If you use an image that is bigger than 100x100 the forum will resize it, and kill any animation that it had.

I don't think you can upload animated avatars, but you should be able to host them yourself and link to them just fine.

[HERE BE THE RULES OF THE TEAM MEAT FORUMS.]

Here's a first draft of the rules.

HERE BE THE RULES OF THE TEAM MEAT FORUMS.
Obey them and all shall be well.  Break them and one might find themselves on the wrong side of a swift moving ban hammer.


RULE 1  Don't be an ass.
Should be simple enough.  Being an ass includes but is not limited to, personal attacks on other members of the forum, racial slurs or otherwise super offensive language, any sort of harassment to other members, and acting like a general douche.  Punishments for assery include verbal warnings from the forum staff (either public, or private through PM), temporary, and permanent bans.  Treat people as you would in person, be civilized, and all that good sort.


RULE 2  No illegal stuff.
Do not post anything related to pirated material, and do not post material that is unsuitable for minors to view.  This includes pornography and general gross/shocking imagery.  Illegal materials could get us in big trouble with our web host, and we wouldn't want that.  Any posted material or links to aforementioned materials will be promptly removed.  A warning of some sort will come swiftly to the offending user.  Repeat offenders will lose posting privileges, or be banned permanently.


RULE 3  No advertisement spam.
This should be obvious, but any spam advertisement posts (WoW gold, Ugg Bootz, Nike Jerseys, etc) will be immediately removed with the ban hammer coming down swiftly on the offending poster.  If you make a post that is spam-like, the forum staff will assume that you are a spam bot and ban you permanently without warning.  This rule applies only to posts that make you look like a spam bot.


RULE 4  No super annoying signatures (or avatars)
If your signature is huge and has 100 frames of animation then it's probably going to be moderated.  There is no exact pixel size limitation on signatures currently, but if your signature is much larger than your average post size, then there's a good chance it will be moderated.  Also if enough people complain about your signature or avatar giving them seizures, it will be moderated.  You won't be banned, probably just warned and your signature removed.


RULE 5  Post Etiquette.
We're not asking you to behave like fancy pants rich people, but please be reasonable while posting in the forums.  Completely derailing a thread will result in a warning.  Repeat offenses of purposely derailing threads will result in a temporary loss of posting privileges.  On top of that, try not to post large images directly to the forums (wallpapers for example). If you'd like to share a large picture, use a link to the image instead.


RULE 6  The rules can change.
The forum staff reserves the right to alter or amend the rules as they see fit.  That's about it.


Some important notes:
- If you see something out of line, please report the offending post to the moderation staff with the "Report to moderator" link at the bottom right of the post.
- It is up to the discretion of the forum staff to decide what is a punishable offense.
- In most cases you will be warned about an offense before before further action is taken.  (Except if you're a spam robot.  That's a insta-ban.)

Hey everyone, its time to discuss forum rules as the member count grows the amount of drama grows with it.  I know the anarchy has been fun for some, but probably not-so-fun for others...

First of all, I've bestowed the power of Global Moderator unto Orci.  Everyone say hello to Orci.  Right now I only expect the removal of spam posts and general forum tidyness from the moderators, so that leads us to the next part of this thread.  If you have any nominations for moderators, please PM me.



For the most part, I am just a bystander.  I set up the forums and will tweak them and play with them from time to time, but you guys are creating the community, so the rules should be up to you!

Obviously the rules will include no posting of illegal crap that could get our web host in trouble, but outside of that everything is up for discussion.  I know that a topic at hand is general behavior rules.  Should members be disciplined for being rude, aggressive, offensive, etc, to other members?  What should the discipline be?  Who decides what qualifies as such behavior?

There's also things like signatures, avatars, etc.  Should big animated avatars be okay, or should there be limits on stuff like that?

Now this is where I turn it over to you for discussion!

There is no official forum rules yet, but for now the person in question is going to take a time out from posting for a little while.  It was becoming very clear that this member's actions were against the grain of the rest of the community, and causing a lot of distrubance (multiple posts of theirs were reported to moderators a lot.)

More on forum rules later. More on forum rules now.

Yeah, I know.  I even added recaptcha but that doesnt seem to stop many of them x_x

In regards to SMF -- yes there are a number of modifications that can be made to try to stop spam.  When I ban spammers, I can also ban their host names and IP addresses and email addresses with wildcard characters.  So if a spammer with the email address "asshat@spam.com" registers then I can ban any future registrations from the email "*@spam.com"

The problem right now is that this forum is using a custom theme, which makes installing the mods a little bit more brutal, and I'll be tackling that soon enough.  We'll also probably be selecting some mods in the future, and I'll keep you guys posted on that.

[report to moderator]

Any reason that the Notify feature even be used? I'm fairly certain all that does is send a message to the user whenever a new post is made in that topic. That doesn't help in reporting at all.

Just clicking on the red "Report to moderator" with the reason "Spam" should suffice.

Derp, I'm an idiot.  I meant the report to moderator button.  

[report to moderator]

As you've probably noticed already, the spam bots have begun their attack on the forums.  Right now I am looking into modifying the forums with some more intense user registration tests to try to weed out the spam bots, but until then here's how you can help me out:

If you see any spam threads, please use the report to moderator link on the topic and report it to the moderators marked with the reason of "spam."  Also, please don't reply to any of the forum threads to bring more attention to them.

It might be a rough time until I get the forum mods up and running, but until then I'll just be deleting spam and banning spammers.  If it gets too out of control, then I will lock down the forums until the modifications are complete.  If this happens the forums will probably only be down for a couple days at the most.

Thanks!

Ooh, I love bonesaw, Kyle. Didn't realize you were that guy. Haven't played the rest of these yet.

Awesome!  

Super Street Fighter 4 on 360, and Starcraft 2 on PC.  Hit me up if anyone wants to play! 

Not really based on a game, I was just told to make a SNES looking screen.  I tried to make the "SUPER" look kinda Street Fighter esque, or something like that.  I guess probably a lot of different influences of old school games came together for this 

It took me around 3 or 4 hours from start to finish.

I wasn't sure if cleanly existed anywhere, as I've seen versions of it stretched and resized and captured from the game, so if anyone wanted a clean version of it -- here you go!

You can check out my games right HERE.

Oh jeez you guys are going to make me have to add more emoticons.