[Rina Touin]

Nihonomaru Rules

This is a forum where rules are important so I expect every member to take sometime and read over these long and boring rules. I don't like rules any better than you do but remember, you're not the one having to type it up. (At least skim over it and look at all the bold words.)

Member Guidelines

1. Courtesy. Show your fellow members the courtesy they deserve and avoid getting into fights/conflicts as much as possible. If a member is being rude to you, ignore them or talk to a Moderator and they will resolve it for you. It's really important that we get along like a good family should!
   
2. Respect. Respect the staff members - they are staff for a reason. Listen to what they tell you, especially if it involves the word "stop." If a staff mistreats you then report them directly to toadvine, he'll do whatever he needs to do to solve the issue.
3. Profanity. Profanities are indeed allowed, within reason. There is a big difference between saying "That's fucking awesome!" and "Fuck you!" - remember to be courteous at all times (rule #1!) There are better ways of expressing yourself, and we strongly suggest you use them.
   
4. Privacy. A rule as old as the internet - don't post your personal information! There are all kinds of nasty people out there who will do bad things with it if they find it. We also suggest renaming any pictures you post from facebook before sharing them, since personal info can be mined from those if you don't.
   
5. Direct Linking Images. This is where you take an image directly from someone's site and post it on the forum for everyone to see. This method of linking will eat away their bandwidth - if you want to post an image, upload it to Photobucket or another imagehost first.
   
6. Theft. We won't be held responsible for what users post; we discourage stealing links from other sites and uploading whatever you want to share on your own, however we're not going to police that sort of thing because it's virtually impossible to. Do note however, that plagiarizing signatures/graphics/stories/[insert other type of creative work here] and claiming it to be your own is not tolerated. Don't steal.
   
7. Adult Content. This is important, please do keep your avatars and signatures as clean as possible, yaoi and yuri are certainly allow but make sure they are not to the point where they are savagely ripping each other shirt off while on sexual romps; this goes for straight couples as well. Basically anything that wouldn't show up on American cable television isn't good for here, either.
   
8. Multiple Accounts. You don't need several accounts, one will be enough. If it's really necessary, PM or IM me and we'll see. (We have your IP# so be very careful.)
9. No Linking to other sites. Linking to other forums, boards or competing sites is totally forbidden. You can feel free to link to, say, BBC's website if it's relevant to your conversation, but not to any site that has anything to do with anime/manga.
   
10. Posting a picture. You can use any free hosting service website, as in tinypic.com, imagevenue.com, photobucket.com, etc.
11. Reputation. This forum has a system in place where you can give both positive and negative reputation to one another. While you can note some sort of seniority among members by their postcount, reputation is supposed to denote the quality of a user's contribution to the forum. As such, you should give positive reputation to a user for their contributions - primarily uploads or request fulfillment. Repping another user without an appropriate reason will be penalized as follows:

    1st infraction - reps received will be removed; users will be directed to read the rules
    2nd infraction - both sender and receiver will have 3x the amount given removed from their totals
    3rd infraction - sender and receiver will have 6x the amount given removed
    4th infraction - reputation reset to 0

General Forums Rules

1. No Flaming. Simple, straightforward, and a continuation of the Courtesy part of the Member Guidelines - civil discussion and debate is of course allowed, but once things get past that, contact a moderator. We don't allow anyone to insult or make fun of others. Don't be mean.
   
2. Spamming. No double/triple/multiple posting. Don't post anything meaningless (like "nice work!" or "hot render!") - just give the user a +rep instead; they'll appreciate it more. Don't be an adbot and flood the forum with ads, either, that will get you instantly banned.
   
3. Discrimination. Racism, sexism, and any other kinds of degrading discrimination are not allowed at all. If you have a problem with certain differences whether it is culture, sex orientation, or gender, etc... keep it to yourself. If you're found to acted with bigotry of any kind, you will be banned (either temporarily or permanently, depending on the circumstances.)
   
4. Spoilers. Try to keep any spoilers about the anime/manga you're following hidden with spoiler tags and a warning to let people know that it's a spoiler you're hiding, not just a big image or whatever. You don't want to ruin the series for someone who just started it, even if it's an oldie.
   
5. Hentai/Adult Content. Hentai vids/manga/doujin uploads are allowed in this forum. Posting pictures with adult content is fine, provided you hide it behind a spoiler tag (this button: ) and indicate that you're hiding it because of the adult nature.
   
6. Signature Rules. You're allowed to have at the maximum 2 signatures. Maximum total size is Width 500px / Height 300px. This includes anything in spoiler tags - excessive images just lags down the page loads for people as they browse. Standard Adult Content rules apply, as in the previous rule and the Member Guidelines.
   
7. Requesting. Requests can only be made if you have more than 30 posts. Before that you don't have any reputation power to thank whoever satisfies your request with, so be patient. Keep graphics requests in the Graphic Request section, and misc. requests in the normal Request Section.
   
8. Maru's Clubs. The owners should add every member in the first post of the Club Thread, and any person who's registered in this forum can join clubs. Hentai content is not allowed at all.
9. Posting an anime in the download section. You may create a thread with the anime preview pic + preview + download links. Please follow the rules in the announcement which can be found in every section in the Downloads Section, in order to post an anime/hentai/manga/etc in the downloads section.
10. Copyrighted Material. Please try to make sure that you aren't posting any copyrighted material - fansubs/scanlations are good, but officially licensed stuff isn't. No one likes to get DMCAs.

Moderation

Moderation on the forum works like this:

1. A user reports a problem or a Moderator notices one. A problem can be anything from users arguing/flaming/trolling to users outright breaking rules. If you notice something that you think is against the rules or otherwise wrong, please use the report button conveniently located on each post.
2. The moderator decides on the best course of action - moving/closing the thread, warning users, giving infractions, reducing reputation, and giving a temporary or permanent ban are some examples.
3. Users are to listen to the site's staff - they are staff members for a reason. If you have a problem with how a moderator dealt with something, contact Toadvine and he'll deal with it.
4. If the problem still isn't resolved, the moderators will contact an administrator (Toadvine) and he will finish things.

Do your best to follow the rules so that NihonoMaru will remain a great place. Also, the most important rule above any other is to have fun! This board was made for your entertainment, so enjoy it and make sure not to abuse your privileges.