RULE 1.1
You are responsible for your own account. Do NOT share your login password with anyone else. Excuses of your account being used/abused by someone else will not be taken into consideration, unless your account was genuinely hacked from another computer. If your computer is shared, log out when you're done using the forums. No excuses will be taken into consideration in this situation, it is your genuine fault if anybody gets your login password, unless genuinly hacked

RULE 1.2
Users found having two accounts on the forum will be punished. Both users (or more) with the same IP will either get a PM from the admin and/or will get banned. If you get banned for the above reason, you're free to contact Dia on webmasterlizardus@gmail.com and the issue can be solved. It is to A** that if you are banned, you will not have any more accounts to access.

Exception To Rule 1.2
Family members on the same computer. Contact me via PM/Email if you have multiple family members on the same computer.

Information on Banned Users
If you got banned and you think you haven't done anything wrong, then the following things could have happened. Family members, users who play at their friends house, possibly university network users, library, public computer users, another example is the aol network sometimes causing IP conflicts with users who are far away; all of these MIGHT get multiple people the same (or similar) IP. And if one gets a ban on that IP, all the rest with the same IP also get banned from The Lizardus Firm, Clan and Forum, for a certain amount of time. This is unavoidable as the ban works with the IP.

You're free to contact Dia on webmasterlizardus@gmail.com if you have problems on this issue.

RULE 1.3
To protect our members, anyone found trying to obtain another users password for what ever reason will recieve a permanent ban.

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RULE 2.1
Respect others. There will be no abuse of a personal nature against another member. That includes disrespectful behavior, flaming, bashing, group insulting, religious or political disagreements, sexualm harassment, racism or violence of any kind. Please do not ever talk about any sort of intercourse or inappropriate/explicit reality, or you will be severely punished and permanently banned.

If you're offended or insulted by another user's post, contact that user via PM and resolve the issue peacefully. Do not try to be a 'drama queen' and continue the argument publicly on the forum.

RULE 2.2
We will not tolerate any kind of trolling (pointless arguments), rudeness, swearing or bad language, no matter who started it.

RULE 2.3
Be mature. Do not try to be annoying, disruptive, intrusive, invading, troublesome, childish, showoff, wiseass, attention seeker, drama queen, act stupid or post random and nonrelevant messages in the forum.

RULE 2.4
Remember, do not treat Moderators in any way above you or better than you. If a Moderator disagrees, don't pretend they're right or try to get on their good side, although it's good to be on everyone's good side. We're all human, have our own emotions, and our own preferences. We all have our own strong points and weak points. If anybody insults you in a verbal manner considering the above rule, they will be severely punished and banned.

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RULE 3.1
SPAMMING is not allowed. Don't post random things that don't contribute to the discussion, unless doing so in the specified forum.

RULE 3.2
ADVERTISING for your own personal benefit (or other reasons) in the wrong area will not be tolerated.

Some forms of advertising are allowed, but ONLY in topics which subject allows it.
Example: Adoptables Lair and Artwork boards.

RULE 3.3
Posting pictures of questionable content or linking to other such sites is not allowed. That includes porn sexually explicit, racist or in any other way offensive or gross violent content.
Also, make sure that you do not display or link to any images that flash or rapidly change color, as this can cause seizures and other issues. If you see someone using images like this, contact an Administrator, Moderator, or Accomplice.

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RULE 4.1
Do not make the signature too big. The max total height for sigs is 150px with an adoptable; stacking adoptable images will make the sig over 100px in total height. A couple lines of text are allowed but any more than that is oversized. The max height of non-adoptable signature picture(s) is 100px. Oversized signature pictures will get removed.

RULE 4.2
You're free to advertise ANY kind of adoptable in your signature as long as their picture size isn't above 150px height.

RULE 4.3
DO NOT advertise your adoptables outside your signature or the Adoptables Lair. They will be deleted immediately and you will get a warning. This includes PMs, which will be taken upon harshly if abused.

RULE 4.4
Posting level up requests is not allowed. For example, a post on the forum saying "please click on my dragon!". Begging for views and clicks is not permitted. All such posts and similar will be deleted. Asking for views or clicks via PMs is not allowed either! Breaking this rule will result in your PM privilages being revoked, meaning you will not be able to send PMs anymore.

Please report any user that sends you dragon spam or click spam via PMs.

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RULE 5.1
Every single post, topic, subject or thread has to be in English language. Posts that are in a different language will be removed without notification. If you do not speak English, change your language preference and change it accordingly. You may have install a package if you cannot change the language.

RULE 5.2
Please don't use too much chatspeak and textspeak on the forum.

RULE 5.3
One word posts will be deleted. Please write something more meaningful than that.

RULE 5.4
Do not create double posts. This means putting two posts in a row, with no one else's post in between. There is a 'Modify' button which enables you to change your own post at any time. If the rules of a forum board specifically state that you may double post, then you can, but ONLY there.

RULE 5.5
Do not use more than 5 emotioncons in a row. There's no point in putting too many of them in a post.

RULE 5.6
Don't post duplicate topics. When posting a new topic/question, first check if a similar topic/question already exists on the forum. Duplicate topics will be removed without notification, unless requested.

RULE 5.7
Topics that are in the wrong place will be moved to a correct board without notification.

RULE 5.8
Please ensure that the topic has a proper subject, NOT something like "HEEELP!!!!" or "OMG!!".

RULE 5.9
Bumping threads is not allowed. Bumping means doing anything to keep the thread going even if it's old or to get the topic on top of the forum board. This also includes going off-topic.

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RULE 6
Don't mini-mod. If you see someone breaking a rule, use the Report button. DO NOT reply.

RULE 7
Role Playing is only allowed in the designated RP Board. Such behaviour outside the RP Board may result in a deletion of your post, depending on the content.

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RULE 8
ART THEFT will be dealt very harshly. If proven guilty by another party, the user will be banned from The Lizardus Firm forever. Art theft is considered taking art from another artist and claiming it as your own.

RULE 9
Posts debating about the Forum Rules, Moderator/Administrator behaviour or enforcement methods outside this topic will be deleted without warning. If you wish to discuss a Moderator, PM THEM. The same with Administrators.

The Lizardus Firm Rules 1.0 was partially used from DragonAdopters, because many of the rules apply. Plus, I was a little lazy and couldn't think of much. Written by Dia, Administrator of The Lizardus Firm.