Board-wide Policies

This document is designed to clarify various responsibilities of community members here at the AKMat Portal. Please read it and become familiar with it.

1. Forum rules: First and foremost, the discussion boards at AKMat are dedicated to topics pertinent to the sport of wrestling. Posts that are not considered relevant to this subject will be removed.

a. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting.

b. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users will not be tolerated. Members will refrain from directly attacking individuals, whether identified by name or school. Such posts only give one side of an issue and rapidly degrade into name-calling and useless complaining. While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.

c. Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. You agree not to post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed). The IP address of all posts is recorded to aid in enforcing these conditions. You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. In addition, adding punctuation to enable a normally censored word to appear will not be tolerated.

d. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering anything for sale, services, etc. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed.

e. The board administrator(s) and/or moderators reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar or spam is up to the administrators and moderators.

f. The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging.

g. Users should limit themselves to a single account on this board. Members who open up a second account will have that account deleted.

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2. Signatures

a. Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 400px wide and 10KB in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text.

b. Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect tp decency, emoticons, etc.

c. Links are permitted in signatures. Links are included within the text and image limits above. Links to offensive sites will be subject to removal without notice.

d. Moderators and Administrators may exceed the five-line limit for signatures due to the fact that they have additional lines of contact information they need to make available to users of the boards, and the signature line is a useful way of doing this

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3. Avatars

a. Users are permitted to utilize a gallery avatar or to link to one of their own (subject to previous points on misuse of bandwidth). User defined avatars are to be no larger than 90 pixels square, may not exceed 10KB in file size and have a consistently high availability (i.e. links to images on slow servers or those prone to failure may be removed).

b. Users shall not use personal pictures as avatars.

c. Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect to decency, etc.

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4. Private Messaging (PM)

a. Private messages sent and received are not really private. The contents of these messages can and may be reviewed by discussion board administrator(s).

b. If a portal member is being harassed via the private message system, they should contact a portal administrator. The portal administrator will review the PM records. If it is discovered that a member has been using the PM system to harass another member, they will be given an official warning. If the harassment is serious enough in the opinion of the administrator, the offending member may be banned from the discussion board or have their PM privileges taken away.

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5. Data Base Storage & Cookies

a. As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent, the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.

b. This forum system uses cookies to store information on your local computer. These cookies do not contain any of the information you have entered above; they serve only to improve your viewing pleasure. The e-mail address is used only for confirming your registration details and password (and for sending new passwords should you forget your current one).