General Overview

These are the Naru-Tube Forum rules. If you don't agree with them you can leave this section of The Site or refuse to register an account. Upon breaking a rule you might receive a warning, but this is not mandatory. You can be banned for your first offense of breaking these rules.

NOTE: We often refer to our forums as the BBS. The term BBS is an acronym for "Bulletin Board System", which is the traditional name for what most people now refer to as "forums".

If you break these rules, you'll earn an instant ban regardless of which moderator sees the post(s).

• Using racist, sexist, homophobic or hateful language.
• Posting pornographic (including cartoon porn) or NSFW (Not Safe For Work) material.
• Linking to pornographic or NSFW material without a clear warning.
• Linking to viruses, referral sites, or maliciously coded websites either in your signature or in your post.
• Discussing illegal activities – including, but not limited to: ROMs, cracks, warez and hacking.
• Instigating or discussing malicious attacks on other websites
• Posting with an alternate account whilst banned or your main account while an alt is banned. Both accounts may be deleted.
• Posting any member's real life information without permission.
• Impersonating Administrators or Moderators.
• Bumping any old topic without a good reason or without new information.
• Making multiple short posts (five words or less) over a short time period.
• Attempting to exploit these rules.

If you break these rules, you're definitely risking being banned. Think before you post.

• Remaking or complaining about a locked or deleted thread by creating a new thread.
• Complaining or boasting about any ban, including comments in signature text.
• Backseat modding: pointing out what needs to be deleted, banned, locked or destroyed.
• Posting flashing or strobing images, or picture spamming: repeatedly posting the same picture or posting irrelevant / overused images{jcomments off}.
• ALL CAPS posting.
• Chasing / harassing / flaming other users, regardless of who instigated it.
• Harassing other users by having a continuous negative or bitter attitude towards them.
• Insulting or harassing the moderators or administrators.
• Trolling: cruising the boards looking for a fight.
• Advertising your website.
• Recreating a thread that has been created recently. Use the search bar before hitting "New Topic".
• Posting excessively in a language other than English for the sole purpose of excluding the majority of the users.
• Creating parody threads or posting with gimmick accounts.
• Posting "Use the search", "Use Google" or similar messages without providing relevant links.
• Attempting to exploit these rules.

General Conduct

Before making a topic make sure you are posting in the correct forum.  It should be pretty clear where to post since each forum has a description.

Give your topic a good title! This is often overlooked, and "WTF?" gives no clue as to what your topic will be about.

Before replying, please ask yourself: "Does my reply offer any significant advice or help contribute to the conversation in any fashion?"

Some simple guidelines:

• Use proper punctuation and grammar.
• Ignorance of the rules is not an excuse not to follow them.
• Lurk first, post second. Read the entirety of every thread you post in before you post.
• If you're about to make a post that you're not sure is OK, whether covered by the rules or not, don't.
• If you can't make a positive contribution to a topic, don't post.
• If you're not here to have fun, go elsewhere.
• Read, re-read, and respect these rules.

Final Thoughts

We want to keep this Forum clean, and we want to see people engage in intelligent conversation. Use common sense: if you don't have something interesting to discuss, don't post a topic! Remember, these are private forums.

Also, we're not perfect. Contact us if you have a question or general comment. We'll do our best to get back to you, but please be patient!