Announcements

[Dom]

1. No flaming, flamebaiting, trolling, or insulting other members.
Flaming is the often deliberate act of posting messages on forums that have the intent of insulting or creating dissent within a group. These posts may be filled with excessive profanity and/or personal insults. Insulting other members (calling someone a moron, retard, idiot, etc.) falls under this category. Insulting other members includes members of the DNSource staff.
Flamebaiting is the act of posting a message with the intent of provoking an angry response.
Trolling is posting inflammatory or or off-topic messages on forums with the primary intent of provoking other users into an emotional response or otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion.
First offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

2. No negative or disparaging remarks against any race, culture, beliefs, sexuality, gender, or nationality.
Discrimination of any kind is not allowed.
First offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

3. No spamming.
Spamming is posting messages with no real content in them, or off-topic posts. These posts are often one-liners, and will be deleted. Please ask yourself if your message contributes to the thread or is constructive before you post it. Spamming images or image macros falls under this category, and so do PMs.
Exceptions: Spam & Forum Games
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

4. No thread derailing.
Thread derailing is the act of trying to steer a thread off-topic by discussing a subject entirely unrelated to the subject of the original post.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

5. Do not double post or create duplicate threads.
The edit button is there for a reason! Use it. If for some reason you accidentally double post, delete it or report it so an admin/moderator may delete it for you. If you accidentally post in the wrong section, report it and an admin/moderator will move it.
Exceptions: You may bump your thread in the Marketplace and Questions & Answers after it is no longer on the first page.
Excessive offenses (i.e. posting 5 times in a row, three times a day): 1 week ban

6. No advertising products, referral links, or alternate Dragon Nest related fansites via threads, posts, private messages, and signatures.
This includes referral URLs and advertising in signatures. Please report bots, they will be permabanned.
Exceptions: Links to selling threads
First offense: 1 week ban
Second offense: 1 month ban
Third offense: Permaban

7. Do not post links to hacks/how to hack/screenshots of yourself hacking.
First offense: 1 month ban
Second offense: Permaban

8. Do not post hacking accusation threads.
Hacking accusation threads are no longer allowed on the forums. They have the potential of causing drama and we don't have the power to do anything about them. If you want to report a hacker, report them to Nexon. This rule includes accusing people who are not members of this forum.
First offense: Infraction
Following offenses: 2-3 day ban

9. Do not create threads in the wrong section.
Questions go in Questions & Answers. Pictures and videos go in Images, Video, Art & Sound. Off-Topic Discussion is for DISCUSSION threads, not for "hey guys I'm eating ice cream right now" -- Feel free to post about your ice cream eating habits in the spam section.
First offense: Infraction
Continual offenses may lead to temporary bans.

10. No backseat moderation.
Let the moderators do the moderating. Backseat moderating is when people who are not moderators try to enforce the forum rules. Backseat moderating is annoying and pointless, as posting "this thread is in the wrong section!!" does not help alert moderators that the thread is in the wrong section. Use the report button instead. This also includes posts like "___ should be banned from the forums".
First offense: Infraction
Following offenses: 1-3 day ban
Continual offenses may lead to longer bans.

11. No NSFW content.
This includes threads, posts, images, videos, links, etc.
First offense: 3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

12. Do not link to sites that may cause harm to another user's computer.
First offense: 1 month ban
Second offense: Permaban

13. No sharing or posting links or files pertaining to piracy of any kind.
First offense: 1 week ban
Second offense: 1 month ban
Third offense: Permaban

14. No hotlinking images from sites where permission has not been allowed.
First offense: 1 week ban
Following offenses: 1 month ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

15. Do not ask for other members to add to your reputation in posts or signatures.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

16. Do not abuse the reputation system
This goes without saying, really, but the reputation system is not something to be taken too lightly. Frivolous reputation modifications will results in warnings, and subsequent violations will result in bans.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

17. No transactions involving NX or any other real life item.
DNSource will not be held responsible for those straying from this rule and privately organizing these transactions.
First offense: Infraction
Second offense: 2-3 day ban
Following offenses: 1 week ban
You may be permabanned for continual offenses.

18. Keep Custom User Titles appropriate.
If you are unsure whether or not a custom title you want to use is appropriate, please PM a moderator or myself.
First offense: Infraction
Following offenses: 1-2 day ban
Continual offenses may lead to longer bans.

19. Moderators: Do not abuse your power
If you feel that a moderator is abusing his/her power, please PM David with proof.
Any offense: Depends on the severity. Moderator status may be taken away.

20. Do not create alternate accounts or ban dodge.
Wait out your ban. If you were banned permanently, that means we don't want you back. Ever. Any accounts you create in the future will be immediately banned. All ban appeals should be PMed to the staff, do not make threads about them. If you are able to prove you are indeed innocent, your main account will be unbanned. Creating alternate accounts for malicious purposes will result in your main account being punished as well as the alternate account being banned. If you feel you were banned unfairly, you may create an alternate account for the sole purpose of PMing the staff a ban appeal. Do not make a thread about it.
Any offense: Alternate account permabanned

20. Do not post mod releases or request modifications.
Dragon Nest Source does not condone users using the boards as a release site for game modifications. You may discuss the use of mods and also link to mod resources but creating threads to release modifications is directly prohibited. The board is also not a modification request forum - do not create threads to request modification links.
First offense: Infraction
Following offenses: 1-2 day ban
Continual offenses may lead to longer bans.

21. Do not post links to third-party programs.
Third-party programs are prohibited by Nexon and linking said programs on DNSource is therefore prohibited - we can not ensure the safety of users accounts when using third-party programs
First offense: Infraction
Following offenses: 1-2 day ban
Continual offenses may lead to longer bans.

Infractions/Rule Violations
Posts/threads breaking the rules may be deleted/closed. Infractions last 10 days. Upon receiving three active infractions of any kind, you will be automatically banned for three days. Repeated violations of the same rule may cause you to be banned upon your second. Scroll up for details on repeated violations. If you feel you have received an infraction unfairly, please PM the staff, do not make a thread about it.


The Report Button
Do not hesitate to click this button! When posts are reported, we will always do something about them whether that is deleting the post/handing out infractions/banning users if the report is legit. If posts are not reported there is NO possible way that we will catch each and every post that needs to be dealt with.

Do not abuse the report button
On the other hand, spurious post reports are frowned upon; it wastes moderators' time sifting through them. If you give clearly unhelpful reports (e.g. reporting something that is clearly not advertising as advertising) you may receive a warning PM about this, although not an infraction; repeated abuses may lead to losing the ability to submit post reports.

Thanks,
The DNSource Staff