General Rules

  • While debating a topic is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts.
  • Please do not send private messages to administrators, moderators, or members asking for private assistance with an issue that should be resolved in our forums.
  • Please refrain from posting meaningless threads (except for those allowed in the open forum), one word or short non-sense posts.
  • Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
  • Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members.
  • Please wait a reasonable amount of time before bumping posts.
  • Posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate DVD Hounds community standards are not permitted. The DVD Hounds team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
  • Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
  • Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
  • We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
  • Posts discussing moderator or Administrator actions are also not allowed.
  • While these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
  • You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
  • All post must be made in English
  • We reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right.
Advertising Services and Solicitation

We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitation in signatures is also prohibited.

Links in signatures must follow these guidelines

  • Linking to a commercial product/service is fine, provided it is a part of the topic being discussed for example: The price of computer parts from online vendors such as Newegg.
  • A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate Hounds community standards.
  • All signatures must be made in English
Avatars

  • Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry.
  • Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.
  • Avatars that could be culturally or racially insensitive are not allowed