SumoForum.Net was established and is financed by a Finnish citizen called Juhani Sirkiä. From March 2004 onwards the forum is administered by
Kaikitsune Makoto who uses the nick of Rijicho qua administrator. He can be reached according to the instructions on contact page. He is assisted by moderators, viz. forum members Exil, Manekineko,
Nekonishiki Banji, Kintamayama & Sasanishiki.
You can be part of SumoForum.Net in one of two positions.
- Guests can read everything posted onto the forum but are unable to participate the discussion and vote in the polls.
- Members can read everything posted onto the forum. They can also reply to existing threads, start new ones and vote in polls.
As any form of personal interactivity on this forum requires a membership attained by registering yourself, these rules naturally apply to members only. The rules exist hopefully only because as an end in itself. Our intention is to eliminate the bureaucracy needed to successfully run this forum to the absolute minimum but there will undoubtedly be situations where a clear set of rules is needed. Hence these rules.
By proceeding to the actual forum by clicking the link at the bottom of this page, you allow the administrator ("Rijicho") of this forum to assume you have both read and understood these rules. You also undertake yourself to following the possible changes to these rules by keeping yourself updated on messages posted on the Essential messages subforum.
SumoForum.Net Rules
In all cases Rijicho's judgment applies and the decision is final and unappealable.
Forbidden actions resulting in immediate loss of membership
- Impersonation as the administrator or moderator or indisputable attempt thereof.
- Posting of an insult or derisive comment based on gender, race, ethnicality, sexual preference, political opinions and some other equivalent factor.
- Intentional insult of an identifiable forum member. Offering justifiable criticism is not forbidden if done tactfully.
- Posting of pornographic, sexually offensive or explicit material.
- Indisputable attempt to disturb the technical operation of the forum script or the server used to run the said script.
Strongly discouraged actions resulting in warning
- Posting of requests and links to warez (illegal copies of binary material).
- Posting of other members' personal information without their explicit consent.
- Attempt to create another member account for someone who already is registered to SumoForum.net. If you wish to change your member name, contact administrator as this function is not supported by the forum script as of now (March 2004).
- Repeated use of foul language in your postings.
- Blatant advertising of commercially available products or services.
Normative rules for members
- Use descriptive subject lines. This reduces the chances of double posting, and it also makes it easier for people to see what they do and don't want to read. Also scan the subjects of the last several days' posts to make sure you aren't duplicating posts. Also make a conscious effort in deciding what forum your topic should be posted in.
- Abstain from replying to old threads. If you wish to continue discussing about a subject whose thread has withered more than two months ago, create a new topic and remind others in your opening post that this was discussed earlier but you wish to offer some new aspect to the matter.
- Keep non-sumo related posts on the Off-topic subforum.
- Keep test posts on the Test subforum.
- Do not use even Off-topic subforum to dating or threads like "Am I Hot or Not", "Show me your sexy girlfriend" etc.
- Please consult administrator or a moderator before attempting to post advanced HTML, Java or JavaScript. Reasonable inclusion of images and tables is tolerated and even couraged. If you're unsure what you're doing, try it out first on the Test subforum.
- Signatures must not be taller than three lines of text. Signatures may contain a single image maximum size of which is 400(H) times 40(V) pixels. Signature may contain a link to your personal site. However, advertising of commercial products or services is not permitted. Signatures are to follow the same guidelines as posts. Signature violating these rules will be removed by the administrator or moderator unless it's withdrawn without an unnecessary delay by its user voluntarily after administator's or moderator's demand to do so.
Any complaints arising from these rules are to be communicated privately to the administrator either by private messaging (the Messenger function of Invision Power Board) and/or regular email.
The offending post will be edited or removed and the offending party shall receive a warning via private messaging and/or regular email. Number of warnings allowed to a refractory member before his or her account will be banned, is to be decided ad hoc based on the severity of member's actions.
Please understand the administator and moderators are private persons who can't follow the forum 24 hours a day. Therefore their actions might and will be delayed sometimes.
These forum rules were updated last on March 13th, 2004.