The Transport Tycoon Forums: Official Rules
Revision 2.1, 9th October 2004
These rules are based in part on the
phpBB forum rules, and have been
adapted to suit The Transport Tycoon Forums.
1. Forum Rules
- Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions
before posting. Users
consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see Policing
below). If in doubt as to where a topic should go, post in one of the
General forums, or the Off-Topic forum.
- Before posting about a problem with Transport Tycoon, Transport Tycoon
Deluxe, TTDPatch, OpenTTD or Locomotion, please use the Search facility to see if your
question has been answered before. Double-posts will be removed by a
moderator or administrator.
- Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming
or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a
warning. Remember that some users may be more easily offended than others.
- Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience.
Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will
not be tolerated and will lead to a warning.
- Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media,
etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, cracks, etc. will
receive a warning and their post will be removed.
- Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing".
That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small
or coloured text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive
punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently
abusing this will be warned.
- Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new
topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got
an error!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "Problem with GRF action
2", "Cannot build new stations", etc.
- Spam of any kind is not tolerated here under any circumstance. The term
"spam" includes, but is not limited to, unsolicited commercial marketing,
flooding, and single-word posts (for instance, a post only containing a
smiley). Users
posting spam will be warned and their post removed.
- There exists a number of "word games" in the Off-Topic forum. If you
decide to participate in these games, please restrain yourself to one post
per ten minutes in each game, at least. Constant 'flooding' of the word
games by one or two members will be frowned upon.
- The moderators and administrators reserve the right to edit, remove
or lock any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent,
vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to the Moderators and
Administrators and not users. Users are welcome to enquire about a
moderator's action, and the moderator should be willing to disclose their
reasoning behind such actions.
- If a topic has been locked by a moderator or administrator, please do
not start a new topic to continue the discussion which lead to the original
topic being locked. Doing so will result in the new topic being locked, and
the user who restarted the discussion receiving a warning. If you would like
to argue against a topic being locked, please contact one of the moderators
or administrators (ideally the moderator who locked the topic) to argue your
case.
- The above forum rules, where applicable, also apply to private messaging.
Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or
the revocation of private messaging for an abuser.
- While the forum interface is available in a variety of languages, please
only post to the forum in English.
2. Signatures
- Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed
on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or
one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px
high, 468px wide and 10KB in size. Two images are allowable side-by-side if
they abide by this height rule, and their total width does not exceed 468px.
The total file size must be no larger than 15KB. Signatures containing an
image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures
containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size
text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may
allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size
text. Please note that minor variations on this will usually be acceptable -
in general, think of the common sense rule that your signature should not be
longer than your post.
- Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in
signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to
decency, warez, emoticons, etc.
- Links are permitted in signatures. There is no requirement to link to
Transport Tycoon-related material - commercial links are permitted. Links
are included within the text and image limits above. Links to offensive
sites, as interpreted by the moderators or administrators, may be subject to
removal.
- Users abusing these rules will be warned.
3. Avatars
- Users are permitted to upload an avatar, or to link to one of their own.
User defined avatars (this constitutes both uploaded and linked avatars) are to be no larger than 90 pixels square, contain no
image which attempts to portray the user as having an official status here
(e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of administrators/moderators), may not exceed
10KB in file size and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to
images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed). Animated
avatars are allowed, providing they abide by these rules and are not
distracting. Flashing images, for instance, may be defined as being
distracting by a moderator or administrator, and may be subject to removal.
- Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to
decency, etc.
- Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar
privileges.
4. Attachments
- Users may upload up to three attachments per post. Attachments should
only be posted in appropriate topics. Inappropriately placed attachments may
be removed by a moderator or administrator.
- Attachments may be up to 2MB in size each. Please note that large inline
images (any image with dimensions of up to 640x480 will be displayed inline)
may be removed by a moderator or administrator.
- A list of allowed file extensions is available by clicking on the
appropriate link in the "Add an Attachment" section of the posting form.
- Attachments are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to
decency, etc. Vulgar, illegal or indecent attachments may be removed.
- If you believe an attachment to be a violation of copyright law, please
contact Owen Rudge (forum username orudge), and provide the
following: a link to the topic the attachment resides in, a link to the
specific attachment (if multiple attachments exist in the topic), a
description of how exactly the attachment is violating copyright, and
preferably a link to the original source material the copyright of which the
attachment is violating. He will speak with the other administrators and
moderators about this and reach a conclusion. Action may not be immediate;
please bear with us on this as we have to consider all sides of the
argument. Priority may be given to requests from registered forum users over
unregistered users.
5. Policing
- The Transport Tycoon Forums operate a three strike policy. Users will be
warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences in a three month
period. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put
in place of between 1 to 7 days.
- Arguing with administrators or moderators after having received a warning will lead to
an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a
temporary ban will be put in place as above.
- Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact an
administrator or moderator. They will discuss the matter with the other
administrators and moderators, and if collectively they feel you were
treated badly, they may remove the warning.
- Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being
made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned
username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, or registering a new
e-mail account to evade an e-mail ban.
- An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact
administrators or moderators personally (via any method) and post insulting,
indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate
permanent ban.
- Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before
implementing them. While the administrators may consider lifting permanent
bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence.
If you have any comments or queries about these rules, please do not hesitate
to contact an administrator or moderator about the issue.
COPYRIGHT DISCLAIMER
All original "Transport Tycoon", "Transport Tycoon Deluxe" and "Chris Sawyer's Locomotion" graphics, sounds and music here are
the intellectual property of Chris Sawyer and/or Atari, Inc. Copyright © Chris Sawyer 1994-1996, 2004. All rights
reserved. The use of these graphics on The Transport Tycoon Forums is believed to constitute "fair use".
If anyone has any complaints regarding copyright violations, please follow the process in Rule 4(e) to notify an administrator about your concerns.