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USER'S AGREEMENT AND RULES OF CONDUCT FOR STRATICS NETWORK MESSAGE BOARDS
Use of and
participation in Stratics message boards ("interactive community") is
contingent upon your acceptance of the following terms and rules. By participating
in the interactive community, you acknowledge your acceptance of these
terms. For purposes of this agreement, "Participant" refers to you. "Stratics"
refers to StraticsCom, Incorporated.
- RULES OF
CONDUCT
These
forums are for discussing Ultima Online and the events associated with Ultima
Online. These guidelines are posted only to bring clarification on some issues
where there have been questions in the past. Stratics could not be any happier
with the quality of posts provided by its participants and it is our desire
to provide an environment that is conducive to discussions about Ultima Online.
In general what we're describing here is a code of conduct and if all of our
participants will subscribe to this code of conduct most of these rules will
be easily observed.
- Show respect
at all times.
- Help build
the Community.
The success of our forums depends upon the quality posts of our participants.
We are proud of the success of our forums and give our thanks to those
who have chosen to make our forums their out-of-game home. To ensure continued
success we are posting these guidelines so that all participants of the
Stratics forums understand what is considered unacceptable behavior in
the forums and can result in a temporary suspension or a permanent ban.
- Personal
attacks are prohibited.This specifically means any text/post that is blatantly
attacking another person on or off the forum, especially in a personal
way.
- Trolling
is prohibited.Trolling is whenever someone is clearly, deliberately posting
in a manner for the purpose of angering and/or insulting the other participants
of the board. Trolling DOES NOT encourage further discussion in the long
run, it only encourages personal attacks (if left unchecked).
- Private
Messages received on these Forums are to be considered private and are
not to be posted publicly unless the sender of the private message agrees.
- Participant
shall not post messages containing personal phone numbers or addresses.
- Advertising
of player-run shards is prohibited. Additionally our forums are not designed
to provide technical support for shard emulators and as such all discussions
related to building and maintaining a shard are prohibited.
- Posting
details of bugs and exploits in such a way that others are able to perform
said bug or exploit is prohibited.
- Bans and
warnings are not to be discussed on the forums. Any inquiries or comments
or bans are to be sent in private messages or via email. A moderator may
choose to publicly inform the participants of a forum about bans and warnings
if this is in the interest of the forum.
- Posting
of pornography, racist or otherwise discriminating remarks, threats to
cause physical or mental harm, extreme offensive language, material that
breaks any law or otherwise totally unacceptable posts or links to pages
that contain the aforementioned material may result in an immediate ban
from the forums.
- Deliberately
circumventing the censor filter is prohibited.
- Spamming
the forums is prohibited.
- Please
adhere to the following restriction for images that are not directly related
to the topic of the thread under discussion:
- Maximum size of image file(s): 35k (35,840) bytes
- Maximum height of image(s): 125 pixels
- Maximum width of image(s): 600 pixels
- Not responding
to or ignoring moderator warnings can lead to suspension.
- Unsolvable
problems (including bannings) a participant has with a moderator are to
be discussed with the UO Forum Administrators (uoforumadmin@stratics.com)
There
are a number of issues that are not so clearly cut. The following issues
are acceptable.
- Images
created using shard emulators may be posted on the forum. Many of our
participants create cartoons utilizing shard emulators. These cartoons
add tremendous value to our forums and are perfectly acceptable.
- Off Topic
(OT) are not prohibited, but should be posted within reason. There are
some topics that are not appropriate for the forums. All posts are subject
to these rules. Excessive OT posts will be dealt with on a case by case
basis.
- All Forums
have a main topic. When starting a new thread, make sure you do so in
the proper Forum.
- Guild advertisements
are to be posted in the Guild Hall Forum.
Thank
you for being a part of the Stratics community! If you have any comments
or questions, feel free to send us a private message or an e-mail at
uoforumadmin@stratics.com
- OWNERSHIP
OF MESSAGES
Stratics encourages the submission of material such as guides, articles, story's,
editorials, and other creative "Submissions" that might be found useful by
the gaming community. Authors of such material will retain their full rights
to the work; Stratics reserves the right to publish such submissions on our
web site(s) unless the author requests otherwise.
Participant authorizes Stratics to utilize, in any manner it sees fit and
for eternity, the Submissions posted on the site, which shall become the property
of Stratics. Participant releases Stratics from any and all claims or liability
(now known or hereafter arising) in connection therewith, and agrees to indemnify
Stratics in connection therewith. Participant agrees and acknowledges that
participation in the Stratics site shall not give rise to any confidential,
fiduciary, implied-in-fact, implied-in-law, contractual or other special relationship
between Participant and Stratics (other than the contractual relationship
between Stratics and Participant entered into by virtue of Participant's agreement
to these Rules of Conduct.)
- SCREEN NAMES
Whenever you post a message in the interactive community, your screen name
will automatically appear with your message. You may choose a name to use
in connection with your messages in the interactive community. However, you
may not use a user name (or e-mail address) that attempts to impersonate another
person; that belongs to another person, without his or her prior consent;
that violates the intellectual property rights of any person; or that Stratics
deems to be offensive.
- RIGHTS OF
STRATICS / DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
- Stratics
is a distributor only (and not a publisher) of its interactive community.
The content is supplied by Participant with occasional responses from
Stratics. Stratics shall not be responsible for policing, monitoring,
or editing such content, exercises no more editorial control over such
content than would a public library, bookstore, newsstand, or other distributor
of content, and accordingly, shall not be responsible for exercising editorial
control over such content. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Stratics shall
have the right, but not the obligation, to monitor such content in order
to respond to or comment upon communications by Participants and in order
to determine compliance with the foregoing Rules of Conduct. Stratics
shall have the right and sole discretion to edit, to refuse to port or
to remove any content whatsoever which it finds to be in violation of
the provisions hereof or which it finds in its sole discretion to be otherwise
objectionable for any reason.
The opinions
expressed in the message boards are not necessarily (and in some cases
not at all) those of Stratics. Stratics is not responsible for any materials
provided by users which are deemed harmful or offensive to others. Stratics
is not responsible in any way for any injury, loss, or damage which
occurs as a result of an opinion expressed or information provided in
these sections of the site. Stratics is not responsible for the content
of any sites linked to an Stratics site.
- Stratics
makes no warranties, express or implied, as to the content in the Stratics
site or the accuracy or reliability of any information or statements contained
therein. All statements, advice and opinions made by Participants in Stratics
message boards are those of such Participants only, and Stratics neither
endorses nor shall be held responsible for the reliability or accuracy
of same.
- Stratics
will use any information obtained from the user as a part of our own private
database, which may be used at any time by Stratics in order to gather
or provide information specifically pertaining to the topics provided
within our set of message forums.
- PARTICIPANT'S
INDEMNIFICATION / OBLIGATIONS
Participant agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless Stratics, its parent,
subsidiary and affiliated companies and their respective directors, officers,
employees and agents from and against all claims, losses, costs, and expenses
(including attorneys fees) arising out of Participant's use of Stratics sites,
or arising out of any violation of these Rules of Conduct by Participant including,
without limitation, any communication by Participant which is claimed to be
defamatory, obscene or otherwise unlawful, which is claimed to violate the
copyright, trademark, proprietary or other rights of third parties, or which
constitutes a submission of materials.
- TERMINATION
Stratics shall have the right to immediately terminate any Participant's use
of the Stratics site if Stratics determines in its sole discretion that Participant
has violated the Rules of Conduct set forth herein or otherwise breached this
agreement, or has engaged in conduct which Stratics determines in its sole
discretion to be unacceptable.
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