Below are the full rules for the Winamp Forums

There are boundaries to discussions here to what is and what is not allowed. These rules are in place to ensure the Winamp forums continue to be a friendly place where members can learn and share information on a variety of computing and non-computing topics.

What is not allowed is as follows:

Advertising
- Advertising or soliciting other members to buy, sell or peruse any products or services through this discussion forum is not permitted. Chain letters and junk mail are also strictly prohibited. Topics/posts that contain this will be both edited and locked.

Flaming
- Material that is knowingly defamatory, illegal, abusive, threatening or harassing, is strictly prohibited. As with anything, you, as a member, should use good common sense when posting. In other words, you agree not to be a jerk. Posts containing personal attacks on another user will be edited/deleted.

Right to Privacy
- You will not violate a person's privacy by publishing against another members will, information that is private and personal.

Spamming
-Topics/posts that are just complete nonsense will be deleted, at the moderators discretion.

Racism
- Topics/posts containing such will be edited/deleted accordingly.

Porn
- Material that is sexually or otherwise obscene is not permitted on these forums. Topics/posts containing such will be deleted on sight.

Warez
- Providing or asking for information regarding "warez", "gamez" or any other software protected by copyright is forbidden.

Post Pumping
- If a post is suspected to serve no other purpose than to increase the post count of the poster, then the moderators may, at their discretion, issue a PM to the member in question enquiring about the nature of the post. Posts that are blatently post pumping will be removed without recourse to the poster.

Cross-posting
- Posting the same question in more than one forum is not allowed. Should this occur, then only the thread in the most relevant forum will be left open; all others will be locked and subsequently deleted.

Signature Size
- To keep the page loading time, and visual annoyance factor down to a minumum, please keep your graphical sigs to a 12,500 pixel max or 15k file size, whichever is reached first. Alternatively, three lines of text can be used as a signature. Do not pad out your text lines with blanks lines. A line of text is defined such that it does not wrap when viewed at a resolution of 1024x768.

If these limits are exceeded then you may be contacted by a moderator requesting an amendmant to your signature. If none is made within a reasonable period of time, then a moderator may remove your signature from your profile.

StreamRippers
Recently, administration has asked that references to streamrippers are to be removed from the forums. Apparently this is due to legal issues surrounding the saving of copyright streams, and the implications that it could have for Nullsoft.

Thererfore any threads dealing with this topic will be deleted without recourse to the thread starters or anyone who may have posted in them.

What should I do if I see objectionable material on the forums?
- It is important that members recognise the real-time nature of this forum: the moderators cannot always monitor the contents of posted messages, and as such depend upon you to inform them when participants or their messages are violating our policy as stated here. You must also recognise that they cannot respond immediately to such notices and that some time may pass before any warranted action is taken.

To contact a moderator, either use the "Report this post to a moderator" function, or PM one of the moderators listed in the Forum Leaders page.

What happens if I break the rules?
At best your post will be edited by one of the moderators and you will be issued a warning. If the offence is more serious your post will be deleted. Posting "why was my post edited/deleted?" etc. will only make matters worse so please don't.

Should you have already been issued warnings and continue to break the rules, you will be issued a temporary ban - your posting priviledges will be disabled for three days, but you will still be able to view the forums as a guest.

For persistant and deliberate rule-breakers your account will be "Nuked". That means you are no longer welcome on these forums and your account will no longer function. If you re-register, your new account will be nuked immediately.

Suggestions
In the attempt to create a compromise where everyone is happy, the following suggestions are also recommended:

1. Be civil and courteous. This forum is visited by people from all over the world, of different ages and genders, and are each entitled to their own opinion. Also, see Flaming, Right to Privacy, and Racism.

2. Make sure that your message topics fit the topic description of the forum that you are posting in. This is for your own benefit - for example, a question regarding a Winamp problem will get a better (and possibly quicker) response in Winamp Technical Support, than it would in General Discussions.

3. Use the search function before posting, particularly if the question is problem oriented. Most technical questions have been answered before, and solutions are freely available. Also, Tech Support Greatest Hits contains a compilation of the most commonly asked technical support questions.

4. Make sure that you have followed #3 before posting :)

5. Read the sticky threads at the top of each forum - they are there for a reason, and generally contain information relevant to the forum that they are in.

6. Don't quote the entire message that you're responding to, only the pertinent passage. This makes it easier to read for other users.

7. Only post pictures when absolutely necessary, and when they are directly relevant to the topic discussion. If the image you are posting is large in size (either pixel size, file size, or both), then please post a link to the picture instead of posting the picture itself. Remember that not everybody has the T3 connection that you are accustomed to, and may have to wait some time for images to load.

8. If you find it easier to express yourself en Francais, auf Deutsch, en Espanol, in Nederlands, in Italiano, or any other language, post in the International Connection forum. You'll find help and pointers in almost every language we can think of.