Registration

The TCP forums have grown tremendously over the past years and we thank all of you for being a part of this growing community. 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.

General Rules

1. While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, profanity (or attempts to bypass profanity filters), insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
2. Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non=sense posts, or the such.
3. Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
4. Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members.
5. 'Bumping' of posts are NOT allowed.
6. We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate TCP community standards. The TCP team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
7. Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
8. Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
9. We will NOT tolerate blatant bashing of other boards.
10. We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
11. ALL posts MUST be posted in English.
12. Posts discussing moderator actions are also not allowed.
13. 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.
14. You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
15. You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
16. Support tickets should be considered to be confidential information.
17. We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right.

Advertising Services and Solicitation

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and soliciting in signatures is also prohibited. Note: The only exception to this is for clan leaders linking to their clan sites.

Links in signatures must follow these guidelines

1. Linking to a commercial product/service NOT allowed.
2. Promotional text for a commercial product or service is NOT allowed.
3. A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate TCP community standards. The TCP team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
4. Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.
5. All signatures must be made in English

Avatars

1. Animated avatars are allowed, as long as they are clean.
2. Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.
3. Use of the ANY TCP logo in avatars is not allowed EXCEPT by STAFF.

Licenses for Sale

We do not allow people to post that are looking to sell or buy a used game license/CD key.

Signature Size Limits

All signatures should not exceed the following limits

1. You can have both text and images in your sig
2. For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
3. Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
4. For images in signatures: 1 image up to 100 pixels wide, 100 pixels tall and 10k in size
5. Animated images in a signature are allowed

Moderation

Although the administrators and moderators of the TCP Community Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of TCP Community Forum will be held responsible for the content of any message.

By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually=oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violate any laws.
The owners of the TCP Community Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.

Addendum

We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.