Welcome to PowerPoint Heaven Discussion Board. To help maintain the organization and usability of our board, several rules are implemented for members to follow. Remember that these rules were made for your convenience. If everyone obeys the rules, this board should be an easy and pleasant place for discussions.

Board rules

1. Before posting, users are required to read the forum descriptions. All posts should be made under the appropriate forum or topic. Topics created under inappropriate forums will be moved by a moderator and the author will be notified through PM (Private Messaging). If a user consistently posts under the wrong forum, he/she will be given a warning.
   
   
2. On top of posting in the appropriate forums, it's also important to use descriptive subject titles in your posts. Creating topics titled "Help!" is not helpful when trying to find a particular post. Try using keywords found in the body of the message. Your subject title is the very first thing other users will see, so try to make it relevant (usually a short summary of your message).
   
   
3. Users are asked to be respectful to others when posting. If the message itself is offensive to another user/person, the post may be edited and the author will be given a warning. To make this more clear, here's an example: If someone posts a message like "This board is f****** awesome...great job!", the message is ok. But if the same person posts "Clippy, you're a f****** idiot. You don't know what you're talking about", the post will be edited to remove any insults to the receiving party.
   
   
4. Users are not to be arrogant about their skills. Everyone starts somewhere, so be respectful to everyone and don't brag about the skills you know if doing so is intended to make another person inferior. Bragging in a joking way is acceptable, but the moderators reserve the right to judge if the bragging is acceptable or not. Bragging in an arrogant manner will lead to a warning and your post being edited/deleted.
   
   
5. We do not tolerate the posting or promotion of pornography, illegal activities, warez/pirated materials, or other offensive and/or harmful content. Any occurrences of these will lead to a suspension of account.
   
   
6. Users are asked to respect copyright laws. It is generally ok to link to another site, but do not present the content of others as if it were your own. You're also asked to post images/content of other sites only with proper authorization from the author. If a copyright has been infringed, our moderators will do what they can to fix the problem (however, the board is not responsible for the contents of the messages our users post).
   
   
7. Users are expected to post in a manner that is considered as "normal writing". Excessive use of attention getting methods is not allowed. This includes, but are not limited to, ALL CAPITALS, Large Fonts, colored text, excessive punctuations/smilies etc. Any such occurrences will lead to a warning and edit of your post.
   
   
8. Because of the nature of the web, people from many different countries will be using this board. Not everyone's first language will be English, so we ask for your understanding when communicating with others. In particular, avoid:
   
   
   
   
   1. excessive use of shorthand writing (U for "you", Y for "why") and not well-known acronyms (TTYL for "talk to you later"). If you must use Acronyms to avoid repetitive typing, define the acronym in the first occurrence.
      
      
   2. overly bad grammar. This is particular true for lack of punctuation. Although a message with lots of misspellings are still understandable, a message with no punctuation is very difficult to read. Therefore, try to use punctuation to separate sentences (it's better to use the wrong punctuation than to not use them at all).
      
      
   3. slang or terms that may not be familiar to people outside your region.
      
   
   
   
9. Posting twice in succession is not allowed. Members sometimes abuse this to increase their post count or bump their post to the top of a forum's thread list. This is not allowed because it disrupts normal usage of the board. Members are encouraged to make use of the Edit button to make any amendments to their posts or if they have any additional contents to add.
   
   
10. No member should act as a moderator unless he/she is one. That means that if you find a topic that doesn't belong to a particular forum, you may not warn the author that he/she has posted in the wrong forum. Leave that job for a moderator. If you wish to help in such an occasion, you may contact a moderator and let him/her know about the topic. Moderators are very busy, so they may not always read a topic before you do.
    
    
11. Users are welcome and encouraged to use the Test Zone forum for general "test purposes". These may include checking signatures, testing a link or image, quoting, etc. The Test Zone forum still follows the rules that the rest of the board follows (no pornography, illegal content, etc.). More details on the Test Zone forum.
    
    
12. Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. Anything that does not contribute to the topic, or replies like "Nice!" or "I agree." is considered spamming. Excessive spam and one-liners will get deleted and a PM will be sent to you from a moderator concerning your violation of the rules.
    
    
    
    
    1. Comments on PowerPoint works must contain constructive criticisms. Members are required to provide feedbacks that allow the creators to improve their works. Feedbacks that contain only contents such as "Awesome!" or "I give it a 7/10!" are considered spam.
       
    
    
    
13. No flaming. If members start arguing about something in an excessive manner, especially if it includes discriminatory remarks, it is then considered flaming, and all participants in the argument are going to get a warning. This includes making sexists and racists comments. This also includes trolling and baiting.
    
    
14. Board administrators and moderators reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in above points is up to the administration team (admin and moderators) and not the users. If you feel your post was changed unfairly, you may PM the administrator with your reason. Do not disrespect or fight any of our moderators. They are volunteers trying their best to help this board.
    
    
15. Users are expected to check the date of the last post to see whether the post is still active. Do not reply to dead topics unless you have something relevant and useful to add. In many instances when a topic is no longer active, the author of the topic may no longer be in the board. Replying to such a topic is a waste of time and resources. Dead topics are kept for reference purposes. Please let the newer and active topics be more visible in the topics listing.
    

The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings and/or the revocation of private messaging.