THE 3 Count Wrestling Rulebook.

The Warning System

At 3 Count Wrestling we have a three-tier warning system. The first warning is simply a slap on the wrist. The second warning will result in you being temporarily banned for 7 days. Your third warning will also be your final warning, and will result in your account being permanently banned.

If you chose to return (Which may not be allowed) you will not receive any warnings, and any infractions of the rules will result in your account being banned without notice.

Here are the offences you can be warned for:

Spam:
This is making a post that adds nothing to the topic. It can be a one-worded reply, or simply a smilie. It could also be talking about stuff irrelevant to the topic, such as using the thread as a MSN convo.

Flaming:
This is a direct attack on a poster. Whether you were provoked or not makes no difference. Flame-fests will not be tolerated, and you would do good to ignore any flame-baiting attempts.

Flame-Baiting:
A post that incites the other poster to flame you, be it by bringing up trivial incidents that have no relevancy to the thread, or saying something like “What do you know? You mark for ____”

Advertising:
We will not allow threads to be created, to advertise another site. You can advertise all you want, in your signature i, your site allows us the same right to advertise in our signatures aswell, and remember signature's are not allowed to have large fonts. You may either receive a warning or be permanetly banned depending on severity or your previous history.

Harassment via Private Messages:
Constantly annoying someone via PM’s after they tell you to stop will result in a warning.

Advertising in PM’s:
Just as we don’t allow you to advertise in threads, we don’t allow PM’s to be sent advertising anything. If you advertise by pm you will be instantly banned.

Altering/Multiple Accounts:
Having more than one account at any one time is not allowed. You are not allowed different accounts where you can pretend to be someone else on each one. You are allowed one account and that is it. If you have someone in the same household who also wished to post on BFN, PM an administrator or Super-mod and tell them, and also include what name they intend to sign up with.

Instant Bans:
Breaking one of these rules will result in an instant, permanent ban.

Racism:
Racist and other highly derogatory remarks will earn you a permanent ban, straight away, without any previous warnings.

Porn: You are not allowed to post pornographic images on the boards, or have it in your profile.

Porn/Nudity
No images or links involving any sexually related content is allowed on this forum. Breaking this rule could result in a warning all the way up to a ban depending on the severity of the violation.

Signature Rules

We have set rules about your signature, and they must be followed. Failure to comply with these rules will result in your signature being edited with a reminder of the rules. Constantly break these rules, and we will prevent you from editing your signature.

The rules are as follows

You can only have ONE image in your signature. (Smilies are also allowed, as long as they aren’t basically a second banner)
The maximum size for a banner is 700x 200 pixels. You can’t have two images to make it to this size. Go and get it merged together in the Arts and Graphics forum.

If you have an animated banner, it cannot have more than Four frames, or exceed 400x200
You are only allowed SEVEN lines of text in your signature. And no large fonts. (Your signature doesn’t count as a line)

And a reminder that no porn is allowed.

NO EMBEDING ANYTHING!!! in your siggy

Private Messaging

As the name suggests, this system is private, and thus the normal posting rules do not apply. So therefore, if you have a problem with a poster in a thread, please use the PM system to sort out any differences, rather than doing it in the thread and getting warned.

However, whilst you can flame each other all you want in PM’s, if someone asks you to stop with the PM’s and you continue, we will warn you for harassment via PMs.

Also, you cannot randomly advertise via PMs. You will be warned for that, and if you receive an advertising PM, then you can forward it to a moderator, who will then do the necessary.

Other Things:

Playing Moderator
If you make posts where you are ‘acting like a mod’ and calling for the thread to be locked and other such things…we will warn you for that. Taking it upon yourself to police the forums is just as annoying as someone breaking the other rules.


The Suggestion Box
As the name suggests…the Suggestion Box is a place to go when you have a new idea that you’d like to see happen on 3 Count Wrestling. We will respond to your ideas there, and we can also answer any questions you may have where things are unclear.

The Suggestion Box is NOT a place for threads bitching about stuff and asking why someone got warned/banned – if they got warned or banned, it’s because they broke the rules, shockingly enough.


Responding to Threads
If you think a thread is “shit” then don’t post in it to say so. If you have nothing constructive to say in a thread, then don’t post. We don’t need 20 posts saying that the thread is useless…by posting, you are keeping the thread bumped up. Crap threads will drop off the forums page if you don’t post in them.


SHOUTBOX Rules - All forum rules above including racim, advertising, flaming, and playing moderator are enforced in the shoutbox.

No wrestling discussion or discussion of a topic that would go in any of the existing forums is permitted. Also do not ask another member in the shoutbox to go on msn, aim, skype or any other chatroom zone.

On Pay Per View Sundays the Shoutbox starting a half before the Pay Per View will be connected to the WWE or TNA Pay Per View party and discussion thread. So only ppv discussion will be permitted in the shoutbox until the ppv is over. It is your responsibility to know this rule and not knowing there was a pay per view that night is not a warranted excuse.
Also, the following is not allowed through-out the forums:

-Posting of videos or any other copyrighted material
-MySpace threads