WCC Rules

[Don Seer]

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Your administrators are Overseer and Rud. Respect our authority.

General Posting Rules

- Quote sources when posting news from external sites. Let them have their props since they worked for it.

- Posts should be made in the correct section.  (Don't cross post in multiple sections -
see also point below.)

- The common language on the board is english. please stick to it.

- DONT TYPE IN CAPITALS ALL THE TIME.. THATS SHOUTING!!.. and its BAD.  

- Spamming the board with advertising will get you a ban. (1 post in the relevant section is ok).

- Having multiple accounts and using them to manipulate discussion will get you banned. (permission can be obtained for extra accounts if good reason is provided)

- Rasicm, Sexism and/or religious bigotry will not be tolerated in any shape or form.

Avatars

- No porn! (basically no nips and coochie shots) (we do have a section where free posting of porn is allowed - currently called 'Tha G Spot'

- Keep them to a reasonable size.. and dont have millions of them! remember some (sad - lol) people still have 56K modems.

Forum Politics

- Don't beg to be a mod, it will never ever happen if you do.
Mod's are chosen due to merit and conduct on and off the forum. You won't be a mod if you haven't even posted here no matter who or what you say you know or have modded before. More recently Mods have been elected.

- Mod's found manipulating discussions by editting/removing posts will be mods no more.

- 'Connected Sites' are chosen on merit and contribution to the community. Don't turn up and expect a link without having being involved day to day on WCC without ever having posted even if your site is 'the shit' because its about more than that.


- Arguments. Shit happens, But unlike some other forums We will actually let an (on topic) argument  run its course just to get it over and done with. Call it 'selective under-moderation' if you like. Grudges held and dredged up repeatedly or future 'hounding' by the winner/s or as is usual the loser/s will result in action depending of the severity. Resorting to calling someone names and not stating an actual point of argument means you've already lost.

-  Stalking, a continuation of a point made above. You will not hound, harass, bully or stalk anyone.


Illegal Music Distribution

- Trading and Selling of bootlegs is prohibited.

- Discussion of mp3s is fine, as are instructions on getting things from IRC etc.

- No posting of hidden direct links to mp3s. If externally hosted mp3s are posted make sure they are labelled as having no connection to the board. Links to sites containing them is ok. The reason for this is that in the eyes of the user, and more importantly the law is that is obvious the file doesnt come direct from WCC, but from an external site that we have no control over.

- Dont harrass people publicly or privately for mp3s they dont have to do *anything* for you. if you cant make the effort to go get them from a shop/irc/kazaa/winmx or whatever then its on you.

Moderators may perform the following, and any more they seem fit. If you're not sure consult another mod or an admin for a second opinion.

Moderators may change posts and esp. post titles to make them not uppercase, or make them be not misleading.

[Don Seer]

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What are the forum user groups?

newbie : Lil Geezy
over 50 : 'G'
over 100 : Muthafuckin' OG
over 300 : Muthafuckin' Double OG
over 750 : Muthafuckin' Don!


Mod's show as "Shot Callers" in the sections they moderate.

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What Is Karma?


At 500 posts you get the ability to distribute positive or negative karma, but you can only do this once an hour per person. It's impossible to tell who is giving out karma.


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Rules can be discussed here : http://www.dubcnn.com/connect/index.php?board=7;action=display;threadid=27780