The Basics:
** Only registered members are allowed to post on the forum. Guest access is read-only and account sharing is not allowed. Hey, membership is free, so sign-up if you've got something to say.
** Please don't do or say anything to discredit or ruin another forum or membership site... Respect their administrators and moderators and their members. DO NOT slander and post offensive comments. If you've got a mean streak, please take it somewhere else when it needs to run around.
** If you notice any offensive posts by other members, please alert Admin or a Moderator and it will be taken care of as quickly as possible.
** Please respect others, no public flame wars. If you feel an absolute need to respond to an individual in a negative manner, consider taking the discussion private by either email or PM. Everyone has the right to disagree, and I have no problem with friendly discussions about certain points, but personal attacks will not be tolerated.
** You are limited to 250 characters in your signatures... Feel free to link to your website(s), provide product announcements and affiliate links in your signatures... Please try to keep links related to the topic of the forum. DO NOT PROVIDE LINKS TO PORN or adult content, or to promote activities such as drug abuse, gambling and links to sites containing such content. If folks get out of hand with their signatures, these rules will be revised.
** Your user name should brand you, please choose your user name wisely (and please keep it non-objectionable).
Forum Abuse Policy:
** 1st Offense - A polite Private Message from the management pointing out the Forum Rules... Also any editing or deletion of the posts that are necessary
** 2nd Offense - Public warning on the message board plus deletion of post...
** 3rd Offense - Those in charge of this forum (Admin & Moderators) will discuss the action to be taken and will have the authority to delete the user from the forum and ban future access.
Your Attitude As You Move Among Us:
** Please try and have a positive attitude towards one another & respect each others' opinions.
** Let others provide their opinions without censoring them.
** Don't start arguments... There is nothing wrong with a healthy debate... but don't let it get personal.
** Try your best to give back to this community. Like any forum online, the community thrives when we all help each other. So if you are getting a lot of help on this forum, return the favor if you get the opportunity.
** Not everyone will respond instantly. Provide them enough time to do so.
** Don't, even jokingly, make threats or implied threats towards other members.
** Everyone's abilities to express themselves with words vary and English is not the native language of everyone here. It is difficult to show emotion, impossible to read body language, and hard to see a persons mannerisms ... There are tools you can use like smilies to give us a better feel for your attitude... but when reading someone's posts, give the person the benefit of the doubt if you find the "tone" not to your liking.
Inappropriate Behavior:
** Please don't make inappropriate or offensive posts. Please respect your fellow members...
** Even though this is an international forum, please make sure that your posts are written in English. Posts written in other languages will be deleted.
** I want this forum to be open to people of all ages, genders, races, and sexualities, so any inappropriate or offensive posts will be deleted.
**Please do not embed cookies in your posts in your forum posts.
Private Message and Email Abuse Policy:
** Do not use this community to spam or scam the members... Note: This is a very serious thing and it will result in the immediate removal of your membership and ban of your IP address, without any warning.
Our SPAM Policy:
** Don't self promote. Your posts should contribute to the good of this forum or help the community in some way. In other words, don't write posts of no value just so that your signature is seen, or to bump up posts to a higher level in the forum.
** We allow affiliate links in your signatures. You are allowed to post an affiliate link in your post BUT you must also signify the aff link and post an alternative NON aff link.... Anyone not adhering to this will have their contribution deleted.
** Although the above paragraph indicates that affiliate links are allowed in posts, we do not allow posts that are purely for commercial purposes. In other words, your post should contribute additional information, above and beyond what is available on a promotional email you may be copying, or information contained on a merchant site. A personal review for a product that you have personally purchased and can honestly recommend would fall into the allowable category. Most other posts with affiliate links would not be allowable.
** JUST SAY NO to Spamming!!
** The Admin or Moderators reserve the right to delete any posts we consider SPAM at our sole discretion.
** If you do Spam, you will only be warned once by the Admin or Moderators...
Multiple Posts:
** Please don't post the same topic in multiple forums. If you are unsure of which forum a thread should go under, just state that in your post, and a moderator will move the thread to the correct forum if necessary. Multiple posts are unnecessary, slow down the performance of the forum software, and will be deleted.
** Also posting the same question multiple times in multiple threads in the same forum. If no one responds to your question or request, just post a reply to the same message thread again to bring the message to the top of the list so folks notice it... once or twice.
Conclusion:
** AGAIN do not post any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, sexually-oriented or any other material that may violate any applicable laws. Doing so may lead to you being immediately and permanently banned (and your service provider being informed).
Just use common sense and respect each other...
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** As a user you agree to any information you have entered above being stored in a database. While this information will not be disclosed to any third party without your consent the webmaster, administrator and moderators cannot be held responsible for any hacking attempt that may lead to the data being compromised.
Thanks for understanding and adhering to these rules... It's for the good of all.
Enjoy the Forum!
