forum Rules

These rules apply to all parts of the forum. Please note that these rules have been carefully written up and reviewed by the forum and its respective owners.

These rules are the official rules.

- Don't use vulgar language or racial remarks on the forum.
Please don't swear or make any vulgar or racial remarks. This also included posting videos with racial content or vulgar content in them. This also applies for text and images.

- Don't create spam or multiple(double) posts.
Please do not create spam post or double post to upper your post count. This includes posting on the same thread twice and making random threads or posts.

- Don't use Hate Speech directly towards another user.
Please don't express your hatred towards another member, whether it be via private message, profile comments, posts, or any other method of contact on the forum. This also includes creating groups or tagging your threads with phrases which express hate, or harassment towards another member.
Breaking this rule will get an infraction placed on your account.

- Selling goods for real life money.
This forum does not allow users to sell goods on here for real life money. This includes accounts and ranks. You also are not aloud to sell items from other websites for items on our site.

- Account sharing is forbidden.
Sharing your whamBiz account with another user of the forum to obtain a coloured username, access private forums, avoid bans or for any other purpose is forbidden.
Breaking this rule will get a 7 day ban placed on your account.

- Do not ask for / offer to give-away 'Thanks' freely.
Please do not make thanks threads to try and get users a staff position. This will automatically ruin their chances and you may end up with a punishment.

- No sexual/inappropriate discussion anywhere on the forum.
At Forum, we do not allow members to discuss any sexual acts or any sort of discussion, unless inside the /dev/null (Spam Can) section. You're only allowed to discuss 'inappropriate' content in the /dev/null section, and this discussion may not include pictures, videos or other media that would be deemed inappropriate for minors.
Breaking this rule will get a warning/infraction/ban placed on your account depending on the nature of the content.

- No more than 5 images in your signature.
Members are allowed images in their signature, but members who abuse this and place large or misleading images in their signatures will be warned or an infraction issued.
Breaking this rule will get the image removed from your signature & a warning on your account.

- No YouTube videos in signatures.
We do not allow members to have YouTube videos in their signatures for various reasons.
Breaking this rule will get a warning placed on your account.

- Don't post threads against Administrators or Moderators actions.
Please do not create threads to reverse actions against our Moderation, Management and Administration team, as this is not tolerated on Forum. The moderator/administrator who made the action will make the decision - and this decision is final, unless reversed by a Manager. Please do not get other members of Forum Staff involved or create hatred threads. This includes creating threads to criticise an Administrators or Moderators decision. If you want to query the sanction implied, please contact a Super Moderator or Administrator via Private Message instead.
Breaking this rule will get an infraction placed on your account.

- Posting to provoke / fuel an argument.
As we'd like to keep the community at ease, rather than have a whole guns blazing atmosphere on the forum, we don't approve of posts which are specificity targeted at another user with intent to create/provoke or fuel/continue an argument.
Breaking this rule will get an infraction placed on your account, repeat offenders will be banned.

- No thread bumping.
Forum is an active community, therefore we ask that you do not bump threads that are older than one month. However, stickied threads are an exception to this rule.
Breaking this rule will get an infraction placed on your account, repeat offenders will be banned.

- Do not post advertisements for other forums.
Whilst using Forum, you're unable to post advertisements for other forum communities, whether or not they're related to Habbo or not. This rule also applies to links posted in signatures, profile comments or anywhere else on the forum where you can publicly share information.
Breaking this rule will get an infraction or ban added to your account.

- Do not advertise Private Servers
You are not allowed to advertise Private Servers on Forum at this stage. This rule allies to links posted in signatures, profile comments or anywhere else on the forum where you can publicly share information.
Breaking this rule will get a warning added, or infraction issued, to your account.

- Do not create/use other accounts whilst banned.
Creating/using (an)other account(s) whilst banned is not allowed as this will result in you being able to gain access to the forum when you are not permitted to do so. This rule also applies to probation.
Breaking this rule will get a ban added to your other account(s) and will result in an extension to your original ban.

- Do not troll the forum
You are not permitted to create an account on the forum for the purpose of trolling nor decide to start trolling the forum. Trolling is where a user makes derogatory, rude and unnecessary remarks on most of their posts and only created/uses an account on the forum for the purpose of being rude to others in the community.
Breaking this rule will result in an infraction, probation then a permanent ban.


- Do not copy Forum Ideas or Suggestions
Forum is protected by international copyright law, which means you are unable to copy us. A review of the forum has found that too many members are unhappy with other fan sites copying us, This also takes up time for the administrators to contact them. Therefore, you are not allowed to do this.
Breaking this rule will get a Permanent IP Ban added to all your accounts.


- Do Not Make Multiple Accounts
Forum doesn't allow you to make more than one account in any circumstance. This includes making accounts when banned, making accounts to apply for staff when infractions are still in place on the user account and making accounts for more forum credits.
Breaking this rule will result in permanent bans added to all of your accounts.

- Do not spam/shout
At Forum, spamming a message multiple times is not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, the shoutbox, profile comments, threads and posts. Breaking this rule will result in a warning the first time around, and then infractions or bans issued to your account if you continue.

- Posting in Reports/Unban Request without information
Users who are not the Thread Starter should NOT reply to a thread without valuable information for/against a user. This will result in a infraction and maybe having your posts and threads await moderation before being actually posted on Forum



- Reports/Unbans
No commenting in reports/unban sections unless you are a moderator or have screenshots or videos


- Letter substitution
Here at whamBiz, we do not promote the substitution of the letter G for the letter Q. For example, niqqa. This will result in an automatic douche bag badge.


Remember, this rules and regulations are in place to keep you, and the forum safe - so please abide by them

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