Astatalk Underground Community Participation Rules


1. Never repeat your post (comment), we don't always answer but we always read them and post in English in all instances on this board unless the staff permits it in unique circumstances.

2. Before making Download Request and just any request for something use the search feature of the site to see if someone already made a Request and/or Release for it!

3. Don't reply your own Release/Request/Thread to bump it up in the list.

4. Never request downloads by private message or email, this makes no sense.

5. Don't advertise your own website by posting the link, this will not be tolerated. No advertising of any form is allowed.

6. You are not allowed to advertise your site (Not affiliated with Astatalk Community) in your signature by text link or picture link. Use Homepage option in your profile to place a link to your homepage. Commercial links and sites similar to Astatalk are not allowed in your homepage link.

7. Don't post Release/Request/Thread that allows you to get profit from it in any form or manner, doing this you will get banned.

8. Don't kid with inexperienced users.

9. Try to be polite when asking something for download or something else.

10. If you post Download Realse put all download links in "Hidden block". If you post any other additional links in your comments - user Astacut operator to hide it from unregistered users.

11. If you have problems with some other user contact someone of the staff in private. Insult and outrage are strictly forbidden.

12. Hacking e-mail accounts, web space accounts, viruses and everything that has to do with private permissions manipulating is not allowed. User may get banned. NOTE:(We do however allow key loggers. The reason we do is because parents need these tools sometimes for personal reasons and most programs that monitor there children's actions have some sort of key logger embedded in it. However we only allow commercial key loggers as they don't have hidden root kits like a user could make and post. These programs are picked up by every anti virus for the most part so we deemed them as usable and OK to distribute among users.)

13. One user must own only one profile here at Astatalk. Owning more than one profile is strongly prohibited and user with more than one profile will be banned and he will not be anymore able to access these forums from any of his user names. If for any reason you want to change your user name, contact any from the staff and we will probably change it.

14. The Administration reserves the rights to reassign names and free up user names already used by inactive low post users.

15. Porn, nudity, racism, childish nudity, offensive posts, terrorism, crime related posts, religion, etc! Are not tolerated, user will be banned on first sight, be sure!

16. User Profiles: Avatars & Signatures must be in compliance with No.6 and may not contain IP monitoring resources. Administration can remove avatars and signatures at sole discretion.

17. Members should not instruct other members on rules, including Astacut hide operator and double post. Also don't reply to spam Releases/Requests/Threads, if you do so - your post will be considered as spam itself. Be careful please.

18. Post-whore's are not tolerated and posts (comments) will be deleted with accounts. Definition: Post-whore is a user who regularly posts absolutely useless and senseless comments with the purpose to accumulate large numbers of posts in a short amount of time, either bragging rights or to take advantage of certain board features that reward high post counts. Use the "+" button and/or intelligent phrase to thank the author unless you have something that contributes to the topic.

19. Photos are not to be hot-linked from sites
• "Hotlinking" is direct linking to a web site's files (images, video, etc.).
• An example would be using an img tag to display a JPEG image you found on someone else's web page so it will appear on Astatalk.
• Instead, copy the url from it's properties and then upload it to Photoserver.ws
• The url upload feature was included specifically for this..
• You can then just copy/paste the new link into your post.

20. If you join any team please follow the rules of that team, otherwise you can be kicked from that team. (Just warning)

In case of violation of the rules above, your post (comment) may be deleted or you will be banned from Astatalk Underground Community.

Also, we reserve the right to delete any post (comment), deactivate/delete any user account if we think that it is the right thing to do.

Other additional rules may affect some sections, in such case, they will mentioned.