We have noticed a significant change in the atmosphere of AoCZone past few months. We have never really felt like there was a need for forum rules since it's quite obvious in such an old community that what is acceptable and what's not. Although lately we have found obnoxious and plain abusive behavior in the forums.
Remember that AoCZone was founded on good atmosphere, healthy competition between boards and doing everything that our users love their stay here from noob to experts. This is the most important thing to us. Still, even it's a forum for the community that is supposed to unite the community and share knowledge and information, it's a forum run by _PkZ_ and group of carefully picked staff who work on _PkZ_ mandate. It's not a board of freedom of speech. It's a board that encourages as free speech as possible which doesn't hurt others while doing it, like any other well fare state. Abusing the possibility and the atmosphere for free speech, to insult others, will be punished.
This is a heads up for all of you who flame people for posting recorded games, cause negativity in every topic you post, mostly say negative things about others, try to bait reactions of other people and simply ignore all general guidelines that have been around for ages. Respect other users by following the topics and giving them the possibility to discuss what they want. Normal discussion is still ok and we encourage people to say what they think, but if you notice that you are saying negative things a lot more often than posting something reasonable well argumented, then you should be concerned. If you recognize yourself from the description above then you need to be concerned and start changing your behavior patterns.
Remember that posting at AoCZone and belonging to this great community is a privilege, not a right. We all hope that you support our plans to make this a friendlier and more informative place where minority of the posts causes an upset in you.
This is a designated topic for complaints regarding moderation. Here you can complain about moderation in a manner that suits common forum behavior. Any kind of flaming or insulting will lead to a warning and/or a ban. This is your own choice if you want to use this possibility or not. If you decide to do so, make sure your voice is checked before you start typing.
Any kind of complaining (direct or indirect) about moderation in any other topic is forbidden. The reason for this is, that if a topic is being moderated it would automatically fill about discussion back and forth about if the moderation is justified or not. Also there is already a correct channel to complain about moderation which is sending a PM to a person one level above the moderator/admin you are complaining about. If you have a trouble with a moderator (Fuzer) send a PM to one of the admins. If you have a trouble with an admin (Dreams) send a message to other admin or site founder _PkZ_.
Appealing for a ban by ban evading is forbidden and will lead to more severe punishment.
This is a forum owned by _PkZ_. This is not your forum. This forum has rights but it also has a lot of responsibilities. It's not a democracy. If behavior starts hurting the forum that kind of behavior will be stopped. That's why moderators sometimes have to use their tools to restrict this kind of persons behavior. All moderators and admins are trusted by _PkZ_ and act on his mandate. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's why you have a possibility to appeal by sending a PM.
Remember that AoCZone was founded on good atmosphere, healthy competition between boards and doing everything that our users love their stay here from noob to experts. This is the most important thing to us. Still, even it's a forum for the community that is supposed to unite the community and share knowledge and information, it's a forum run by _PkZ_ and group of carefully picked staff who work on _PkZ_ mandate. It's not a board of freedom of speech. It's a board that encourages as free speech as possible which doesn't hurt others while doing it, like any other well fare state. Abusing the possibility and the atmosphere for free speech, to insult others, will be punished.
This is a heads up for all of you who flame people for posting recorded games, cause negativity in every topic you post, mostly say negative things about others, try to bait reactions of other people and simply ignore all general guidelines that have been around for ages. Respect other users by following the topics and giving them the possibility to discuss what they want. Normal discussion is still ok and we encourage people to say what they think, but if you notice that you are saying negative things a lot more often than posting something reasonable well argumented, then you should be concerned. If you recognize yourself from the description above then you need to be concerned and start changing your behavior patterns.
Remember that posting at AoCZone and belonging to this great community is a privilege, not a right. We all hope that you support our plans to make this a friendlier and more informative place where minority of the posts causes an upset in you.
This is a designated topic for complaints regarding moderation. Here you can complain about moderation in a manner that suits common forum behavior. Any kind of flaming or insulting will lead to a warning and/or a ban. This is your own choice if you want to use this possibility or not. If you decide to do so, make sure your voice is checked before you start typing.
Any kind of complaining (direct or indirect) about moderation in any other topic is forbidden. The reason for this is, that if a topic is being moderated it would automatically fill about discussion back and forth about if the moderation is justified or not. Also there is already a correct channel to complain about moderation which is sending a PM to a person one level above the moderator/admin you are complaining about. If you have a trouble with a moderator (Fuzer) send a PM to one of the admins. If you have a trouble with an admin (Dreams) send a message to other admin or site founder _PkZ_.
Appealing for a ban by ban evading is forbidden and will lead to more severe punishment.
This is a forum owned by _PkZ_. This is not your forum. This forum has rights but it also has a lot of responsibilities. It's not a democracy. If behavior starts hurting the forum that kind of behavior will be stopped. That's why moderators sometimes have to use their tools to restrict this kind of persons behavior. All moderators and admins are trusted by _PkZ_ and act on his mandate. Sometimes mistakes happen and that's why you have a possibility to appeal by sending a PM.