If you are new to the forum, and are a little overwhelmed with how much there is to take in, you may miss some important information.

The Amaranthia forums have a number of rules that all members are expected to adhere to. These are in place to ensure all members are treated with respect and the forum runs smoothly. Failing to adhere to these rules will result in penalties - for some you will get a warning, for others, the penalties are immediate.

The list of rules can be found in the Hall of Rule (follow the link under Kingdom Map on the left).

The rules are:
No bullying - penalty: Banishment
No harassing - penalty: Banishment
No prejudice - penalty: Banishment
No sexual language - penalty: Banishment
No offensive language - penalty: Banishment
No requesting real names & addresses - penalty: Banishment
No flaming - penalty: 1 month suspension
No spamming - penalty: 1 month suspension
No disclosure of real names & addresses - penalty: 1 month suspension

Additional rules, not yet listed in the Hall of Rule, but still enforced, are:
No pirating / illegal activity - penalty: Banishment
No plagiarism - penalty: 1 month suspension
No double-posting (considered a form of spamming)


Flaming
While Amaranth Productions welcomes all feedback, positive or negative, about its games, flaming of users on the forums is not allowed. Flaming includes offensive language or insults directed toward another user with the intent to cause anger or to hurt feelings, and harassment of another user in the forums or via PM. All incidents of flaming of users within the forums will be deleted without prior notice. If you feel you are a victim of flaming via PM, please notify a moderator.

Good-natured teasing is not flaming; however, if another user misunderstands you and takes offense, please apologize and clarify the situation.

Prejudiced and Offensive Language
Comments which imply the inferiority of any subsection of the population will not be tolerated, whether directed at a user or not. This includes pejorative comments about a particular race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, or sexual orientation. Instead, please use these forums as an opportunity to communicate with and learn about people who have backgrounds different from your own.

Profanity and Obscenity
Amaranth Productions creates games appropriate for a wide age range; therefore, please keep in mind when posting that children may read your posts. While the occasional curse is tolerable, please limit yourself to words which are generally heard in PG-13 movies (Teen 13+ manga). Use of an acronym, single letter or * to represent a swear word, is not appropriate. If you accidentally use an unacceptable word, your post will be modified and you will be informed of the error.

Sexual Language
As with profanity and obscenity above, please keep in mind that children may read your posts. In chat and RP forums, romance is fine, but explicit sexual language and graphic depictions of sexual scenes is not. Keep it clean and subtle.

Spamming
If you make comments in a topic that are not related to the topic itself, you are spamming. While a small amount of chatter is acceptable, getting carried away, and derailing or hijacking a thread, is not. Stating that you agree with someone without stating your opinion. New subjects should be discussed in new topics, created in the appropriate forum. Reviving "dead" threads (non-pinned threads that have been inactive for more than a couple of months) may also be considered spamming. In game threads, posting information already provided by others, or information not requested by the original poster, is considered spam. If a question has been answered, then the topic is closed, unless the original poster asks for more information. Double posting, if you forgot to say something, use the edit button and add it to your existing post. Opening the same topic in multiple forums is a form of Double Posting and is considered Spam..

Excessiveness
Excessive use of Caps in a post, whether it is intentional or not will no longer be tolerated. To many it is considered yelling. As you cannot see or hear things on this forum we ask that if you feel the urge to use excessive caps in your posts please do so only in Spam Haven.
No excessive use of smilies in the forums. They are meant to convey emotion not to fill up an otherwise empty page.

Pirating / Illegal Activity
Do not, in the forum, cottages or on chat, ask for keys, registrations, cracks or otherwise illegal copies of games, whether distributed by Amaranth Games or not. If you truly do have a legal copy of a game which you purchased from here and have lost your key, email admin@amaranthia.com and ask for assistance.

Plagiarism
Do not recommend or request sites for downloading or copying illegal material or prepared cheat papers for school. Do not copy poems, stories or articles from any source and claim them as your own.

Disclosure of Real Names / Addresses
Unless people are willing to make their real names known on the forum, do not ask them, and do not reveal someone else's real name. Do not ask for someone's address, and do not give anyone your address.

Please take note of the newest rules that have been added to the forum. Explanations are shown in the preceding post, but you can view the rules at any time by looking in the box on the left with the heading Kingdom Map, and following the link to the Hall of Rule.

The latest rule addition has always been an unwritten rule, enforced in varying degrees. It expands on the Profanity and Obscenity description above. On request, Amanda has just given some clarification, and this rule will now be enforced completely. There are some acronyms in common use online, which have been used and either not moderated, or overlooked in this forum, that will no longer be allowed. If you use them, you will probably get a reminder that they are inappropriate and your post will be modified.

Thanks Shaz, that shows up very well.

Yup, it's very noticeable. you can't resist to read it.

As it has caused a little confusion having a rule on profanity/obscenity and another on swearing (which carried different penalties), I have removed the additional "swearing" explanation and expanded the existing profanity/obscenity explanation to include/clarify.

I've also added a brief explanation for the "real names/addresses" rule to clarify that a little.