Rules Of Lucario Forums

Community Rules
1. Please show staff and all other rule abiding members respect. Remember treat others how you would like to be treated yourself.
2. Do not dispute the decisions of the admins openly please. If you have a complaint, feel free to calmly report it. If you do calmly report it and we show you our evidence and reasons, and then please accept that you may still be banned, but time may well be deducted if you show that you are sorry.
3. No spam. What is spam? Well posts that have no point. It could be an advert for a job posted by a spam bot or a pointlessly short post posted by a regular. Just don’t do it please.
4. The following names are banned from both the forums and subscriptions to Endeem’s advertising services: Jimm.y Junker (no .), Tilly, Mikami and Dr.Disturbing. Please do not praise such people and should any of them contact you please report it, no matter what they say. Remember, some of them are part of an ongoing legal case and along with some other lesser offenders; they may all be part of that same case soon though.
5. In addition to rule two, please remember that all significant admin decisions are well thought out and that as we are not corrupt, we would not break any laws despite what others may say. It is extremely annoying to go through hours of painstaking planning and then have members question you as if they are the press wishing to see if our stories hold water. It would be a very rare occasion indeed that the staff made an unplanned and illogical decision.
6. If someone is banned from the site, then logically they are not going to remain friendly with us. The number of times we have had reports of “Well so and so who was banned last week said you are liars and I believe them”. Think about it. They aren’t exactly going to go and recommend it to their friends and family after all they would have been banned for a reason. Also, please remember this; hackers and spammers don’t all talk and act like hackers and spammers. It isn’t the movies, they could pretend to be anyone otherwise identity theft wouldn’t exist.
7. Use only minor swear words please and NEVER direct them towards someone else.
8. Do not abuse your powers as a staff member to break rules, laws or be a bully.
9. Anyone who does any form of supremacy routine for any Pokemon site against (as in against in the sense that you are comparing an apple AGAINST an orange, 'to' is not appropriate for the context) TER, FROM NOW (yes not people who did it BEFORE), will be dealt with in a similar manner to disrespect rules.
9. Do not use the words; retard (or similar), ugly (when directed at someone, at items and art is fine to the extent), pervert (aimed at anyone) and similar offensive phrases.

Should any party choose to compare statistics they must take FACTUAL and researched Shiny Latios Forum statistics into consideration and give appropriate mention. Otherwise it will be considered a supremacy routine.

Rules Regarding Advertising
1. Advertising is allowed on the forums in the allocated areas, depending on which forum, there may be an advertisement area, blog spot or neutral zone.
2. PM advertising is allowed to a degree. READ ON PLEASE!!! However you are limited to five people and they must be friends. If they are not your friend and they report it within a week, then you will be banned for two days, if it happens again then its 7 days and after that an indefinite ban.
3. Links to other sites are allowed in some cases, but not all. Please check the list below:
-Serebii, PE2K and Psypokes not their forums! links are allowed in; team building and the Pokemon gaming areas. All other Pokemon site’s links are disallowed.
-Links to non-Pokemon/anime (and general, but only if they are forums), yet law abiding forums are allowed throughout.
Please note that links to forums except in the advertisement areas are strictly forbidden.

Rules Regarding Posts
1. Posts must be at least three words long except in the neutral zone and forum games.
2. Posts must not contain spam of any kind.
3. Posts must not contain malicious or over sized images. Keep images larger than 1000X1000 or of large file types in links only.
4. Try to include as much detail as possible.
5. Reaching the next rank is great and a wonderful achievement, but please do not spam to do so.
6. Topics must include everyone, do not say that only certain people can post in a topic unless it is a club or clan that has been approved.

Rules Regarding Profiles
1. All new profiles registering on listed or fake IPs will be banned unless the ban is detested. This has never happened. If a new member joins as ‘VIAGRA101’ then we are going to get rid of them.
2. Signatures can contain no more than 10000 characters and must be no bigger than:
https://2img.net/h/oi10.tinypic.com/6c3pked.jpg
3. Avatars must be smaller than 157(w)X201(h).
4. Please make sure that your profile abides by all of the above rules.
5. Members must wait three months to change their name, medium staff must wait one month and high staff are free to change their names whenever. Subtle changes are allowed for anyone when they so choose, this must considered subtle by the staff member who you request to change your name.

Warnings, Bans and Deletion
1. Break a serious rule once and you will be severely warned, break two serious rules and unless there are exceptional circumstances you will be gone.
2. Break a minor rule (eg. 3 words) once and you will be asked not to do it again, do it twice and you will be told, do it three times and you will be warned, do it a fourth time and you will be warned again, do it a fifth and you be banned for a week. (Within the period of one month, unofficial warnings are just stored for 30 days).
3. Staff members will rarely turn rogue, but if one does then we will carefully consider what they have done, both positive and negative. We will then come to a logical decision from there.
4. Key staff members cannot be demoted, even on the forum. In exceptional circumstances in which it would be required to demote one then an extremely serious process would take place. Key staff members are legally connected to the forum and even if a resignation was requested the process would take about 28 days.
5. Admin decisions are rarely spontaneous, as mentioned before please note that most admin decisions are very well planned indeed.
6. F.Mods will be returned to member at 500 posts unless otherwise requested. They will still have moderating powers and the only thing that will change will be the rank bar. This is due to demand.
7. Staff on all current or former Endeem Small Operations must follow standard staff regulation.

Endeem Small Operations and its administration are not responsible for any illegal content posted by members. We do our best to keep the forum free of these things, but in some cases it is not possible. The rules have been set out to guide members in what to post and should we find out that a member is breaking them they will be dealt with suitably. Everything posted on this website is the responsibility of the author, both ethically and legally. We will do what is humanly possible to keep the forum legal, ethical and suitable for its average age group.
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