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Posted on September 9, 2007 12:08

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Naruto-Boards Forum Guide

This guide was created to provide an easy to access and up to date source of general information for the Naruto-Boards community. All members are expected to read this guide and are otherwise unknowingly subjecting themselves to the risk of breaking the rules. We will punish rule breaking whether you have read the guide or not. Besides the rules and expectations of the forums, this guide provides important interpretation of those rules as well as other helpful information and links.

Special Thanks To:
3taildestruction - For organizing the moderator list.
Betrayer - For writing the guide.
Burnturrek - For creating the original forum guide.
Current Moderating Staff - For helping out with the guide.
Leychance - For creating the posts about the scammers.
Magirawashii - For creating the old rules/guidelines thread.
NA Admins - For creating Naruto-Arena for us to enjoy ^_^
Pilaf - For creating the post about spelling and grammar.
Raizen-1 - For supporting and helping with the guide 100% of the way.
Uchiha_Silvos - For creating the bumping guide.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 9, 2007 12:09

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Table Of Contents

1. Rules and Guidelines
2. Specific Section Rules
3. Important Definitions/Interpretations
4. About Scamming
5. The Amazing Edit Button
6. Bumping Guide
7. Spelling/Grammar
8. FAQ
9. Helpful Links
10. Moderator List
11. A Fond Farewell
12. A Message from the Moderating Staff

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 9, 2007 12:09

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Rules and Guidelines

1. No Spamming
2. No flaming
3. No racism or otherwise prejudice actions. This includes posts, pictures, etc.
4. No harassing other members, moderators, etc.
5. Do not double post or post multiple times in a row. See "The Amazing Edit Button" section.
6. Do not flood the forums by posting tons of times in a row(usually pages long). This includes in the Spam Kingdom. Flooding will get you a much longer ban than multi-posting.
7. No linking to sexually explicit websites or posting sexual explicit material.
8. Do not post pornographic(including hentai) images or use them in your avatar/signature. Nudity, sexual activity, or an inappropriate level of bared skin is not allowed.
9. Do not link to warez or make any illegal transactions on the forums.
10. No excessive swearing/cussing.
11. Do not interfere with special events such as tournaments or other competitions. See the definitions section for more details.
12. No account scamming. Believe us, we will catch you. If you have been scammed, immediately PM a moderator with any information/proof that you have. We will try to catch the scammer and may get your account back. However, if you have just lost your password, we cannot help you.
13. Do not impersonate a member, a moderator, or any other member of the staff
14. Using somebody else's original avatar or signature, even if edited slightly, is not allowed.
15. Do not publicly discuss the moderators or their actions unless given permission to do so.
16. All technical support questions go in the Village Hall section. DO NOT PM THE ADMINS ABOUT IT!
17. Do not advertise competing products and/or services.
18. Absolutely no back seat modding. It is just plain annoying and will not be tolerated. We moderators can do our jobs just fine without members acting like they have authority.
19. Do not evade your bans. When you are banned, you are banned, and that is that. Don't feel afraid to discuss the ban with the moderators through PMs though.
20. Do not share classified information! If you know a secret, keep it to yourself. We don't need information to leak and spread to everyone. This goes for the moderators too!
21. Do not cause unnecessary drama. If you are causing a problem and refuse to stop when asked by the moderators, your posts will be considered spam. (see definition section for more information on drama).

These rules apply everywhere on Naruto-Boards, including the private message system, unless noted otherwise!

Note: The punishment received for breaking the rules is at the moderators' discretion. You may be banned for a longer time for repeated and/or more severe offenses. While a single moderator can ban someone for 24 hours without votes, three votes are needed for any ban longer than that. Global moderators can ban without this limitation. Keep in mind that what you do on Naruto-Boards can in fact effect your account on Naruto-Arena.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 9, 2007 12:09

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Specific Section Rules

These rules are enforced in the specified sections. They may also be located at the top of the specific boards. Please keep that in mind when posting in the following areas.

Village Hall- Game Glitches and Bugs
Forbidden topics are listed in an announcement at the top of the page. Do not make threads discussing these topics. Any such thread will be immediately deleted. If the thread is reposted, greater action will be taken.

Ninja Headquarters- Missions
Do not post threads asking people to use certain characters because you need help with missions. These threads will be deleted and a warning will be given on a repost.

Ninja Works
1. No non-constructive criticism.
2. No entering a ripped signature into the "Signature of the Week" competition
3. No starting a "Rip Shop"

Off Topic- Spam Kingdom
Spamming, Flooding, or discussing moderators in this thread yeilds a greater punishment.

Moderators have the right to create and enforce rules in their own respective sections. You must obey those rules and listen to any request the moderator makes.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 9, 2007 12:10

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Important Definitions/Interpretations

In this section, certain words and phrases used throughout the rules will be defined and/or interpreted. This is so there is no confusion over what is meant by a certain rule and so the rules cannot be argued.

Spam: A message and/or topic that is pointless, off-topic, or otherwise lacks content that adds to the discussion. Topics with misleading titles are also considered spam, regardless of the message content.

Double Posting: Posting twice or more times in a row without other people's posts in between. If you want to add something, you should use the edit button.

Flooding: Intentionally posting many times in a short period of time with no useful purpose and an intent to disrupt the forums to the extent that it can no longer be considered double posting. Generally, four or more posts in a row is considered flooding.

Flaming: Any posts meant to offend or hurt any other member in a manner which is offensive and/or insulting. Even calling someone a n00b is considered light flaming.

Harassment: Constantly nagging someone with offensive or negative messages in an attempt to make them feel unhappy or annoyed.

Warez: Illegally copied software that is often associated with pirating.

Ripping: Taking someone else's original artwork, such as signatures and avatars, and claiming them as your own. Even if you slightly edit the image, it is still considered ripped.

Scamming: Attempting to trick or persuade somebody in handing over the password to their account.

Impersonation: Replicating someone's profile and/or name in order to appear to be that person. This also pertains to falsely claiming to be a Moderator/Admin of any "Naruto-Arena" project to try and trick the population.

Event Interference: Performing actions with the intent of causing disruption in events. There are several ways you can commit event interference. The ways to commit event interference are: Joining an event without the intent of participating, searching to private battle a tournament participant without being in the tournament, and spamming or flooding in event threads.

Back Seat Modding: Warning members and/or "punishing" them as if you are a moderator when you aren't actually a moderator. The real moderators can handle their jobs just fine without fakes running around.

Ban Evading: Accessing the forums while you are banned by utilizing proxy servers, creating new accounts, etc.

Classified Information: Any information that is meant to be kept secret from normal members.

Drama: Immature behavior that causes a disruption on the forums and usually causes members to fight among themselves. Please, respect each other and DO NOT CAUSE DRAMA!

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 10, 2007 02:00

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About Scamming

Hi, fellow players. We are becoming alarmed by the growing number of Naruto-Arena players who have their accounts stolen by certain members who ask for their passwords. They usually pose as “members” of the N-A staff (Admins/Global Mods/Moderators), and promise to promote you as “moderator” in exchange of your account’s password. They may also try to pose as admins for Bleach-Arena. All such claims are fake!

Please DO NOT believe such requests.

Here is a sample Private Message:

“you seem your very good at this game would you want to be moderator, i need your pass to put it, and im gametesters right hand man and i look if some1 spam or something against rules so do you want. it takes only 20 min”

Please remember that your account is your responsibility. It is basic Internet common-sense not to give out your password to complete strangers. We, the Naruto-Arena staff, will never ask for your password.

Update(11/1/07)

> Admins, Global Moderators, and/or Moderators will never ask for your passwords to "help" the game.

> Your password and account are your responsibility, so if someone asked for your password (i.e. for you to join their clan, to unlock characters, etc.) don't give it to them. Otherwise, don't say we didn't warn you.

> If your account has been stolen, please report the thief to the staff and give valid proof that the account was yours as well as the timeline of when it was stolen from you.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 10, 2007 02:01

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The Amazing Edit Button!

Double posting is against the rules. That is when you post multiple times within a short time period without anyone else posting. The way to fix this is to use The Amazing Edit Button!

The amazing edit button is a blue button located in the top right hand corner of all your posts.

By clicking that button, you can edit and/or add stuff to your post without double posting. To show that you edited your post, you can add the new content after the word "Edit:".

Once you are finished editing your post, click the blue "Edit Reply" button at the bottom.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 10, 2007 02:02

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Bumping Guide

This section explains how you can bump a topic without breaking the double-posting rule. It is really simple and you should be fine as long as you follow the guidelines. Bumping is primarily used in clan topics.

A bump may only be used at least 24 hours after the last post on the thread, not 24 hours after your own last post. If you bump before 24 hours it is spam (most people will not time you to the second so wait a minimum of 23 hours). Also, having post after post between you and another person of just the word "bump" is not bumping the topic, but indeed spamming it. Please keep this in mind when you want to bump a topic.

In Short:
1) Bumps are only to be used 24 hours after the last post on the topic.
2) Mis-use of bumps is spam.
3) Do not start a discussion with someone having "bump" in every post.
4) This applies to all of the boards. Not just in the clan section.

An example of bumping a thread.

If you have any questions/concerns or you still do not fully grasp this concept, feel free to PM any of the moderators about it.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 10, 2007 02:04

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Spelling/Grammar

Here is a post by Pilaf regarding spelling and grammar. Please heed his advice.

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Speaking of grammar:

Take the time to at least capitalize the first letter of your sentences. It makes it a bit easier to see. Proper nouns you can leave alone, I forget so it's not like I can yell at you for that. However, capitalizing would help too.

Please PUNCTUATE. It becomes rather hard to read if you string together multiple ideas without any sort of break. It takes under a second to type in a period, or a comma, or even a semicolon ( ; ) if you're daring.

Abbreviations: Take the extra second, PLEASE, to spell out two more characters. It's nearly effortless to do this, and clears up a good amount of confusion. This also includes R, Hu, Wut, Y, etc... While abbreviations such as b/c and w/o and IDK etc. are fine, one to two letters is really not asking much.

Spelling: at least make a conscious effort to spell correctly. If you don't know how to spell a word, or if your finger slips, that's fine; but don't rush so much that you start yo splap the ketyboad like this. This is not a race; people take an extra few seconds to take your time.

1337: 1337 is not cool. It's STUPID. Don't try to complicate by typing in 1337.

Caps Lock: It is not wise to type in ALL CAPS LOCK LIKE THIS! It is annoying and people will have the notion that you are yelling at them. Be wise and look at what you are typing every so often.
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If you just follow those guidelines, things will be a lot clearer, as well as make you look smarter, and well all want to look smart, now don't we?

A few words on posting:

- Please try to keep your post on topic, or at least within the confines of whatever tangent the thread might be on. While it may SEEM right to come into a thread about how Kankuro is the best in-game character and say "Has anyone seen Shippuden Kankuro? He's so cool!"... It's not. You're posting something that has very little relation to the topic at hand, and will not add to the conversation. Rather, it will detract from it. Even worse is to post something totally off topic, like "Who likes Linkin Park?"-- Worse yet is to ask someone to check out your website or join your clan.

- Double posting is almost always not necessary. If you don't get a response within 30 seconds, don't fret! You might get one. If it comes down to the fact that the post has been knocked off the first page, or it's been a day or something, don't bump your post with a bunch of smilies or "Come on, answer me!" Try to be a little creative, or at least say "bump" so people know that is your main goal.

- Under no circumstances should the two ever be combined. Some of the worst forum etiquette is to come into someone else's thread, post some nonsense, then keep bumping it. People will NOT like you.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 10, 2007 02:05

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#10

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the forum ranks and how many posts do I need for each rank?

An organized rank list can be found here.

How do you become a mod?

The simple answer to this question is that you don't. There is already a large moderating staff that will last a long time. Therefore, we don't need any more. However, if you act in a respectable manner and obey the rules on a regular basis, you never know what might happen

The current team became moderators because they scored high on applications during a moderator revamp near the end of August 2007. The revamp was initiated because the old moderator team was mostly inactive.

Why isn't my new avatar showing up?

It usually takes a while for recently uploaded images to show up. If refreshing the browser isn't doing anything, just be patient. It may take a while, but the new avatar always shows up without fail.

Why isn't my post count increasing?

The post count indicator takes a while to update so you should just be patient. Although, there are sections where post count is completely turned off so any posts made in those sections will not count towards your post count at all.

In what sections is post count turned off?

Post count is currently turned off in the following areas. However, it may change so check the bottom of the board in question to see if post count is off or not.

Ninja Headquarters > Introductions
Village Hall > Game Feedback
Great Ninja Countries
Off Topic Discussion

Is there a search function for the forums?

Unfortunately there is no such feature at this time. It has been asked for a lot so it may be added in the future.

This person is breaking the rules in my thread. What do I do?

The best thing to do would be to PM a moderator, preferably one for that section, and inform him of the situation. Don't forget to tell the moderator the name of the person, what they are doing, and the thread they are doing it in.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 13, 2007 03:52

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#11

Helpful Links

This section provides a variety of links that are very helpful in many situations.

Image Resizers (Very Important)
picresize.com
resizr.com

Image Hosting
ImageShack
imagewind.com
PhotoBucket

Graphics
ubanimator.com
userbarmaker.com
Google Images

Game Help*
Game Manual
Game FAQ
Ninja Ladder
Ninja Missions
Chakra Distribution Odds
Burnturrek's Mission Guide
In-Game Chat Guide

Forum Guides
Warning! Do not feed the trolls!
Off-Topic Guide
Tournaments: The Dummies Guide
Clan FAQ

Other Links
Official mIRC Site
NA IRC Channel Info
Illustrated IRC Guide for Dummies
NA's Crazy Spam Kingdom

*There are many guides that are very helpful in the Tips and Tricks section of the forums as well as the Teams and Strategies section. However, we do not want to show preference to certain members and no recognition to others so they will not be included in this section.

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on September 13, 2007 13:25

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#12

Moderator List

Removed due to the creation of a new list. (Here)

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on October 7, 2007 16:41

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#13

A Fond Farewell

In this section, we will commemorate the hard work of our previous moderators. For whatever reasons, they are not currently moderators, but they still deserve respect from the whole community.

We wish happiness to the following ex-moderators of the Naruto-Arena community:

Blaze07
Burnturrek
ChrisNemo
djnarrow
Fatdog
Hakouro
I_am_Hokage
jacek185
Jeremy658
Knightmayre
krises_blade
Kross
Kurkaka
Kyminara
kyuubinaruto1155
Magirawashii
MegamanX
Mwalke32
Neljubuites
ohthatpal
OMGWTFitzBEN
oreacharound
Raizen-1
row
sasori453
Sunago
Xander
Yondaime
Zeonbr

Thank you Takachi <3

Posted on November 2, 2007 00:56

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#14

A Message from the Moderating Staff

We, the moderators of Naruto-Arena and Naruto-Boards.com, are here to serve the community of members and players. By deleting posts, locking threads, and banning users, we are only trying to keep the boards clean and appropriate so that the utmost enjoyment is possible. Members should not be afraid to PM us with reports of rule breaking, general questions, or problems of your own. We will not ban you unless the PM is breaking rules. However, this does not mean you will always get the response you want. Depending on the content of the PM, we may not respond at all or merely redirect you to another place to ask the question. You have to understand that we are very busy and have lives outside of Naruto-Arena on top of that. During our short time since becoming moderators, we have experienced spam, flaming, flooding, etc. Instead of getting fed up with it all and banning anything we see, because we would never do that, we decided to be productive and create this guide so that everything is in one place and easy to find. Please, if you haven't already done so, read every part of the guide so that you may have a complete understanding of all the rules.

Thanks for reading,
~Naruto-Boards Moderating Staff

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