General Forum Guidelines & Procedures:
Forum Rules and Proper Use

Welcome to our user-to-user message forums! They are provided for you to share tips with your fellow Sierra users, discuss your favorite titles, talk about upcoming releases, and generally get the most enjoyment out of our products. Our moderators are trained to help you with basic product-related questions, such as tips and hints. If our moderators cannot answer your question, they will be happy to direct you to someone who can provide a better answer. However, there are some situations, such as technical difficulties with a product, where you'll need to get in touch directly with a Sierra representative. We've tried to make it very easy for you to reach us.

We strongly discourage "flame" postings to our forums. By flame postings, we mean ones that make statements such as, "This product is horrible. No one should buy it." Those postings will be removed from our site, as will any posting that refers to your fellow forum users, our moderators, our developers, or even our competitors in a derogatory manner.

We also discourage discussions about the forum itself and about Sierra in general. The forums are here to discuss Sierra products with other users. If you have a comment about a Sierra website or product that requires direct interaction with a Sierra official, it is best to send that comment through the Webmaster or through Customer Service.

Forum Use Rules

Message forum moderators are the resident experts on the forums. You will often see that they might be answering or commenting on any messages posted in our forums, in order to try to help you. They will watch the posts on the forums and when needed, post messages to keep the forum "on-track." Basically, what we're saying here is that our moderators are not only helping to keep our message forums a friendly community, but also they're doing it out for the fun of it. Please be nice to them!

Please do not post copy protection codes from game manuals to this forum. We take a firm stand against software piracy, and will prosecute anyone distributing pirated games. Posting such information may also result in your posting privileges being revoked. Furthermore, do not encourage people to violate copy protection by referring them to sites that have copy protection codes publicized. Any such post will be removed from our forums and the URL forwarded to our legal department for review. If you have a purchased copy of a game, but are missing the manual, please contact Customer Service and ask for a replacement.

Please do not post announcements of your personal webpage or web site in our general message forums; check to see if there is a Sierra Fan Site listing in the appropriate product forum dedicated to advertising Sierra Fan Sites. It is permissible for you to post your related site URL in your signature at the end of a post, however, do not do this if your site is not relevant to the topic of discussion. Do not post URLs to inappropriate sites, such as pornography sites, warez sites, racist/hate sites, etc. Not only will your post be edited or outright removed from the forum, but also posting URLs to such sites may result in your posting privileges being revoked. Please do not post a URL as the sole answer to a hint question. If you know the answer to a hint question, it's much better to post that answer, then provide the URL in case the requestor needs further hints in the future. Let's all do our part to prevent the message forums from turning into the Sunday Classifieds.

If you have a complaint about another forum user, one of our moderators, or anyone else, email it to the owners of the specific forum you are on. Do not post accusations to the public forums; this is a private matter between you and the other party. We will investigate the situation promptly. Any issue that you may have with a moderator/administrator action must be handled through the Webmaster. If you have a query about the forums themselves, or other Sierra websites, that is also best directed to the Webmaster.

Regarding the use of avatar images on the Sierra Forums, please comply with the 10k image size, and limit at 75x100 pixels. For information on how to implement signatures please consult your Profile preferences and remember that if you wish to upload an image, it is your responsibility to obtain permission from the image's owner. Also remember that you must have the image on your hard drive in order to upload it using the Sierra Forums user picture or enclosure features. Attachments should only be image files (.gifs and. jpgs) or text files. Keep your attachment images within 350k as well.

Please refrain from the use of vulgar language, harassment of other users, racial or ethnic slurs, sexism, or slander. Please remember that the forums are an extension of Sierra's work environment. Sierra is committed to maintaining a threat-free environment for its employees and customers. Images that are not appropriate for the workplace are not to be posted. Do not use inappropriate images on our forums - ones endorsing pornography, software piracy; or those that "flame" any individual or company. Please do not publicly re-post private email without the express written permission of the e-mail's original sender (e-mail is protected by copyright). Do not publicly re-post private discussions with others that were held over messaging clients without permission from all the other owners (participants) of the messages. Please refrain from having personal discussions with other forum members on the forums; there are e-mail and Internet messaging programs for that purpose. Do not attempt to impersonate other forum members, Sierra officials, and forum moderators/administrators. Such an attempt will not be successful and it is an offense that will get you banned from the forums -no ifs, ands, or buts about it. Out of courtesy to other forum users and moderators we expect you to use only one username on our forums. Please do not post email addresses, standard addresses, ICQ and other messaging client numbers, or phone numbers which are not your own.

If you don't like these rules, please don't post. If you break these rules, we reserve the right to revoke your posting privileges on all Sierra Forums services. Remember, posting here is a privilege and not a right. Also remember that any discussion of these rules is to be held through the Message Forum Representative or Message Forum Caretakers (s) via e-mail, and not on the forums themselves.

Any user whose posting privileges are revoked is subject to immediate ban if/when caught posting under another username, unless otherwise noted in a private (e-mail) discussion between the user, the Message Forum Representative, a Message Forum Caretaker, and appropriate administrators. We do not like to have to revoke users, and do so only when all other forms of rational interaction have been exhausted. Because we do not take banning lightly, a banned user must prove her/his sincerity in wishing to rejoin the forum community as a considerate and helpful forum user A revoked user must convince the Message Forum Representative that s/he is fully prepared to comply with the forum rules in all future forum use if s/he wishes to be welcomed back to the forums.

If you are having technical problems with the message forums, please contact the Webmaster.

The Fine Print

While we take no responsibility for the content of the messages posted on this forum, our message forum caretakers will review messages posted here to make certain that they meet our guidelines We reserve the right to delete any message posted on any message forum on the Sierra Web site, for any reason, at our discretion or the discretion of our appointed moderators. Message forums are a dynamic entity. Therefore, these rules may change at any time, with no notice posted anywhere except this page. Please check these rules before posting any future messages to our forums. Thank you for your attention and cooperation.