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Listed below is the Code of Conduct.
Please don't just read numbered points and say "I'd never advertise!" and skip over it, because there are things you may not realize are categorized as advertising, or anything else, that are and you might have already broken them. If you have any questions regarding this, please ask, and have a good time and be sure to follow the rules!
1. ADVERTISING [ADV]:
Rule: Advertising to other users inside the CoDz Forum, whether it be via a post, personal message, or profile/signature links, to buy or view any products, websites, or other service is strictly prohibited. Non-intrusive links in signatures to personal YouTube accounts may be allowed, but that is case-to-case and each will be reviewed individually.
Consequence: The infringing user’s account will be banned, as well as the IP address. Any post with the intentions of advertising will be immediately and permanently deleted.
Example: If you are a spam bot, a hired advertiser, or a desperate website/business owner, this may apply to you. Signing up and making your only post a promotion for your zombie gameplay YouTube channel is breaking the rule. However simply sending links to a fellow forum goer who wants to know where to buy a capture card is not breaking this rule, PMing your buddy a link to a funny YouTube video isn't, etc.
2. DOUBLE ACCOUNTS [DBLE]:
Rule: Creating another account when a a user already has one account on CoDz is not allowed. There is little to no need for a separate account. If you've forgotten your password and need access back to your main account, use the Forgot Password link. Should there be a logical reason outside of forgetting credentials for the double account, contact a staff member immediately with details of the situation..
Consequence: The secondary account created by the original user will be permanently banned given with evidence of double accounts. In addition, the original account held by the user will be temporarily banned as well. Using the secondary account to avoid a suspension/ban on the main account will result in both accounts being permanently banned.
Example: A user creates a double account because they've been banned. If that account matches up the original user and no case has been made to the staff about the reason for the double account, both accounts will be banned after contacting the user.
3. SPAMMING [SPAM]: Spamming is defined as many things, and all of them aren’t allowed. As a CoDz user, you should hold yourself to a high standard and use common sense when posting.
Duplicate Posts -
Rule: Creating a thread that discusses a topic that has already been brought up in another thread is generally frowned upon, as each user is responsible for finding the pre-existing thread and making their remarks there. Cross-posting violations (making more than one post of the same question/answer across multiple forums) is prohibited.
Consequence: The infringing duplicate thread will be either merged (with the original thread), locked, or deleted, depending on the situation. When dealing with two duplicate threads, the staff will sometimes exercise their own personal judgement with regard to the thread’s posts, to avoid conversations being broken up and posts losing their cohesion, as all the comments in both threads are merged and arranged by the date they were posted.
Cross-posting violations will be dealt with by deleting all cross-posted threads. Users are responsible for figuring out the appropriate section in which to post their topic. If you have any trouble you may ask any staff member for advice!
We always welcome PMs from the users!
Example: If two threads are created that both discuss the exact same element of a newly released Zombie Map trailer, they become ‘duplicate posts’, as they consist of identical, or very similar, material. However, if someone makes a thread about, for example, who they think the Pentagon Thief is, and then someone else makes a thread in which they argue that it is actually someone completely different, they would not be breaking the rule.
Moreover, if someone made a thread that came to the same conclusion as the first user’s thread did, it still wouldn’t necessarily break the rule, as long as they brought new evidence to the table (or reevaluated old evidence) while doing so. If they reach the same conclusion, then they will be merged, in which case the older thread will remain, and the newer thread will become a reply to the older post.
Post Pumping -
Rule: Any user that makes a post just to increase their own post count is considered disruptive to the community, and is interfering with the other members’ usage of the CoDz forum.
Consequence: Violations will be dealt with on a case-by-case basis - some users will be warned verbally by PM, others may receive an official warning, and posts/threads may also be deleted (which will make your post count drop again!). Repeat offenders will suffer a Permanent Ban of their account on the forum.
Example: If a user makes a post saying “I agree,” or “We know,” or something similar and they do not further the conversation or productivity of the thread, that would be grounds for deletion of the post. The specific details of post pumping are left for staff to decide case-by-case, as there are a broad range of possibilities, which are quite dependent on the circumstances.
4. FLAMING [FLAME]:
Rule: Posts, signatures, avatars, or PMs that are intended to harass, threaten, embarrass or cause the distress or discomfort to another member of the CoDz Forum Community or any other individual or entity is unacceptable. (For this reason, the emoticon known as “facepalm” has been removed from the forum.)
Consequence: In some cases, warnings may be issued, but flaming is likely to result in Permanent Banning. It is therefore advisable to always be respectful to your fellow members; this does not mean you cannot disagree with someone, but you do not need to tear a person down in order to prove your point, so be careful with sarcasm! The response “I was only joking” will not get you much sympathy.
Example: If a user says to another on the forum that they are stupid, dumb, illogical, incompetent, etc., that is an example of a user tearing another down, and is considered to be ‘flaming’. Even sarcastically saying “Wow, you’re a bright one, aren’t you..” or “Did you figure that out on your own?” would qualify as a form of harassment.
5. OFFENSIVE CONTENT [OFF]:
Rule: Using offensive language in any context is not allowed here at the CoDz Forum. We believe that our intelligent members can make their points and offer their contributions WITHOUT the necessity of vulgarities. Included in this would be racism, sexism, or any other form of discrimination that may end up causing the distress or discomfort of a user or any group in general. Along with offensive language, displaying or linking to offensive content is not allowed at CoDz. Please be sensitive towards others and how they may react to sensitive material.
Consequence: Posts, signatures, or profiles containing offensive language, content, or links will be edited and/or deleted by the Forum Moderators and Warnings will be issued as appropriate. Repeat violations of this policy may result in more severe actions, up to and including Permanent Banning.
Example: You can come up with your own examples for sensitive language, I trust we all have at least a few in our heads, but simply starring out a letter or putting a strike through the word does not excuse its usage, such as f*ck, sh*t, etc. An example of offensive content could be an avatar of the Twin Towers falling with the caption “Burn baby burn!” This is very offensive to many people, and although it may not be so to you, please respect the feelings of other users.
Examples of offensive links include Pornographic, Racial, Defamation, or any other derogatory content. If it does not pass our CoC do not link to it on our site.
6. SIGNATURES [SIG]:
Rule: A user’s signature may only be 5 lines high, 15 pixels high per line and 65 pixels wide per line. A signature must follow all of the above guidelines concerning offensive language and material, and also concerning advertising.
Consequence: If a user creates a signature that violates the above rules, they will first be contacted and asked to change their signature. If they do not comply, someone will change it for them. Particularly horrid offenses will be dealt with by staff in an appropriate manner.
Example: A “good” signature could contain a few links to some threads (as long as they follow previous rules), zombie round numbers, a small image, or something personal, such as a saying or quote. A “bad” signature would contain any annoying “flashy” .GIFs, or any content that would not comply with previous CoC rules.
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First and foremost, sorry. The plan was to do some maintenance and improvements and then bring the site back online. As you can guess, it failed. I'll explain what happened in laymans terms. Basically what happened was we wanted to update apache, apache runs the http service and we wanted to update the version of php that we run to the most up to date version. When running the apache update, an error message appeared quite quickly indicating that we had exceeded disk quota and it failed, it's supposed to revert back to the most recent working configuration but failed to restart, Upon investigation it was evident that the "inodes" had maxed out causing the disk qu…
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So you want to watch E3 live but still want to be on callofdutyzombies.com Well why not watch the live stream right here http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/index.php?app=livestreams&module=streams§ion=stream&stream=24
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Please make sure you read the announcement regarding maintenance http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/index.php/forum-0/announcement-9-important-codz-maintenance-5th-june-2014/ Discussion of this can go here.
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We have implemented a new feature that allows you to add your Steam Status into the user profile area, and also allows you to add your Xbox, PSN and Steam information into the user profile area. Very easy to update, to update do the following Steam - go to your profile page by clicking on your username or select profile from the menu in the top right of the site. Click on edit profile and then select manage steam. Sync the singin for steam with CoDz and approve and you can now login with your steam login information (as well as retaining normal forum signin information, or Twitter or Facebook if you have linked them also). In the main profile page on the …
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Hey CODZ - just a quick update here. 2 changes: First, We have replaced "LEGEND" with "Hall of Fame". Our reason for doing this is that "LEGEND" is a very vague title, we believe that "Hall of Fame" more accurately depicts the service that these members have brought - and will hopefully resound immediately with anyone who sees it. The second item is that we have a new usergroup: "Veteran" A "Veteran" is a retired staff member. They fought the war, and deserve the title. We are aware that "veteran" can also be a term used for a long time member, but that's not a big deal - because all our "Veteran"'s are long time members Here are the usergroup imag…
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Hey Guys, TOTW is back! I'm sure over the last 2 weeks you have seen some amazing threads out there. Let's get one of them featured! Last weeks winner - @Rissole25 with his amazing Comic Tears topic - http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/index.php/topic/159344-the-comic-tears/ I'm going to leave the nomination open for a little longer, around 24 hours and continue forth with that schedule. Chopper
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Man, this has taken 2 days to get to this stage. Thanks to Nick transferring the relevant databases I needed to perform "Major" surgery, I have been able to get the following fixed. I have managed, "drum roll" to get the vBulletin forum, converted to Invision Forum Software. Stage one of the 48 hour surgery complete. I'm not bashing anyone, not what I'm here to do, but it was unfortunately in a bit of a mess and took a bit of work to get into a working state. Database wise, tables had crashed, needing repaired & the database itself was over 4Gb in size, so importing it through phpmyadmin is a no go and needs to be done at the shell level or have the tables bro…
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We have switched the chatroom service on, it has been tested and skinned accordingly to match CoDz. We are aware of the fact a chatroom once existed and impacted on the forum use. So remember, this is an open trial to all members for a period of 7 days and we will be monitoring the use of the forum and chat service. We have a log of all chats that occur, so remember, we know if you are not adhering to the rules - we also reserve the right to remove it at any given time. Have fun.
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Hey Guys, The staff have been considering how to further increase the social aspect of this site, and an idea being discussed is regularly streamed events/playdates. Nothing is decided and we are looking for options. This plugin has been installed and this is an example of what it would look like on the site. An applet is also available which lists various different stream names and who is live currently. http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/index.php?app=livestreams&module=streams§ion=stream&stream=3 We are looking for people who have the capability to stream and go into a somewhat rolling rota for official streams. Any other su…
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Are now live, enjoy
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We have been testing over the past week or so the effect of adverts on CoDz and how these are impacting on the visual aspect and how these impact on the performance and so forth. Some people are aware of these adverts being tested and thank you for assisting, we didn't want to introduce adverts but it's evident that we need to. So you will now see adverts on the main forum index at the top, on the right sidebar and at the bottom of the forum index. You will upon selecting a category see AD's top, bottom of the site and after the first topic. Selecting a topic will present you will an AD after the first post. Adblock will render them useless, I know. However, w…
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As you will see, we have had a little clean up and restructured the forum a little. We have also created a new general gaming discussion area. It's not perfect by any means, although it may look as though at more main forum sections exists, it's pretty much the same in overall length but easier to find each catergory and easier to see what has been posted to and if new topics/replies exist. It's not perfect and we don't profess it to be perfect but it certainly is more organised than it was.
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Is now enabled, you can now vote on any topic in a forum that this is enabled, you can see this in site news. In the main index, you will see stars next to the topic title, no stars hightlighted means no vote on a topic, 1 to 5 stars is the rating of the topic. We have enabled this feature across the forum (some forums exempt) from it, I'll list them once I've finished enabling them.
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Hey Guys, TOTW is back! I'm sure over the last 2 weeks you have seen some amazing threads out there. Let's get one of them featured! Last weeks winner - Naitrax with his amazing Zombies Ranking System - http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/index.php/topic/159137-zombies-ranking-system-20-how-it-should-work/# I'm going to leave the nomination open for a little longer, around 24 hours and continue forth with that schedule. Chopper
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Hey Guys, This is the inaugural Topic of the Week which will nominated by you guys, and decided by a committee. I changed it up a little and decided to run it from Sunday to Saturday, with nominations made on Sunday and then a decision made late on Sunday. This isn't the longest open period, but due to it being weekly it's difficult to pick the best time. In the future, if any user doesn't think they will be on the site when the nominations are open, they can email myself or any of the committee with their nomination anytime from the Friday before the nominations open on the Sunday, This could be changed if it doesn't suit, but for this one it's as is. I…
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Want to to have a look at the new features and functions that we are introducing and the new forum design? http://beta.callofdutyzombies.com
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Hi Guys, It seems that the idea for a Topic of the Week has been received in a mostly positive fashion, so I would like to get into the nitty gritty of it. Should it be weekly or monthly? What are the minimum requirements for being eligible - Created in the last week or sufficient activity in the last week? What is classed as sufficient activity? Should it have a medal attached to it? Should we bother to do it at all? Thanks guys, Chopper.
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Would this be agreeable to Codz? I remember we had a thread that recorded the higher hitters. If you could provide proof of lost brains then it would only seem fair to give back what was lost. Just thinking out loud here. Comments? For or against. Here is the thread: http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/index.php/topic/146997-the-codz-highest-brains-official-list/ 50. Doggy II- 778 49. Aegisknight- 780 48. xFaTaLx RaMpAgE- 792 47. ccm404e- 794 46. I am richtofen- 801 45. Pandaman5797- 916 44. DeckchairsFTW- 958 43. MyLittleHellhound- 964 42. Undead xP- 986 41. Zombieofthedead- 1026 40. xStopDropNKillx- 1048 39. Darkjolteon- 106…
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Hey CODZ, We've added a new forum (under "Call of Duty") in anticipation of the new Sledgehammer game, which is set to be "revealed" this Sunday! This is simply so that we have a place to speculate, and converse when it is revealed - so it doesn't spill into General Zombies, or Ghosts. Enjoy: http://www.callofdutyzombies.com/forum/index.php/forum/117-sledgehammer/ If you are here to voice concerns over yet another forum being added: Please do not make this thread about forum restructure - and remember this was done on the fly in an effort to keep things orderly, to serve as a place for those who are excited about the new game to share thei…
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Zombification _________________ Zombification is an indication of how many posts a registered member on CoDZ has made so far. (It's our fancy word for Post Rank) As a member makes more posts, their Zombification Level will rise. Your Zombification level is displayed on your member profile, right underneath your avatar - throughout the forum. Currently, there are 15 Automated Levels plus 5 levels that have additional requirements and can thus only be handed out by staff. Giving us 20 levels in total. Tier List LEVEL REQUIREMENT(S) (0 - 25) (25 - 75) (75 - 150) (150 - 300) (300 - 500) (500 - 750) …
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Hey Guys, We are going with TOTW, and Craig has already installed the mod/hook and it's populated with the biggest thread CODZ has produced, MMX trilogy. There are still a few different and contrasting suggestions as to how we will implement this, so I'm going to poll it. Main things are who decides the winner, should we invite thread suggestions and should there be a medal? Thanks guys, Chopper
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Attention all CoDz members that will be in Boston for PAX East this weekend! I'll be there, and have an Origins poster to giveaway along with some zombies Tshirts! Keep your eyes on @CODZombieforum on twitter for information; hope to meet some of you there! Ill be wearing a shirt with our logo on it one day, and a Black Ops II shirt from E3 another. If you see me, say hi!
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You all know it, you all hate it and if we wanted a ** BANNED WORD ** we would go to a reputable company and buy one from them. Anyway, we hate spam as much as you. We have several things in place to combat spam, the two most recently registered accounts balotelii and seznc are both spammers, unfortunately the system didn't think it was likely to be spam when these accounts registered. Both topics are spam, both topics are ** BANNED WORD ** So, the use of the word k i t c h e n is a banned word and below is how it will appear. I'm still updating the banned word filter, so if you can think of any possible ways of spelling k i t c h e n - let us know below. ** BAN…
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Hey Guys, This has been mentioned before and is a bug bear of a lot of members. Non responses. I'm talking about those 3 word lines you post; 'I agree', 'too funny' etc, Add this response to the massive signatures that some have and it seems often that half the content I view, is meaningless. This site should be better than that. Obviously there is a place for some very short responses, but I think too many people are using them all over the place, dare I say it, just to up their post count or to be seen posting. Please consider your responses, and whether they are actually adding something to the discussion. If you agree with someone, don't just say …
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Hey CoDzsters, GRILL here. You may have noticed those little stars underneath your title. They are a form of "prestige", if you will, and it based on your post count. There is an image below if you don't know what I am talking about. We thought it would be fitting to refer to it as "Zombification". We'd like your help in deciding what image/icon will replace the stars, and what the different "tiers" of Zombification will be. When Craig brought "Brains" back, we took it to the community to help decide what image should represent "Brains". We arrived at Maxis Drone brains, both fitting and current. We'd like to come to some sort of consensus, please pr…
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