Rules and Disciplinary Actions

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Community Guidelines
These Community Guidelines ("Guidelines") are intended to help You understand the types of content that ProBoards believes to be inappropriate for use in connection with the Website and Services (all capitalized terms not defined in these Guidelines have the same meanings as in ProBoards' Website Terms of Service). Keep in mind that the Guidelines are intended as guidelines, and not as an exhaustive list of content that ProBoards finds inappropriate. ProBoards reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to reject any content for any reason.

Prohibited Content

Content that:

•Infringes the rights, including without limitation the copyright, patent, trademark, trade secret or other proprietary rights, of any third party, or violates any agreement between you and a current or former employers concerning the intellectual property you create or created during your employment;
•Is libelous or defamatory, or violates the privacy or publicity rights of any third party;
•Consists of or contains viruses, Trojan horses, worms, malicious code or other harmful or destructive content;
•Is obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or pornographic, that may constitute child pornography, or that may solicit personal information from or exploit in a sexual or violent manner anyone under the age of 18;
•Depicts excessive violence, contains comments or images that are offensive, abusive, threatening, harassing or menacing, or that incites, encourages or threatens physical harm against another;
•Promotes or glorifies racial intolerance, uses hate and/or racist terms, or signifies hate towards any person or group of people;
•Advocates the violent overthrow of the government of the United States or other conduct that could constitute a fraud or other criminal offense, give rise to civil liability, or otherwise violate any applicable local, state, national, or foreign law or regulation;
•Glamorizes the use of illegal substances and drugs;
•Promotes gambling or casinos;
•Promotes the buying, selling, or trading of firearms or weapons;
•Violates in any way applicable laws or regulations, including without limitation laws designed to regulate unsolicited email or other electronic advertising, in any jurisdiction where the Website or Services are marketed or provided;
•Violates any provision of this Agreement or any other ProBoards agreement or policy;
•Has a detrimental effect to the goodwill and good standing of ProBoards or any of its affiliates, officers, directors, employees, consultants, agents, contractors or representatives; or
•Is generally offensive or in bad taste, as determined by ProBoards.
Intellectual Property Rights

As ProBoards asks others to respect ProBoards' intellectual property rights, ProBoards respects the intellectual property rights of others. If you believe content located on or linked to by the Website violates your copyright, you are encouraged to notify ProBoards in accordance with ProBoards' Digital Millennium Copyright Act Policy. For more information, see ProBoards' Website Terms of Service.

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*Rules and Disciplinary Actions*

Unfortunately we have to set some rules here...just to make this a safe and happy environment for all of our members and guests.


**RULES**

These are general rules relating to the content of any messages you post on this forum including a private message. Adhere to these rules and you are unlikely to experience the disciplinary procedure first hand.

1) Don't post any information that is illegal or related to illegal activities. Piracy is included in this rule - any messages relating to illegally copying or downloading are prohibited. The moderators and administrators may act if they feel a message is "hinting" towards illegal activities as well.

2) Keep your messages reasonable and respectable - don't insult or attack other forum members or deliberately post messages that will offend other users. We allow swearing but in moderation - excessive swearing will count as offensive posting.

3) Don't reveal any other user's personal information such as name, telephone number, photos etc.

4) Keep your replies on topic.

5) Do not spam the forums. This means replying to as many threads as you can in a short amount of time or posting a lot of consecutive messages in any particular thread.

6) Do not post any messages advertising a particular product or website. Please note that this includes affiliate links. A normal sized text link in your signature to your personal web site is acceptable. Any other form of advertising requires the prior permission of an administrator.


7) Before posting a new topic, use the search facility to ensure that what you are about to post hasn't already been addressed. Failure to do so could result in your topic being deleted or locked.

8) Please only post messages in English. While we welcome members from anywhere, This is an English language site and any posts that the moderators cannot understand will be treated as breaking the rules.

9) Trolling. Do not post in order to anger other members or intentionally cause negative reactions. For a given post, this can be a subjective call, but a pattern of such posting or an especially egregious case will get you banned.


The administrators and moderators review the messages posted on the forums and will delete or modify any posts that they feel contravene these rules. Their decisions are final. Should you wish to complain about another user or a moderating decision do so through a private message to an administrator or moderator. You can also report individual posts directly to the staff for closer attention by clicking the Report Post icon.





**DISCIPLINARY PROCEDURE**

If the moderating team feel that you are not adhering to the forum rules, the following procedure will be followed.

1) A private message warning will be sent to you from a member of the moderating team drawing your attention to the rules and the reasons why we feel you need to be reminded of them.

Should you not heed this warning and continue to break the rules:

2) You will receive a temporary ban of seven days.

3) Further breaking of the forum rules will result in a permanent ban in the following situations:

You receive a further infraction while you are already booked.

and/or

You reach a total of three separate infractions.

In addition, committing one of the following misdemeanors will lead to an instant permanent ban:

Spreading political propaganda of any kind. This is not the place for that kind of discussion.

Insulting other board members in a different language than English, hoping we're stupid enough to miss or ignore it. We are not.

Simultaneous usage of multiple accounts. This also includes trying to "bypass" a temporary ban by creating a new account. This will result in all accounts being banned permanently.

Stealing other peoples editing work and present it as your own.

Permanent ban means permanent ban means we don't want you to come back. If you decide to do, be prepared for getting shot at without further warnings.



Just F.Y.I

What to do if...

If You Received a Warning

If you have received a warning about a forum rule from the moderators, it's to let you know that you have not been following the forum rules. Please follow the rule in the future. The Forum Rules are designed to keep the forums useful and enjoyable for all members.

Warnings are not punishment. They are heads-ups to alert you to a problem so that you can avoid it in the future. Repeated breaking of the forum rules can lead to discipline and we'd rather not see it come to that. Your cooperation is appreciated!

The moderators work as a team even though one of them sent you the warning message. Moderation is not personal and is applied consistently to the posts reported to the moderators by forum members.


If You Were Banned
If you have received a ban (permanent forum suspension) from the moderators for breaking the Forum Rules, it's because you violated a very serious forum rule, repeatedly violated serious rules, or ignored previous warnings or forum suspensions.

It's a disciplinary action of last resort because we'd rather not lose forum members. Users are banned if their registration was inappropriate (e.g., they've registered multiple times or they've joined for an advertising or promotional purpose that's not permitted under the rules), if they've abused their forum privileges, or if their posts were a detriment to the forum community.

Your ban was most likely a result of one or more of your most recent posts, so you probably know the reason. You won't be able to post in the forums again.