Please read the West Indies Cricket Portal Rules and Regulations in their entirety as they are designed to clarify various responsibilities of West Indies Cricket Portal Community Members.

Please note that the West Indies Cricket Portal Rules and Regulations are subject to change without advanced notification to the West Indies Cricket Portal community.

1. General

The determination of what is construed as offensive, indecent, vulgar, spam or otherwise deemed inappropriate as noted throughout the West Indies Cricket Portal Rules and Regulations is left to the discrepancy of the West Indies Cricket Portal Staff.

Spam is not tolerated in any form under any circumstance. This includes but is not limited to offering hosting services (charged and free), design/installation services, free merchandise, money scams, etc. Posts containing spam will be removed.

2. Member Posting

The below mentioned applies to areas within the West Indies Cricket Portal website that allows members to contribute via posting content. This includes but is not limited to posting in forums, and commenting in surveys and news articles.

The West Indies Cricket Portal Staff reserves the right to edit or remove any member posted content at any time.

Posts not conforming to West Indies Cricket Portal Rules and Regulations will be subject to removal and members subject to a warning.

1. Members are expected to construct their posts in a way that is consistent with "normal writing" practices. Posting content with an excessive number of emoticons or punctuation marks will not be tolerated. Additionally posts made in all CAPS or "l33t" speak are not acceptable.
    
2. Members should always post in a way that is respectful to other members. Posts that are intentionally abusive, confrontational, or offensive will be removed.
    
3. Members should keep in mind that the West Indies Cricket Portal website is intended for a general audience. Posting profanity, pornographic, or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated.
    
4. When applicable, members should create descriptive titles for their posts. Using titles such as "No images", "CSS help!", or "Theme error" are examples of non-descriptive titles. Titles such as "[Namehere] theme header images are not displaying", "CSS, spacing and padding help!", or "[Namehere] theme generates error in admin.php" are descriptive. Titles that are not descriptive are subject to modification and / or the post removed entirely.
    
5. Members are requested to read forum descriptions prior to posting in a forum. Members are also requested to post in the relevant forum and remain on topic when possible.

3. Member Features

The West Indies Cricket Portal Staff reserves the right to edit or remove any member's signature or avatar at any time.

Avatars and signatures not conforming to West Indies Cricket Portal Rules and Regulations will be subject to removal and members subject to a warning, in addition to possible revocation of privileges.

a. Signatures

1. Signatures may be text, images, or valid combinations of both not exceeding the limitations set below.
    
2. Text signatures are limited to five lines of small text (including spaces), one line being that displayed on a browser opened to a resolution of 800x600 within the constraints of the forum.
    
3. Image signatures are limited to a maximum of three images and may not be larger than a total of 50 pixels high x 350 pixels wide, and 5KB in size.
    
4. Links are permitted in signatures.
    
5. Text, images, or links to offensive sites or other sites deemed inappropriate by West Indies Cricket Portal Staff are subject to removal.
    
6. Animated signatures, text or images, are not allowed.

b. Avatars

1. Members are permitted to utilize a West Indies Cricket Portal gallery avatar or link to one of their own hosted in a location they have permission to access. (Please do not misuse bandwidth by linking to images you do not have permission to link to.)
    
2. Avatars are to be no larger than 100 pixels square and may not exceed 6KB in file size.
    
3. Member defined avatars may not contain animation. Nor may they attempt to portray the member as having an official status at West Indies Cricket Portal (e.g. mimicking ranks or copying avatars of West Indies Cricket Portal Staff).
    
4. Avatars should not contain offensive images. Any avatar deemed inappropriate by West Indies Cricket Portal Staff members are subject to removal.

c. Private Messaging

1. Members are not to harass or spam other West Indies Cricket Portal members or West Indies Cricket Portal Staff.
    
2. Members receiving continual private messages that they deem are harassing, spam, intentionally abusive, confrontational, or offensive should be reported to West Indies Cricket Portal Staff to be dealt with properly.
    
3. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings and/or the revocation of private messaging privileges.

4. Policing

West Indies Cricket Portal will operate with a three strike policy. Members not adhering to the rules and regulations are subject to warnings, revocation of privileges, and/or banishment (temporary or permanent).

Within a three month period, members will be warned a maximum of three times for any and all offences. Should a member be warned beyond that, a temporary ban will be put into place for a duration of no less than one day and no more than five days.

Any member who feels they have been warned unfairly may contact a West Indies Cricket Portal Staff leader. They will hear both the Staff member's and your recount of the occurrence. It is left to the discretion of the Staff leader to remove an issued warning. The Staff leader's decision is final.

Any attempts to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes but is not limited to re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses, or registering a new email account.

Permanent bans are a last resort and are discussed with several Staff leaders prior to implementing them. While West Indies Cricket Portal may consider lifting permanent bans occasionally, this is a race occurrence.

5. West Indies Cricket Portal Support

West Indies Cricket Portal exists to provide the West Indian community with an online experience like no other. A place for West Indian to discuss, contribute to and participate in their favorite sport.