Home Video Playground Rules

1. Please log on or sign up if you want to edit! As a general rule, only Moderators and Administrators can change the Wiki’s preference and style.
2. No attacking/insulting users. If you attack any users on this website, you will be BANNED automatically. This is a zero-tolerance policy, and attacking a user will not be tolerated in this site. Home Video Playground is meant to be a friendly and fun place to be.
3. Only existing home video companies, be they past or present, located in North America or elsewhere, are allowed to have imaginary home video covers. However, you may create covers for imaginary releases from those real-life companies on home video formats on which they did not release anything, and covers for imaginary movies are permitted as long as there is a conscious attempt to make the image(s) within the cover high-quality and convincing.
4. Don’t hack/steal passwords from other accounts. If you are hacked, please contact an administrator.
5. No vandalism. If you vandalize anything on this site, you're going to get it. That also means no messing with a user's profile.
:To the Writers:
::1st offense: Warning.
::2nd offense: Final warning and demoted to a "Registered User" with a probation.
::3rd offense: Banned from the site!
:To the Registered Users:
::1st offense: Warning.
::2nd offense: Final warning.
::3rd offense: Banned from the site!
:To the Mods:
::1st offense: Warning.
::2nd offense: 2nd warning and demoted to a "Writer" with a probation.
::3rd offense: Final warning and demoted to a "Registered User" with another probation.
::4th offense: Banned from the site!
6. No stealing other user's covers and claiming them as your own by adding them in your personal album! If you're caught, you're automatically BANNED!
7. Corollary to Rule 3: Do not make a page for a company that doesn’t exist. It will be deleted immediately.
8. Do not spam this site (i.e., post advertising for websites that promote money-making scams or show pornography). We have no tolerance whatsoever for spam, and if you do so, you are automatically BANNED!
9. All CLG related sites are G-Rated sites. If at anytime you've been cussing and if we catch you, you WILL be dealt with! If it continues, you will be BANNED!
10. Do not duplicate this site by creating another ShoutWiki site, copying pages from this site, claiming the pages as your own, and stealing any covers. Doing so will automatically result in a BAN, and the duplicate site being deleted.
11. Do not add any unnecessary comments in the "Edit Note" section when you save your edits. The section is needed for any important new or recent updates for a description page and is NOT a toy! Doing so and if we catch you the first time, you will be warned. Do it again and you'll be demoted to registered user. If we catch you doing it again for the third time, BANNED!
12. Absolutely, and we mean ABSOLUTELY, NO DISCRIMINATION!!!
13. Do not post so many threads on one page all in one day. Above all, no posting threads on logo plastering. Do so, and you'll face the consequences.
14. Do not add any home video covers with questionable content. That includes profanity and sexual content. Do so, and you will face the consequences ranging from warnings to demotion to BANNING.
15. If you have a gaming toolbar, remove it immediately, because they cause bugs and causes unknown links that has a number/pound "#" sign. Ignore the warnings and there are consequences!
16. ONLY the administrators can promote writers to moderators based on the number of contributions time after time. We first discuss to other administrators about a certain writer who has made a lot of contributions in order to get promoted. Do NOT ask us to promote you to a "moderator" or "administrator"! This also applies at other subsidiaries or affiliates of the CLG Wiki!
17. Any user(s) using any profane or any sexually-related name for a user name, will be automatically BANNED!
18. Any person or persons giving out threat messages to a moderator or administrator, will be automatically BANNED without warning!
19. To non-mod/administrator members: No pretending to be a mod or administrator! That includes telling people not to break rules, threatening to ban members and making your own rules. Only members that are mods or administrators have the authority to do so. Anyone breaking this rule will be automatically BANNED!!!!!
20. Disruptive behavior of any sort, including as has already been described, is prohibited. That means, among other things, NO FIGHTING! First-time offenders will receive a warning. Repeat offenders will be demoted, if they rank higher than "Registered User" at the time of their second offense, and put on probation. Habitual offenders will be BANNED!
21. Rule to be announced following a test of ShoutWiki’s image uploading system.
22. Once you create one account, do NOT create a secondary account! Sockpuppet accounts will NOT be tolerated! Creation of either account results in an immediate BAN of both accounts. Exceptions will be granted on a case-by-case basis, but trolls creating sockpuppet accounts, especially habitual offenders who use secondary accounts for the sole purpose of violating any of these rules, will NEVER be welcome here!
23. If you're a writer and have been demoted to a "Registered User", do not ask to be a writer once again. Once you have been demoted, you are on probation for a certain amount of time the administrator puts you on before your demotion/probation is up and will once again promote you back to a writer. However, if you continue to break any one of the rules while you're a registered user on probation or have been re-promoted to a writer, then you're BANNED!!!!!
24. Autism, Aspergers and other mental disorders will not excuse rule-breaking. While we understand the trials that these people deal with, they will be treated the same as everyone else. Don't use the Autism card with us: we will BAN YOU!!!
25. Above all, please obey all rules. That is all.
Have fun!