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I. POSTING RULES
Note: rules of conduct apply to posting and all profile fields of your user account, including, but not limited to username, user title, web site, location, or any other informational field that is available for edit in your personal profile.
While the administrators and moderators of this forum will attempt to remove or edit any generally objectionable material as quickly as possible, it is impossible to review every message at all times. Therefore you acknowledge that all posts made to these forums express the views and opinions of the author and not the administrators, moderators or webmaster (except for posts by these people) and hence will not be held liable.
You agree not to post or link to any abusive, obscene, vulgar, slanderous, hateful, threatening, and sexually-orientated 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). You agree that the webmaster, administrator and moderators of this forum have the right to remove, edit, move or close any topic at any time should they see fit. 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.
II. BASIC RULES
1) Flaming : Do not post any messages that harass, insult, belittle, threaten or flame another member or guest. Debates are fine, but argue with the point, not the person.
2) Trolling: Do not come to this site with the purpose of starting a dispute. Note that a person disagreeing with your opinion is NOT trolling; keep it civil, even if you're sure the other person is wrong. Anything seen as trolling will result in you being banned.
3) Spamming: Please do not double post or cross-post the same message in multiple forums. You will not mass-PM or mass-email multiple members of this site the same message. This includes "bump threads" and posts intended merely to increase one's post count. Worthless posts with no content and nonsensical posts eat up space and waste everyone's time. These are not allowed on any of the forums.
4) Offensive Posts, Links or Images: Do not use profanity, racial, ethnic, religious, or other slurs, or post, or any other offensive material.
5) Advertising: Posting of advertisements for products or services, links to auctions, affiliate links, links to promote websites, and so forth is not allowed. If you have a church-related or non-church-related website, you may include the link to your site in your signature ONLY. The signature option is limited to only personal websites. Links to commercial or business-related sites are not permitted in signatures.
6) Limit Disclosure of Personal Information: While this is a community forum to be shared among its members, anything posted on the internet is available to others. With that in mind, the sharing of personal information should be limited for your own security. Also, do not disclose any other member's email, address, phone number, IP address, or other personal information. This includes the posting contents of emails and private messages without the sender's consent. Bans and warnings issued to other users are considered personal information.
7) Grammar and spelling: The purpose of these forums is to encourage the discussion about various topics and to share pertinent information and events to the community. Because of this, it is expected that users communicate to each other properly. Some minor misspellings are forgivable, but a good rule of thumb is that you should treat each post as if you were turning this in to an English teacher to grade. See Posting Guidelines below for more clarifications.
8) Forum Specific Rules: Please check the sticky threads at the top of each forum for any forum specific rules
9) One Account per User: multiple accounts are not permitted. If you have a good reason for needing more than one account, contact an administrator and ask for permission.
10) Thread Hijacking: taking a thread off-topic to pursue one's own agenda.
III. POSTING GUIDELINES
When posting, understand that you're trying to communicate with others. Although we have several members that aren’t fluent in English, this forum is an English language forum. So here are some important guidelines on this:
1) Do a quick check for spelling/grammar mistakes.
2) Format your post in an easily legible manner. Use the preview button often.
3) Be concise and articulate as much as possible.
4) Use correct punctuation. Avoid run-on sentences.
6) Try to avoid a lot of “text speak”, “net speak” or slang. The purpose of language is being understood, not sounding cool.
7) Never invent acronyms, use as few acronyms as possible.
8) Read your post over before posting it. Try to catch typos.
9) Please check to see if a topic is already posted. Do not post multiple topics on the same subject.
10) Post topics in the appropriate forum.
IV. PRIVACY POLICY
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These rules are subject to change. We reserve the right to remove, edit or move posts at our discretion. Users may also be banned or suspended due to inappropriate activity or at the discretion of the forum administrators.