Good question!
The former rules were written in the spirit of being undisputable, but over time we've realised they were not covering all that we need. So we made a few amendments.
The amendments are in green text. Feel free to read them.
The Rules of Forumophilia
1. No under-age
Do not post or exchange by private message any images, download links, hyperlinks or in any other way share material where the subject was under eighteen at the time that the material was made. (This includes all non-nude material).
2. No banned or restricted content
Do not post or exchange by private message any images, download links, hyperlinks or in any other way share material from any site prohibited at Forumophilia. Some sites may be subject to restrictions on the amount or where material from that site may be posted. (See list of banned and restricted sites at the link below. This list is subject to amendment at any time):
List of banned and restricted sites.
3. Only allowed Filehosters, Imagehosters and Link protectors
3. Do not post or exchange by private message any images or download links using any image hosting, file sharing or link protection site other than those permitted at Forumophilia or share material using any form of torrent or similar file sharing programs.
This includes any form of container files. (See lists of permitted sites below. This list is subject to amendment at any time):
List of permitted sites
4. No Spam or Adverstising
All forms of Spam or unauthorised advertising of any product or site are prohibited. Any post, thread or private message which contravenes this rule will be deleted and the perpetrator subject to immediate ban.
This rule applies accordingly to affiliate or referral links. Do not advertise your own site or blog
5. Phishing / Spoofing
Any attempt to steal or solicit member’s passwords or personal information (Phishing) or posting links which redirect the member to a different site than that displayed in the link (Spoofing) are prohibited. Any post, thread or private message which contravenes this rule will be deleted and the perpetrator subject to immediate ban.
6. No streaming content, FHGs or TGPs
Do not post or exchange by private message any links to streaming videos or Thumbnail Gallery Posts (TGPs) or Free Hosted Galleries (FHGs). (If in any doubt about how these are defined please ask a moderator).
7. Do not link to other boards / blogs
Do not post, exchange by private message or include in profiles, signatures, avatars,
rar- or zip-files or in any other way exchange links to any other forum, blog site,
yahoo, google, twitter, myspace and MSN groups or other newsgroups or similarly exchange or request for passwords to any paysite.
8. Bumping, Post Flooding
Do not post a series of short “Thank you” messages or unnecessarily duplicate posts in order to increase your post count. This will be construed as “Post Flooding” and any post which is thought to contravene this rule may be deleted by the moderators.
You won't get to VIP by doing so. Bumping own threads in purpose to get a "top ranking" in a category are not permitted.
9. Post in one thread
Do not open multiple, single post threads in order to share material. Unrelated material
or material with a single theme (e.g. Redheads) should be combined in a single thread.
10. No flaming
Do not use insulting, abusive or inflammatory language. Bigotry on the grounds of race, religious belief, sex, cultural heritage, sexual orientation etc will not be tolerated. Offenders will be banned from the site.
11. Only one account per user
Members are only permitted to hold one account at Forumophilia.
12. Admins and Moderators decisions are final
The site operator and appointed moderators reserve the right to take any action they feel appropriate should any member breach any of the above rules and to take any actions they feel appropriate in circumstances not covered by the above rules in order to protect the interests and harmony of the site operator, Forumophilia and its members. The decisions of the site operator and appointed moderators are final and dissention or abuse over their actions will not be tolerated.
13. Prohibited content
- Under-age
- Animal (****philia)
- Gay
- Death (snuff)
- Scat/Shit
- Warez
- Music
- Mainstream movies (Hollywood blockbuster etc.)
This list is not conclusive. We reserve the right to take appropriate action for content not covered by the list. Forumophilia is not a forum for extreme or illegal porn. Ask if you are in doubt.
Guidance notes for new members
(a)
Forum etiquette.
(a:1)
Keep it nice. Nobody likes a loud-mouth. Rudeness will not be tolerated (see rule 12). Don’t feed the trolls. If you see someone being rude or inflammatory don’t retaliate just report it to the moderators. If you don’t like a model posted on the site you have nothing to gain by saying so. Tastes differ so just keep quiet and move on.
(a:2)
Don’t post a string of meaningless posts (see rule 8 ). Other members find it irritating and it pushes quality posts off of the front page. Of course it’s nice when members thank others for posting quality picture sets or videos and we’d never want to discourage that but keep it to a reasonable level and say something more substantial than a simple one-word “Thanks”. Don’t think you’ll get into the VIP club any quicker by post flooding. You won’t. We’ll just delete your posts and reduce your post count.
(a:3)
Help the moderators by hitting the red “!” tab in the top right hand corner of a post where you see anything which contravenes the rules of the site. Forumophilia is a huge site and it takes a lot of time and hard work to police it. If you report a problem to the moderators we can deal with it more quickly.
(a:4)
If in doubt ask. If you suspect that something you want to post might be against the rules here or aren’t sure how a certain rule is interpreted then ask a moderator for guidance. We’re always happy to help.
(b)
Sharing material
(b:1)
Post all unrelated material in one thread (see rule 9). One of the things that irritates members here the most (especially the big posters) is a lot of single post threads which drive the more substantial threads off of the front page. It’s also messy. Keep your unrelated stuff on one thread and keep adding to it when you have something new to post. The advantage to you in this is that every time you add to your thread your previous posts on it will be seen (and downloaded) by members who haven’t seen the thread before. You get more downloads that way and your links will last longer. You’ll also get more respect from the other members.
(b:2)
Contributing material to other member’s threads is acceptable and often encouraged but don’t hi-jack someone else’s thread. Unless the member running the thread has clearly said they invite other members to post new material on it then ask first. Don’t post anything which is already on the thread. Treat other member’s threads with the same respect you’d like them to show to yours.
(b:3)
Use only permitted image hosting, file sharing or link protection sites (see rule 3). A lot of image and file hosting sites are not acceptable here. This is to protect our members not because we want to be authoritarian. Many hosting sites have a lot of pop-ups, re-direct to somewhere you don’t want to go and some even download spyware or Trojans.Also if a hosting site redirects, causes excessive pop ups, requires registration, installs javascripts, or pays the uploader we don't allow it here. Also no containers
of any form, it makes it so MODs can't verify that the material is allowed here.
List of permitted sites
(b:4)
Very small uploaded files and excessively large images posted on the site can be very annoying to other members. Do not post a complete site-rip in a single post. Try to limit your post to 5 videos (plus previews) or 5 picsets (plus previews) in one post. Try to keep uploaded files posted here to at least 10
MB for video files and at least 25 images in picture files. Similarly very large images posted on the site can be irritating to other members. They can take a long time to load when viewing a thread and are often difficult to see if they are too large to be contained on a monitor screen. Try to keep the images you post at the site to no more than 650 pixels wide and 1300 pixels high
and a maximum image weight of 500 KB (= 0.5 MB). Better still post thumbnails. Images in signatures should be no more than 650 pixels wide by 170 pixels high. Avatars must not exceed 100 pixels wide by 100 pixels high.
(b:5)
Protect your download links. Most file sharing sites don’t allow porn so don’t make it obvious you’re uploading it. If you want to upload a file with a name like “Hot teen blow job and fuck” it’s going to be fairly obvious to the file sharing site that it isn’t your holiday snaps so re-name it to something meaningless before uploading. Put everything in password protected RAR files so the file hosting site can’t check to see what’s inside. Use the “code” facility on the download link when posting here so that the hosting sites can’t tell that downloads came from here.
(b:6)
You are responsible for everything you post. If you lift a download link from another forum, post it here and it contains anything which breaks the rules of this site you’re the one we’ll ban. Check what's inside every file before you post a link to it. Ignorance is not an acceptable defence.
