This is a place where one can learn and teach.

We have a diverse community of members whose interests range from PC's to movies to cars.

The Net Vault community is a close knit brood of people from all over and this is a happy community. We strive to keep it as such, therefore some rules need to be enforced.

1. No Spamming.

2. No Plagiarism (Posting of copyrighted material is strictly forbidden without explicit permission from the owner/author. This includes using the Image tags to link to an image on another site. This is a serious offence and will be dealt with as such.

3. All content posted on Net Vault is copyrighted to Net Vault unless copyrighted material is credited to a third party.

4. Absolutely NO personal attacks will be tolerated.

5. No abusing the PM (private messenger) system.

6. No Spamming via the PM system.

7. ABSOLUTELY NO discussion or posting of Warez (Pirated Software) or links to Warez sites. All such sites are illegal and pose a threat to our continued existence.

8. No porn of any kind (Graphical/Textual/Ascii/Movies). Offenders will be banned and will not be allowed to return to the forums.

9. No Racial or other polictically incorrect slurs.

10. We do not permit advertising OF ANY KIND! This includes offering items for sale or trade (other than in the Junk Pile on the Chill Vault - See its' rules in the relevent forum), posting your URL or announcements of new sites. This is also prohibited from user signatures. The use of links for product reviews and product information is, however, allowed as long as it is deemed that a sale is not being attempted (Once again see the junkpile rules).

10.1 Please Note: Permission can be obtained (in certain circumstances) for site advertising by contacting one of our Admin Staff.

11. No flamers. This also refers to n00b bashing. Everyone was once a n00b and in the eyes of the elite few (mainly Vault9 staff), you are still a n00b no matter how un-n00b you think you are. n00b bashing is not tolerated. It's the same as schoolyard bullying.

11.1We welcome all. No matter how little experience you have or what language barriers there may be, we'll try to accomodate everyone.

11.2 This excludes you if you assume that youre a smart ass. Smartasses get flamed silly. Open season on Flamers runs from January to December so if you're a smartass and get flamed, dont come crying to us.

11.3 Respect is earned. Not demanded.
Members of this forum are respected because of what they they know and how much they help people, not because they are well 1337 flamers. Except staff. Staff are respected because they were born elite. No amount of arguing is going to change that.

12. Should it become necessary to ban someone from our forums, they are very rarely, if ever, given a second chance.

13. Vault9 assumes no responsibility for any bad deals. Buy and sell at your own risk.

14. A valid e-mail address must accompany your membership. Errors in e-mail addresses will result in your account being suspended or deleted.

15. The management of this forum does not condone theft, trading in stolen property, or the aiding and abetting of those who do. Any such discussions will be dealt with swiftly, and the offending members account suspended. The incident will be reported (along with all information about the member) to the SAPS.

16. Multiple Accounts are not allowed. Any member creating more then one account will be warned by staff, and the second account will be deleted. If a second account is created after being warned by staff, the member in question will be banned from this forum.

17. Advertising IRC Networks is also a no-no. The preferred IRC network that Net Vault associates itself with is irc.nixus.org.

The associated channels on irc.nixus.org are:
#vault9 - The official Vault 9 chat room
#pixelpushers
#planetnix
#pcformat
#highveld
#clubbersguide
#programming

to name but a few.

The Comments and Opinions posted are of their respective poster, and do not reflect the opinion of Net Vault and/or Net Vault's staff.

The Owners and Staff of Net Vault reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread and remove or change any avatar, username or signature for any reason.

Members are asked to read the Board Related forum often for any changes/updates that have been made to the board or any other important bits of information that the staff wish to share with the community.

Thats it!

Keep it cool.