Forum-wide Rules

[color=red]The Center rules are designed as a policy to allow members to respect the values of other members. This protects members and staff around The Breeding Center to ensure that it is happy and safe for everyone. Failure to abide by the rules may result in a warning or a ban. Rules may be subject to change; please check back on The Breeding Center rules as often as possible to review the rules.

SPAM is not allowed.
Stupid Pointless Annoying Messages are posts with little relevance to a thread.
Members are not allowed to create posts that are devoid of content or invaluable text.

Posts must have at least 25 characters and 4 words.
All posts are required to have 4 words. The Breeding Center has a physical 25-character limit to each post. No exceptions are given to this rule, and no one is allowed to override the limit (no "*stupid character limit*", filler text or anything like that), except for in forums which have a description saying you can. The Battle Arena and Trade Center forums, for example, permit it.

Double posting or consecutive posting is forbidden.
While the fan fiction areas have exceptions, no one is allowed to make more than one consecutive post. Edit posts if you need to add more to them. If you need to include more than five attachments, you may create as many posts as needed to do so.

Threads can only be "revived" within a month.
A thread that has gone past an approximate month may not be posted in. A post that is approximately a month old and has not been posted in will be closed and/or deleted. For restarting topics, create a new thread.

Everybody is to respect other people on the board.
Do not flame, bash or insult other people. If someone acts uncivil, or harasses/intimidates you, you are not given the excuse to act the same in retaliation. Language in the forum must not be offensive to others - words such as "gay" when used in a derogatory manner must not be used. Do not press upon other members' religious beliefs.

Swearing and censor bypass is not allowed.
It is not permitted to swear on the community - along with that, most known words are blocked. You are not allowed to override the prohibition.

Linking to other forums is not allowed in posts, social groups, visitor messages, or private messages.
The only space where a forum link may be posted in is your signature. The only time a forum may be linked to otherwise be when it is providing an example of ideas we can use for the center. Members who join and send forum links over the private message system will be immediately banned on the notion of joining on the intention of SPAM of forum links. The Breeding Center additionally prohibits unsolicited advertising of forums and websites. (It is left to the discretion of moderators to decide whether a post is advertising or not.)

Pornographic images must not be submitted anywhere on the community.
In no portion of The Breeding Center can an image or link to a pornography site be submitted. Doing such is heavily disregarded - posting such will lead to an immediate and indefinite ban, regardless of a member's forum status.

Illegally tampered copyrighted software may not be posted or linked to.
Including ROMs, “warez” or cracks, no software that has been illegally tampered with, or distributed outside its legal means, should be linked to. This includes original BIOS or firmware files for any gaming platform. ROMs are copyrighted materials, and the distribution of them without any copyright holding is prohibited.

Don't question any bans that we issue. Do not ask about a member's ban.
Bans to members are kept between staff and the member. Unless information is answered by a staff member, you should not ask about it. Don't question bans that we issue to members - additionally, do not invite friends to rally your ban.

You are not allowed to register accounts to create an illusion of more than one person.
Also known as "sock puppetry", you may not use another account to vote on a poll or back up an argument, mislead other members, or evade a ban. Evasion of a ban, in particular may, depending on the offences a member commits, result in punishments such as the ban time being doubled and/or the timer reset. This does not prohibit having multiple accounts (for yourself or individuals in your family) in general. We will ban all accounts used for ban evasion without question.

Thread tags must be relevant.
Tags are meant to be a system of organizing threads by topic. People who give pointless, irrelevant, or inappropriate tags to threads may be infracted. No tags at all are better than tags that don't make sense.

Signature Rules

Images in signatures have an accumulated limit of 500 pixels in width and 300 pixels in height (500 × 300). The total amount of images you have in your signature cannot exceed that limit. In addition, there are limits to the amount of lines of text you may have in your signature. Your signature cannot contain text in a higher size than 5. The table below defines the size limits of text in a signature.



A disciplinary system is yet to be implimented. But don't think that because there isn't one yet means that you can get away with what you want. The rules are in place so that everyone may have a good time while in The Breeding Center, and to think otherwhise will result in a ban until further notice.