General Rules of the Graphics Section

[Rich]

Welcome to the Graphics forum! If you don't already know me, I'm Rich, your local graphics moderator. Me and the other graphics mods have decided to combine the rule threads in the graphics section that already exist, then add a few understood rules of our own. You may recognize some of the stuff you said if you had posted a notice in the past that was stickied, seeing as how I copied some of that stuff since you all can word it so eloquently. If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to contact me or any of the other graphics mods! That includes me, GTX, Dan, ♥, and Prodigy. Enjoy your posting!

1. Ripping

Ripping is defined as stealing other people's work. This may be copying a tag and changing it a little, or copying an entire work without changing it. Ripping has not, is not, and will never be tolerated on these forums. At all.

2. FanArt Usage

Fanart usage shall not be tolerated in this GFX forum. Unless you have proven permission from the original creator, then you CANNOT use Fanart whatsoever. Whether you found it on someone else's photobucket, or someone cut it out in another forum for people to use. Fanart cannot be, and will not be tolerated UNLESS you have proven information stating you can use it.

3. Flaming

In order to express the seriousness of this, a quote from an admin himself:

If I see anymore flaming remarks in the graphics section, I'm not even going to bother warning you guys anymore. This stupidity has gone on far enough. Simply put, stop flaming each other, you guys get nothing out of it. If you want to CnC with "honest" opinions, then do it in a decent and respectful manner.

4. Replies to Spam

These will not be tolerated. If you see spam, report it and let the mod take care of it. DO NOT flame in return. If you do, then you are no better than the person who flamed in the first place, and will be due to have as much punishment as they have.

What is spam? Stupid pointless annoying messages, in my book. In other words, don't chat, don't flame, and give useful ratings on various sigs. If you can't say something constructive, don't say anything at all. And these threads are not to idly chat, but to comment on artwork and answer questions.

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Finally, look at this thread and read these rules. Every rule you see here applies in the graphics section as much as anywhere else.

Happy posting!