Flash Chat Rules: -No foul language, cursing, or adult content should be used in the chatroom. Linking to inappropriate pictures/sites, talking about inappropriate subjects, and using curse words (even misspelled) is not allowed. Keep serious life-events, tradgies out of chatroom discussion. Offenses will earn you a warning and eventually a kick/ban if repeated. Serious offenses will result in an immediate kick or ban. -Be respectful towards all members of the chat room. This includes not fighting, insulting, name-calling, or insulting other’s opinions. Harassing other members by main chat or PM is not allowed. If you feel you are being harassed, PM a moderator and they will deal with the situation. -Be respectful of a moderator’s decisions. Do not argue with them; just listen to what they say. If you feel you need to talk about a moderator’s actions, please contact Tinkerbell, the acting administrator for the forum. -Do not give out personal information in the chatroom such as name, age, address, phone number, etc. Do not ask for other’s personal information. -No advertising your website by PM or main chat, or giving out chatroom links to other chatrooms. -Purposely messing up other people’s computers is prohibited, and will earn you an IP ban for any offense. -The making of too many rooms/or with vulgar names will earn you a kick or a ban depending on the situation. -Too much use of caps and flooding of the chat is not allowed. -Do not enter with profanity/inappropriate material in your name, if you do so, you will be asked to re-enter. -Impersonation of any member/moderator is not allowed. -Enter as only one name, and no more than that. -Members who have been banned and come back with another IP address will be banned until their ban has expired. -For all members, please let a staff member deal with a situation, try not to interfere when they are doing so. -Colors and Avatars cannot be reserved as there are enough for everyone to share. Use them as they are available and do not fight over them. Basic Guidelines for Moderators: -Offense: An offense is a breech of the rules. -On first offense, either gag and warn or just warn depending on the situation. On second offense, warn again. Third offense should get a kick. If the member comes back and keeps on offending, warn one more time and then ban. *This can change based on the situation, however these are basic guidelines. -If you feel a member deserves an immediate ban depending on the severity of the situation you should do so. -Member rudeness towards a moderator or you should be counted as any other offense: simply warn and do not take it personally. That is, you shouldn’t IP ban because they insulted you one time, deal with the situation as you would a member. -If a member argues with you about a moderator decision, simply warn them and if they continue gag/kick. Do not try and argue your way out of things. -If you feel a situation if out of hand, you should kick the room in order to get things back together. Do not use this too often. -Moderators should demonstrate good behavior and an understanding of the rules at all times. -Moderators should not read other member’s PMs as they are private. -If unsure about how to handle a situation, PM a higher up moderator and they will help you with it. Flash chat note:-Sometimes the chat is glitchy and will kick you out, do not be quick to blame someone if you have not done anything. -Be aware that sometimes PMs are sent to every member of the chat, if you wish to discuss something private, the best place is an instant messaging service.