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General Forum Rules Consequences and Punishment Spamming Language and Attitude Questions and Search Feature Stealing Accounts Voting at Polls Signatures Naming Topics Advertising Illegal Material Topic Revival Posting Images PSG and REP points PSG and Reputation Points What are these Points? PSG Points Reputation Points Competitions Car Show Bonuses

General Forum Rules

Consequences and Punishment
Very simple rules, follow them or consequences.
heres the order:
>fellow member warning
>moderator warning (cash and rep deduction)
>admin warning
>3 day ban
>1 week ban
>forever ban
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Spamming
No useless, pointless posts, meaningless posts will be deleted. With exception of Miscellaneous Forum Games (This or That, What are you Listening to, etc)
e.g. making longest post, repeating 'spam' 100000X times, etc is 'pointless' spam.
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Language and Attitude
No offensive posts towards other members and especially mod team

. "PWN3D" posts allowed, but calling others "gay" or "f--k-r" is a big no-no.
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Questions and Search Feature
If you have any questions please use our SEARCH feature (at the top), or read our guides on our homepage. If you still have questions, find the topic in Website Discussion and post there. If you have technical questions regarding chopping or photoshop, please post it in Chop School.
DO NOT make a new topic to ask a new question, we will delete the topic.
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Stealing
No stealing chops or brushed parts from other choppers and members. In other words, you may not use other people's chops, and claim it as your own.
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Accounts
1 person, 1 account. No multiple accounts per person. No making multiple accounts to vote for yourself in polls; the repeated IP will be banned and the accounts will be deleted (and yes, i know...).
You need 10 posts before you are allowed to vote at polls.
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Voting at Polls
No voting for yourself at polls, and you can not have your friends, and/or family members vote for you. The administration team will know.
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Signatures
Avoid having signatures over 200 height and 700 width; no you won't be banned for having an oversized signature. But you will be warned, if your signature is removed, you know why.
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Naming Topics
When making a topic, please type in a grammatically correct and topic-related name. There shouldn't be words longer than 20 characters.
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Advertising
No advertising, that includes links in signatures. They will be removed (that includes advertising illegal material). This includes any form of advertisement through images, links, or websites.
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Illegal Material
No posting illegal material. Like every other forum, pornographic photos are NOT allowed.
But created artwork that contains nudity is allowed; they are labeled NSFW.
Posting links to free programs, keygens, cracks, serials, are NOT allowed. Also, no direct links to torrent files.
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Topic Revival
Do not revive topics that are more than 3-4 weeks old, your posts will be removed and you will receive a warning from the moderator team.
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Posting Images
please resize your images when you post, any image bigger than 1280 px width will be changed to a link. See this topic for full information on restrictions.
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PSG and REP points
No begging for rep points or cash, if you do we will ignore you, its simple, earn it.
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PSG and Reputation Points

What are these Points?
PSG and Reputation Points is a system that shows a member's activeness at the forums. These points mean absolutely nothing, they do not represent cash, or money. These are virtual points you can use to purchase additional features for your forum browsing.
Points can also be used to purchase ps-garage emails, webspace, and chatrooms, see this topic for full information.
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PSG Points
PSG points can be earned from posting at the forums. Every character, word, post, topic you make is calculated towards the amount you earn.
The more posts you make, the higher your rank is. The higher your rank, the higher the posting bonus. Higher ranks have increased point limits, and bonsues. You can use PSG Points to purchase items at the Stores. To visit the Stores, Click Here.
For full information on Ranks and User Titles see this topic.
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Reputation Points
Reputation Points can only be earned by joining competitions. Everytime you win a competition you will be awarded x amount of points.
The more posts you make, the higher your rank is. The higher your rank, the higher the posting bonus. Higher ranks have increased point limits, and bonsues. You can use PSG Points to purchase items at the Stores. To visit the Stores, Click Here.
For full information on Ranks and User Titles see this topic.
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Competitions
The following is the list of points awarded for each competition at the forums:
Standard Competition:

First Place +5
Second Place +3
Third Place or Lower +2

Monthly Competition:

First Place +10
Second Place +6
Third Place or Lower +3

Official Drag Races:

First Place +3
Second Place +1
If Tie, both +3

Car Show Bonuses
Normal chops go in Streets, more advanced work go in Car Show, and Advanced Car Show correspondingly.
A chop in Car Show or above will receive bonus Rep. points, see below:
Car Show:
+4
Advanced Car Show:
+10

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