General Forum Rules & Guidelines

[Admin]

Make sure you are posting constructive criticism, whether it's negative or positive. Contrary to what some people believe, we do take feedback from here into account.

Notice: Administrators/Moderators reserve the right to change/edit/delete any content at any time if they feel it is inappropriate.

I. General Forum Rules:
Do not:

• Flame or insult other members.
• Abuse or encourage abuse of the Reputation, Post Reporting, or Private Messaging Systems.
• Post personally identifiable information (i.e. name, address, email, phone number, etc).
• Bump threads.
• Derail a thread's topic.
• Post links to phishing sites.
• Post spam (i.e. +1, 10char, rickrolls) or Re-post Closed, Modified, Deleted Content.
• Repetitively post in the incorrect forum (example: trade requests belong in trading forum).
• Openly argue with a moderator. Contact the Moderator via a private message.
• Share your account. Forum accounts are intended for the use by one person.
• Create alternate, backup, or multiple accounts.
• Publicly post or otherwise share PMs with other users unless you have the expressed permission of the sender to do so. Private Messages are intended to be just that - private.
• Spam / Advertising / Self-promote in the forums.
• Ask for email addresses or phone numbers.

II. The following topics are strictly off limits, including in external links:

• Porn, gross stuff, or anything else not safe for work.
• Piracy, warez, Leaked content.
• *Any* discussion of piracy will result in a permanent ban from the Steam Forums.
• Cheating, hacking, game exploits.
• Threats of violence or harassment, even as a joke.
• Posting copyrighted material such as magazine scans.
• Soliciting, begging, auctioning, selling, advertising, referrals.
• Racism, discrimination.
• Drugs, alcohol.
• Religious, political, and other “prone to huge arguments” threads.