Message Board Conduct

As the Official PlanetSide™ Forums are part of The Station, posting to these forums is bound by The Station's Terms of Service that can be found in their entirety at http://www2.station.sony.com/en/termsofservice.vm. In addition to these terms of service, we have a few supplemental rules that apply to the PlanetSide™ Forums.

In general, you may post any material, written in a courteous and mature manner, providing that it is on-topic for the forum to which you are posting. This includes material that disagrees with the way that we, the developers, operate the game. We will not interfere with the communication of thoughts and ideas as long as the presentation is appropriate for all those capable of reading the forum.

You may not, however, post any material that:

• Attacks or insults others on the board. Feel free to debate the idea, but do not turn your disagreement into an attack upon the poster.
• Engages in name-calling, harassment, or threats. See above.
• Contains obscenity, vulgarity, or profanity. Though we do have a filter in place to catch the unintentional obscenity from time to time, this is not a license to abuse it.
• Disparages any religion, race, nation, gender, or sexual orientation.
• Is considered inappropriate for children 13 or over as governed by general standards of decency in the United States.
• Infringes on anyone's privacy rights.

Furthermore, you may not:

• Make multiple posts on the same subject for the purpose of getting attention paid to your issue.
  Post off-topic comments in threads for the purpose of drawing attention to another thread on a different subject.
• Monopolize the front page of any forum by "bumping" threads of the same or similar content to the front. We may intervene by closing threads any time that this occurs.
• Use the official forums as a staging-ground for creating general unrest within the game (e.g. Sit-ins).
• Use the official forums as a place to advertise the sale of PlanetSide characters or accounts in exchange for real-world money.
• Advertise web-sites with content that violates these rules, the PlanetSide Software and User License Agreement, or the Station Terms of Service.
• Advertise products or websites that are not related to PlanetSide or other Sony Online Entertainment products.

Action that we might take in regards to a post in violation of these rules on the Official PlanetSide Forums will vary depending upon the transgression. It could include any number of the following:

• Editing of the post.
• Deletion of the post/thread.
• Closing of the thread.
• Suspension or banishment from the PlanetSide forums. This will not affect access to the PlanetSide game servers, but the user will be unable to read or post to the PlanetSide forums.
• Suspension (results in user being unable to play PlanetSide for the duration of the suspension).
• Banishment (results in the user's station account being canceled. User will no longer be able to access PlanetSide, or any Official PlanetSide Forum).
• Legal Action (e.g.. contacting law enforcement personnel in regard to a threat.)

People who violate the rules of the boards may or may not receive any warning before any action is taken. In the event that a warning is given, the warning will be recorded upon the game account and may result in further action should the player show a pattern of engaging in prohibited conduct. Philosophically and administratively, there is no difference between conduct in game, and conduct in the official PlanetSide™ forums or any other SOE forum.