General rules - Breaking these rules can and will get you banned!
 Do not do things we forbid.
Do not spam.
Cherish your user account. Inactive accounts would be deleted based on the following rules:
1.Veteran User or above would never be deleted.
2.Elite User or above would never be deleted if packed (at User CP).
3.Packed accounts would be deleted if users have not logged in for more than 180 days in a row.
4.Unpacked accounts would be deleted if users have not logged in for more than 60 days in a row.
5.Accounts with both uploaded and downloaded amount being 0 would be deleted if users have not logged in for more than 30 days in a row.
User found cheating would be deleted. Don't take chances!
Possession of multiple HDCITY accounts will result in a ban!
Do not upload our torrents to other trackers! (See the FAQ for details.)
Disruptive behavior in the forums or on the server will result in a warning. You will only get one warning! After that it's bye bye Kansas! |
Downloading rules - By not following these rules you will lose download privileges!
Low ratios may result in severe consequences, including banning accounts. See FAQ.
Rules for torrent promotion:
Random promotion (torrents promoted randomly by system upon uploading):
5% chance becoming 50% Leech.
2% chance becoming Free Leech.
2% chance becoming 2X up.
1% chance becoming Free Leech and 2X up.
New episode of TV Series or Shows would be a 24-hour Free Leech.
Torrent with its size above 50GB would be Free Leech.
Torrent with its size between 30GB and 50GB, Raw Blu-ray Disk, HD DVD would be 50% Leech.
Highly popular torrents (decided by admins) would be Free Leech.
On special occasions, we would set the whole site Free Leech. Grab as much as you can. 
You may only use allowed bittorrent clients at HDCITY. See FAQ. |
Uploading rules - Torrents violating these rules may be deleted without notice
You must have legal rights to the file you uploaded.
Make sure your torrents are well-seeded for at least 24 hours and until 3 seeders are on the torrent.
Torrents violating rules may be deleted without notice.
If you have something interesting that somehow violates these rules, ask the staff with a detailed description and we might make an exception.
Who can upload?
Everyone can upload. However, some must go through the Offers section. See FAQ.
Currently only uploaders and above (or users specified by staff members) can upload games without going through the Offers section.
What content can I upload?
Allowed
High Definition video files, including complete HD media (e.g. Blu-ray Disk, HD DVD), HDTV-captured, re-encodes in HD resolution.
Standard Definition video files, only DVDR, re-encodes from HD source (e.g. 480p) and DVDRip, CN-DVDRip.
Lossless or multi-channel music files (e.g. FLAC, DTS, Monkey's Audio).
Audio tracks containing commentaries, dubs, soundtracks, etc.
HD Trailers released within 7 days.
HD related software and documents.
Not allowed
Files of size no more than 100 MB (Exception: software and documents).
Dupe releases (dupe releases already uploaded will be kept).
Upscaled/partial upscaled in Standard Definition mastered/produced content.
Standard Definition video files with low quality, including CAM, TS, SCR, DVDSCR, R5, HalfCD.
RealVideo files (usually contained in RMVB or RM).
Raw or re-encoded (e.g. FLAC, Monkey's Audio) CD image files without proper cue sheet.
Multi-volume RAR'ed content (Unrar it before uploading. Exception: software, subtitles, patches of games).
Content containing virus, trojan, trash, advertisement or any other unrelated file.
Dupe Rules
One DVD5 sized (i.e. 4.3 GB) release from the best available source will always be allowed.
Under following conditions a new release can dupe an old release:
Old release is dead for 7 days or longer;
New release doesn't contain the confirmed errors/glitches/problems of the old release or is based on a better source;
Old release exists already 18 months or longer.
Releases in High Definition can dupe releases in Standard Definition.
Blu-ray Disk/HD DVD releases from another region containing different dubbing and/or subtitle aren't considered to be dupe.
The Torrent
Do NOT remove or alter changes done by the staff.
Naming/Title
For Movies:
[Chinese Name].Name.[Cut].[Year].[Release Info].Resolution.Source.Video Codec.[Audio Codec]-Tag
e.g. 蝙蝠侠:黑暗骑士.The.Dark.Knight.2008.PROPER.720p.BluRay.x264-SiNNERS
For TV Series/Mini-series:
[Chinese Name].Name.[Cut].S**E**.[Year].[Release Info].Resolution.Source.Video Codec.[Audio Codec]-Tag
e.g. 越狱.Prison.Break.S04E01.PROPER.720p.HDTV.x264-CTU
For Music:
[Chinese Artist Name].-.[Chinese Album Name].Artist.-.Album Name.[Version].Year.[Release Info].Audio Codec-[Tag]
e.g. 恩雅.-.冬季降临.Enya.-.And.Winter.Came.2008.FLAC
Small description
No advertisements or asking for reseeding/requests.
Description
Do not use the description for your NFO-artwork! Limit those artistic expressions to the NFO only.
For Movies, TV Series/Mini-series:
Poster, banner or BD/HDDVD/DVD cover is required (If available).
If convenient, add screenshots or thumbnail and link to screenshots.
If convenient, add detailed file information regarding format, runtime, codec, bitrate, resolution, language, subtitle, etc.
If convenient, add plot outline.
For Sports:
Don't spoil the results with text or through screenshots/filename/obvious filesize/detailed runtime.
For Music:
CD cover is required (If available).
If convenient, add track list of an album.
External Info
URL of external info for Movies and TV Series is required (if available).
Misc
Please ensure category and quality info are selected correctly. |
General Forum Guidelines - Please follow these guidelines or else you might end up with a warning!
No aggressive behavior or flaming in the forums.
No trashing of any topics (i.e. SPAM). Do not submit meaningless topics or posts (e.g. smiley only) in any forum except Water Jar.
Do not flood any forum in order to get bonus.
No foul language on title or text.
Do not discuss topics that are taboo, political sensitive or forbidden by local laws.
No language of discrimination based on race, national or ethnic origin, color, religion, gender, age, sexual preference or mental or physical disability. Violating this rule would result in permanent ban.
No bumping... (All bumped threads will be deleted.)
No double posting.
Please ensure all questions are posted in the correct section!
Topics without new reply in 365 days would be locked automatically by system. |
Commenting Guidelines - Always respect uploaders no matter what!
Always respect uploaders no matter what!
All rules of forum posting apply to commenting, too.
Do not post negative comments about torrents that you don't plan to download. |
Avatar Guidelines - Please try to follow these guidelines
The allowed formats are .gif, .jpg and .png.
Be considerate. Resize your images to a width of 150 px and a size of no more than 150 KB. (Browsers will rescale them anyway: smaller images will be expanded and will not look good; larger images will just waste bandwidth and CPU cycles.)
Do not use potentially offensive material involving porn, religious material, animal / human cruelty or ideologically charged images. Staff members have wide discretion on what is acceptable. If in doubt PM one. |
Funbox Rules - Get bonus with fun!
Users can submit anything funny (e.g. stories, pictures, flash, video) except things that is pornographic, taboo, political sensitive or forbidden by local laws.
Normally a newly-submitted funbox item would be outdated after 24 hours. However, if there are 20 or more votes on a funbox item, among which votes for 'funny' is less than 25%, the funbox item would be outdated ahead of its due time.
New funbox item can be submitted only when the old one is outdated.
User, whose funbox item is voted as funny, would be rewarded based on the following rules:
More than 25 votes, among which votes for funny exceed 50%. User gets 5 bonus.
More than 50 votes, among which votes for funny exceed 50%. User gets another 5 bonus.
More than 100 votes, among which votes for funny exceed 50%. User gets another 5 bonus.
More than 200 votes, among which votes for funny exceed 50%. User gets another 5 bonus.
More than 25 votes, among which votes for funny exceed 75%. User gets 10 bonus.
More than 50 votes, among which votes for funny exceed 75%. User gets another 10 bonus.
More than 100 votes, among which votes for funny exceed 75%. User gets another 10 bonus.
More than 200 votes, among which votes for funny exceed 75%. User gets another 10 bonus. |
Moderating Rules - Use your better judgement!
The most important rule: Use your better judgment!
Don't be afraid to say NO!
Don't defy another staff member in public, instead send a PM or through IM.
Be tolerant! Give the user(s) a chance to reform.
Don't act prematurely, let the users make their mistakes and THEN correct them.
Try correcting any "off topics" rather then closing a thread.
Move topics rather than locking them.
Be tolerant when moderating the chat section (give them some slack).
If you lock a topic, give a brief explanation as to why you're locking it.
Before you disable a user account, send him/her a PM and if they reply, put them on a 2 week trial.
Don't disable a user account until he or she has been a member for at least 4 weeks.
Convince people by reasoning rather than authority. |
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