Thread: Anime Online Rules and FAQs

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5. Members are free to discuss anime-related topics and informed discussions, but please bear in mind the Administrators and Moderators have the full right to edit/delete any posts or threads.
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8. The Moderators and Administration are the authority of this site. Do not argue, disrespect or harass them in anyway, either via private messages, e-mail, on the board, or through any other form of communication.
9. Duplicating any material on this site and/or using such material on your own sites without prior permission from the owners is emphatically prohibited. Any violation of our copyrighted material will immediately result in a complete ban from our site for all those involved. This rule applies but is not limited to the site’s terms of usage, rules, privacy statement, or any wallpaper that are copyrighted by AO or its members. If these are found on your site/forum and without such written permission it will result in an automatic banning of you and any of your staff that are registered on AO. A formal report will be issued to your site’s host to remove your site immediately for copyright infringement and legal action against you will be considered.
10. Any attempt to harm animeonline.net or destroy our site/forum in anyway will be result in severe action being taken. We will not hesitate to file a lawsuit against any criminal attempt to sabotage our site. Consider yourselves warned.

You agree, through your use of this service, you will do your utmost to follow the rules and regulations presented above. Violation of these rules can (and will) result in any of the following: thread deletion, thread closure, warnings, public humiliation, temporary suspension of account and permanent banning from Anime Online.

Below is a list of infractions given if you break the rules of AnimeOnline.

Elite Members

• 30 Points Infraction: you will be demoted to Community Member. You will loose the custom elite member features till or if the infraction expires. Elite members should act more responsibily to the rules of AO.
• 60 Points Infraction: you will be demoted to Regular Member. You will lose access to the wallpaper galleries and other addons community members and above get.
• 90 Points Infraction: you will be demoted to the Suspension Group. You can still post and reply BUT no access to any special features.
• 100 Points Infraction: a ban from the Anime Online site completely till the infraction expires.

Community Members

• 60 Points Infraction: you will be demoted to Regular Member. You will lose access to the wallpaper galleries and other addons community members and above get.
• 90 Points Infraction: you will be demoted to the Suspension Group. You can still post and reply BUT no access to any special features.
• 100 Points Infraction: a ban from the Anime Online site completely till the infraction expires.

Members

• 90 Points Infraction: you will be demoted to the Suspension Group. You can still post and reply BUT no access to any special features.
• 100 Points Infraction: a ban from the Anime Online site completely till the infraction expires.

Junk Posting

All members please note that Junk Posting is no longer allowed at Anime Online.

No-one wants to read another members "Junk Posting" and it just clutters up the forums and hides useful information.

I'm sure many members dislike reading garbage, and so from now on, let's all be responsible members of AO.

Please only reply or post a new thread if you have something useful to say.

Posts such as:

• I agree
• This rocks
• Checkout this site.... (link)
• Anime rules
• Hello, I'm new.
• etc..

Will be deleted and an infraction given.

Also remember to give your posts and threads meaningful titles. A title of "Help" is not meaningful and does not describe accurately what is contained within a post.

The staff here are all working very hard to bring you an enjoyable forum with content rich posts. Your co-operation is appreciated.

Thank you.

We are trialling the re-introduction of favourite threads. You can now ask about other's favourites, however you MUST EXPLAIN WHY IT'S YOUR FAVOURITE!

Simply posting a name/title and declaring it's your favourite is nothing more than a list post. List posts are still not allowed. That is, posts that comprise of no explanation as to why you chose a certain favourite.

Thank you.

Blog Rules

To avoid drama and friction amongst members, the following rules are now in effect in the blog section. Failure to follow these rules will result in a complete lockdown of your blog or even suspension of your account.

Rules

1. What is posted in the blog STAYS in the blog.
2. No rude comments about anyone no matter how much you hate them. Keep the rudeness to yourself or post it in your Livejournal or Myspace so we don't have to see it.
3. No sexual content in the blog. This also goes for links to hentai or ecchi images.

Staff Actions

1. An smod or admin can lock your blog for inappropriateness.
2. An admin can suspend your account breaking the rules of etiquette. Hence, your site privileges will be lost untill you can act mature enough to start being nice to people.
3. Rude comments in a blog will be deleted without notice.

The Reviews Section is a high quality area for members to read up on the lastest Anime, Manga, Book and Game Reviews.

General Rules

• Do not steal a review from another website! If you are found stealing then you may be banned up to 2 days. Excessive theft may have you banned permanently from Anime Reviews or from the main forums.
• Do not write just about the story. It's your opinions that we are after.
• Do not ask questions in your comments. The Reviews Section is a critique, not a discussion forum.

When submitting a NEW Review:

• Plan to write around 200 words or more.
• Feel free to upload images for your review. If you don't, the staff will then upload complimenting images.

When commenting on an EXISTING Review:

• Must contain at least 1 full sentence and YOUR OPINIONS. Anything less will result in your comment being deleted.
• Rationalise your answers. If you think the plot is "cool", then explain why!

If you are unsure how to write a review, just checkout the existing reviews.

Thank you.

This is to keep you safe and us safe from lawsuits and other stupid stuff.

High Security Risk To You

• DO NOT post your full mailing address. (Especially the female members and underage women of the board - this is a good way for a pedophiles that could be acting as a member of the site to find you and do bad things to you). This is a BIG no no. Members we find doing this in their profile will be edited by a staff member.
• DO NOT post a phone number unless it's a cell phone. This is another way someone can find where you live.
• DO NOT give out any private info in the blogs or in the profile that is very dangerous to you.

The Rules

• No hentai images allowed in profile. If found your profile, it will be locked down and you will not be able to access it.
• No hatred videos. You are allowed to post videos in your profile BUT nothing relating to racial bashing such as KKK or any other racist organizations.
• NO POSTING LICENSED ANIME! This is also a big no no. You can post clips of a licensed anime, but thats it.

To keep you all safe from bad people, remember to follow the rules and DON'T post any private content about yourself EVER. Just a bit of commonsense, that's all.