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Punjabi Songs Forum Rules
General Forum

#1.1 Punjabi Songs is aimed at a general audience. This means our site is designed for 13 year olds
and older. Everything must be aimed at this age and older. Explicit, vulgar language, drug talk,
nudity, porn and so forth is not allowed.

#1.2 Do not mini-mod. We would like to encourage and thank members to use the report
button but not add their own criticism. Impersonating a staff member is a serious offense and
may lead to a permanent ban.

#1.3 All publicly displayed messages are only limited to Punjabi, English and Hindi. This includes
posts, titles, signatures, profiles and other forms of public display.

Warning and Infraction System

#2.1 Members who disobey the rules will be warned or banned depending on what the
moderator believes is the appropriate punishment.

#2.2 Members can be warned and infractioned a maximum of two times consequently. On the
third, the member will be immediately banned. This does not mean that you have to have a
warning to get banned, moderators may ban you without warnings depending on the offense.

#2.3 Warning and Infraction can have a time bomb unless you're banned. If a time bomb is set,
your warning will automatically expire after a certain number of days.

If you believe you do not deserve the warn please contact the moderator who warned you.
Talking back to the moderator who gave you the warning with no sense of respect will lead to
further warnings. You can also write an email to admin with your username
and email address used while registering.

If you do not know why you received a warning, an email and private message would have
been sent to notify you of the reason why you were warned and who warned you.

Posting manners

#3.1 All topics must contain a description.

#3.2 Treat others positively and with respect. Flaming other members or other forums will lead
to a warning, possibly even a ban.

#3.3 Topics must be submitted to the relevant forums. Please read the forum descriptions
before posting.

#3.4 Topic titles must have an appropriate description.

Example:
An example for a good description is "Help needed with game".
An example for a wrong description is "HEEEEELP!".
#3.5 Bumping is allowed provided that the reply has relevant information that is useful to the
continuance of the topic. Short intervals of bumps are not allowed to bump the topic up onto
the first page by the same person.

Example:
Allowed: A topic discusses a news event. The topic's discussion has died but there is new
striking evidence to turn thoughts around. A reply with such information that is relevant and
useful is allowed.
Allowed: Requests (Includes requests in helpdesk) may only be bumped once every 48 hours
since the last reply.
Disallowed: Bumping topics continuously to get them up to the first few pages. This includes
using additional accounts (either your own or others) to do so.

#3.6 Double posting of the same links (also called dupe) may lead to a warning, especially if
you have your own independent topic for a set of links and yet still post the same links in
related topics with the intention of gaining exposure.

#3.7 It is generally forbidden to double post on the board. It means that you are not allowed
to reply twice in a row in any topic. Use the edit button when altering your reply if you're the
last to post in the topic. Exceptions may be found at #3.20.

#3.8 Images should be hosted on public image hosting websites like ImageShack, TinyPic and
Photobucket. Hosting Images at Punjabi Songs is currently allowed because of lack of awareness of
Image Hosting Sites and this simple method is for beginners only. Advanced members are
requested to use Image Hosting websites.

#3.9 Content of posts should not be explicit, offensive, shocking, discussions of demerit
commodities unless it is posted in an educational sense.
Disallowed: Hacking, fraud, drug related, porn.

#3.10 All links must not be coded or quoted, however users should use quote tags for links as
they get highlighted.

#3.11 No topic hijacking (going off topic).

#3.12 You must add tags within the Music forums and their sub forums. Tags in other forums
are optional.

#3.13 Post count milestones may be posted only in the Wishes section in increments of 1000
up to 5000 and then at 10K - 15K - 20K and so on. Report count milestones may also be
posted starting from 5K and then by increments of 5000 - e.g. 10K, 15K, 20K and so on.

#3.14 Removal of moderated messages is not allowed.

#3.15 Posting serial numbers or license keys in messages is not allowed.

#3.16 The use of unusual presentation methods within topic titles and descriptions with the
intent to gain attention is not allowed.

Examples and exceptions:

Not allowed:
Words/phrases such as but not limited to:
**** MUST HAVE****, L@@K, LATEST, NEWEST, LOOK HERE, *Newest Version* , By XXXXX
or other words along these lines including symbols.

Allowed:
Scene release title created by the release group may include caps and periods.
Use of hyphen between words such as music titles.

#3.17 Posting mirror links in a topic is allowed. Members who wish to share should NOT start
their own topic

#3.18 Excessively replying to your own topics to gain first page exposure is not allowed.
Replies such as:
'You're welcome', 'no problem', 'thanks for replies', 'fresh links' or similar
are only allowed a maximum of thrice per page.

#3.19 Members are allowed to make a huge thread with an index on first post only if all the
download links are posted in the same thread as posts/replies.

#3.20 When their previous post has exceeded the maximum characters limit, or if they
have relevant content to add to their topic 24 hours after the previous reply was made,
members are allowed to double or triple post.

#3.21 Trades of any kind and selling are two things that are not allowed here. To break it
down in simple terms, it's considered a trade any time the situation is "If you do this, I'll do
that" and selling is offering a product, service, etc. for money. The staff do not appreciate
members trying to get around these rules, so please avoid attempting to do so.

#3.22 Posting games hacks & cheats is allowed as long as they only affect the offline side of
the game.

Spam Rules

#4.1 You must not promote your own website in forum posts.

#4.2 If you choose to post a link it should benefit everyone and must not be a site similar to
Punjabi Songs

#4.3 Passwords that advertise other sites are NOT allowed.

#4.4 Excessive posting of similar messages to increase post count is not allowed.

#4.5 You may not have links advertising other websites within your signature.

#4.6 The following one-liner messages are classified as spam where Off-Topic Talks are not

Allowed
Any acronym such as lol.
The use of +1...+X within posts.
The use of an emote only reply (such as :)).
These are only guidelines not strictly limited to just these examples.

Private Messaging

#5.1 All rules apply in regard to private messaging.

#5.2 It is the responsibility of each member to check their private messages when online, as
certain private messages from staff members may require prompt answers. Members who
ignore these messages from staff may be warned, locked or banned, depending on the
situation.

Avatars and Signatures

#6.1 All rules apply to avatars and signatures.

#6.2 The total maximum dimensions for all images in a signature is 200px (width) by 200px
(height) horizontally only.

#6.3 Signatures can only be 100KB or less in total file size.

Other Guidelines

#7.1 Sticky Requests: Please do not request a post to be stickied. If there is room to sticky
an exceptional post, we will do so; however, there is only room for ten stickies per forum.
Threads which use a poll to petition a sticky are not allowed.

#7.2 To have your username changed please PM Admins instead of Moderators and Global
Mods.

#7.3 Asking any staff member if you can be a part of the staff will hinder your chance of ever
becoming one. The same applies for VIP as well.

#7.4 All forum rules apply to each member's profile, no referrers, no porn links, and no warez
forums.

#7.5 All forum rules apply to every image posted in messages, signatures, avatars and PM's.
Images should not contain URL's of websites (or any advertisement of another warez site, URL
or not). However no infraction 'll be given if you post images that contain link to another
website.