If you log onto the PF Message Boards and upon trying to post material,receive a message that you have been banned, please submit an unban request and wait for a PF Message Board Moderator to get in touch with you. You can submit this request by either sending a Private Message to a Moderator or by mailing them. Bans are private matters between the Moderators and the person banned and will not be discussed publicly or through third parties. It is not acceptable to return to the Boards under another username. Doing so would lead to further severe action.

Moderators are not perfect and are only human. Disagreements occur. Try to communicate with them first on a respectful level and settle your disagreement. They are not targets for your obscenities, flames or general insults. If you do not agree with a decision, you are not entitled to start a thread arguing about the verdict or flaming any of the moderators. Any such messages will be removed immediately. This extends to Private Messages and unban requests as well, and you are not entitled to insult moderators via either of these methods. Also note that banning is a matter between the user banned and the Moderators, and Moderators can not and will not respond about bans publicly. Any correspondence about ban length and reason will be handled through unban requests. If you feel a verdict is unfair, you may contact the PF Crew about the
problem, but be prepared to review the Board Rules again and know that they are able to verify your accusations. The PF Crew will not mediate opinion and will only get involved if they find that the Board, Rules have been violated.

Following are some things all PF members should keep in mind while posting on the PF Message Boards. Please read the rules so you will be familiar with them.

PF Message Board users agree not to post any material that is protected by copyright, trademark or other proprietary right without the express permission of the owner(s) of said copyright, trademark or other proprietary right. This includes but is not limited to magazine, book and newspaper scans, television broadcasts and copyrighted photos and pictures.

A) Flaming is the act of posting messages that are deliberately hostile and insulting.
B) Bashing is posting messages that are harsh, gratuitous, prejudicial or attacking in nature towards a person, group
or subject.
C) Trolling is posting of inflammatory, rude or offensive messages designed intentionally to annoy and antagonize the existing members or disrupt the flow of discussion. It also includes deliberately posting false information in order to elicit responses from people who really want to help. The best way to deal with such members is to simply ignore them and ask others to do so as well. All such posts will not be tolerated on the PF Message Boards. Treat others on these message boards with dignity and respect, just as you would expect them to treat you. Talking trash about another user or posting topics specifically to provoke a negative response from an individual or a group is not acceptable on the PF Message Boards. Any such threads/posts will be deleted and may result in having the privilege of posting on the boards revoked by being banned.

Posts containing offensive, obscene, sexually oriented, violent, vulgar,illegal dialog, images, content, or links to such will be edited or deleted by the Moderators depending on the content. Posting such material can result in an immediate ban for the user.

Discrimination towards any particular member or group of members, based on sex, colour, race or ethnicity shall not be tolerated at all and shall be edited or deleted by the Moderators immediately.

On the PF Message Boards, using all capital letters in posts is considered as shouting and looks rude. It also makes the text difficult to read. Please avoid using all capital letters in your posts. excessive use of punctuation marks like ! and ? (more than3) also falls under this rule.

Only post enough images to make your point. This will in most cases be no more than 2 - 3 images, and you must always be able to explain why you have posted any image. If posting more than 5 images in one thread, you must have a very clear reason for doing so. Irrelevant or excessive images posted shall be removed by the Moderators. Posting of multiple images is only allowed in the Image Gallery, where there is no limit to the number of images members may post.

Users are allowed to create personal signatures, either in text form or images. Please try to keep them as short as possible. In case of images,only 1 image is allowed at a time as a signature and must not exceed than 300 x 150 pixels in size. If the width of any image in the signature is found to be more than 300 pixels or the height more than 150 pixels, the Moderators shall edit the signature.

While you may or may not be allowed to use HTML in posts, this is a privilege that will be revoked if it is abused. Do not use any codes that alter the way the forums pages are displayed, or that affect other's browsers in any way. Any code which modifies or changes the appearance of any element of the page outside of the post in which it is made will be edited/deleted and the user's account may even be banned. Embedded media files must be set to NOT auto-play, and must be reasonably sized.

During discussion, sometimes you will be faced with views or opinions you may not agree with. It is imperative you keep an open mind towards all inclusive people, and keep a neutral and objective focus when replying, instead of being subjective, personal or judgmental. We all ashuman beings have the right to form our own opinions and beliefs and where we expect our own to be respected, so must we respect those of others. Please try to steer such discussions into a positive direction
without engaging in negative behavior.

Please register and use only one User ID at the Message Boards. Posting under or having multiple user accounts is not allowed and will result in action by the Moderators. If anyone is found to be using multiple ID's
for any purpose, the member can be banned with immediate effect.

You may not impersonate another PF Message Board member or create an account specifically for the purpose of provoking other users. Also, accessing or using someone else's account or attempting to access another poster's account is strictly prohibited. Members engaged in this type of behavior will be banned from the boards permanently.

Advertising of any sort is not allowed on the PF Message Boards. Advertising and promotion of event(s), product(s) or site(s) on the PF Message Boards are also forbidden, whether they belong to a member or a third party. Such threads or posts will be edited or deleted by the Moderators. If you wish to promote or advertise your site, you are advised to please use the PF Directory or the PF Banner Exchange Program.

Purposely spamming the Message Board with senseless, irrelevant, vacuous, one-word or empty threads/posts to increase the number of posts is highly frowned upon. This includes such things as party posts, chain letters, two-word "I agree" or "me too" responses, continually posting the same thread in a particular category, posting the same question
across several boards and using the quote feature without contributing anything new to a thread. On a similar note, participating in spam attacks (post riots, etc.) on the PF Message Boards or planning a spam attack is unacceptable. Members found to be involved in any such activities shall be banned permanently with immediate effect.

Though these rules cover most common situations, they can not anticipate everything and we simply cannot have a rule to cover everything. Hence, this is the rule to cover everything. PF is a public Message Board, so act like you would if you were in a public place. The PF Crew and Moderators reserve the right to choose the guidelines of objectionable content based on their knowledge of users. These issues are left to the discretion of the PF Crew and Moderators, but may include any material that is knowingly false and/or defamatory, misleading, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing,obscene, racist, sexist, profane, sexually oriented, threatening,invasive of a person's privacy or that otherwise violates any law or encourages conduct constituting a criminal offense. Consequently, the PF Moderators reserve the right to take any actions they deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.

There are hundreds of messages posted each day on the PF Message Boards, so we cannot always promise you will receive a warning every time action has to be taken. By registering at the PF Message Boards, users agree that any post deemed inappropriate may be removed at the sole discretion of PF. PF also has the right, at its sole discretion, to revoke Board privileges at any time without notice or reason. Think of these rules as a forewarning and, if you break them,you are taking your account status into your own hands.

Also note that the Board Rules extend to all categories/services of the PF Message Board system, including but not limited to Private Messages and Signatures. This also includes asking for or offering anything against the Board Rules via Private Messages. PF is not responsible for messages posted on the PF Message Boards or the content therein. PF reserves the right to reveal the identity of or whatever information we know about any user in the event of a complaint or legal action arising from any message posted by said user. PF has the right but not the obligation to monitor and/or moderate the PF Message Boards. PF also reserves the right to change any or all other parts of this User Agreement at its sole discretion and without notice, including but not limited to implementing Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service and/or other measures. PF also reserves the right to change any or all other parts of this User Agreement at its sole discretion and without notice, including but not limited to implementing Rules of Conduct, Terms of Service and/or other measures.

On addition to this, we do not delete accounts if requested. So please post wisely and carefully.