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General Staff Tags Explained: For general reference staff members are indicated by the "staff" tag images located under their forum avatars. The number/color of stars on a staff tag indicates the level of power that staff member carries, Gold stars outrank Silver Stars, and 1 Star is the lowest rank compared to 4 Stars at the top tier. Green Staff Tags: Green tags are carried by Global Moderators. The Global Moderators can moderate ALL forums. They act under instruction from administrating personnel, and may: lock, move, rename, split, merge, or bump any topic that violates our posted rules in some way. They may also use their perception, and judgments to: ban, suspend, moderate, warn, any member they see needing this attention. Users are expected to defer to Global Moderators when staff action is being taken. Users are entitled to an explanation for any action taken, and reserve the right to request one if one is not given. Please refer to the staff member who carried out the action for those requests. Current Global Moderators: DaMage, Ladyflcn, Witty, Lilith Steel Blue Staff Tags: These are carried by the teaching staff of the Enclave. They have limited moderation control over the school, but not elsewhere. While a Scholar can not warn a troublemaker, the Alliance moderation staff will act in their stead should a Scholar report an issue. Current Scholars: WillieSea, InsanitySorrow, DarkRider, Hanaisse TESA Team Unveiled: Red Staff Tags: These are held by all members of the TES Alliance Team. Like with all staff ranks, the more stars on the tag the higher the level of power that staff member has on site. The most common rank on the Team is Captain. Captains act as senior moderators and are the general leadership of the forums. However Captains possess no Administrative powers and can only handle staff actions on site. Current Captains: InsanitySorrow, Grond About Senior Staff: The highest ranking members of the TES Alliance Team are the senior staff members and they have varying degrees of administrative power. They perform the same on site tasks as the subordinate Captains, but in addition to those tasks they also handle staff actions behind the scenes such as name changes, ftp imports, software maintenance, theme editing, etc. The Major is a senior ranked Team Member who serves a similar role as a Captain, however, Majors also have some limited Administrative powers and can perform basic Administrative duties like group promotions, or name changes, ban lifts, etc. Current Majors: darkstone The Lt. Commander is a secondary Admin in command and has full administrator powers; he/she can make administrative decisions in the event that the Commander is not available to do so. Current Lt. Commanders: HeyYou, WindmillTilter The Site Commander is the lead admin and acts as head of the site and the TES Alliance Team. The Commander controls all registers, and has final say on all matters within the forum. You agreed upon registration that you would abide by the Commander's decisions, although agreement with them is left at your discretion. The Site Commander has the final say on everything. Current Site Commander: DarkRider Common Staff Actions: Locking a Topic: Topics are locked when issues are resolved, OP requests a lock, threads reach a post count of 200, or for derailingDeletion of Posts/Topics: Threads are removed when a topic is not appropriate and in someway violates the tos for this community. Such posts/topics are not hard deleted, but rather binned in a secure forum for staff reference.Splitting Posts: One post is separated to create a new topic - this action will be taken if a good topic is hijacked by a valid and appropriate topic, but discussions lead in separate ways.Merging Posts: This action is taken when two posts of similar content run in parallel, and are combined into one topic.Moving Topics: This action is taken when a poster starts a new topic in a forum unrelated to their topic. Most often moving a topic is done so to help the poster receive the proper responses desired in a timely manner.Changing User IDs: This site has explicit rules regarding what is acceptable in a user ID. Any IDs that violate those rules are changed by an Administrator and it most likely will not be something you like. So before you put some nasty comment in your ID, or type a line of gibberish, or whip out your best L33t speak profanity, ask yourself "Do I want to risk ending up as FluffyKittenWhiskers"?Common Disciplinary Actions: Polite Correction: When rule blunders are made, a staff member will politely remind the offender of the rules. If the user complies, the action typically stops there. In general, staffers are expected to give users one polite correction; anything more than that is a gift.Warn with No Action: This action may be taken when a polite correction is ignored or defied. Such as continuing an argument after being told to stop, repeating the same offenses, etc. You will see your warn level increase, but no action against your account permissions will be made. Warns may be reduced after a time of good behavior but that is at the discretion of the senior staff.Post Moderation: This action is taken when you demonstrate an inability to post acceptable content. Your posts will be hidden on submission and Moderators will have to check your content and decide which of the posts you make are viable to allow onto the board, deleting those that are not. Moderation typically begins at 24hrs, increasing with each offense. [Note: major repeat offenders will likely be banned for being a spammer]Post Privilege Revocation: This action is taken when a user demonstrates an antagonistic posting behavior (this usually comes on suddenly), posting rants, arguing with staff publicly, picking fights, etc. During this time you will be unable to post anywhere on the site. It will stay in effect for either a few hours, days, or indefinitely - at staff discretion.Account Suspension: Your account will be disabled for a set amount of time when the staff decide that you need a complete "break" from the forum. This is one level down from an outright ban. Suspensions are typically 7-90 days in length.All of these actions are reversible with time, compliance, or pardon. General Banning: This action is taken when a user's warn level reaches 100%, when they demonstrate aggressive or spam behavior, for demonstrating aggressive/belligerent behavior on site, or violating any rule marked as a bannable offense in our published rules. A general ban will block all access to the forums.IP Ban: This is for the most serious offenses. Law breaking or blatant rule breaking. Your computer ID will be banned from the site altogether. No access is available.ISP Contact: this action will be taken when any user commits a crime on TESA, threatens to harm another person or themselves. Do not be foolish enough to think the internet means no one can find you. We will contact your service provider and deliver the local authorities to your front door for these offenses if we have no other choice.A Note on Account Deletion: Because this action is extremely disruptive to the site function, this is not an action that may be requested simply because a user wishes to "leave" the community. We do not delete accounts. We ban accounts, we alter accounts, but we do not delete anyone. If you wish to leave TESA, turn off the notifications in your profile, change your email address to something made up, and take your leave.

In addition to the standard rules there are a few additions specifically for the modules. Be sure you read them carefully. The modules on TESA are extra privileges we allow you to use freely, but disregarding rules will result in those privileges being revoked, permanently if need be. --------------------------------------------- Downloads No uploading anything that is considered "Adult Swim" material. Meaning no mods of a sexual nature. This site is rated PG-13 and that includes our mods section. If you are looking for a place to upload/download mods of that type, there are plenty of places to do so.No "Cool" or "Sucks" comments. Add something constructive, or at least a complete sentence or don't comment at all.All images posted with mods must adhere to our rules for images; meaning bikini coverage on bodies and no overtly sexual poses.While we sometimes make exceptions for special circumstances, we ask that you do not upload text files here with links to other sites in lieu of hosting actual mod files. It's a misuse of our hosting service and constitutes advertising.Mod Authors retain final say on their mod usage, refer to the rights and privileges section on the individual download pages for specific permission details.--------------------------------------------- Galleries Observe the standard rules of image content in your galleries.Non-related images may be hosted in your private albums, but public albums must remain content relevant to the site since they appear on the index.--------------------------------------------- Blogs Observe the standard rules of images and content in your blogs. --------------------------------------------- Status Update Hook Status Updates must be in EnglishYou may not use your status to bump your forum threadsYou may not use your status to overtly advertiseStatus Updates may not contain profane or vulgar commentary--------------------------------------------- A Note on Private Messaging Unlike many ES fansites, TESA offers the cutting edge PM convo feature which allows members to create a private forum thread in their PM box and chat privately with multiple parties. The PM system also permits members to upload and download file attachments within their conversations. However, users should be aware that abuse of the PM system is not tolerated here. Members are encouraged to report PM conversations that are abusive so the staff may intervene and take action where needed; every PM inbox has a report button for this purpose. The PM system also logs and filters messages for illegal content. Such PMs will be investigated and may result in all participants being permanently banned; in some cases IP providers and authorities will be contacted. Do not use the PM system here for piracy nor cyber terrorism.