SyncTheBits.com

:: General Rules - Follow these or be banned.

You are expected to know what general community standards are and follow them.
Trading accounts is strictly forbidden as well as sharing or giving away your account! The corresponding accounts will be disabled.
No language other than English is to be used on the site, forum and IRC.
Do not participate in any form of cheating.
The use of proxy sites is not allowed.
Asking for or Trading of invites is not allowed anywhere on the site.
Only one account per user.

:: Downloading Rules

Low ratios may result in severe consequences. Maintain a proper ratio.
Seed every torrent back to 1:1 ratio or at least 5 days. Hit and running will result in sanctions.
Do not upload our internal packs to other trackers.
Hit and Run is not allowed, if we catch you hit and running you will receive a warning.
Make your best effort to leave positive and constructive comments of thanks and input for torrents.
Seed all packs to a 1:1 ratio or for minimum 7 days.

These are the unique rules to STB. There are other common rules, that we expect you to know and follow.

:: Forum Rules

No images larger than 800 x 600.
Racism is not tolerated on this forum.
Do not use any language other than English.
Treat others how you want to be treated.
Do not make comments to lock, move or trash topics.
Site competitions must be staff certified.
No advertising, merchandising or promotions of any sort are allowed in the forums.
Please ensure all questions are posted in the correct section
No warez. No selling of passwords, exploits, or invites.

Not all the rules are posted here, follow common sense when participating. If you have a question about something ask any of the Staff.

:: IRC Rules

Respect Staff. Staff members have an @, &, or ~ in front of their nick and you should listen to them.
Read the topic when entering the main channel.
No excessive swearing, spamming or testing the bots.
Do NOT PM Staff without asking for it first.
An IRC Ban may result in a site ban.
No language other than English.
Warn users of possible NSFW material. If its questionable, preface it with the tag NSFW.
Do not talk about invites on the IRC. To here or anywhere.
For a more detailed list of the IRC rules please read IRC Rules.

These rules are important to maintaining our IRC. Any action that is not upholding our community standards will not be received well.

:: Uploading Rules

Do not upload unless you intend to seed to at least a 1.0 ratio, or until there are more than 3 seeders available.
Only items related to the mobile community can be uploaded.
Search before uploading!
Stay active! Active uploaders will be promoted to Uploader which is a special class with special privileges.
Upload only non-compressed files unless the files are larger than 100MB, or unless it's scene release.
All uploads must contain a proper .NFO file.

:: Video Specific Rules

Be specific in the torrent file description. Include the following to ensure your torrent does not get deleted: Movie Name and Movie Format (i.e. 3GP, MPEG4, etc.)
Only use high quality rips when encoding.
Do not upload duplicates. We consider duplicates to be the same movie using the same encoding.
In your description, include screenshots of what you are uploading.