Forums FAQ

• Guidelines
• Karma Badges

Guidelines

The following are the basic rules of conduct that users of the GameHouse Forums are required to adhere to. Failure to comply with these rules of conduct may result in the termination ("banning") of your forum account.

Because every situation is different, all moderation of the Forums is at the discretion of the GameHouse Community Team. These rules are subject to change.

1. While participating in the Forums, you must respect the rights of others to participate in the community. To this end you may not harass, defraud, threaten or cause distress and/or unwanted attention to other members. This includes, but is not limited to:

• Name-calling or other insults
• Posting with the intent of provoking another user or users
• Bringing disagreements with someone into unrelated threads

2. You may not use sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially, nationally or ethnically offensive language.

3. You may not distribute or spotlight sexually explicit, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially, nationally, or ethnically offensive content. This includes posting links to sites which contain any of the above.

4. You may not impersonate any employee of GameHouse, our partners or affiliates, past or present. This includes the use or modification of the GameHouse logo as a Forums avatar or signature.

5. You may not violate any local, state, national, or international laws or regulations.

6. You may not market, promote, advertise or solicit products or services for sale or trade within GameHouse Forums. You may not post advertisements for websites that are not directly related to GameHouse.

7. You may not form or participate in groups whose ideology is based on or resembles anti-religious, anti-ethnic, anti-sexual orientation, racist, or sexist philosophies.

8. Making short posts for the sole purpose of moving your thread up the Forums ("bumping") or adding to your post count is not allowed.

9. You may not upload or transmit copyrighted material, without the express consent of the copyright holder.

10. You may not post the personally identifiable information of another user, including but not limited to their real name, address, phone number, email address, or links to personal websites without the express consent of that user.

11. You may not re-post Private Messages or E-mails on the Forums without the express consent of the sender.

12. Discussion of religious or political topics is prohibited on the Forums.

13. Do not re-post or quote any materials which violate the Forum Guidelines.

14. Please do not respond to rude or abusive posts. Use the "Report As Inappropriate" option next to the offending post.

15. Users are entitled to one primary account. While secondary accounts are allowed, any account created for the purpose of trolling or otherwise violating these Forums Guidelines will result in the permanent ban of the secondary account and the temporary or permanent ban of the primary account, at the moderators' discretion.

16. We do not discuss disciplinary actions taken against members either with other members or on the Forums, and we ask that you do not either. Any threads or posts that mention infractions/bans etc. will be removed and might result in further disciplinary action.

17. Users must not violate, or promote the violation of, GameHouse's terms of service, codes of conduct or end user license agreements.

18. Posting the same thread to multiple Forums ("cross-posting") without express permission of the moderators is not allowed.

19. When making a new thread, please take a moment to search existing threads. Many users have the same questions and it helps everyone to keep information about the same topic in one place. At their discretion, the GameHouse Community Team may combine threads with duplicate content.

If your forum account has been banned and you feel this ban is in error, ban appeals may be sent to ForumAdmins@gamehouse.com. Please include your forum account name in all correspondence.

The GameHouse Community Team strives to foster the community by bringing you up to date information, and administering the Forums with fair, impartial moderation.

Karma Badges

We recognize our users' contributions to the GameHouse Forums by awarding Karma Badges. The more you post, the better your GameHouse karma! Following are the Karma Badges you can earn, listed from low to high: