General
- This community is meant for all English-speaking WoW players who have characters on either the European or US servers. This means that on this web site, only English language is allowed! Material posted in other languages will be removed.
- In general, all actions against good manners or the Finnish/EU law are forbidden. This applies especially to hacking, prying for passwords and other actions impairing the functionality of the community. Situations like these shall always be reported to the Police or other authorities, as applicable.
- Behave in a discreet, tolerant and friendly manner towards other users - this way, they will also treat you accordingly. If you are being harassed in this community with comments or pictures, notify the Administration immediately, so that we can sort out the issue.
- Comments, pictures or any other material you post in the community is not allowed to be insulting, directly offensive or racist.
- Political and religious propaganda does not belong to this community (unless it's Alliance vs. Horde politics).
- It is forbidden to spam or flood, i.e. write the same comments over and over again to the same person or several people. Also chain messages are forbidden. If you receive a chain message, do not continue it!
- Advertising in any form without a separate permission from the Administration, or sending messages of a commercial nature is forbidden!
- The Finnish Copyright Act applies also to the Dark Portal.
- Common sense should be applied when reading these rules. If there is any ambiguity in the interpretation of the rules, the point of view of the Administration shall be applied.
Picture Rules
When you add a picture to the Dark Portal, you may not be able to remove it from the Internet ever again! Even though stealing pictures from the gallery is illegal, many people do copy pictures for their own use, and the pictures may be used inappropriately. Due to technical reasons, the Administration cannot do anything about this. So consider what you add, and don't be surprised if someone copies your Ashbringer Tier3 epic show off pictures.
- This is a community for WoW players, thus you must have at least one picture of yourself and one screenshot of a WoW character of yours. This is important, as the point is that people should be able to look you up and see what gaming characters you have added and see the face behind the gaming character(s) you play. Persona behind the personality.
- People must be able to recognise you from your default picture. In addition, the picture must be clear and fresh enough - a childhood picture will not do as default, but you can post such a picture in your album as long as you don't use it as your default picture.
- The character's default picture should be of your own character, but the album may contain other screenshots you have taken in-game, e.g. of your gaming friends, landscapes, ganks or boss kills.
- Your pictures may not violate good taste or the Finnish Law. Thus it is forbidden to post pictures copied from the Internet without the copyright owner's permission. Pictures containing offensive material will be removed, and the account will receive a penalty, the length of which depends on what kind of material was posted. We encourage players to submit humorous pictures, but we ask you to keep in mind that what you find humorous, may be offensive to another person. Use common sense, and ask for advice when necessary.
- The Administration will remove pictures that break the rules without an advance warning. If you have had pictures removed from your profile by the Administrators, do not post them again without a separate permission. When pictures are removed, they are removed for a reason!
Miscellaneous
Due to our non-tolerance policy on name-calling and libel in cases of ninjalooting and excessive ganking etc, we will remove all material regarding these kinds of events. Players don't typically want to hear about them too much, so let's please keep that stuff out of this community.