Entertainment Forums

Chris · Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:26 am Post subject: Forum Rules

By registering to Carreck.com Entertainment Forums, you are privileged to contribute in any form. However, if we feel this privilege is being abused, you will be warned first, then either penalized, or banned.

1) REGISTRATION AND PARTICIPATION Please register and politely participate as much as you can.

a) The Carreck.com forum does not allow one user to have multiple login identities. Multiple IDs from the same IP will be deleted. We understand that there are members who share their IP address, whether it is because they are living in the same house, the same college housing or similar situations. If you are in this situation, please inform a Mod so that they can make an exception for you. Lying to obtain an exception to this rule will result in banning.

b) Please participate. Share pictures with others and thank them for their contributions. We are not trying to force posting but if you regularly download pictures please thank or otherwise nicely respond to the original posters of the images. It encourages them to continue posting and Carreck.com promotes a friendly environment where hard work is appreciated and welcomed.

Though "Lurking" is completely acceptable, registration and participation is highly recommended.

c) Please clean out your Private Mailbox regularly. There is a 200 message limit. Any messages received after the limit has been reached will be returned to the original sender.

d) Please use English when posting. Although Carreck.com hosts members from all over the world this is an English language forum. We understand if English is not your primary language and encourage best-effort attempts at posting in English.

e) Before making a request for a particular picture or pictures read the Request Forum Rules and use the Search function. Do not post small pictures in the Pictures sections as a way to or part of a request for higher quality pictures. Such a posting belongs in the request section.

f) Please do not ask about the sources other posters use for their posts or how to obtain memberships, username/passwords or URLs to such sources. Such topics will be locked.

g) Do not borrow or copy the image codes from another person's posts, either from this or other forums. Besides being rude and inconsiderate of the effort and work that they put in to uploading those pictures to share, overuse of links can cause hosting sites to shut them down. We are here to share and discuss pictures, just be polite enough to re-upload them yourself and give credit where it is due.

h) If you don't like a certain celebrity please do not bother replying, especially if it is to incite arguing or disagreement. This is called trolling and will not be tolerated here.

i) Personal attacks against other members, or attacks based on race, religion, political affiliation or sexual orientation are prohibited. Explicit descriptions of sexual acts are prohibited.

j) Do not post a .ZIP/.RAR or any other compressed file that contains images without including a preview thumbnail sheet to enable users to see all the images contained therein.

2) BANNED IMAGES

No Posting of Nudity or Pictures from Banned Sources Allowed.

a) You may not post nude pictures or post links to them either in your post or signature. Pictures with slight see-through and slightly obscured shots are OK. If you are in doubt, please ask a Mod before publicly posting. Censoring or modifying a nude image by blurring it or by adding another object to the image to cover up the area is not acceptable and will be treated the same as an actual nude image. Fully exposed pictures (top or bottom) are not acceptable. This site is designed for people of all ages and many of the picture hosts allowed here (such as ImageShack for example) do not allow these types of picture. Unacceptable images will be removed by the moderators and the poster will be warned.

b) There is to be no posting of any ELLE/FHM/Vanity Fair/Playboy Magazine scans or any other pictures that are owned by ELLE/FHM/Vanity Fair/Playboy (including images from those entities' websites). There is to be no posting of any images from Most Wanted Pictures, Inc or MediaVast, Inc. and its affiliated divisions WireImage, FilmMagic, Contour Photos and WireImagesSTOCK.

Additionally, there is to be no posting of images from www.BiancaBeauchamp.com. If pictures from any of these sources are found being posted they will be removed without notice and the poster in question will be warned. Continued abuse of this rule will lead to your account being banned.

There are no exceptions to this rule.

3) CELEBRITY DEFINITION & PLACEMENT:

a)Please limit your picture posts to celebrities only. A celebrity can be an up and comer in their field. Please do not post amateur models or any pics that are not celebrity related in the pictures sections. For the purposes of this forum a celebrity is someone who:

* Has a listing at IMDb
or
* Has a listing at TV.com
or
* Has appeared in Google News
or
* Has appeared in a general circulation magazine (one that you could find at your local grocery store or 7-11)

b) Celebrities should be placed in the sections they are best known for and the actresses sections are sorted alphabetically by first name. If you are uncertain where the pictures should be posted, please ask a Mod.

c) Non-picture topics should be placed in the "General Comments"

4) THUMBNAILS: All pictures must be posted using thumbnail links. This dramatically improves the performance of the forum and does not force users on slower connections to have to download megabytes of data when they open a thread. Use the "Preview Post" function to be sure you
have the correct thumbnail code. A tutorial on how to thumbnail can be found here:
How to post Thumbnails.

* If you are posting animated gifs, please mention in your title that this is the case and also

include the file size if possible.

* If you are posting a link to a video, please include one or more preview pictures.

5) NO HOTLINKING & ALLOWABLE IMAGEHOSTS: Hotlinking (linking to an image on someone else's website. This includes that you may not link your own web site either. ) is prohibited. When posting pictures, use the UBB/Forum thumbnail code generated by any of these APPROVED image hosts:

www.Imageshack.us

www.Imagevenue.com

www.Paintedover.com

www.supload.com

www.putfile.com

www.imagethrust.com

www.zshare.net (Handles 5Mb and larger files.)

www.shareavenue.com (Handles upto 15 MB files.)

These are the only image hosts allowed here. To propose a new image host for approval make your case by posting here.

* Any member who makes a post not using an approved host will be notified to use one of the approved hosts listed above and the thread will be locked. If a member continues to use an unapproved host they may be banned. If it is believed that the member is using an image host as spam they will be warned. Repeat offenders will be banned. No start-up image hosts are allowed due to the high volume/bandwidth demands that would be placed on them by this forum.

The use of the hosts ImageCash, CashMoneyUploads, imagebucks, imagefly, or any other "cash for images" or "cash for clicks" sites is strictly prohibited.

Recommended Video hosts vary but include

http://www.rapidshare.com

http://www.megaupload.com

http://www.mediafire.com

http://www.sendspace.com

6) REPOSTS:

a) Before posting spend some time browsing this board to make sure that the pictures have not been posted within the last 2 weeks. You can use the Search feature (found to the right at the top of the screen) to help with this. Pictures that are substantially different in size or resolution or have edited content will not be considered re-posts. If a re-post is found a link to the original thread will be added and the thread with the re-posts will be locked.

b) People who are posting Scans, Clips, or Screen Captures that they themselves have created are exempt from the repost rule. People who find those things on another site are not. However, if you are posting a lower quality version of something that has been posted within the last 14 days we ask that you post it in the existing thread.

c) When making a post that has pictures of the same celeb at the same event as an existing post, even if the pictures are different, those pictures should be added to the existing thread instead of creating a new thread.

7) FULL NAME + BRIEF DESCRIPTION IN TITLE: Include the celebrity's full name in your post's subject and a brief description of the pictures. Users should have a fair idea of what to expect before they click on your thread.

8) SPAM: Spam of any type is prohibited. Spam is defined as any advertisement of a different website or forum. You may include one link in your signature as long as it does not link to nudity, a site containing nudity, a site used for monetary gain, a retail site, or auction type of site. A link to your own website is allowed providing it meets those conditions. New members that registered just to spam for another site will be immediately banned without warning. (Assuming they survive the lynch mob. )

9) INTERNET MODELS: It has been decided by the administration that internet models will not

be featured on this forum. These women are not considered celebrities and some of their images contain adult content which posters usually do not remove before posting.

10) FAKE PICTURES: Do NOT post fake pictures. They will be deleted. Slightly enhancing pictures, such as altering the brightness or gamma levels, is acceptable but state that the images are edited in either the thread title or your post.

11) UNDERAGE CELEBRITIES: Pictures of celebrities that are younger than the age of 14 at the time the picture was taken are prohibited. The only exception to this rule is when someone under 14 years of age appears alongside or in the background of an older celebrity who is the main subject (such as the children a celebrity mother in candids or younger actors in a film/tv cast photo). No other postings of celebrities under the age of 14 are allowed on SP and violations of this rule will be immediately deleted. For other teens under 18, inappropriate or sexual comments, counter comments (including those against members) and judgment or harassment of other posters will be deleted by staff without notice and those members involved may face immediate banishment.

No one will be exempt from this rule. Arguing about teenage legality will also not be tolerated.

12) UNNECCESARY REPLYING TO OLD POSTS: Do not reply to a picture thread in which the last post was more than 30 days ago (called "bumping"). Offenders will be warned and multiple offenders will be banned. The only exceptions are if you are posting new or updated pictures, or answering a question that had not yet been answered. Requests to re-post the pictures or move pictures or files to a different hosting site belong in the "Request" section, not the picture threads.

13) REQUEST RULES:

a) Before making a request, please take the time to use the SEARCH function atop. You might find what you are looking for, and save time for others.

b) Only 1 request every 7 days is allowed! Others will be deleted without any explanation.

c) Each request may only contain 1 celebrity, unless it is a group photo.

d) Add a small description to the request, and if possible a thumbnailed example.
Example: Hilary Duff - MMVA 2004 high quality pics

e) Do NOT bump your own request. Any action such as this will result in a thread being locked.

f) Do not request any pictures that violate the other rules of the forum. This explicitly includes requests that the material be sent via PM or email. Any requests for material that violates the rules will be deleted without warning.

Any and all requests and request fills must adhere to the Rules of the Forum as well.

Remember, if you contribute to the forum, other members will most likely offer their help.
Rule breakers will be warned first. Constant rule breakers may face banishment.

FILLING REQUESTS:

Do not fill a request by posting images in the request threads, these will be removed and result in the thread being locked

Post the requested pictures in a separate post in the appropriate forum section and post a link to the picture post in the request thread.

Any pictures or postings that fill requests must adhere to the Rules of the forum.

BASIC INFORMATION

1) You can find a resource for most commonly asked questions on the FAQ page. All Members are

encouraged to read the FAQ page prior to posting any questions in the forum. You may find that

your question is already answered.

2) If you have any questions about the rules of this forum, you are free to Private Message (PM)

any of the Moderators of this forum and your questions will be addressed promptly. A current list

of moderators can be found in the bottom left hand corner of this page.