DD

Starting off.....We will primarily be dropping the infractions. There will still be two things that we will be hitting people hard on with infractions. All current infractions will be cleared off the boards. We will start from scratch, but know this......there is a new infraction setup. Please read


Infractions.

1. Spammed Adverisments. This is for obvious reasons

2. Spam posts (read below to see what is considered spam)

3. Excessive Flaming/Trolling. (this is at s-mod, admin discretion)

Number 1 gets a permanent ban no matter what.

Numbers 2 and 3 go as followed.

1st offense - Warning.
2nd offense - Infraction
3rd offense - Infraction + 3 day ban
4th offense - Infraction + 30 day ban
5th offense - Your too stupid to post here. Permanent Ban

This is non negotiable and non reversable under normal circumstances. Admin's will review all bannings.

Posting.


We are lightening up on the hardcore rules we have enforced over the past year or so and going for a more relaxed bar like atmosphere, but it doesn't mean we can't stay on topic and relevant.

There are designated spam threads in the VIP forums if you just feel like rambling, but threads are meant to stay on topic. We have also opened up a "Word Games" forum where all non platinum and plat members can have a spamtastic time. Topics can change subjects naturally throughout a thread but we will close them or ask people to change directions from time to time. For example, if there is a thread titled "Rey Mysterio's Main Event Status" and after 4 pages the conversation has changed to Eddie Guerrero somehow, that is fine. You may be asked to go back to the original topic, but that is at a moderators discretion. What we will not allow if for the same thread to end up on page 4 discussing how many calories KenTheKiller consumes on a daily basis. If it has zero relevance to the topic it will be closed.

You may also NOT post gore or anything racist.

Spam




Spam is classified in a number of ways. It can be:

• Useless posts
• Reviving a dead topic (You may bring back a old topic if it is relevant to 2009 and at least interesting for other users, dont bump just to bump. Use proper discretion please)
• A reply agreeing with someone, yet posting no actual opinion
• A post that breaks a rule

Those are some common spam posts. Don't start a new thread asking a question you could easily find by yourself. Don't start new threads asking others their opinion when you don't answer it yourself. Don't make new threads posting a news story (this especially goes for the wrestling and sports forums) and then having no opinion on it -- why post something you don't actually care about? You should also give a source NAME, but not necessarily a link.

Bumping of Threads

Bumping threads older than 30 days are only acceptable for the following reasons.

1. Bringing back a old discussion that has a relevant reason for posting in it. We also ask that you originally were part of the discussion unless you have some VERY valid points to add.

2. Diva Threads, Celeb Photos and any Media is acceptable. (If the photos are broken or links are dead DO NOT REPLY)

If staff feels you are bumping threads that are not necessary to bump you will be handed an infraction. Multiple infractions lead to a temporary ban.



Advertising Websites

Advertising websites is prohibited in posts and new threads. Anyone who makes a post JUST to advertise a website will have that website URL banned from WrestlingClique Forums. (To clarify, if the URL to the site is not needed and you can post the contents, don't try to force users to go to that URL.) This means that everytime you post or try to link to that website (in a post or signature), it will appear as an asterisk.

However, if you are a platinum member, you may place a link to any Non Wrestling related website in your signature, providing it does not break the signature rules. If, however, a website is blocked from WrestlingClique Forums (as described above), you may not try to place an image or text linking to the website, and your banner or avatar may not include the URL to that website. Any user trying to bypass our system will be banned.

This not only applies to threads and posts, but to 'Private Messages' (PMs) as well. If you PM a user or many users, and an admin is informed somehow, you will be banned. An administrator may read a PM if he feels it is against this rule, or the receiver feels the admin should read the PM contents.

News & Rumors Section.

You MUST read the rules in that section before making a your first post in that forum. Failure to follow these strict rules will get you in the doghouse with CM Punk.

Spoilers

What you MAY NOT do.

1. There is to be no shouts in the shoutbox regarding the PPV or Monday Night Raw for 24 hours. If you really feel the need to discuss immediate wrestling events, simply post it in those forums. After all, this is a wrestling forum.

Anyone that is found to be violating that rule will be subject to an infraction and their shout will be deleted. Please just don't discuss immediate events and we will be fine.

2. News & Rumors Threads, WWE and TNA forums must be marked *Results* with a title vague title that can be edited later.

Examples of this using Survivor Series would be.

"*SS Results* Now what with the WWE Title?"

instead of "Cena wins Title. Now what?"

Please follow that criteria. We can always change them to be more specific.

3. You MAY have sigs and avatars of immediate events including title changes and spoilers galore.

If you do not want to see someone's potential spoilers. You may turn off your sigs and avatars the couple days prior by changing your
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4. You may not post Smackdown result type threads until it airs on Friday.


So in recap, the main things are the Shoutbox and Thread titles. Watch that stuff and the rest is fine.

24 hours after it airs anything can be discussed in the shoutbox and thread titles can be changed.

Hope this clears some stuff up.


Double Posting

Try not to do it and be ready for a moderator to merge your posts if you do. Not a huge deal but it can be annoying if someone does it too much. Do not bump a thread if nobody has responded. This will be considered spam as well.

Flaming

Try to be as civil as possible but know that the hammer isn't coming down for being a jerk to someone. Staff will be hard on the chasing off of newbies. Please do not be dinks to new members. Some people have never posted on a forum before and aren't quite sure of the dialouge and banter of veterans. Please pick on someone your own size if you have to.
What will not be tolerated is just coming into a thread saying "You are a moron" and that's it. This will be considered spam.

You can insult any member you want
You should not bring up race
You should not insult someone's family member if he or she is not a registered user (insulting someone you don't know is a bad idea -- he or she could be sick, dying, or even dead)
You may not insult sexuality (in a serious manner)
You may not insult religion

Staff rights regarding editing, closing, moving of threads/posts.

As previously stated, just because WC is not heavily scrutinized does not mean it is a free-for-all. Most content is allowed (see above) but not all content is accepted. If an admin feels like a topic should be locked, then the admin will lock that topic. If another admin disagrees, it will be up to Administrator to either close the topic or leave it opened. Super moderators have the ability to edit all forums, including Rants, but administrators are the final overseers of the forum.

Any staff member has the right to edit any post he or she feels is inappropriate (against the rules, for instance). If a moderator edits your post and you feel that it was in no way "harmful" to anyone, you should contact an administrator. (More on that below.) If you disagree with this, you shouldn't have signed up (it's on the registration page, so if you didn't read it, that's your fault).

Insulting staff

You will no longer be banned for insulting staff. But we do discourage it. The staff members here at WC are looking longterm at WC and have just been following orders as requested from me over the years so it's not really their fault. If you have a problem with a staff member, you should likely take it up with me (DD) because I support each and every one of them.

These guys don't get paid and take alot of shit from members. It's a pretty thankless job, but I appreciate all the hard work they do.

Nudity

There should be no nudity within regular WrestlingClique Forums. If you find nudity in a really old thread or something, please report it so a moderator can move it to the appropriate section. You may purchase a Platinum account to gain access to the 18+ section.

User Options

Signature limits

Size is up to Supermod and admin discretion. If you feel its too big, chances are it is. Staff has the right to remove any content they feel is too big without notice. Staff will put "Sig too big" in your sig text to let you know we changed something. If you place the sig back in after it's already been removed once you will recieve an infraction.

Signature advertisements
Only Platinum Members may do so. Regular users will have their sig permissions revoked if this rule is broken.

Signature text
Signatures and their content is shown after each of your posts, and therefore the text must not be offensive. Like posting, it cannot involve racism, sexism, or insults towards someone's sexuality. Vulgarity will be at admin's discretion. Swearing in sigs is also discouraged as many people view this site from work. This may also be edited as staffs discretion.

Avatars
Registered users may have avatars up to 175 x 250 for Platinum users(width times height, in pixels) with a maximum size of 1.2MB'ss. Avatars with nudity or offending content (racism, offensive towards religion, criminal behavior, etc.) will be removed. Be considerate of others.


Advertisements

Advertisements are on WrestlingClique Forums for one reason: to bring in money to cover costs for the server, hosting, forum software, and domain. With the revenue collected through these advertisements, it helps offset the expenses needed to run the Clique.

Too often there are complaints posted across various forums complaining about the advertisements, both pop-ups and banner ads or text, here on WrestlingClique Forums. As mentioned before, they are to maintain maintenance costs for the server, hosting, software, and domains. Before you make a thread complaining, you should try searching the forums for previous threads with complaints. Ads are easy to avoid, but we would naturally prefer you to keep them on. However, as a result of lack of participation, there are more pop-up ads.

Divas & Celeb Photo Sections

WrestlingClique Forums only allows nudity in the Platinum forums.


Mods' rights
Mods and or admins will close any Red X threads if they stumble apon them. Please dont contact someone everytime you find one. It happens from time to time. PLEASE take advantage of our image hosting service located in the navbar


Expected from the staff

Who is the current staff?
For a list of all administrators, super moderators, and moderators you can check out this page:
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What can staff do?
Administrators have the power to do anything -- see your IP address, IP ban, appoint moderators, make new forums, edit forums, edit threads, edit users, ban users, and a whole list of other things.

Danny Diamond - Owner.
Controls overall forum design. Appoints admin's and supermods. Day to day maitenence on site. Adding and subtracting of features on WC. Monitors overall site flow and direction. Often times ignores requests from members and is quite forgetful but supplies the anchor for WC. So if you have a request........send it to Peace.
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PeaceSells - The People's admin.
Appoints Staff. Day to day requests from members. Monitors staff. Takes all requests that DD blows off. Site advice, suggestions and counterpoints. Saves WC from the grips of some of DD's really stupid ideas. lol.

Felix - The Wizard behind the curtain/ Co-Owner
Many people don't know but Felix is a part owner of WC. Alot of people probably figured that out a long time ago. I sold part of WC to Felix over 3 years ago to ensure the best technical support a forum could have. Without this business decision WC would be one more Database crash away from us being off the net forever. Felix has saved the day more often than you people realize. Felix handles anything that DD can't do myself, but these days he is available only to me via email. So please any requests you have for him should go directly to DD.

Super moderators - are allowed to edit, move, lock, and delete threads, as well as seeing your IP address. Super mods can also ban users.

Supermods at WC are the equalivant to admin's at many other forums. WC Supermod and Admin team use a 5 vote system for passing or rejecting new ideas. Majority rules. Nothing happens unless it passes the WC 5 vote system. This prevents from anything drastic ever happening.

All Supermods responsibilites include but are not limited too....
1. Monitoring Moderators
2. Monitoring Members.
3. Bannings
4. Moving, Deleting, closing, opening of threads.
4. Handing out infractions.
5. Passing/Rejecting of new rules, suggestions etc.

Moderators:

can only edit, move, lock, and delete threads in forums they moderate, as opposed to administrators and super moderators who have control of all forums. To see what moderator moderates what forum, you can look on the index page or check the Staff page mentioned above. Some mods, but not all, also have the power to ban.

Moderators responsibilities:

-Mods main function is to make their forums the most popular on the forum.
- Mods will be expected to tag, close, sticky, and delete spam posts as normal.

- Mods are expected to report posts essentially in your their own section. However if they see a post outside of thier section that they feel should be reported, they are allowed to do so. These posts will be looked at by S-Mods and Admins and infracted or warned at their discretion. Mods are l not to infract members except for spammed advertisements.

- Mods are expected to not argue with members to the extent of flaming, especially over nonsensical things.


When should I contact a staff member? Who should I contact?

First off, there should be a legitimate reason to contact a staff member (if it is board-related). If a moderator or admin locks your topic and the explanation in the post is not clear, you are permitted to PM him or her and ask why. Do not try to debate too much, though, as most threads are locked for a reason.


If you need help with your account, contact an ADMIN. Usually, the best admins to contact are either PS or DD, but if you think the problem is trivial contact any admin online. If your account password has been forgotten and you cannot login, please click the Contact Us button (or alternatively e-mail me at Administrator Email) and I will fix your account.

What if staff abuses their rights/powers?

If you feel a staff member has abused his or her powers, you should contact Administrator via PM. You can PM me by clicking here. Starting a thread will get you nowhere fast and will be considered simply a member bitching. Please handle this is a mature manner and it will be handled accordingly.