OT Guidelines - updated

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The following rules will be enforced and at the discretion the moderators or administrators which reserve the right to remove threads without prior notice:

Adult rated materials
This forum is access by the general public which includes minors (under 18 years of age) and people who are in the workplace.
* Links to x-rated material is strictly prohibited
* Removal of avatars that contain sexual connotation
* Sexual discussions may be editted for content.
* Discrimination against individual sexual preferences will not be tolerated.

Off Topic is not a chat room
This forum is meant for open dialogue that does not fit in the other forum categories. It is not meant to be a chat room. Users who wish to chat amongst themselves should either use the Private Messaging system or some other instant messaging software.

Political & Religious threads
Political and Religious threads are still not allowed. This is a clause that will allow mods and admins to keep some current event topics open that may infringe on our no religious and/or political topics. For example, UBB, G20, the protests are all political in nature but also important to us as Canadians. If this clause gets abused, we will go back to the original no political/religious threads. This was for you the user to be able to discuss important current events, do not abuse it.

These topics general generate a lot of dialogue between the members but the discussion will be come heated due to the nature of the topic or the discussion will lead to this direction. Please do remember that meaningful discussion is encouraged but keep an open mind since everybody will have his/her own opinion and it's expected that opinion is respected. Trolling, baiting or flaming will not be tolerated and can or will be removed at the discretion of the moderating team.

Racial comments or profiling
Comments or topics is strictly prohibited. We expect the general populaces to give each other respect that we expect to ourselves.

Low content
If a topic has no meaning or an invitation to be flamed then this thread will be closed at the discretion of the moderating team. Don't forget, threads take up space and therefore impact performance.