The OS-tans.moe Forum and its Wiki supplement the r/OStan subreddit and its Discord server.
Rules
General
Behave well, respect others, follow standard behavior rules. Do not post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-orientated or any other material that may violate any laws be it of your country, the country where the Forum is hosted (Switzerland) or International Law. Keep public discussions in English.
Various subforums are proposed, and they may have additional rules, please read and follow them. Always make sure that you create topics at the appropriate places.
We have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should we see fit.
Always credit properly copyrighted work and avoid copyright infringements. Avoid using shortened links or redirections.
Except in rare cases like creating a temporary account because you cannot access to your current one, only one account is allowed per person, and you may not share nor transmit it.
Don't use the forum if you don't agree with the rules. They may also be modified at any time.
Approval
When posting for the first time, your posts must be approved by a moderator before being published. Once done you can post normally.
Privacy
The cookie system and how account information is stored are explained in this page.
The IP address of all posts are recorded and any information you have entered is stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent (unless required by the law or to fill complaints if you misuse the forum), we shall not be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.
Deleted posts are actually just hidden and remain in the database, but we will delete them permanently once a while.
Use of Tor or proxies is currently not disallowed, but this may change if such services start to be abused for any malicious activities. We do not guaranty nor support the correct operation of the OS-tans.moe Forum under these conditions.
You have the right to be forgotten and may ask a Forum Staff member to delete completely all your information at any time. Banned IPs and Email Addresses will however always be retained. We may also keep offending posts in our database if we deem it necessary. Please also note that we don't have influence over caching or archival websites so you may have to contact relevant sites to delete your posts there as well.
If you have issues with the forum, you can contact a Forum Staff member. They moderate or administer the forum.
Account for the Wiki
If you want to use the Forum account in order to contribute to the wiki, just make a request to join the Wiki Users group via your User Control Panel. Once accepted, you will be able login on the wiki, and we will be looking forward to seeing your contributions!
Misconduct
Failure to follow the rules or misbehaving will result in a caution
or a ban 
that can either last a month or be permanent depending on the gravity of the offence. The moderator should consider the user's intention and attitude before cautioning or banning.Examples of cautionable offences include:
- Posting, creating topics at the wrong places (if you hesitate between some places, don't worry, but in this case do not make duplicate posts);
- Repetitive or uninteresting off-topic content;
- Low effort posts;
- Vulgar/NSFW material (also as username or profile picture);
- Promoting/suggesting irrelevant websites;
- Posting referral links;
- Excessive or inappropriate use of Private Messaging;
- Using multiple accounts;
- Not following a forum or subforum rule.
Nasty behavior will lead to a direct ban. Examples include
- Spamming (join just to advertise, post nonsense messages...);
- Gratuitous criticism, trolling;
- Impersonating a member;
- → Getting a second active warning will result in a one month ban;
- Hate speech and threats will result in a permanent ban;
- Circumventing a ban will get all your accounts permanently banned;
- Harming directly or indirectly others, the community, or encouraging harm, will result in a permanent ban. This applies even if it takes place outside the forum.
Misc
PhpBB Forum
The OS-tans.moe Forum is based on PhpBB. If you frequent other PhpBB forums, using the this one is the same. Otherwise take a look at the FAQ.
To format your posts, use BBCode, there is a guide here.
Collectibles section
The OS-tans.moe Forum provides a Collectibles section to buy, sell and trade OS-tan merchandise, and also other interesting Anime collectibles. In order to ensure smooth transactions and reduce risks, please follow these rules and guidelines.
OS-tan Canon
From the Discord server:
Sinclair-Speccy wrote:Another thing to mention is that there is no OS-tan canon here. This server is a place to discuss OS-tans passively with each other and I encourage you all to create your own ideas if certain ones don’t fit with your interpretations