¶ THE RULES OF THE SITE
¶ The rules below will be enforced through a 3 Strikes Infraction System. This means that if you accumulate more than 3 points, your account is banned permanently.
¶ If you feel you have been banned unfairly you can appeal to chris to have the ban reviewed by sending him an email at 
¶ The number of infraction points you receive depend on the severity of your infringement. Infringements with 3 infraction points will be an instant ban. Infraction points will be assigned as follows:
Racist Post/Comment = 1 Point
Posting Porn = 1 Point
Post Personal Information For Harassment = 2 Points
Posting Animal Cruelty = 2 Points
Forum Spammer = 3 Points
Duplicate Account = 3 Points
Member is Under 18 = 3 Points
Post With Naked Child = 3 Points
Trolling Outside of the Water Cooler = 2 Points
Sharing a "slut account" = 3 Points
¶ RULES OF THE FORUM
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DO NOT post anything pornographic. Nudity IS allowed inside the water cooler, and inside any forum, if it relates to the content of the thread. If you do not know the difference between NUDITY and PORNOGRAPHY don't post it.
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DO NOT use terminology that would conventionally be considered racist or derogatory towards a specific ethnic group. DO NOT use terminology that would conventionally be considered a slur against a person's gender or choice of gender identification. DO NOT use terminology that would conventionally be considered derogatory towards a person's sexual preference, whether that be by design or by choice. Site Administrators will have the final determination on what words are in violation.
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DO NOT post any member's personal information or pictures. Do not post edited/unedited pictures of members that have been posted on this site or any other. Posting personal information for the purpose of harassment is strictly prohibited. This also includes any form of 'DOXING' or anything like it. This forum maintains a zero tolerance policy on doxing, no warnings will be given, you will be banned for good. Making threats of violence, or terroristic threats, is also prohibited and will result in an immediate ban. This applies to public messages as well as PM's.
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DO NOT post any animal cruelty, dead animals, or the torture of animals anywhere on the site. This includes linking to another site.
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DO NOT use any type of automated tools on this site. That would include any BOT or program designed to steal or leech pictures, videos, or text from this site. The only exception would be an automated crawler designed to rank this site in a search engine. The site has measures to detect and ban this type of activity.
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DO NOT make sexual and/or suggestive comments and remarks about children under the age of 18, dead or alive. Keep any such thoughts to yourself, as we are not a site that tolerates pedophilia. Any such comments seen in the future will result in a permanent ban from the site.
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YOU MUST be 18 years or older to view this website. If at anytime a member of this forum thinks you may be under the age of 18 you will be banned.
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While these rules cover most common situations they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently, we reserve the right to take any action(s) we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
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Having more than one account here on the forums is NOT ALLOWED. Those caught having more then one account will have both accounts deleted and your ability to register on this forum removed.
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Abuse of my mods will not be tolerated. Any disrespect or abuse geared towards a mod of this forum will result in a permanent ban on your first offense. If you have an issue with a mod, PM them, or PM me, as public shit talking against a mod is not tolerated. We may need to contact you by private message in reference to something, if you fail to answer it could also result in a ban.
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Sharing your account with others, or passing it along; in what is typically referred to as as sharing a "slut account" will result in an immediate ban, strikes system will not apply.
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Giving access to a previously banned user will result in your account being banned immediately. This is easily tracked by mods, and there will be no warnings, your account will just be banned on the first offense.
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Trolling outside the Water Cooler is not allowed. You can not stalk, harass, start arguments, or otherwise disrupt normal on-topic discussion outside the Water Cooler. This includes constantly one staring posts on a consistent basis. This also includes all talk of politics or hot button social issues inside threads that reside outside of the water cooler.
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Please do not include names of victims in any posts that are in the death sections, or in the medical sections. Using initials are fine, as well as mentioning the location or city, but please do not include first and last names. The only exception to this would be for threads that fit into the Celebrity Death Pictures & Famous Events forum.
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This should go without saying, and we have never had an issue with this, but it's worth noting. Threats of violence towards other members, the public, or any person or group of people is strictly prohibited, will result in immediate ban, and I will personally contact law enforcement if I feel it's warranted.
ALSO WORTH MENTIONING
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Please upload all images and video to the site through the attachment form. Linking to content from other sites is discouraged due to the fact that on other sites content seems to disappear and that would leave us with a lot of threads with no pictures or video in them.
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If you insist on sending me hate mail or other stupid shit, expect me to post it on the forum and across the Internet for others to laugh at, you have no expectation of privacy when sending me death threats, hate mail, stupid questions, or anything else. If you're going to subject me to your idiocy, you can pretty much bet on me sharing it with others.
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You will see usernames in different colors on the "online users" list. If the username is RED it means the user is a Moderator and if the username is BLUE or GREEN it means the user has donated to the site and has extra privileges.
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The Moderators are on this site to bring content and enforce the rules, not babysit the members. As a result, a zero tolerance policy is imposed to trolling/flaming anywhere outside of the watercooler.
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Documenting Reality will not be hosting any future content related to school shootings that happen inside the United States. Although I have no idea the motivations behind the people that commit these awful attacks, I don't want them thinking they will get their 15 minutes of fame here. Discussing these events in the news section and in the water cooler will be allowed.