Community Forum
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Rules
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The need for a community forum has grown tremendously over the past years and we thank all of you for being a part of this growing community. In order to keep the forum running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact us. General Rules - While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters.
- Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
- Multiple or repeated posting in order to increase your post count is not allowed.
- We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate community standards. The Virtually Sullivan moderators shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.
- Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed.
- Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
- We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
- If you are going to post non-English on these forums, please also post an English Translation of your post.
- Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
- You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
- You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
- We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our community forums are a privilege and not a right.
Advertising Services and Solicitation We do not allow people to post threads or send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and solicitating in signatures is also prohibited. Links in signatures must follow these guidelines: - Linking pornography, the endorsement of pornography or other material deamed offensive in not allowed.
- A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate community standards. Administration shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
- Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.
Avatars - Avatars that may be confused with official staff avatars are not allowed.
- Avatars may not contain offensive or explicit material including but not limited to sexually suggestive material, references to drugs, and profanity.
Signature Size Limits All signatures should not exceed the following size limits, and you can't have both text and images - For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
- Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item.
- For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
Moderation Although the administrators and moderators will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it may not be possible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither Net Engineers, Inc. or the Chamber of Commerce will be held responsible for the content of any message. By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise in violation of any laws. The moderators reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason. Staff Disputes Any disputes with the staff of the Community Forums will be handled in private through the contact form on this website. If you wish to escalate any issue with staff then please do so there. Addendum We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this forum and of the community. |
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