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For the benefit of everyone, most especially the new guys, here are excerpts from the old rules.

These are still in effect until the staff revises it.



By using these Forums, you agree to the following:



· You will not behave in an abusive and/or hateful manner, and will not harass, threaten, nor attack anyone.



· You will not use profanity in our forums, nor post any language or content that is obscene, sexually oriented, or sexually suggestive.



· You will respect other people's right to personal privacy and will not post any other person's identifying information (including their names, contact information, and any other relevant information) within the forum but your own.



· You will not use these forums to violate any laws nor to discuss illegal activities.



· You will not to impersonate any person or entity, forge headers or otherwise manipulate identifiers in order to disguise the origin of any posting, nor collect or store personal data about other users.



· You will not post any copyrighted material, nor link to any copyrighted material (with the exception of publicly available sites and pages that the legal owners of the copyrights have created to make that material freely available to the general public), unless that copyright is owned by you or by these Forums.



· You will not use these Forums for the purposes of sharing or distributing viruses, licenses, registration information, software keys, "cracks," or other information designed to do harm to or allow unlawful access to any computer hardware, software, networks, or any other systems.



· You will not post advertisements, chain letters, pyramid schemes, or solicitations, all of which are inappropriate and prohibited in the Forums.



· You will not post messages that are clearly outside of the stated topic of any Forums nor disrupt a forum by deliberately posting repeated irrelevant messages or copies of identical messages (also known as "flooding").



· You will not attempt to access any protected sections of the sites or Forums, nor make use of any hacks, cracks, bug exploits, etc. to bypass or modify the features of the forum.



· You will, if asked by a representative of the Forums, cease posting any content, and/or links to content, deemed offensive, objectionable, or in poor taste by the staff of the Forums.



- You will not use the private messaging feature of Pinoy PC for spamming.

Kindly refrain from discussing or promoting piracy in the Games forum. Philosophical discussions on software piracy may be conducted at the Lounge.