1. Thou Shalt Not Flame or Troll

Even if you strongly hate the content of a post, and detest the individual to whom you're responding so strongly you dream of seeing Imps playing football with his internal organs, please exercise restraint and post without flames. (You are allowed, however, to make rude facial expressions and socially unacceptable hand gestures as you press "submit.") Do not bypass the word filter.

Your behaviour is judged not just here, but elsewhere. If you slander or libel this site or the site staff on another website, forum, or by other public means, your membership in StarcraftWire's forums may be terminated without notice.




2. Thou Shalt Not Spam or Engage in Posting Wars.

Post it once, and post it nice, and please don't ever post it twice. (There's a song there somewhere.) Pick a forum, pick a message, and that's that. Don't post in every forum with the same message. If it's a general post, use one of our general forums. If it's a specific topic… well.. you follow the drift. If it's major news then simply submit it as news and we may share it with the world on our front page news.

It gives us a warm feeling in our tummies that you care about your post count and your forum ranking here at StarcraftWire, but if we see you are posting meaningless tripe to edge up the count, or using the forum for a chitchat better suited to MSN or AIM we'll ask you to stop. And reset your post counter to -450. Yeah, we're evil like that.

When replying to multiple posts within the same thread we ask that you use the multi quote button .




3. Thou Shalt Not Advertise.

We do not intend to serve as a linking service or a search engine to other sites. Links that wouldn't be allowed anywhere on the forums (including signatures, and location) would be links to sites (commercial OR personal) that have:

1. Pornographic, racist or illegal materials, including game cheats (other than the built-in cheats of the games) or hacks and gold sales.

2. Profit sites (any get rich quick sites). This includes sites that earn the poster a profit/commission or sites that give points for incoming links.

3. Do not use our forum membership as a means to build their own sites, using our Private Messaging system to recruit writers and/or their content or membership drives for their own forums. Do not send Spam to members via our PM system.

4. Sites carrying ad-busting software.




4. Thou Shalt Not Post Naughty Links, Graven Images or File Downloads

This is beyond advertising. Do this, you earn a drop kick into the next timezone and an instant account deletion, without a second glance. The game is rated Mature, but we all know there are a ton of kids of varying ages and lots of different types of people who play StarCraft and who visit our site. Even if this wasn't the case, we just don't want porn and other yucky stuff on our boards.


We have a fine gallery and your forum membership enables you to upload images to your very own personal gallery if you wish. Keep 'em clean.






5. Thou Shalt Not Pimp or aid the Pimping of hacks, Cheats or Farming.

Hacks and Cheats are 3rd party programs that allow you to alter the way a player interacts with a game. This includes any program that will give you an advantage over other players. We do not support the use of these. You may not ask for help in creating a hack/cheat, a link to where you can find one or provide a link to where people can download one. However, the morality of using these programs is sometimes discussed and we allow these [within reason], unless it violates any other rule.

Advertising gold/item farming and any sale of in-game items for real world currency is strictly forbidden. Linking to these services and their affiliates is also prohibited.




7. Thou Shalt Not Spoof.

Don't make up an account name designed to resemble another poster. If you're banned for some reason, don't keep coming back with "Fred," "Fred the Undead" and "Fred Yet Again." If you were banned, take it like a man… well, take it like a reasonable person, and accept your fate. We ban the person not the account so registering under a new nickname will result in that account being banned too. If you wish, you may appeal the account closure to the staff.

Oh, and for goodness sake, don't make up additional accounts to respond to yourself. (People who talk to themselves used to be burned at the stake as witches; we still hold to that belief system, here at StarcraftWire.




8. Thou Shalt Not Get Territorial.

If you post or submit something to any of our sites, -- be it an article, a news item, a forum post, a strategy guide, or a suggestion -- it becomes the property of the site. That means if we leave it in the forum, post it to our Article Section add it to the StarCraft Wiki, or put it into a "Hall of Fame" or whatever, it is still your work, but we have rights to move it about and modifying it as well.

If we allow it to be present on the site(s), or use it in any form, you agree that you have no financial claim against the site. We do not demand that items be exclusively ours, but once something it submitted to us for publication or posted in our forums, its removal is entirely at our discretion.




9. Thou Shalt Accept the Admin's Decisions.

We [StarcraftWire and its admins/mods] reserve the right to ban [temporarily or permanently] or place Probation [limit privileges] on any member of StarcraftWire without warning. We reserve the right to edit, move or remove any post made on StarcraftWire without warning or explanation. We reserve the right to edit any portion of a member profile without warning. You will accept all this gladly and with open arms because we do it with love.




10. Thou Shalt Not Mention "Freedom of Speech."

Or we'll vomit. All over your top ladder ranking, we promise you. This is a private forum, and you are our invited guests. The administrators have a tough job, trying to keep the forums clean and presentable while not willingly stifling open discussion. If a thread or post is locked or deleted, that was the necessary step to take in the judgement of the administrator. Please don't bandy irrelevant constitutional law and hope to plea the case for less "censorship." Don't start a vote, don't throw food, don't throw a hissy fit, don't light up torches and mob our central office. We don't censor, we exercise judgement and quality control on something in which we invest a lot of time and effort. We only accept posts written in English.




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