| 1. | Absolutely no advertising. This includes:
- Advertising another wiki.
- Advertising a product.
- Advertising a service.
- Creating a page or thread to do any of the above.
If you post any of the above, your content will be deleted and depending on the severity, you may be banned.
Note: Advertising of another wiki is permitted on Wetpaint Classified Ads. |
| 2. | No Spamming. This includes:
- See above.
- Sending messages to other members advertising a site, product or service.
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| 3. | No flaming. This includes:
- Starting a thread to spark a war.
- Joining a thread and harrassing other members by using:
- Profanity (This also includes posting profanity in another language)
- Racial slurs
- Insults
- Mocking
- Disrespectful comment.
Any thread that hosts a flame war will be immediately locked by one of the moderators. |
| 4. | No irrelevant posts and/or pages. This includes:
- Posting a thread with:
- Gibberish
- Small talk
- Randomness
- Profanity
- Ads (See rules 1 and 2)
- Creating a page and:
- Leaving it blank
- Posting irrelevant and/or personal material such as family photos, homework...etc
- Posting explicit photos and/or language. (See rule #5)
- Posting Spam or Advertisements (See rules 1 and 2)
- Replying to a thread and forcing it to go off topic by posting anything irrelevant to the original topic of the post and/or to anything relating to Wetpaint Central, it's material, features or functions.
- You are free to post off topic threads on a fellow members profile as long as it doesn't contain Ads, profanity, disrespect or sexual propositions. (See Sweetheart Scam)
- If you have an idea for a new page and are not sure if it is relevant, please send your idea to Jeremy_Wetpaint.
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| 5. | No posting irrelevant photos and/or videos to the Photo gallery and/or Video gallery. This includes:
- Posting personal pictures such as:
- Family photos.
- Self-Portraits
- Personal photos of a fellow member without their permission. (Possible banishment)
- Any photos not relevant to any Wetpaint Central materials, features or functions.
- Posting personal videos such as:
- Funny videos.
- Porn. (See below)
- Profanity.
- Home videos.
- Any videos posted in an attempt to flame another member.
- Any videos not relevant to Wetpaint Central material, features or functions.
- Posting Pornographic material.
- Note: If you post any pornographic material, you will be instantly banned with no PM warning.
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| 6. | No scamming. This includes:
Because of how despicable these scams are, if you send and/or post a sweetheart scam you will be immediately banned from Wetpaint Central.
If you receive a sweetheart scam, immediately notify a moderator and we will take care of it. |
| 7. | No vandalism. Although most pages on Wetpaint Central have been locked, some have not so this includes:
- Deleting information from an unlocked page and/or replacing it with irrelevant or inappropriate material.
- Adding irrelevant or inappropriate material to an unlocked page.
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| 8. | No posting personal information. This includes:
- Personal information of someone other than you.
- Credit Card numbers from you or anyone else.
- Phone numbers
- Web addresses other than Wetpaint wikis. (Note: This falls under Rule #1: No advertising)
- Home address and/or mailing address. This includes those of yourself and of other members.
- Passwords belonging to you or anyone else.
- Another member's age, date of birth unless that member has either given permission or posted it on their own profile.
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| 9. | No begging. This includes:
- Posting multiple threads and/or pages requesting to be promoted on Wetpaint Central.
- Sending multiple PMs to the Moderators requesting to be promoted on Wetpaint Central. This is considered harassment and will not be tolerated.
The Site Administrator Jeremy_Wetpaint has several criteria posted on his profile for all potential moderators and is the one who must be asked. |
| 10. | You must be 13 years of age to create a Wetpaint Account.
If it is discovered that you are under the age of 13, you will be banned because of the COPPA act of 1997. |
| 11. | No Forum Necromancy. The definition of this term is: Resurrecting a long-dead thread or post.
More information may be found on this useful page: Forum Necromancy. |
