The following are some standard guidelines for how to be a conscientious user of this site.

The full set of rules for the forums are available in this forum thread. This thread is maintained actively. Users are expected to have at least glanced at this; failure to comply with any of the rules will be met with removal of your post and possible suspension or removal of your account.

• Read the rules

Do:

• Keep your replies related to the original topic. If you wish to talk about something else, create a new topic. This helps other users only read the material they are interested in
• Post replies which contribute to the topic at hand. Replying with 'haha' or 'that sucks', etc is frowned upon.
• Be nice to other users. Just because this is a web-based medium does not mean normal social rules do not apply to you.

Do not:

• Post content with excessive foul or abusive language.
• Post pornography, links to pornography sites, or other disgusting material.
• Post racially defamatory material.
• Post links to third party websites containing illegal software such as 'warez'.
• Post links to copyrighted third party material, such as music ("mp3s") or movies ("DivXs") that are not available for free distribution.
• Post replies to old topics ("thread resurrection") unless you have something serious to add to the discussion.
• Use a large or otherwise obtrusive signature. In particular, do not put sounds or music in your signature.
• Create an account with the purpose of impersonating another AusForums.com user.
• Post blatant inflammatory messages intended to start an argument and not conversation.
• Create a new account for the purposes of getting around a ban.

Lastly, do not post messages complaining about removal of content ("nuking"). Forum moderators may remove content as they see fit; if you dont agree with their policies visit another forum where the moderation policy is more to your liking.