Rules & Guidelines

1. Do not spam.
2. Do not flame.
3. Do not harass.
4. Do not double or multi post.
5. Do not flood.
6. Do not swear/cuss excessively. Changing letters in the word into numbers or symbols still counts.
7. Do not post/link any explicit material containing sexual, racist or disturbing/upsetting content.
8. Do not link to any form of pirating or make any illegal transactions on the forums.
9. Do not publicly trade accounts (Rawr-Arena or otherwise).
10. Do not scam.
11. Do not impersonate any regular or staff member.
12. Do not rip.
13. Do not advertise or promote other websites/services as a whole.
14. Do not act like a moderator/admin if you are not one.
15. Do not publicly discuss Rawr-Arena moderators or their actions unless given permission to do so by an admin.
16. Discussions that solely belong on partnership sites should only be posted on their forums, not on Rawr-Arena's forums.
17. Do not evade your bans.
18. Do not troll/cause unnecessary drama.
19. Do not share classified information (information regarding new characters not included).
20. Do not post excessively flashing/strobing images.

Spam: A message and/or topic that is pointless and off-topic.

-Anything that does not answer the question the topic starter asks (for example: "I don't know")
-Topics with misleading titles, regardless of the message content
-Quoting someone without adding anything extra of your own (for example: Quoting and posting only "Agree", "Same", "What this guy said" or simply only quoting.)
-Reserved posts not filled within one hour
-A post with ONLY a smiley/smiles
-Posts made in a language outside of its proper section. The main language on the Naruto-Boards is English. All posts and topics made in any other language besides English must go in its corresponding sub-section within the Great Ninja Headquarters section.
-Irrelevant topics (for example: "Look at my signature", "Come to my chatbox", "I need a friend")

Topic not posted in its designated section will be locked or moved.


Flame: Any posts meant to offend or hurt any member in a manner which is offensive and/or insulting.

Light flaming: Harsh criticism and anything offensive, but nothing "major".
Examples: "That sucks h4rdcor3!" (if talking about a poem, signature, etc.), "noob", "you are stupid", "you need to grow up, kiddy".

Moderate flaming: Any sort of offence/insult that is neither extremely offensive, nor light flame. It's basically in a "middle region".
Examples: "idiot", "retard", "moron".

Heavy flaming: Anything racist, profane, sexist, or extremely offensive.


Harassment: Constantly annoying someone with offensive or negative messages in an attempt to make them feel unhappy, annoyed, or embarrassed.


Double Posting: Posting twice in a row without other people's posts in between.
Multi Posting: Posting 3-5 times in a row without other people's posts in between.

If you want to add something, you should use the edit button. See the "amazing edit button" and "the bumping guide" in this guide.
If you double (multi) posted unintentionally, edit all unnecessary posts to state it was a mistake. Those posts will be deleted and you will not be warned.


Flooding: Intentionally posting many times in a short period of time. 6 or more posts in a row, or many multi posts in one topic will automatically be considered as flooding. Flooding can also take place if you create many useless/similar topics, or send many Private Messages to users in a short period of time. If one post takes up a whole page and the content in that post is simply smilies or spam in general, it will be considered as flooding (Examples: post with a very long image, too many images/smiles in one post, quoting a flood post)


Sexual explicit material: Violations include posting links (text link, even just including site's name and domain, not only clickable link made with [url ] tag, is a link too), images, using images in avatars, signatures, cybering on the forum (including Private Messages), and posting distasteful text-based content. Nudity or inappropriate level of bared skin is not allowed as well.


Scamming: An attempt to trick or persuade an individual to hand over the password to their account. Telling someone to change their e-mail is also considered scamming. If you have been scammed, please read this topic.


Impersonation: Replicating someone's profile and/or name in order to appear to be that person. This also pertains to falsely claiming to be a Moderator/Admin of any "Rawr-Arena" project to try and trick an individual.


Ripping: Taking someone else's original content and claiming it as your own. Even if you slightly edit the content, it will still be considered "ripped". This includes:
-GFX
-Piece of Writing
-Layouts

Every offence has its own point value. If you receive 10 points, you will be banned for a week. Point values can be adjusted to the situation, e.g. If you spam five times in one topic, you will get more points than making only one post. Of course, multiple offences done in the same time/topic can even lead you to an immediate ban without a warning.
Also, points don't go away after a ban. They stay for your next bans, so if you have 9 points and you flame, you will be banned, and the remaining points will carry to your next ban. If you are guilty of many offences in a short time (like 1-7 days), it will be considered as forum assault and you will be banned permanently without a warning.
It is a decision of a moderator how many points you will get, points table is just a guideline.

� Flame (moderate) - 6
� Flame (light) - 4
� Vulgar language (excessive) - 3

� Ripping (anything other than avatar) - 5
� Ripping (avatar) - 3

� Spam - 3

� Back seat moderating, trolling, starting drama, talking about moderators or their actions, advertising, pirating links or illegal transactions (if there is nothing on topic in the post, it is spam on top of anything else) - 3

� Multi post - 3
� Double post - 2

� Nudity, inappropriate level of bared skin - 5
� Ignoring moderator's request (if not bannable) - 5

� ALL OTHER OFFENCES (default value) - 3
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BANNABLE OFFENCES

Usually before a ban, warning takes place, but you can be banned without it (read more below). If you keep doing something you were warned for, you will be banned immediately, no matter how many points you have. You should not ignore warnings and moderator's requests.
Remember that being banned multiple times will lead you to a permanent ban very quickly. Usually, you will be banned for six weeks before your permanent ban, so when this happens, be aware that we will not give you a second chance.
The third ban is not always a permanent ban or a ban for six weeks. Rather, it depends on how many bans you received and for how long you were banned in the past.

You will be banned without a warning accordingly to the severity of your offence for:
� starting a rip shop (around 2 weeks)
� cybering and other distasteful text-based content (around 1-2 weeks)
� posting hentai/porn images or links (around 1-2 weeks)
� flooding (around 1 week)
� sharing classified information (around 1 week)
� heavy flame (from few days to even 2 weeks)

You will be banned permanently from the forum without a warning for:
� making spam assault
� making a troll account
� ban evading
� having 50 or more points from warning

You will be permanently site banned (in other words you will lose your account) without a warning for:
� ban evading (further offences)
� scamming
� impersonating

You will be temporary site banned without a warning for:
� flooding someone's inbox
� ignoring requests/warnings to stop sending flame/spam messages using Private Messages

You will be banned for 1 week for:
� having each 10 points from your warnings

When you are getting your 3rd ban for warnings, we set your score to 45 points (if you were breaking rules too much before that ban, we will set it to 49). A permanent ban is at 50 points, so any offences that total 5 or more points done after your 'last chance' will result in your account being banned forever from Rawr Arena (we really don't want to so be good please).

This person is breaking the rules in my thread. What do I do?
The best thing to do would be to PM a moderator, preferably one for that section, and inform him of the situation. Don't forget to tell the moderator the name of the person, what they are doing, and the thread (link) they are doing it in.


I was banned unfairly / Moderator is abusing his powers. What should I do?
If you think your ban was unfair, talk with the moderator who banned you. You may also ask another moderator for a second opinion.
When a moderator is breaking rules/abusing powers, you should collect sufficient proof and immediately PM a moderator with that proof.


How do I become a moderator?
The simple answer to this question is that you don't. There is already a large moderating staff that will last a long time. Therefore, we don't need any more. However, if you act in a respectable manner and obey the rules on a regular basis, you never know what might happen.


I was kicked from my clan unfairly by my co-leader, I was a leader before, can a moderator ban him for that?
We are sorry for the inconvenience, but we are not required to look into problems like this. Simply look for another clan, or create your own.
Useful advices: do not give high rank (leader, captain) to someone you don't trust or to someone who is new in the clan. Same should go for member (not trial) rank. Moderators will not look into problems caused by careless rank distribution and other inner-clan issues.

Why was my topic locked/deleted?
We rather choose locking over deletion, all according to the topic's content. We will feed you with proper reason/s as we do so, but if we ever happen to do otherwise, please do acknowledge that it was because your topic was way too pointless/offensive to even deserve a notification from the staff.

Double posting is against the rules. That is when you post multiple times within a short time period without anyone else posting. The way to fix this is to use The Amazing Edit Button!

The amazing edit button is a black button located in the bottom right hand corner of all your posts.

By clicking that button, you can edit and/or add stuff to your post without double posting. To show that you edited your post, you can add the new content after the word "Edit:".

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BUMPING

This section explains how you can bump a topic without breaking the double-posting rule. It is really simple and you should be fine as long as you follow the guidelines. Bumping is primarily used in clan topics.

A bump may only be used at least 24 hours after the last post on the thread, not 24 hours after your own last post. If you bump before 24 hours it is spam (most people will not time you to the second so wait a minimum of 23 hours). Also, having post after post between you and another person of just the word "bump" is not bumping the topic, but indeed spamming it. Please keep this in mind when you want to bump a topic.

In Short:
1) Bumps are only to be used 24 hours after the last post on the topic.
2) Mis-use of bumps is spam.
3) Do not start a discussion with someone having "bump" in every post.
4) This applies to all of the boards. Not just in the clan section.

Speaking of grammar:

Take the time to at least capitalize the first letter of your sentences. It makes it a bit easier to see. Proper nouns you can leave alone, I forget so it's not like I can yell at you for that. However, capitalizing would help too.

Please PUNCTUATE. It becomes rather hard to read if you string together multiple ideas without any sort of break. It takes under a second to type in a period, or a comma, or even a semicolon ( ; ) if you're daring.

Abbreviations: Take the extra second, PLEASE, to spell out two more characters. It's nearly effortless to do this, and clears up a good amount of confusion. This also includes R, Hu, Wut, Y, etc... While abbreviations such as b/c and w/o and IDK etc. are fine, one to two letters is really not asking much.

Spelling: at least make a conscious effort to spell correctly. If you don't know how to spell a word, or if your finger slips, that's fine; but don't rush so much that you start yo splap the ketyboad like this. This is not a race; people take an extra few seconds to take your time.

1337: 1337 is not cool. It's STUPID. Don't try to complicate by typing in 1337.

Caps Lock: It is not wise to type in ALL CAPS LOCK LIKE THIS! It is annoying and people will have the notion that you are yelling at them. Be wise and look at what you are typing every so often.
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If you just follow those guidelines, things will be a lot clearer, as well as make you look smarter, and well all want to look smart, now don't we?