Registration as a User implies acceptance of the following terms and conditions:

1.Nicknames and channel names.
Do not use obscene, rude, crude or insulting nicknames and/or channels names.

2.Pornographic material.
Advertising and/or the distribution of all forms of pornographic material is prohibited.

3.Obscene material.
Do not display obscene, lewd, or sexually harassing images or text on a public channel and/or in a private communication with another party without the prior consent of the forum administrator and/or the other party.

4. Copyrighted material.
Do not advertise the illegal distribution and/or the distribution of copyrighted content, which includes without limitation software, text and images, to the chat forum without the permission of the owner. Users must acknowledge and respect the work of others through strict adherence to software licensing agreements and copyright laws.

5. Transmitting of content.
Do not transmit any content (i) that you do not have the right to transmit under law or under a contractual relationship (such as proprietary and confidential information learned or disclosed to you as an employee or which you have access to under a non-disclosure agreement) and (ii) that contains information regarding pirated computer programs or links to such programs, or information used to circumvent copy/protect devices installed by manufacturers on software, including serial or registration numbers for software programs, or provide links to pirated music files.

6. Commercial purposes.
Use for commercial or advertising purposes, or for the transmission of promotional materials or for purposes of participating in multi-level marketing or pyramid schemes is prohibited.

7.Advertising.
Participants may not use the forums to post or transmit advertisements or commercial solicitations of any kind.

8.Electronic fraud.
Do not commit electronic fraud. Do not forge the identity of a user or machine in an electronic communication. Do not use Socks Proxies, EZBounce, Vhosts, BNC's and/or any other software or hardware method to disguise or hide your own IP address. Do not impersonate any person, including, but not limited to, a forum administrator, channel operator or other participant. No clones are allowed.

9.Racism, hatred or profanity.
Do not use expressions of racism, hatred or profanity.

10.Harmful or illegal activities.
Do not promote or provide instructions for harmful or illegal activities including but not limited to, abusing or dealing in drugs and assembling bombs and other weapons.

11.Conduct towards others.
Do not harass, threaten, embarrass, swear at, sexually harass or abuse another participant.

12.Data Protection and Security.
Do not attempt to circumvent data protection schemes or uncover security loopholes. This includes without limitation creating and/or running programs that are designed to identify security loopholes and/or decrypt intentionally secure data.

13.Interfering with operations.
Do not interfere with the normal operations of computers, servers, and/or users connected to the system of the forum administrator or the system of Yet Another Forum.net.

14.Intentional damage or overloading.
Do not run any program intended to damage or to place excessive load on a server. This includes, but is not limited to, mass-invites, mass-messages, and programs known as floodbots and clonebots.

15.Type of Channels.
No channels or discussion forums dealing with sex, Warez, MP3 or hacking are allowed.

16.Unauthorised access.
Do not gain unauthorised access to a nickserv, chanserv or memoserv account(s) or any other computer system(s).

17.Automated client.
Do not connect an automated client, such as a bot, fserv or script to the forum's system without prior authorization by the server's administration.

18.Nuking.
Nuking and nuking tools such as 7th Sphere are prohibited.

19.Flooding and CAPS.
Do not intentionally, repeatedly or in a rapid manner transmit material producing the effect of harassing a user by "flooding" them. Do not type in CAPITALS.

20.Monitoring or tampering.
Do not attempt to monitor or tamper with another user's electronic communications, or read, copy, change, or delete any part of another user's nickserv, chanserv or memoserv account without the express agreement of the owner.

Advertising and scams

1. Advertising via forum messages is strictly prohibited. However, users are encouraged to recommend organizations, individuals, websites or online resources when another user makes a request for recommendations.

2. Linking to pyramid schemes and other forms of "free <place-your-product-here> schemes" is strictly prohibited

3. Providing affiliate tagged links to products or services is not allowed.

Invites to private sites

Requesting for or offering invites to sites that encourage piracy such as private torrent trackers or similar private P2P sites is not allowed. This rule has been requested by several private site administrators, and we honor their request.

Administrative actions

Messages that break any of the rules above can be removed or edited by the moderators and administrators of these forums. Even if something isn't specifically mentioned in the rules, it doesn't mean that it would be permitted. It is up to the moderators and administrators to determine what is appropriate and what is not.

Users who willfully violate the forum rules can be banned by the moderators and administrators.