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In order to use these forums, users are required to provide a username, password and e-mail address. Neither the Administrators of these forums, or the Moderators participating, are responsible for the privacy practices of any user. Remember that all information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to share any of your personal information. Any user who finds material posted by another user objectionable is encouraged to contact us via e-mail. We are authorized by you to remove or modify any data submitted by you to these forums for any reason we feel constitutes a violation of our policies, whether stated, implied or not.
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- Users can login with their username and password to change any information in their profile.
- In case of lost password, users can send an e-mail to forum@atlasrr.com.
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1. This forum has a 'no flaming' policy. This means that we will not tolerate offensive or threatening posts aimed at other members, the moderators. The defining of offensive behavior is the sole privilege of the owners/administrators and will include (but not be limited to), foul language, personal threats, personal insults, and statements generally considered to be slanderous.
2. By their participation in this forum, it is implied that the users agree to hold the owners/administrators free of liability brought on by the actions of said user. Users/members of this forum have no rights other than the right to participate in forum discussions by making posts or other actions based on the login and password rights given to them by the administration. These rights cannot be transferred to another person and are subject to revocation by the owners/administrators based on the compliance or non-compliance of the user with the stated rules.
3. No Politics, political discussion, etc.
4. No direct selling or linking to E-bay items.
5. No personal attacks on other forum members or people/companies not on the forum.
6. Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users are asked to read the forumdescriptions before posting.
7. Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusingusers in any way will not be tolerated.
8. Members are asked to not act as 'back seat moderators'. If members note an issuewhich violates something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it tothe attention of a Moderator. Only do this if a moderator has not replied within areasonable period of time.
9. Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and the post will beremoved.
10. Members should post in a way which is consistent with 'normal writing'. That isusers should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or colored text,etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?)in topic titles or posts.
11. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Users posting spam will bewarned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking formore information.
12. The Forum Moderators reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. Thedetermination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in thesepoints is up to Forum Moderators and not users.
13. All posts made to the Atlas Forum become property of Atlas.
14. Images must be 100KB or smaller in size, 800 pixels or shorter in width. This includesanimated GIFs. If you need to share a larger picture, link to it. If you are making apost with many images, for example a bunch of screenshots of a new train, pleasetry to keep the sum of the size of all the images below 100KB. If you are making a thread where many people will be posting big images or need to stretch the 100KB rule a little, please note that the thread is Not Safe for 56K (NSF56K) in the title.
Policing
Members found in violation of any of the above rules will be subject to the following:
a. Atlas operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences. If the need arises for a fourth warning a temporary ban will be put in place.
b. Arguing with Moderators after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a temporary ban will be put in place as above.
c. Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new emailaccount to evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as ananonymous user.
d. Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While Atlas may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence
2. An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact Moderators personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban.
Signatures
The recommended maximum size for sig images is 500x60 pixels, and most sig images should be kept below 20KB. While we understand that your particular design may require slightly different dimensions or more bytes, please try and remain near these limits.
Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6KB in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text.
By pressing the "Agree" button, you agree that you, the user, are 13 years of age or over. You are fully responsible for any information or file supplied by this user. You also agree that you will not post any copyrighted material that is not owned by yourself or the owners of these forums. In your use of these forums, you agree that you will not post any information which is vulgar, harassing, hateful, threatening, invading of others privacy, sexually oriented, or violates any laws.
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