SPAM VIOLATIONSPage-Stretching/Disruptive PostingStretching the forum pages using excessive amounts of unnecessary text, text that contains no spaces, or large images is disruptive of the flow of the forum/conversation and is thus a violation of the Terms of Service of Gaia. Post length and size does not related in any way to the amount of gold granted by posting. Variations in earned gold are a result of other variables.
Examples of this rule include 14/28 Gold Bumps. There are several versions of this kind of post, all have the same general premise: that by copying and pasting a long message, you will get more gold than normal.
Other examples include, excessively and unnecessarily repeating a word or phrase such as "bump" many times in one post, posting long song lyrics for no particular reason, posting images that are excessivly large (either resize the image or use a link to the image), etc.
ChainlettersNormally coming from emails, chainletters often involve some sort of story that requires you to send the letter to a certain number of people. Sometimes doing this will cause something good to happen to the user (or prevents something bad from happening). These letters are untrue and have no real good or bad consequences. Disribution of chainletters is prohibited on the forums, in PMs, and anywhere else on Gaia.
Many chainletters resemble something else such as a petition or warning message and sometimes even say "this is not a chainletter" on them. Other chainletters claim to be from the admins and sometimes make threats about banning people if they don't send it on. The admins can use stickies and the Announcement forum to disperse information and will not use chainletters (something they have prohibited) to do it. Just remember any message that asks or encourages you to repost/resend indiscriminately to other users can be considered a chainletter.
More information on Chainletters can be found
here.
Personal Information Questionnaire threadsA questionaire thread is a thread where a user gives a long list of questions for other users to answer. Often these threads contain questions regarding email addresses or questions similar to Gaia's security questions. By obtaining this information from a user, it gives the original poster the opportunity to hack another's account.
Please report any threads that ask personal questions such as address, phone number, email address, or any questions relation to Gaia's security questions. Do not reply to these threads. However, threads that do not ask such questions and only ask harmless or neutral questions (favorite color, videogame, etc) are allowed.
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