Warning
A warning may be issued to a member depending on the seriousness of the offence. Warnings look like infractions but are worth 0 points and do not count toward your total infraction table (which holds infraction points awarded). Warnings usually apply to more minor violations, or first time violations.

Infraction
Depending on the seriousness of the offence, one can be awarded 2 or 3 Infraction points. If a member accumulates 12 infraction points the member will be temporarily banned for 3 days.

Members can get infraction points for the following reasons, including but not limited to:

1. Thread Digging or Rubbish/Nuisance Thread/Post
2. Spammed Advertisements
3. Posting/Sharing Pornography or related materials
4. Inappropriate Language / Insulted Other (s)
5. Troublemaker (trolling, impersonation, etc..)
6. Posting Racist Comments

Please be warned that posters who deliberately and viciously break the rules may be permanently banned with no warning. Decisions on the executing of Temporary or Permanent Ban is up to the discretion of the moderators and administrators.

To view your Infraction Points, please log on to your UserCP.

Your email is indicated as inactive.
Pls update your email now.

it means your account has been set to 'Awaiting Email Confirmation'. In this stage, you will not be able to perform most of the forums functions until you change your email address. Upon the update of email address, the system will send a verification email to the new email address. Once the instructions in the verification email are acted upon, the account will revert back to original status.

Why would my account suddenly change to 'Awaiting Email Confirmation'?
We have implemented a feature where we will monitor your email address in your account profile. When we detect your email address is no longer valid, we will initiate the status change to 'Awaiting Email Confirmation'. This way, it will be a reminder to you to update your email address.

I have re-verified my account. Why is my DMCard status gone?
Due to the nature of our platform, you will need about 10 minutes from the time you click on the verification link in the verification email before your account status will be changed back to DMCard.
This only affects DMCard members and we apologize for this inconvenience.

We do recommend everyone to keep their email address updated so that you do not need to repeat this verification process every now and then.

1. Max of 1000 characters including BBcode
2. Max of 500 characters excluding BBcode
3. Unlimited lines
4. All BBcode allowed except PHP/HTML BBcode
   To view the list of all BBcodes, please refer here.
5. Max of 4 images allowed
6. Total signature size should not exceed 500x100px
7. Smilies allowed
8. No HTML allowed
   If you wish to insert links and images, please use BBcode instead.

Basic Member

1. Max of 200 characters including BBcode
2. Max of 100 characters excluding BBcode
3. Max of 3 lines
4. All BBcode not allowed
5. No image allowed
6. Smilies allowed
7. No HTML allowed

Applicable to All

1. Signature cannot be of any commercial/advertising nature.
2. Only links that lead to non-commercial site(s) are allowed.
3. Any member caught circumventing the restrictions by any means will have their signatures removed without warning.
   Subsequent circumventions will result in an access ban.
4. www.hardwarezone.com® reserves the right to censor any signature without prior notice at its own discretion.
5. www.hardwarezone.com® reserves the right to change the signature guidelines without prior notice at its own discretion.

How to embed?

1. You will need to host your images in other image hosting providers. There's a few free options in the market such aswww.photobucket.com.
2. The image hosting provider will return you with a URL of the image that you've uploaded.
3. Use the URL supplied and enter into the form when you click on the 'Image' button in the editor.
4. That's it. You've embedded your image into your posts/threads. You can embed up to 8 images per post.

1. Log on to UserCP.
   Click here to go UserCP.
2. Click on Edit Options
3. Scroll to Login & Privacy
4. You will see an option Turn On Deluxe Member Label?.
   Select No and save your preferences.

To enjoy a better and uninterrupted surfing experience to our forums, you may wish to join up as a Deluxe Member where you will have access to dedicated forums service.
The dedicated forums are accessible at http://deluxeforums.hardwarezone.com.sg.
Only Deluxe Members can access this forums. If you are a Deluxe Member, you will also be automatically directed to the dedicated forums.

To sign up as a Deluxe Member, please click here.

This dedicated forum is only accessible to Deluxe Members. If you are one of our valued Deluxe Members, we would want to give you the best forums surfing experience.

Our systems will automatically forward you to this dedicated forums service if you are one of our Deluxe Members.