• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. CINA's decision is final in these matters.
• No political postings or discussions.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum email and Private message system to spam other members.
• We also do not allow posts that are sexual in nature or violate CINA community standards. The CINA officers and board members 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.
• We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules.
• Also 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 may post affiliate or referral links under the sigs is also prohibited.
• You should never give out your CINA username or password to anyone, and you should not disclose server logins and/or passwords to anyone. We can not take responsibility if you disclose this information to anyone else.
• Keep the focus: Questions outside the scope of a certain forum will either be moved, locked or simply be deleted.
• No cross posting. Post your message once, to the appropriate forum and nowhere else or it will be locked or deleted without warning.
• Use a title that describes the content of your post. Don't use all caps or special characters to draw attention.
•  Do not send questions pertaining to topics of discussion on this board via personal messages or email to Moderators or Admins.
• Respect the netiquette: Lurk and get to know the forum before you post.
• Instructions by the moderator team are to be followed
  

• Linking to the home page pf a commercial product/service is fine.
• Promotional text for a commercial product or service is ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
• 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 CINAcommunity standards. The CINA officers and board members shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
• Duplicate links to the same URL in a sig are not allowed.

• For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
• For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
• Animated images in sigs are not allowed

Last edited on 2005-07-07 02:00 am by FranzChen