1. General discussions about football belong in the discussions forum, polls in the poll forum, and all other topics, which can't be discussed but often are mere list, belong in the hodge-podge. General threads for each round also belong into the discussions forum. Club or country specific discussions belong in the respective sub-forums. Each sub-forum has its own structure.
2. All content that promotes or euphemises violence, drugs, or other distructive processes is forbidden.
3. All hurtful, insulting, defamatory, threatening, obscene, or harassing content that offends good morals and/or decency is forbidden. This includes expletives.
4. Content that is harmful to minors, pornographic, or illegal, or linking to illegal content is forbidden.
5. Content promoting terroristisc, extremistic, or anti-constitutional organistations or their worldview is forbidden.
6. Forum posts and signatures are not advertising space. Therefore, links of all kinds are not allowed.
7. When copying original texts from another site, always mention the source. To help you with that, we offer a source function. News from another site are are only allowed to be copyed in excerpts (no more than 3-5 sentences, depending on the length of the article), never completely. This rule includes online and print sources.
8. Political discussion will only be tolerated as longs as they are related to football and football topics. Party propagana or other political propaganda is forbidden. Posts containing propaganda will be deleted immediately, and can lead to the ban of the responsible user's account. Politicly or ethicly questionable posts will also be deleted.
9. Spamming, hunting for posts, and shoveling old threads back to top is generally considered bad behavior. Please do not try to attract attention by writing as much posts as possible, but as high quality posts as possible. Before you open a new thread, use the search function to check whether a topic has already been discussed.
10. Due to legal issues, you are not allowed to post links to live streams. Links which indirectly lead to live streams are also forbidden. An exception to this rule are live streams that are legally provided by gambling sites or TV stations. Requests for live streams are also forbidden, even if you "encode" your message.
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The forum's 11 commandments