The Avatar forum is for the discussion of the Avatar TV show. Per tv.com policy, personal matters should be posted in personal blogs. Questions and concerns about moderations should be posted in the About the Forums: Ask the Mods forum.

If people have evidence that any individual was unjustly or accidentally banned, they should send an e-mail to support@tv.com.

Very few users get banned from a single violation and no recent instances of this have occurred among regular Avatar forum users. Typically, it takes more than 20 violations before a user is banned and a warning is sent as each violation is moderated.

A few reminders per the Terms of Service:

It's not acceptable to make off-topic posts simply because other users are not on-topic.

Posts that don't substantially add to the discussion are not permitted (i.e. In before the lock).

Rants and random comments are disruptive and not permissible.

You are responsible for anything you post including quoting other posts.

While a small amount of off-topic posting is understandable and tolerated, a repeated history of posting material that is not constructive to the topic on hand is a TOS violation and is subject to moderation.

Signatures should be no more than 200 pixels tall x 550 pixels wide. This applies to the complete signature area, not each image or line. Essentially, if your signature causes a scrollbar to appear, it's too large.

There has been a recent upswing in such activities, and increased moderation as a result. Once it is brought to our attention, we have to moderate any and all reports consistently.

People seem to have "censorship" confused with topicality. There are hundreds of Avatar fans, and each one has a blog where he can talk about anything he wants. There is only one place set aside to talk about Avatar. We ask that discussions which are outside the scope of the show be posted in the appropriate forum or a personal blog. That's topicality rather than censorship.

TOS policy can basically be summed up like this:

Q: Why are there so many rules? How can anyone possibly follow them all?
A: There are really only about eight basic things you can do to violate tv.com forum policy. They all pretty much boil down to basic netiquette - "play nice and don't do anything illegal." The extra explanations are provided for the users' benefit to help define those two things. We have hundreds of users making thousands of posts each day, and the vast majority of posters handle the rules just fine.

As long as you provide constructive discussion about the show and avoid making hostile and insulting comments, you won't have a problem.

Thank you,
TV.com Moderators