ERHQ Rules and Regulations

READ THIS! NOW! READ THIS! ~weezee

Please visit the ICU first and help our endangered Dragons! Click here! ~ weezee

By reading or posting messages on these boards, you are agreeing to the ERHQ Rules and Regulations.
Disclaimer: The Ads on this site are not managed by the community. Click at your own risk.

ERHQ Rules and Regulations
Please read the following rules and regulations as you will be expected to follow them. Not following the rules can result in warnings, banning or deleting your account, or even permanently banning your IP. I. All Dragon Cave Rules apply here. If you're unaware of them then go read those as well. II. Do not spam your eggs all over the board asking for clicks. It is disruptive, and most of the time will cause people to NOT click your eggs. If you want clicks, add them to the hatchery. They will be fine! III. You ARE expected to click eggs and hatchlings in the Automated Hatchery! Yes, there are a lot of them and clicking them all will take time. The Hatchery is the purpose of this site. You post your eggs in the Hatchery, and you will benefit from the clicks and views from ERHQ members. In return for this service, you also MUST click the Hatchery so that we may benefit from your clicks. Not a bad deal, right? How often should you click? We ask that you please try to click every egg and hatchling in the Hatchery once a week. More often is appreciated, but clicking the same dragons several times a day is excessive and really a waste of time. Please Note: We are not Dragon sitters! If you are using this site as well as several others to get clicks it is very possible your egg or hatchlings may get sick from too many views. Only you can hide and protect your dragon if it gets sick! We cannot and will not do this for you and ERHQ will not be held responsible for the death of your dragon. IV. ERHQ has an ICU (Intensive Care Unit) for endangered Eggs and Hatchlings with 3 days and NO HOURS left and less! Don't forget to click these endangered eggs and hatchlings as often as possible! V. Please be respectful of ERHQ Moderators. You are expected to treat all ERHQ members in a respectful manner, but most especially the Staff. They sacrifice their free time and put a lot of work into maintaining this site. If you have been corrected by a moderator for a violation of ERHQ rules, try to remember that they are only doing their job... which is working to make ERHQ better for all members including you! That said... if you feel you have been treated unfairly, or have been disrespected by a staff member of ERHQ, please contact me directly via Private Message and I will deal with the matter appropriately. VI. Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances or illegal activities. We have very young members on these boards and we will not tolerate inappropriate behavior. VII. Signatures may take up no more than 14 full lines of text. For specifics on this rule, and the consequences go here. VIII. The following is expressly prohibited and will likely result in an automatic ban of your account, even on a first offense: * Offensive Material - Users may not transmit or encourage others to transmit material or links to material considered patently offensive in nature. This includes, but is not limited to using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language; using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, disability, nationality, or gender as a means of insult; using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language; and posting, requesting, linking to, or otherwise sharing material considered pornographic, obscene, graphic, or hate speech. Some additional notes on the Offensive rule: * Using terms for homosexuality or mental or physical disability as a means of insult in any way towards anyone or anything is considered offensive. This includes, but is not limited to, insinuating certain people (including video game characters) are homosexual or disabled in an insulting way, calling things "gay" or “retarded” as a synonym for "stupid", or using offensive slang terms. The use of any such derogatory language will result in an automatic suspension. * Posting in Languages Other Than English - English is the official language of ERHQ. Any language other than English will be deleted from the forum. * Flaming - Communications clearly insulting other users, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron"); direct insults and orders ("Screw you", "Go kill yourself"); insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?"); or insults towards family ("Your mom..."). * Trolling (Inciting Flames) - Messages intended solely to annoy and/or offend other users by going against the clear nature of a board, topic or chat room are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: provoking other users to respond with flames; making misleading topic titles; asking obviously useless questions; posting false information as fact; and using another user’s quote in your signature without permission. * Illegal Activity - Communications that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, asking for or providing: illegal copies of copyrighted software; methods of circumventing copyright protection; methods of cheating in online games; illegal copies of copyrighted music, movies, videos, or any other type of media; reprints of material from web sites or text sources; or any sort of plagiarism. * Advertising - Messages that clearly advertise a service or product are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: unsolicited commercial or personal web site advertisements; For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices; "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes; or any referrer-ID based sites (including both games and free-item marketing sites). Users are allowed to include their web site address in a signature, request comments on their personal site in a social setting, or provide, only once, an interesting or relevant link to another site. If a user directly or indirectly profits from a site or link, it may not be posted on the Service. * Disruptive Behavior - Behavior that disrupts the Service for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: messages or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally; signatures that take up an excessive amount of space; large blank or content-free messages, including quoting another user without adding any additional content and posts that consist only of one or more smiley faces; “rick rolls” (posting misleading or disruptive links); "bumping" older topics (posting in them well after the last post); posting identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" posts or topics; intentionally hard-to-read topic titles or posts (i.e. ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtE cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation); posting hard-to-read or nonsensical messages in a single or multiple topics; posting large ASCII art (except in social topics specifically calling for it); or post counting (i.e. "First", "100th Post"). IX. All these rules apply to the chat box (when they can be.. can't click the hatchery in the chat box can you?). You MUST register to the cbox before chatting, and you MUST register with the same username that you use on ERHQ. X. If you have any questions about any of the rules or anything else to do with ERHQ check out our FAQ. If that doesn't answer your question, feel free to PM me. *Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of ERHQ administrators and designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of ERHQ administrators and designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by ERHQ administrators and designated moderators.*

Please read the following rules and regulations as you will be expected to follow them. Not following the rules can result in warnings, banning or deleting your account, or even permanently banning your IP.

I. All Dragon Cave Rules apply here. If you're unaware of them then go read those as well.

II. Do not spam your eggs all over the board asking for clicks. It is disruptive, and most of the time will cause people to NOT click your eggs. If you want clicks, add them to the hatchery. They will be fine!

III. You ARE expected to click eggs and hatchlings in the Automated Hatchery! Yes, there are a lot of them and clicking them all will take time. The Hatchery is the purpose of this site. You post your eggs in the Hatchery, and you will benefit from the clicks and views from ERHQ members. In return for this service, you also MUST click the Hatchery so that we may benefit from your clicks. Not a bad deal, right?
How often should you click? We ask that you please try to click every egg and hatchling in the Hatchery once a week. More often is appreciated, but clicking the same dragons several times a day is excessive and really a waste of time.

Please Note: We are not Dragon sitters! If you are using this site as well as several others to get clicks it is very possible your egg or hatchlings may get sick from too many views. Only you can hide and protect your dragon if it gets sick! We cannot and will not do this for you and ERHQ will not be held responsible for the death of your dragon.

IV. ERHQ has an ICU (Intensive Care Unit) for endangered Eggs and Hatchlings with 3 days and NO HOURS left and less! Don't forget to click these endangered eggs and hatchlings as often as possible!

V. Please be respectful of ERHQ Moderators. You are expected to treat all ERHQ members in a respectful manner, but most especially the Staff. They sacrifice their free time and put a lot of work into maintaining this site. If you have been corrected by a moderator for a violation of ERHQ rules, try to remember that they are only doing their job... which is working to make ERHQ better for all members including you!
That said... if you feel you have been treated unfairly, or have been disrespected by a staff member of ERHQ, please contact me directly via Private Message and I will deal with the matter appropriately.

VI. Refrain from using inappropriate language, including language that may look, sound like, stand for, hint at, abbreviate, or insinuate profanity, hate speech (including but not limited to racial, ethnic, or religious slurs), illegal drugs/controlled substances or illegal activities. We have very young members on these boards and we will not tolerate inappropriate behavior.

VII. Signatures may take up no more than 14 full lines of text. For specifics on this rule, and the consequences go here.

VIII. The following is expressly prohibited and will likely result in an automatic ban of your account, even on a first offense:

* Offensive Material - Users may not transmit or encourage others to transmit material or links to material considered patently offensive in nature. This includes, but is not limited to using vulgar, profane, or sexually explicit language; using race, religion, sexual orientation, culture, ethnicity, disability, nationality, or gender as a means of insult; using threatening, harassing, defamatory, hate-speech, or libelous language; and posting, requesting, linking to, or otherwise sharing material considered pornographic, obscene, graphic, or hate speech.
Some additional notes on the Offensive rule:
* Using terms for homosexuality or mental or physical disability as a means of insult in any way towards anyone or anything is considered offensive. This includes, but is not limited to, insinuating certain people (including video game characters) are homosexual or disabled in an insulting way, calling things "gay" or “retarded” as a synonym for "stupid", or using offensive slang terms. The use of any such derogatory language will result in an automatic suspension.

* Posting in Languages Other Than English - English is the official language of ERHQ. Any language other than English will be deleted from the forum.

* Flaming - Communications clearly insulting other users, individually or as a group, directly or indirectly, are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: name-calling ("You're an idiot", "You moron"); direct insults and orders ("Screw you", "Go kill yourself"); insinuations ("Are you stupid or something?"); or insults towards family ("Your mom...").

* Trolling (Inciting Flames) - Messages intended solely to annoy and/or offend other users by going against the clear nature of a board, topic or chat room are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: provoking other users to respond with flames; making misleading topic titles; asking obviously useless questions; posting false information as fact; and using another user’s quote in your signature without permission.

* Illegal Activity - Communications that violate or incite others to violate the law are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to, asking for or providing: illegal copies of copyrighted software; methods of circumventing copyright protection; methods of cheating in online games; illegal copies of copyrighted music, movies, videos, or any other type of media; reprints of material from web sites or text sources; or any sort of plagiarism.

* Advertising - Messages that clearly advertise a service or product are not allowed. This includes, but is not limited to: unsolicited commercial or personal web site advertisements; For-Sale/For-Trade/For-Auction/Wanted notices; "Make Money Fast" scams, chain letters, and pyramid schemes; or any referrer-ID based sites (including both games and free-item marketing sites). Users are allowed to include their web site address in a signature, request comments on their personal site in a social setting, or provide, only once, an interesting or relevant link to another site. If a user directly or indirectly profits from a site or link, it may not be posted on the Service.

* Disruptive Behavior - Behavior that disrupts the Service for other users, intentional or not, are prohibited. This includes, but is not limited to: messages or topic titles that force browsers to scroll horizontally; signatures that take up an excessive amount of space; large blank or content-free messages, including quoting another user without adding any additional content and posts that consist only of one or more smiley faces; “rick rolls” (posting misleading or disruptive links); "bumping" older topics (posting in them well after the last post); posting identical or near-identical messages or topics, including "fad" posts or topics; intentionally hard-to-read topic titles or posts (i.e. ALL CAPS, AlTeRnAtE cApS, no spaces, no or excessive punctuation); posting hard-to-read or nonsensical messages in a single or multiple topics; posting large ASCII art (except in social topics specifically calling for it); or post counting (i.e. "First", "100th Post").

IX. All these rules apply to the chat box (when they can be.. can't click the hatchery in the chat box can you?). You MUST register to the cbox before chatting, and you MUST register with the same username that you use on ERHQ.

X. If you have any questions about any of the rules or anything else to do with ERHQ check out our FAQ. If that doesn't answer your question, feel free to PM me.

***Messages and topics may be removed at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of ERHQ administrators and designated moderators. User accounts may be warned, suspended, or revoked at any time and for any reason at the sole discretion of ERHQ administrators and designated moderators. All determinations of what is "acceptable" and "unacceptable" content will be determined solely by ERHQ administrators and designated moderators.***