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TSG Forum Guidelines

Welcome to the Teesside Gaming discussion forums! This community and it's forums are a place where you can discuss subjects, ask questions, post guides,... related to the world of gaming and everything it entails with your fellow players. Community forums are at their best when participants treat their fellow posters with respect and courtesy. Therefore, we ask that you conduct yourself in a civilized manner when participating in these forums.

The rules and guidelines stated below are to be read and understood by everyone who actively takes part of the community. Everyone is expected to respect these guidelines and act according to them. Note that these guidelines are not exhaustive and may not address all manner of offensive behavior. The forum moderators have full discretion to address any behavior that they feel is inappropriate.

Your access to these forums is a "privilege", and not a "right". The TSG Admin reserves the right to suspend your access to these forums at any time for reasons that include, but are not necessarily limited to, your failure to abide by these guidelines.

These rules aren't here to annoy you, nor do they target anyone in specific. These rules are here to ensure the TSG board remains a community that can be enjoyed by everyone.


If your post/thread is in violation of these guidelines, action will be taken with or without prior warning. We reserve the right to evaluate each incident on a case by case basis. The action we take may be more lenient or more severe depending on the violation or prior history of violation(s).



1. Respect your fellow community member
Keep in mind that even though you are sitting behind your computer, you are still having a conversation with a human being.

We do not want to see: Racism, hatred, violent language, threats, real-life threats, insults, extreme vulgar language, flaming, otherwise inappropriate or hurtful language, harassment.

Do not flame anyone. Do not provoke a flame.

Do not call people "dumb fuck", "idiot", "retard"

Do not correct other people's posts when they make a grammatical or spelling mistake. Not everyone's native language is English. If yours is you should be glad everyone else is doing an effort. Respect that. Although the forum is directly associated with the North East of England in terms of events etc that may be held the internet is an international community and gaming crosses all nationalities, hence the news will be useful to everyone and everyone is invited to post here.



2. Subjects/content not allowed on TSG Boards.
The following subjects are not allowed on TSG:

* Gold-selling/Account selling or trading websites
* Keyloggers
* Hoaxes/phishing websites
* Politics
* Religion
* Nationalism (Example: US vs. EU threads)
* Pornography
* Content that is considered illegal by law


Posting any of the above will result in your post being deleted and your account suspended. Repeated abuse of our forums will result in us reporting you to your service provider.


3. Naming and shaming
We don't want to see one sided accusations or any other form of naming and shaming. Many of the posters may know each other or of each other outside of the internet and please keep any such information off the TSG boards. Respect peoples privacy and do not pass out anyones information, even your own.

We strongly suggest to never post your e-mail address on the forums, even if you deform it well enough to be picked up by bots. If you want people to contact you, we suggest you use the private message system.

This also includes account information such as Xbox live PSN etc.


4. Impersonating another person/spreading false information
When quoting someone else or when releasing information, always include a verifiable source.

Information, statements or quotes posted without source will be removed as it is impossible for us to verify them for validity. Hear-say is not a valid source.


5. Spamming and Trolling
This includes but is not necessarily limited to the following:

* Excessively communicating the same phrase, similar phrases, or pure gibberish
* Creating threads for the sole purpose of causing unrest on the forums
* Causing disturbances in forum threads, such as picking fights, making off topic posts that ruin the thread, insulting other posters
* Making non-constructive posts
* Abusing the Reported Post feature by sending false alarms or nonsensical messages
* Numbering a thread, IBTL, TLDR, or any other fad statements


6. Hijacking threads
Do not steer threads off-topic. Posting for the sake of posting is heavily frowned upon. If you have nothing to contribute to the topic that is being discussed in a thread, do not post a reply in it.

Settling personal vendettas with other forum members is also not what we're looking to see in here. If you have a problem with another forum member, settle the score in private through the private message system or report the person to a moderator.

Keep in mind that personal messages can also be reported to a moderator and that all guidelines apply to messages sent to another forum member. Even though we cannot read private messages, reported private messages can be read, and action will be taken if a reported message is in violation with these guidelines.


7. Advertising
Advertising of any kind that has not been cleared by the board Admin will not be tolerated.

If you wish to advertise your personal website that has a Gaming theme, or a website of someone else that you wish to share with the community, we would appreciate it if you ran this through with us first.

Send a private message to any of our moderators or website admins before making a thread. Also, we do not allow more than one thread per advertisement.

We reserve the right to refuse advertisements for any reason whatsoever.

Repeated posting (spam) or re-posting of a deleted advertisement will result in the website being permanently blacklisted on our word-filter.


8. Discussing disciplinary actions, moderators or Moderator actions
Actions taken against a member of the community are not to be discussed in public on the forums. Opinions about specific moderators or moderator actions (locking, deleting threads, etc) are also not to be discussed in posts or threads.

If you have questions, remarks, suggestions or complaints about moderating in general or specific moderators, please contact our website admin through a private message.

If you have questions, remarks, suggestions or complaints about a moderation action, such as a ban, deletion or lock, feel free to contact the moderator in question, or any moderator on our team.


9. Circumventing a suspension or ban
Posting on another account or having someone else post in your behalf when your account has been suspended or banned is not allowed. As a result, a new suspension or ban will be issued.


10. Posting guidelines
This section involves all posting related guidelines.

10.1. Making duplicate threads/posts, cross linking threads/posts
Do not create duplicate posts or threads in order to attract more attention to your post or thread. This also includes cross linking threads or posts. Cross linking means making a new post or thread in which you link to another post or thread.


10.2. Bumping threads
Old thread is old, sometimes is best to leave old news to the history books.


10.3. Choosing a suitable subject line for your thread
Your topic's subject should attract readers, not frustrate them. Be clear, be descriptive, be specific but keep it short. Using appropriate titles will also help people when they are looking for a thread about a specific topic.


10.4. Usage of CAPS (capital letters), color, ASCII code symbols or Unicode symbols
The content of a thread or a post should be the only thing that draws readers and/or posters to a discussion.

There is no need to use CAPS, color or ASCII/Unicode symbols in a post or subject line to draw extra attention.

Colours in posts are meant to be used to emphasise specific parts or words of the post, and not meant to be used as a template for every post of a specific user. Imagine what this board would look like if everyone picked their specific colour to always post in...


10.5. Contribute in a constructive way
When replying to anything, we expect you to have something to say about the topic at hand. Don't just post "QFT" when you could post "I agree because this and that." or "lollolol" when you could have spared us of that post.


10.6. Only post in English
The only allowed language on the TSG boards is English.

The TSG boards maybe a forum visited by people from all over the world. Imagine how chaotic things would become if everyone wrote in their native language.

Therefore, English is the preferred language in our community. Make your post in English. If you're not good at English, ask a friend to help, or write your post in the best English you've got. No one is going to make fun of you.

On a related note: Do not correct other people's posts unless you are asked to. Do not quote dictionary entries for the sake of arguing.


10.7. Intentional poor writing, spelling or 1337sp33k
Not having English for your primary language is no excuse to talk like an idiot. Leetspeek, unexisting abbreviations, intentional spelling disasters, etc will only get your post/topic deleted.

Keep in mind that we can see your posting history...


10.8. Formatting your post (aka no "Wall of text")
Paragraphs make reading a big post a lot easier. It's a small effort on your side as the poster to use your [ENTER] key to add spacing between paragraphs.