Spamming
Don't spam the forums. Spam is the posting of advertisements, abusive, or unneeded messages on the forums. Generally, when you spam, you add messages to the threads that are unnecessary and add no discussion value whatsoever. "Ok", "Yeah", and "lol" are all examples of spam. Try to add some substance to your post before you submit it.

Some examples of spam are -

1. Smilie Posts
2. Off-topic posts
3. Flooding the forum
4. One word messages

Flooding
Flooding the forum is the process of excessively posting everywhere in the forum. This happens when members try to get in the top forum poster list, want to see there name all over the forum, or to raise your post count. Give your peers a chance to participate in the forum! When you flood, your posts are likely to be spam which is strongly discouraged. This forum is a community and other people like to participate and discuss things too, so always keep that in mind.

1. Please take notice that this doesn't mean that you aren't allowed to participate or you have a limited numbers of posts in the forum, just make sure they are actually contributing to the thread and you are not taking advantage of the forum threads.

Flaming
Flaming is a hostile and insulting interaction between you and your fellow members. When you flame someone, you make them feel bad by insulting them, laughing at them, or just having a bad attitude with them for no reason. This forum has a younger audience, so watch what you say and think before you say it. This act will NOT be tolerated and you will face the consequences for flaming.

Examples of flaming -

1. "I hate you!"
2. "Hey! You are such a loser that I can't stand you "

Advertising
Do not advertise your own forum, or your own site to attract people to it. Advertising is strictly forbidden on Neoseeker and will not be tolerated. Refrain from doing it in posts or via PM. If you are caught doing this, you will be reported.

1. If you want to advertise your site, you can do so by putting it in your Neoseeker profile or your signature.
2. Advertisements through images are not allowed, they may only be displayed through text.
3. Do not link to Outwar or any referral sites.

Memberating
Memberating is when you act like the moderator of the forum, an administrator, a wiki member, or any other rank that you truly are not. Do not, under any circumstances, every impersonate any other person on this site. Do not bully people, boss them around, make threats against them, or pretend to close threads. If a person is posting in the wrong place, politely redirect them to the correct forum and it will be taken care of. Be helpful and help them out!

Here is a member memberating -

WRONG
"You need to go to this thread and not make duplicates ever again. Check the Thread Index before making a new thread. Thread closed."

RIGHT
"Hi there, and welcome to Neoseeker! I suggest taking a look at this thread as it will answer your question. :)"

Game Threads
If you are thinking about starting up a game thread or something similar, be sure to get permission from the current forum moderator. The game needs to be approved and the moderator needs to make sure that it is appropriate for the forum and we need to check if the forum already has too many game threads. You can PM the current forum moderator and share your idea with them and they will either give you the okay or say that it is not needed right now.

1. A game thread will always have the caption 'Game Thread' under it to show that it has been approved.
2. Only a few game threads will be in the forum at a time. A forum filled with game threads does not mix well with other discussions.

Illegal Software
Illegal content such as ROMs, crack, or emulators are forbidden to talk about on Neoseeker. Doing so will reward you with a ban.


Wi-Fi Related Events
Anything Wi-Fi related, such as visiting another player's town or hosting a party, should be posted in the Wi-Fi Events & Friend Codes Forum.

1. Make sure to tag your titles and post your friend code in the Friend Code Index first!

[size=1][color=#666666]This message was edited by knb(moderator) on Mar 17 2009.

Guide To Gang Making

[»] Are you ready to make a gang?

This may sounds weird at first, but are you really ready to make your own gang? It may seem at first to you that it just looks as if it is all fun, and you will just lay back and relax. Well unfortunately, to become a successful gang (which I suppose you want to do) then it's much more to that. You need a few skills to be a good leader; organization and politeness being major ones. Also, a lot of time will be needed to put in for your gang to be successful. You will need to make sure that all your members are happy with what you, as a gang, are currently doing. After reading this, if you still feel like you have the qualities to become a gang leader and create your own gang, then read on.


[»] Uniqueness

This for me is without a doubt the biggest factor to a successful gang and to stay away from being an unsuccessful gang. This can be quite challenging, but with the right thinking you can easily achieve this. If your gang has just ripped-off a successful gang name, then you will not be successful and members will see this straight away and just basically not want to join. Within the gang, you will also want to try and be unique. Setting up unique tourneys, games etc. involving the game will attract new members to join and will get you on the right road to becoming a successful gang.


[»] First post

The first post of your gang is very important. This first post could actually affect how many members you will get in your gang. YOU MUST make your first post organized. An example of this would be here and here. You must to try and include in your first few posts;

• Rules
• Links to previous gang threads
• A list of all members in your gang (And ranks for your members if you choose to have ranks)
• A quick summary of what your gang is about

Just to give you an example of what not to do, the following should help.

quote What your first post shouldn't be

Hi
If anyone wants to join my gang, PM me. My FC is ****-****-****

Thanks

That's not very attractive, and is just plain with no color etc. To make your first post even better you could also have a header (Picture at the top of your gang) This picture would represent your gang and would basically be a sort of symbol for your gang. It is not needed, and is not as important as other things mentioned, but it would make your gang seem more organized. Color can be very effective to your first post, but is without a doubt not needed. But if you are able to use it well, then it looks much better then plain writing. Useful links are at the bottom to help you with that.


[»] Members

Before you even post up your gang, you will want to make sure you have at least three people that will join your crew. This is a must, no exceptions will be made. It's nice to have members for your gang from the start to keep it active, which I will talk about in a minute. If you have members posting in your gang from the start, people will notice you and consider joining your gang.

When you first start recruiting members, you would probably need them to fill out a little form with information on Animal Crossing City Folk. Just give a little guideline in your first post which new members should fill out. This form should say;

quote Application form new members should fill in

• Username:
• FC:
• Town Name:
• Character Name:

When a member has filled this in, then (with your consult) that member would now be a member of your gang. You will want to know also add them to your members list. What you expect from your members is up to you, but I highly suggest that every member in your gang is active. What I mean by this is that all the members are posting nearly every time they can. If a member isn't active in your gang, what's the point in them being there? I would suggest you just get rid of inactive members. There is no limit of members that can be in a gang, so the limit is up to you. I suggest you limit your gang members to around 20 as when gang's exceed that number of member's, things start to become a little hectic.


[»] Useful Links

HTML colors
Mark-up Guide
Forum rules
Requests, Feedbacks and Suggestions

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Made by Daniel_Smith, Thank You!!

[size=1][color=#666666]This message was edited by knb(moderator) on Jan 01 2009.