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Wed 17/07/02 at 17:55
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The following is the Code of Conduct for the Specail Reserve Forums. The rules in this Code of Conduct should be adhered to at all times. If members feel that they will be unable to abide by these rules they should not post to or be active on these forums.

These forums are yours to use, but not yours to abuse. We’re not here to stop you guys having fun, but we do feel it’s our responsibility to protect members of the GD community from exposure to unnecessary materials or behaviour.

Rules within the Code relating to forum members are arranged according to severity, with Grade A being the most severe and Grade C the least. Any breach of the Grade A or B, and recurring infringement of Grade C rules will result in your forum account being locked and all posting privileges instantly revoked.

There is no warning system for forum members who break any of these rules - no second chances and no “3 strikes and you’re out” policy. If you break the rules you will experience the consequences.

If a forum member believes that a Moderator has taken inappropriate action with regards to enforcing these rules or misused their authority, they may contact Special Reserve for a final and objective adjudication on the matter.

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Examples of any of the following will result in an instant and permanent ban from the Special Reserve forums.



Personally and verbally attacking any other forum member or Special Reserve member of staff in a deliberately vicious manner. This primarily, although not exclusively, refers to insults concerning ethnicity, sex, faith, disability and so forth. Abuse or harassment of another forum member will not be tolerated to any degree.

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Wed 17/07/02 at 20:18
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".......on the attac"
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Who cares if he copied it?

The rules are mostly like the ones for SR.

Seems like a bunch of people here need to get a life.

The only problem here seems to be that he didn't say where he got it from which was probably an oversight....
Wed 17/07/02 at 20:20
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".......on the attac"
Posts: 1,271
Who cares if he copied it?

The rules are mostly like the ones for SR.

Seems like a bunch of people here need to get a life.

The only problem here seems to be that he didn't say where he got it from which was probably an oversight....
Wed 17/07/02 at 20:20
Regular
".......on the attac"
Posts: 1,271
Who cares if he copied it?

The rules are mostly like the ones for SR.

Seems like a bunch of people here need to get a life.

The only problem here seems to be that he didn't say where he got it from which was probably an oversight....
Wed 17/07/02 at 20:24
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".......on the attac"
Posts: 1,271
Sorry about that. Browser is playing up.....
Wed 17/07/02 at 20:32
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"Just Bog Standard.."
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J Savo wrote:

> just hope ur site doesn't get damaged. And that is a threat.

I hope you do get banned now for being so aggresive. All this didnt really bother me before but I dont like people threatning others.
Wed 17/07/02 at 20:51
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Lord H wrote:
> Who cares if he copied it?
>
> The rules are mostly like the ones for SR.
>
> Seems like a bunch of people here need to get a life.
>
> The only problem here seems to be that he didn't say where he got it
> from which was probably an oversight....

Yes, but he also copied three reviews and was openly aggressive towards SR. I don't really think he's a very nice person.
Wed 17/07/02 at 20:54
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SR could also get the police involved for threats about damaging their site.
Wed 17/07/02 at 20:57
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KR wrote:
> SR could also get the police involved for threats about damaging their
> site.

Yes things like hacking and DOS and even general threats and treated as serious offences
Wed 17/07/02 at 20:57
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Posts: 13,611
KR wrote:
> SR could also get the police involved for threats about damaging their
> site.

I don't think it would go quite THAT far.
Wed 17/07/02 at 21:03
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An UK friend of mine runs servers and someone who was nasty to her used the dos method btw he was in the usa well they caught him and he was locked away where he belongs.. in the USA DOS is a serious offence
and for those that dont know DOS = denial of service

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