L4DFiles.com Forum Rules

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1. MEMBERSHIP AND MEMBER ACCOUNTS

1.1 - Age Requirement
You must be 13 years of age or older to gain membership to and/or participate in L4DFiles.

1.2 - Single Account
You may only have ONE account on L4DFiles.

1.3 - Sharing of Account
You may not share your L4DFiles account with any other forum members or individuals. This rule applies especially to the sharing of accounts with temporarily or permanently banned members. In all cases, you are responsible for any content or activity that originates from your member account.

1.4 - Member Names
Member names may not contain any offensive, racist, sexually explicit, profane, abusive or otherwise objectionable terms. Also, you may not use an intentionally misleading member name, or a member name that is confusingly similiar to that of an existing member, administrator or moderator.


2. GENERAL FORUM ETIQUETTE

2.1 - English Only
L4DFiles is an English-only forum. All content posted in publicly viewable areas of the forum must be written in English.

2.2 - Insults/Flaming
Personal attacks, insults, rudeness, racism, threats, name calling or unnecessarily inflammatory posts will not be tolerated. Posts of this nature will be edited or deleted by the forum staff without notice. It is important to keep in mind that L4DFiles is a global community and what might be acceptable behavior or language in one country may not be acceptable in others. Common courtesy, politeness and respect for fellow members and forum staff, along with constructive posting of opinions is essential in preventing posts from being edited and/or deleted, or having threads locked.

2.3 - Threats/Intimidation
Real life threats of bodily harm, injury or assault (either explicit or implied) or any form of intimidation are STRICTLY PROHIBITED on any part of the L4DFiles website and will ALWAYS result in a ban from the forum.

2.4 - Personal Information
Revealing real world information about a member, administrator or moderator is STRICTLY PROHIBITED, regardless of the source, public or private. This includes any information about a forum member that reveals an individual's legal name, address, occupation or other sensitive or personally identifiable information. All such content WILL BE DELETED, and may result in a temporary or permanent ban from the forum.

2.5 - Private Communication
Posting the content from a private communication in a publicly viewable area of L4DFiles is not permitted. Private communications include any medium where the involved parties have a reasonable expectation of privacy, such as: emails, chat logs, instant messenger logs, private messages, private forum posts, private social group posts, reputation comments, etc. Such private communications are to remain private, not shared with third parties. Any such private communication content posted on L4DFiles WILL BE DELETED.

2.6 - Shouting
You may not shout (all capital letters, and/or excessive punctuation) in posts or thread titles. Use caps and punctuation only for minimal emphasis.

2.7 - Illegal Content
Any discussion of or links to web sites promoting software piracy, warez, illegal downloads, cracks, cd keys, illegal file-sharing, pornography, illegal drugs, or any other illegal or similar content WILL BE DELETED without notice. Such discussions and links are totally inappropriate on L4DFiles (and often illegal in the US, Europe and most other countries).

2.8 - Affiliate Links/Solicitation
Advertising real life items or services, the posting of affiliate or referral links, or any other form of solicitation is not permitted on L4DFiles (this includes member profiles or any other publicly viewable area). If you would like to advertise on L4DFiles, please use the Advertise link at the bottom of any forum page to inquire. Similarly, promotion of or posting links to charities or other services soliciting donations or money is not permitted.

2.9 - Excessive Website Promotion
Excessive promotion or spamming of links to personal websites, gaming forums, etc. is not permitted. Members are welcome to add links to their website in their signatures and/or profiles. However, any member found to be abusing this privilege by spamming links, or making useless/frivilous posts simply to display a signature (sig spamming) may receive a ban from the forum.

3.1 - Spamming/Flooding/Trolling/Sig Spamming
The following are not permitted on L4DFiles:

• Spamming - Posting the same thread in multiple forums, or posting the same post in multiple threads, or sending unsolicited private messages to members.
• Flooding - Posting many times in succession in a single thread.
• Trolling - Constant harrassment of a member, or repeated off-topic and/or rude posts in a thread.
• Sig Spamming - Creating pointless, off topic, or otherwise frivilous posts for the sole purpose of displaying a signature.

3. UPLOADING FILES

3.1 - Left 4 Dead Only
L4DFiles offers members the ability to upload custom Left 4 Dead content (i.e. maps, mods, plugins, skins, etc.). ALL files uploaded to L4DFiles must be related to Left 4 Dead. The L4DFiles.com downloads feature is a benefit for our members, not a general file sharing service. Any files found that are unrelated to Left 4 Dead (i.e. other game mods, mp3s, warez, cd keys, etc.) WILL BE DELETED and may result in the offending member losing uploading privileges and/or being banned from the site.

3.2 - Malicious Software
Any member found to upload any file containing malicious software such as viruses, malware, trojan horses, worms, adware or other potentially harmful or dangerous code WILL BE BANNED and all previously uploaded content WILL BE DELETED. Depending on severity, such activity may also be reported to the appropriate authorities.

3.3 - Copyrights and Intellectual Property
Members should have any and all necessary licenses and/or permissions to share content included in files uploaded to L4DFiles.com Attribution should also be given to any co-authors, Stealing mods from other members or mod sites and uploading them to L4DFiles.com is not permitted. Any member found to make false claims about the ownership or author of any file uploaded to L4DFiles risks losing all uploading privileges, and/or being banned from the site. Please read the L4DFiles.com Terms of Service Agreement for our full policy regarding files uploads.


DEFINITIONS

Publicly Viewable:
Forum threads, posts, member profiles, blogs, signatures, custom titles, reputation comments, thread tags, social group messages, calendar events and descriptions, public profile messages, L4DFiles chatroom text, gallery images and comments, member album images and comments, or any other area with content viewable by other members or visitors.

Forum Staff:
The owners, operators, administrators and moderators of L4DFiles.com.


NOTES

While the above rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate all circumstances. Consequently, the Forum Staff reserves the right to take any actions deemed appropriate to ensure that the forum is not disrupted or abused in any way, or to protect L4DFiles staff and members from fraud, harassment or abuse.

Please be aware that it is impossible for the Forum Staff to review all content posted on L4DFiles. The Forum Staff does its best to keep discussions positive, on topic and polite, and to enforce the forum rules fairly and consistently. We encourge members to help us in this effort by making use of the Report Post tool (the red triangle located in the lower left corner of each post) whenever one feels a post is offensive, inappropriate or violates these rules. This will enter the offending post into the moderation queue, and will result in quicker attention from the Forum Staff. For other content that may be in violation of these forum rules or otherwise objectionable, please use the Contact Us link at the bottom of any forum page to alert the Forum Staff.

The Forum Staff reserves the right to edit, delete, alter or remove any content that violates these forum rules or the L4DFiles Terms of Service with or without notice. The Forum Staff also reserves the right to restrict the permissions or ability of any member to access any or all parts of L4DFiles.com for violation of these forum rules or for any other reason.

The more general right to refuse access, ban a user, block an IP address, or otherwise restrict the functionality of L4DFiles.com content or services in any way and for any reason is reserved by the L4DFiles administrators.

Circumstances and situations may arise that periodically require a revision of these forum rules. As such, L4DFiles administrators reserve the right to modify and/or expand the official rules of this forum at any time. We encourage you to periodically visit this page to advise yourself of the latest rules.

The Forum Staff shall be the sole and final arbitrators of what does or does not violate these rules and/or L4DFiles community standards.

The decisions of the Forum Staff are final.

These forum rules are supplemental to the L4DFiles.com Terms of Service Agreement. In any case of conflict or contradiction, the Terms of Service Agreement supersedes these forum rules.

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L4DFiles.com Forum Rules effective as of May 1, 2009.

L4DFiles.com Forum Rules last modified on May 1, 2009.