The Workshop Terms of Service

Citation 1 – General Liability
Term 1 – Acceptance of the Terms of Service
By registering with The Workshop, you are accepting all terms in this document; failure to comply with this term will result in punishment of your account and eventual banishment. Please take note that we are not responsible for any messages posted within these forums, nor do we vouch for, warrant the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any message posted within our community. All messages found in these forums express the view of the author of the message, and not necessarily the views of this community or any member of our community. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable or abusive is encouraged to contact an administrator immediately by Email or via a Personal Message. The Workshop also reserves the right to remove any message and/or topics and will make effort to remove all abusive messages within reason, as long as the Administration determines removal as a necessary action. By browsing any part of our community, you agree, through use of our services, that you will not use these forums to post any material which is against Citation 2; Term 1.

Term 2 – Copyrighted Material
You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless you are the original owner or unless you have the permission from the copyright holder. Any work without permission of the copyright owner will be removed without warning. We, as a community, cannot be held responsible for any work which is not permitted to be used within these forums.

Citation 2 – User Liability
Term 1 – Prohibited Content
By registering with The Workshop, you agree not to post any of the following prohibited content, and by accepting this clause you also agree that if you are to post any of this content your account will receive the appropriate punishment and the content shall be removed, without warning or consent from you or the poster, immediately. You may also not post, upload, link to, or e-mail any content that contains, promotes, instructs about, or provides prohibited content of the like listed below:

» Content that infringes upon any rights [ex. MP3s and ROMs] (including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks)
» Abusive, threatening, defamatory, racist, or obscene

» Viruses or any other harmful or malicious computer software

» False Information or libel

» Spam, chain letters, or Pyramid schemes

» Gambling or Illicit drugs

» Terrorism

» Hacking or cheating for Internet/online games

» Warez, Roms, CD-Keys, Cracks, Passwords, or Serial Numbers

» Pornography, nudity, or sexual material of any kind

» Excessive profanity

» Invasive of privacy or impersonation of any person/entity

» Hacking materials or information.

Term 2 – Accounts
All users are not permitted to have more than one account, if you wish to register a second account you are to seek permission from a member of The Workshop Board, and any account linked to another by IP or Email shall be deleted and the other account banned immediately. You can only be eligible for a second account if:

» Your account has been cracked or used by another person without consent

» You have forgotten your password to both your forums account and E-Mail account

» Your account has been harassed on multiple occasions

If an IP Address is linked to multiple accounts, you shall be questioned upon discovery and if you come up with a legible reason you shall be granted permission.

Term 3 – Resource Agreement
By posting any work created or copyrighted by you in our resource forums, you are not permitted to request it to be taken down, by doing so you will be warned immediately. If you edit the post and remove the resources you shall be banned on discovery. By posting any resource you are agreeing to this term.

If you find any work created by you on this forum, yet you have not posted this work, you are permitted to ask an administrator to remove the work.

Term 4 – Spam, Abusive Messages and Harassment
By registering with The Workshop community forums, you agree not to break this term. You are not permitted to post useless messages (Spam), Abusive Messages of any kind, or harassing any member. If you cannot or do not comply with this term, you shall be warned, and put onto a 14-day moderation queue on discovery.

Term 5 – Personal Messages and Advertisement
By registering with The Workshop community forums, you agree not to break this term. This means you are not permitted to advertise via Personal Message, harass via Personal Message, or transfer any malicious software to cause any harm of any sort. If you abuse this term you will be warned and have your Personal Message privileges removed immediately.

You are also not allowed to provide links, or advertise your forum in any way in any form. If you fail to comply to this you will be warned, and put onto a 14-day moderation queue on discovery.

Term 6 – Name Changes
To request a name change you must comply to the following guidelines:

Members

» 150 Posts

» Less than a 20% warn level

» Have been a member for at least 100 days (approx. 3.5 months)

» Your requested name must abide by this document

Premium Members

» Less than a 20% warn level

» Your requested name must abide by this document

Staff

» Your requested name must abide by this document

Term 7 – Ripping
Ripping is not permitted in any part of our community, and upon discovery, your IP Address, E-Mail Address, Username, and other information shall be banned and passed on to our partners.

Definition of Ripping

Definition of a Ripper

A ripper is a person who steals graphics and/or code off a persons website without permission, and then will post it on a different website, claiming it to be theirs. They are usually people with no actual graphics/codeing talent, but who want to be in with the 'cool crew'. Some especially idiotic one will post the materials ripped onto the original site. Also, some will modify the graphics and/or code by removing copyright tags and notices, to make it harder for them to be detected.