[B]SWC Rules and Guidelines

What is SWC?[/B]
Sports Wrestling Community is a sports community with dedicated sports, and also wrestling forums. The community also has a general forum atmosphere, with topics for everyone. With topics ranging from MMA Boxing to leisure topics in the general categories there's a place for topics. As with any forum community there must be rules. Some of our rules are detailed below.

[B]General Guidelines[/B]

As our community has many topics, and categories some forums might have their own individual rules in that specific forum. While these guidelines cover general situations, they cannot foresee everything. Because of this,we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.

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[B]The following things are not tolerated:[/B]

Impersonating as someone else
Backseat Moderation: taking issues into your own hands.
Unfriendly attitudes and looking to start fights
Posting explicit images or links to such sites
Posting personal details of someone else to illicit hatred
Seeking nude photos or asking for personal details of members
Promoting or posting any type of illegal activities such as illegal drug usage,

You are not allowed to abuse or attack (flame) any of our members or staff under any circumstances, be it fun or not! It won't be tolerated.

If someone insults you, report the post and let us take action, do not abuse back and indulge in fights. If you insult or abuse back, we might or might not take action, and if we take action, all parties may get warnings. Depending on the severity.

Everyone is equally fair here, including the staff so treat people the way that you would like to be treated. If anyone breaks the rules, including staff, they get disciplined, just as the offending members do. No member is exempt.

If you feel that you are being picked on just to be banned, please contact one of the Team Leads or Management, and they will be happy to look into it for you.

Don't expect the staff to do all the posting as they all have other duties to follow other than posting.
Please refrain from posting in CAPS as it looks like you're yelling, and we are also not deaf! It really hurts members' ears!

Please also try to refrain from using modern "slang" as some of our members range from many different ages and might not understand it.

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[B]Posting[/B]
If the thread is irreverent to you, please do not post, just to get your post count up. An example of this could be saying something like "nothing" in the what are you currently listening to thread or saying, "I don't have these games" in one of the threads about a game. You will be warned about this if you continue to do it, so please post Quality Posts within the forums to avoid being warned upto banned for spamming. Quality over Quantity will help us exponentially in the long run!

[B]Posting in Correct Sections[/B]
Please post your topics in the correct sections. For example, post about Wrestling in the Media section or Hobbies and Leisures in the introduction section. Topics that have been put in the wrong section will be moved by one of the Staff.
[B]Spamming & Trolling[/B]
Spamming and trolling is not allowed! If you are caught spamming, you will get a warning and if it is continued, then you will have feature restrictions and will progress as needed.

Trolling is strictly prohibited and you will immediately be banned from the forum and reported to the stop forum spam service.

Finally, please refrain from double posting, please use the edit button instead.
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[B]Ban Format[/B]
The Ban Format Works in the following order:

Courtesy warning via PM.
Official warning, notified by Message and put on a lookout list.
Another warning issued, 1 day suspension issued.
3 warnings issued = 1 week suspension issued.
4 warnings issued = 1 month suspension issued.
5 warnings issued = permanent ban issued.

If you are banned, please do not create new accounts as they will be banned also and you are likely to be banned by IP forever for doing this. Any spammers will be automatically banned for life.

Warnings will expire after 60 days (around 3 months). This ban format is only temporary and you may be subject to shorter or longer suspension & bans depending on how serious your Offenses have been on the forums.

[B]Sensitive Topics[/B]

Religion, Politics and certain other topics of sensitive nature are perfectly fine. However, to keep things from getting out of control, we advise you to refrain from name calling. Be respectful of people's opinions even if they differ from yours. If there's something you want to post about and aren't sure if it's allowed, please don't hesitate to ask. Anyone caught flaming, disrespecting fellow members, etc. Could risk being banned from the specific section or the entire forum.

[B]This thread will be ever changing, nothing will ever be set in stone, as this is a rapidly evolving community so will the rules.

Management has the right to handle situations at there own discretion.[/B]