves

DS-Scene is a community created by the fans for the fans. Enjoy your time you spend here, discuss, make friends and share the knowledge. This is what we are here for after all!