Site Rules

Section 1 - Introduction

Vermillion is a user based community, concentrated on Technological Development, Game Analysis, and General Discussion. Therefore, in addition to employing voluntary moderators, we allow users the freedom to act the way they think is best. This system is designed to provide an organic environment for users, while maintaining a certain degree of control against violation of site rules.

Therefore, while we do bestow several site rules, it’s up to the users to apply common sense to decide how they act. This structure is designed so that perpetrators will be punished within the social hierarchy of the community. Nonetheless, if you see content that violates any rule on this page, disagrees with your common interest, or has an inappropriate connotation; you are obliged to address it to our staff via the report button.

By creating an account you acknowledge and agree to behave accordingly to the rules below.

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Section 2 - Forum Rules

Duplicating a thread or topic in multiple different sections of the forum is prohibited.

The act of posting numerous times without another user's response in between is prohibited.

When posting a thread or a post, more than one word must be used.

When posting, keep your responses elegant and educated. Although we will accept the occasional short, 1-word response, if a user is found to be a repeat offender, a warning will be issued.

The act of spamming is prohibited.

Do not post your thread in an irrelevant section in relation to your topic.

Being excessively mean or offensive towards other users is prohibited, especially in the case of bullying/harassment.

Posting pornographic text, images, links, or any content in relation to that category, will not be tolerated.

You are required to participate in a legible, mature, and comprehensible manner, and in English.

Titles may not be short, uninformative, irrelevant to the central message, or ‘clickbait’.

Malicious Registration/Use of multiple accounts prohibited. Examples of malicious use include Ban Circumvention and Scamming.

Do not post or revive any old, inactive threads.

Do not attempt to bypass any site restriction, such as but not limited to the 20-character limit.

Hate Speech & Derogatory Terms are not tolerated on our site.

Do not post scripts, codes, exploits, or demonstrations of sexual or perverted videogame exploiting.

The sharing of credit card or explicitly private information of anyone is prohibited.

Sharing of accounts or information related to Banking or any other payment websites is prohibited.

The resale of another person's work, or the public release (leaking) of someone's verm-related work, is not permitted.

The quality of original content may need to be verified by staff, especially in the case of eBooks, when being sold.

No malicious infiltration of any of our site systems/subsystems, nor botting/automation of our functionality.

Section 3 - Avatars

Avatar images must be less than 180x220 pixels to be displayed on our website.

Avatars may not portray any symbolic representation to official status such as fake titles or staff member models.

Images are subject to the same rules regarding, but not limited to pornography and vulgarity outlined above.

Section 4 - Offsite Linking

Do not post links to pornographic, hateful, violent, gorey, terrorist, or generally inappropriate content.

Download links must be accompanied by a virus total scan of the download. Video evidence is also encouraged where appropriate.

Downloads links to files containing or having any relation to malware are not permitted.

Do not post files that are not what you say they are.

Any link embedded into our website will be considered an external link.

Encryption or obfuscation of links is prohibited.

Links to magnet or .torrent files are prohibited.

Advertising sites, or requesting money (donations, begging, etc) for the sake of personal or community gain is prohibited.

Section 5 - Signatures

Signatures may contain up to five lines of text and/or two images.

Signatures may not portray any symbolic representation to official status such as fake titles or staff member models.

Section 6 - Enforcement

Users will be warned a maximum of five times for any and all offences in a three month period.

Aggressive and Excessive arguing after being warned will result in an additional warning.

If you feel unjustly warned, you may appeal by responding to the warning private message.

Attempting to circumvent a ban or moderator action will result in a permanent ban of your account(s).

The staff team withholds the right to bypass or neglect the five strike policy.

Rationalization and contemplation play huge roles in the moderation team before issuing a permanent ban.

All staff members reserve the right to edit, remove, or perform any other moderation action on any content you add to our site.

All site rules apply to the Private Messaging system.

All site rules apply to the chatbox.

Section 7 - Privacy

The sharing of any explicitly personal information of anyone, including non-users is not permitted.

b - Account Dumps: Publicly posting login information of accounts that do not belong to you is not permitted.

Section 8 - Chat Box

With the exception of passive bots, chatbox bots are not permitted.

Passive bots are idle bots that record and log messages sent through the chat. These bots do not send messages or take commands, which is allowed in the chatbox. On the other hand, the use of bots that take commands and talk in chat is prohibited unless stated otherwise by a staff member.

Section 9 - Reputation

a - Asking for rep: Do not ask for/imply you should be given reputation under any circumstances.

b - Selling rep: Do not sell, exchange, or attempt to use reputation as a form of currency.

c – False reputation report: Reputations are opinions and should not be reported just because you disagree with an opinion.

d – Scam reputation links: All reputation that is given claiming a user is a scammer MUST be accompanied by a scam report link in the deal disputes section.

e – Multi reputation links: Similar to the above guideline, calling someone a multi-accounter without providing evidence of the claim in a reputation is not allowed.

Last Updated 19/01/2020