The rules may seem unofficial but it is used officially, even memebers on this forum are taking it officially, referring to it when someone go against the same unofficial rules. Example are 'no referral code (ref link) spam', 'no on-forum altcoin giveaways' and many others. Truly they are unofficial but the punishment are official and the refers to the rules for immediate actions to be taking by the moderator or admin. Even if the rules are not official, they are still official bas they can be.