COMMUNITY GUIDELINES UPDATES - 13 OCTOBER 2012

The following updates have been made to the community guidelines:

Profanity, Nudity, Gore & Pornography

Swearing (profanity) is to be kept to a minimum. This means that only very infrequent profane comments will be tolerated and that the comments themselves must be mild in nature. Swearing in an abusive fashion falls under abusive behaviour and is strictly prohibited.

Pornography and gore are strictly prohibited across all G17 Media web services. Examples of this include posting pictures or videos of sexual acts or gruesome scenes. These rules do not apply as such to screenshots from games, so long as there are no fully or partially nude depictions of sex.

Full nudity is not permitted on any G17 Media website. This applies only to pictures and videos containing actual nudity where genitalia is partially or fully visible. Absolutely no nudity of persons under 18 is allowed. Images of models wearing underwear and lingerie are acceptable, as are those where no genitals are partially or fully visible. Censored nudity (things like blurs and black lines) is prohibited.

Yes, we do understand that GTA is for adults, although it is very likely that a majority of users here are actually under 18. We want to maintain a healthy atmosphere and keep the website accessible to everyone. You come to LCPDFR.com for the best in GTA modding, not porn. Again, things like "hot chick" threads are still permissible, it's just that there can be no full nudity or pornography as explained above.


Advertising

All forms of advertising are prohibited by default throughout all G17 Media websites, with the following exceptions:

• Profiles - you may freely advertise anything on your profile page, so long as it does not violate any other aspect of the Community Gudelines
   
• Signatures - you may add a link, image or text to your signature in order to advertise a clan, community, mod or other GTA-related media.
   
• Designated Topics - there are several designated topics for specific advertisements, such as the "List of Roleplay Clans" where clan leaders may advertise their clan - 

Other Languages Forums

In a miscellaneous update, Sgt. Jackson and Interference have been appointed as forum moderators of the French and Dutch forum sections respectively. They are solely responsible for moderation of their forum, and nothing else. Only if you have a problem or issue regarding their specific forums should you contact them regarding forum moderation - for anything else, contact a global moderator.

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES UPDATES - 15 JANUARY 2013

The following updates have been made to the community guidelines:

Substantial Changes

The Community Guidelines have been significantly changed, given below is a brief summary:

• New rules regarding discrimination have been introduced to replace the vague text on racism - we won't tolerate any forms of discrimination, be that racism, sexism or anything else.
• Clearer text on credits and acknowledgements has been introduced - you should always credit and acknowledge contributors to anything you share.
• Some clear restrictions on things which cannot be shared on our network have been added to further protect our users - don't post or share viruses, malware, etc.
• Clearer text on our single account policy - you must only operate one account on each of our communities.
• Clearer text on advertising - we allow you to advertise on your profile and signature, but nowhere else without permission or unless otherwise stated.
• Website and community specific terms have been removed.

 

As this is a fairly substantial change, we recommend that you read over the guidelines again, here: http://www.lcpdfr.com/forum-0/announcement-1-community-guidelines/

COMMUNITY GUIDELINES UPDATES - 14 APRIL 2013

The following updates have been made to the community guidelines:

Gallery Section

The Community Guidelines have been updated to include a set of rules specific to the LCPDFR Gallery:

• Certain exemptions are given from the site-wide guidelines.
• Clear details on what is and what is not allowed.
• Restrictions against spamming the image strip on the forum index.
• Clearer text on advertising - the LCPDFR gallery is not your personal advertising tool.

You will be presented with the full text of these guidelines when uploading an image.