All Lighting Portal site members are responsible for knowing the information contained in the following Code of Conduct.

The Lighting Portal administrators (LPA), reserves the right, but does not assume the responsibility, to restrict communication which LPA  deems in its discretion to be harmful to individual guests, damaging to the communities which make up the Lighting Portal.

Prohibited profile content, private messaging, board posting, and e-mailing, behaviors include (but are not limited to):

1.      profanity, vulgarity, or explicit content For example:

·         "masking" by using alternative characters/spellings and spaces to get around profanity filters, leet-speak, and combinations of words that produce an offensive result (e.g. ura hugeazz, Tow El Head)

·        "filter testing"

·         discussion of or in-character enactments of "cybering" or sexually explicit material

·         discussion of or in-character enactments of graphic violence

2.      hate speech (e.g. racial, ethnic, sexist, homophobic and religious slurs)

3.      promotion of or engaging in certain illegal activities, For example: computer hacking, copyright violation, etc.

4.      harassment of another specific person (e.g. persistent flaming or continued personal attacks on the boards or "in-character harassment" without prior out-of-character permission.)

5.      trolling or baiting by putting to the screen inflammatory statements designed to elicit a negative response from the community

6.      spamming through repeated posts, or off-topic content by word or intent to boards or lists (e.g. scrolling, flooding, polling, or by "bumping" a boards post more than once in 48 hours)

7.      No useless posts. This includes: Thread bumping, useless one liners, Flamewars, Trolling and Spamming. What is spamming? Read this. 

8.      advertising or promoting a business or commercial site without the permission of the Lighting Portal 

9.      impersonation of another person, site staff or Lighting Portal member by either screen name or self-representation (e.g. faking a screen name by using similar-looking characters, "spoofing" speech in a chat room, or claiming to hold an official title or position relating to the site)

10.  re-registering a banned username, a variation of a banned name, or declarations under a new screen name that you are "really" the banned name or attempts to re-subscribe under another address after being put on REVIEW by the moderator

11.  off-topic posts or thread hijacking

These disruptive behaviors are grounds for removal; site administrators are the final judges of whether a member's behavior qualifies as inappropriate or a disruption.

Only one account per user.

*Violations on any part of the above listed Code of Conduct will result in one warning followed by user being removed and banned from the site.

Help keep the Lighting Portal Efficient!

Our moderators can't be everywhere at once. Therefore, if you witness actions in boards, or other areas that you believe damages the Lighting Portal or violates the above Code of Conduct, please make a note of the time/place where the event occurred and contact the webmaster immediately.