Forum Rules and Guidelines

**Admin** · Subject: Forum Rules and Guidelines Fri Dec 19, 2008 9:05 pm

Forum Rules and Guidelines

The forum guidelines for posting are important and should be read and accepted before you choose to participate. We encourage contributors who are courteous, polite and respectful. We discourage those who choose to behave in a disrespectful and/or irresponsible manner. The Admin and Moderators will take appropriate steps to ensure discussions adhere to these guidelines.

In general, we will leave it to you, to manage your own conduct. We ask that you treat other forum participants with respect. Please remember that this is a public venue read by many people of all ages, from around the world, spanning all walks of life.

If you have any questions regarding the appropriateness of a forum discussion post, you may discuss that with the author of the post. Cite the appropriate portion of the guidelines if necessary. You may also use the ‘report’ icon found at the bottom of that post. This alerts the Forum moderator to look into that topic.

Discussion forums are moderated to preserve the spirit of an open, interactive discussion without offending participants. Please understand that we are not attempting to censor any messages or opinions. We reserve the right to edit/remove inappropriate messages, or to lock a discussion thread. Before taking any of these actions, a moderator will attempt to steer the discussion back to the topic, if this is possible and appropriate. The additional step of editing or deleting a post will only be taken in appropriate circumstances. Again, the intent is not to censor legitimate discussion or to change the meaning of any post. If we edit your post and you do not like the changes, notify us and we can delete your post. Examples of posts that may be edited or deleted include those containing profanity, chain letters and other spam postings.

Warnings will be issued to those who post foul messages. Posters who violate the guidelines after having been warned three times will be banned.

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