Welcome to the Alyssia's Grove Guidelines

These guidelines are to assist you as a member of the Alyssia's Grove community. By becoming a members of Alyssia's Grove, you agree to follow the following:

1. All members should be on their best behavior. Negative behavior such as rudeness, namecalling, and racial slurs will not be tolerated. Picking fights with and ridiculing other members is also not tolerated.
2. If you have a (constructive) comment, suggestion, or question on a specific board policy, it may be posted in the "Feedback" forum. All disagreements on the matter of moderation must be addressed to the acting moderator via PM. This does not mean, however, that you may resort to any of the actions covered in the first point of the guidelines. If, after speaking with a moderator, you feel that the disagreement is not resolved, you may speak to the Community Administrator or a member of the Management. In all cases Management reserve the right to remove topics and/or posts they deem inflammatory and/or unnecessary.
3. Topics for recruiting members or staff to a website are not allowed.
4. Usernames that contain profanity or are in the form of a URL are not allowed. However, you may use the actual name of the website for your username.
5. Topics and posts advertising a member's site or service are not allowed. If you wish to advertise here at Alyssia's Grove, please contact site admin to discuss. You are permitted to add a text link to your site in your signature. Referral links are also prohibited from both posts and signatures. Any links should not be blantant; an example being, "Visit and post on my anime site!!!" A non-blantant link is a simple text link with the name of your website. In all cases, Management reserves the right to decide what is acceptable and what is not.
6. All signatures and avatars should be kept to a reasonable size. The board will automatically resize avatars that are too large. Signatures should not be any larger than 500px by 200 px. This width restriction does not apply to text. Images that are animated are not allowed in signatures. A member will be given twenty-four (24) hours in which to fix a signature that is found to excessively break this guideline, after which time the moderator will resize the signature for the member. Avatars should not include illegal, sexually explicit, or otherwise inappropriate content. In all cases, Management reserves the the right to determine what is acceptable and what is not.
7. If you find an inappropriate topic or reply, or a post that has been made in the wrong place, please use the "Report Post to Moderator" link to report it, with a detailed description of the problem. If your problem is not fixed in a reasonable amount of time (e.g. three days), please report the problem to an admin. Please note that abuse of the reporting feature will not be tolerated.

These rules are subject to change at any time, to the staff's discretion. Please note that Management has the final say on all issues, and can act with or without prior warning, or to their discretion.

While we are a forgiving community, repeated abuse of these guidelines will be dealt appropriately and swiftly. We make use of IPB's warning system in combination with our own four tier system. Depending on the severity of the infraction, the system is altered to suit the situation.

We would like to direct all members to an excellent resource for correct etiquette on forums in general. The Official Etiquette Guide from HelioNet

Finally, be friendly. If you're friendly and polite we'll welcome you, you'll fit right in and Alyssia's Grove will grow to be the best forum on the 'net.

*A charter is a topic in a forum that further explains the purpose of a specific forum and any further rules that are set in addition to the general forum guidelines. Some forums will not have charters.