Forum Rules

The short version:
Treat your fellow posters with courtesy and respect. This means no personal attacks, racial slurs, stalking, etc. No political posts!

Posts

- No spam or advertising will be allowed on this forum.
These posts will be deleted and further action may be taken depending on the situation.

- If you have an article from an outside source to share, DO NOT copy and paste it in its entirety!
You may paste a short excerpt to make your point, and then provide a link for the remainder.
We must take care not to violate copyright laws.

- Posts filled with insults, are deliberately inflammatory towards another poster will be deleted and additional action may be taken.

- Users are expected to use the IGNORE button for any poster who annoys or 'trolls' them.
Posters should not expect moderator(s) to be overly sympathetic to complaints that are not serious in nature.
If there is a threat made, or a real personal attack, then yes we want to hear about it.
If, however, you just don't happen to like them or their point of view or feel like they are 'picking on you', we are probably not going to get involved.

- Any user who repeatedly reports posts which are not considered threats or personal attacks, will be considered an annoyance to the moderator(s) and
action may be taken against them.

- All political posts are not allowed on this forum and will be deleted.
This includes using initials, a nickname or a physical description of the political figure or
posting something which could reasonably turned into a political food fight.
Any user trying to test the limits of this rule will be instantly banned.


Accounts

- Only ONE account per person will be allowed.
If you want to multiple alias's, go elsewhere.
Anyone using more than one account will be banned with no warning.


Private Messages

- Private messages are called "private for a reason. They shall not be posted on the board, in whole or in part.


On a more legal level, these are some excerpts from the Proboards Terms of Service, found here: proboards.com/tos

PROHIBITED USES
You will not: (a) "stalk" or otherwise harass any person, or contact any person who has requested not to be contacted; (b) impersonate, or otherwise misrepresent affiliation, connection or association with, any person or entity for purposes of gain; (c) harvest or otherwise collect information about ProBoards users, including email addresses and phone numbers; (d) use or attempt to use any engine, software, tool, agent, or other device or mechanism (including without limitation browsers, spiders, robots, avatars, or intelligent agents) to harvest or otherwise collect information from the Website for any use, including without limitation use on third-party websites; (e) interfere or attempt to interfere with the use of the Website or Services by any other user, host or network, including, without limitation by means of submitting a virus, overloading, "flooding," "spamming," "mail bombing," or "crashing"; (f) forge any TCP/IP packet header or any part of the header information in any e-mail or in any uploading or posting to, or transmission, display, performance or distribution by means of, the Website or Services;

OBJECTIONABLE CONTENT
You represent and warrant that you shall not use the Website or Services to upload, post, transmit, display, perform or distribute any content, information or materials that: (a) are libelous, defamatory, abusive, or threatening, excessively violent, harassing, obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, or pornographic; (b) constitute child pornography; (c) solicit personal information from or exploit in a sexual or violent manner anyone under the age of 18; (d) incite, encourage or threaten physical harm against another; (e) promote or glorify racial intolerance, use hate and/or racist terms, or signify hate towards any person or group of people; (f) glamorize the use of hard core illegal substances and drugs; (g) advertise or otherwise solicit funds or constitute a solicitation for goods or services;

RELIANCE ON THIRD-PARTY CONTENT
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USER INFORMATION; PASSWORD PROTECTION
YOU ARE SOLELY RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER PROBOARDS' MEMBERS. YOU HEREBY AGREE TO EXERCISE REASONABLE PRECAUTION IN ALL INTERACTIONS WITH OTHER MEMBERS, PARTICULARLY IF YOU DECIDE TO MEET ANOTHER MEMBER IN PERSON. IN NO EVENT SHALL PROBOARDS BE LIABLE FOR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO ANY MEMBER'S CONDUCT IN CONNECTION WITH SUCH MEMBER'S USE OF THE SERVICES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, BODILY INJURY, PROPERTY DAMAGE, WRONGFUL DEATH, EMOTIONAL DISTRESS, LOSS OF PRIVACY OR ANY OTHER DAMAGES RESULTING FROM COMMUNICATIONS OR MEETINGS BETWEEN MEMBERS.

FORUM CONTROL; MEMBER DISPUTES
ProBoards does not control the forums made available by means of the Website and Services. Forum owners and moderators reserve the right, in their sole discretion, to delete or modify forum posts, revoke membership to the forum, block access to the forum, modify Your account profile, or modify any User Content (as defined in Section 15 below) on the forum. You should contact the forum owner directly with any complaint, grievance or problem. ProBoards reserves the right, but disclaims any perceived, implied or actual duty, to monitor disputes between Website members. You agree to hold ProBoards harmless in connection with any dispute or claim You make against any other member.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITY FOR DEFAMATORY COMMENTS
You agree and understand that you may be held legally responsible for damages suffered by other Website members or third-parties as the result of Your remarks, information, feedback or other content posted or made available on the Website that is deemed defamatory or otherwise legally actionable. Under the Federal Communications Decency Act of 1996, ProBoards is not legally responsible, nor can it be held liable for damages of any kind, arising out of or in connection to any defamatory or otherwise legally actionable remarks, information, feedback or other content posted or made available on the Website