Forum Guidelines updated September 29, 2008

Piracy of Nine Inch Nails material

Linking to or sharing of copyrighted, commercially-released audio/video content by NIN or anyone else is not allowed. Do not ask for links to published material or provide links to published material. All posts containing links that fall under this category will be removed, as well as threats to post unofficial leaks and/or discussion of where to find pirated material. Proper action will be taken against the post author, which can include official warnings, temporary or permanent ban in addition to possible legal consequences. Leaking material this way is illegal and there will be consequences. Although it may be accepted on other forums, this behavior will not be tolerated here.

Accounts and Profiles

Multiple accounts for the same user are NOT allowed. The newer account will be deactivated. If the user has already been banned and creates new account to subvert the ban, a full IP ban on all of the user's IPs will be initiated.
Offensive usernames (see 'Threats, Racism and/or Sexism section) are frowned upon and may be banned from the forums and chat.
Profiles, avatars and signatures should not contain material that is pornographic and should adhere to the general forum posting rules.

Flaming or Derogatory Insults

Do not engage in personal attacks, hurl insults, accuse posters of unfounded suspicions, stalk another member of the board, or create posts and/or threads in an effort to purposely pick a fight with another user. (Obviously, lively banter or insult-trading between consenting individuals who are not motivated by malice or an intent to willfully hurt or harm another user will not be considered acting disruptively.)

Invasion of Privacy

Do not post personal information about any other person, even if that information is publicly available. Do not "dig up" information about any other member in this forum. Information, including personal information such as email, home and/or IP address, place of employment, birthday, etc. known to be utilized to maliciously target another user in a harassing or derogatory manner is strictly forbidden even if the information was made publicly available by the proprietary user. Any user(s) found to be using information in a destructive course either on or off the board will be subject to punishment up to and including the possibility of a permanent ban from membership.

Threats, Racism, and/or Sexism

Messages that advocate harm or death to anyone, threaten the livelihood of anyone, or otherwise harass anyone - members of NIN included - will not be tolerated. This type of behavior is unacceptable in any form, be it posted message, Private Messages (PM) or email.
Threads or replies promoting or expressing intolerant views towards any person or group of people based on their race, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, lack of religion, disability, physical characteristics, or region of residence will not be tolerated.

Spamming, Off Topic Posts and Trolling

Spamming or business advertisements via posts in threads, Private Messages (PM) or email are not allowed. Off-topic posts, as well as the posting of PM’s and emails in the forums are frowned upon and may be moved or removed based on moderator discretion. This is not meant to limit sensible tangents in the conversation but rather to remove posts that have nothing to do with the topic at all or are disruptive. Threads or PMs determined to be "spam" may be deleted and may result in privileges to the site restricted or denied without notice. "Trolling", or making posts designed only to stir up trouble or flame other users is against the forum guidelines. "In before lock" posting is considered trolling, and posting just to increase one's post count is discouraged. All users can report offending posts by clicking on the 'report this' button found in the lower right-hand corner of the offending post.

Duplicate Topics / Posting in Appropriate Forums

Please post your topics in the most appropriate forum (i.e., NIN trading discussion only in the collector’s forum). Avoid posting duplicate topics that already have discussion threads by skimming existing threads and using the search function. Moderators may use their discretion to lock or merge duplicate threads, to move threads to a more appropriate forum or to rename threads to best express their content. A message post or PM may be sent to the originator of the threads in question, alerting them to the changes, where the topic can be found, and the reason for the changes after the action has been taken.

Impersonation of others

You may not impersonate any person in the community, including any member of Nine Inch Nails.

Posting Harmful URLs

Posting harmful and/or malicious URL links (i.e., ones that may lock up a user's computer) is not allowed.

Porn / Explicit Material

Please refrain from posting pornographic material, images of extreme violence, or their links in your profile, avatar or signature. Posts and links of this nature are allow only in the nsfw (‘not suitable for work’) forum, and only if legal in the United States of America and adhere to the other rules of the forum. Links to nsfw material in forums other than the nsfw room are permissible only if they are relevant to the thread and are labeled as such.
Also refrain from posting fan fiction, artwork or their links that feature a member of NIN, an employee of NIN, another member, or anyone in a sexual or intrusive way or nude without their express consent.
There are plenty of other sites that welcome creative work of this kind. Please don't post it here out of respect for NIN.
Illegal material will result in a ban.

Warning and Banning Process

Please see the forum thread "Warning and Banning Process" for a detailed explanation of the consequences of breaking the rules. Also see the thread "Nin.com Chat Rules/FAQ" for the rules specific to the chat rooms.


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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 09/03/2009 02:02AM by SwimFin.