http://www.bigdamnband.com/forum/ Big Damn Forum Topic: Forum Rules en Mon, 06 Sep 2010 23:28:01 +0000 http://www.bigdamnband.com/forum/topic.php?id=3#post-3 Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:42:42 +0000 admin 3@http://www.bigdamnband.com/forum/ <p>We reserve the right to remove any post or user from our message boards — although we have no duty to do so. When posts are deleted, it’s usually because they violate one or more of the following rules.</p> <p>Repeated violation of these rules may result in the suspension of your posting privileges.</p> <p>This is a public forum. We do have moderators, but assume that anything posted here could be seen by anyone, anywhere, and conduct yourself accordingly.</p> <p><strong>Forum Rules</strong></p> <p>Under no circumstances should you post confidential information about you or another person.</p> <p>We live by words online, so we don’t allow obscene, racist or sexually explicit language. Personal attacks are not permitted. We reserve the right to remove posts that are abusive, hateful, or defame or insult anyone. We also reserve the right to remove posts that are off-topic or not in English.</p> <p>Discrimination on any grounds and for any reason is prohibited. You may not promote, depict, or link to material that promotes or depicts discrimination based on race, gender, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, or age.</p> <p>It is illegal to harass or threaten anyone. We take threats, harassment and stalking very seriously. Posts that might be construed as such may be deleted and made available to the proper law enforcement officials.</p> <p>No solicitations or advertisements are allowed. This includes advertisements for your business, your own online endeavors or the latest get-rich-quick scheme.</p> <p>You may link to other informational Web sites when relevant to the discussion, but links to commercial sites are generally not allowed.</p> <p>You may not suggest or encourage illegal activity. We will assist law enforcement officials in any investigation of such activities.</p> <p>Choose a username carefully. You may not use names that are offensive, that suggest illegal activities or that are meant to imitate other users. Any such names will be blocked from posting on our message boards.</p> <p>You must have copyright ownership of all material that you post on our message boards. No articles, recipes, song lyrics, art or graphics may be posted without the express written consent of the copyright holder. If you’d like to refer to a news article, please post no more than a few lines summarizing the article and include a link to it.</p> <p>You must respect the privacy of individuals. This means no posting of phone numbers, addresses, social security numbers or any other private information. We discourage users from posting such information even about themselves, as we cannot control how that information may be used beyond our message boards.</p> <p>Good manners online means that you don’t post the same note more than once. The online word for posting many times on one topic is “spamming.” We don’t allow it.</p> <p>You participate at your own risk on the bulletin boards. You take responsibility for postings under your username and use the information provided here at your own risk. The Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band takes no responsibility for the content or opinions posted here.</p> <p>If you really feel like reading the <a href="http://www.bigdamnband.com/?page_id=260">Terms of Service</a> that address these rules as well as our Privacy Policy, consider yourself free and encouraged to do so.</p> <p>Please keep these rules in mind as you use our message boards. Thanks for participating. </p>