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Posts are to be made in the relevant forum. Users
are asked to read the forum descriptions before posting. Users
consistently posting to the wrong forum may be given a warning (see
policing below). # Members should post in a way that is respectful of other users. Flaming or abusing users in any way will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning. # Members are asked to not act as "back seat moderators". If members note an issue which contravenes something in this policy document they are welcome to bring it to the attention of a member of the Moderator Team. Only do this if a moderator team member has not replied within 6 hours. Members who consistently "act" as moderators may be warned. # Members should remember this board is aimed at a general audience. Posting pornographic or generally offensive text, images, links, etc. will not be tolerated and will lead to a warning. # Members are asked to respect the copyright of other users, sites, media, etc. Users linking to or asking for information on warez, crackz, etc. or re-printing material without permission will receive a warning and their post will be removed. # Members should respect the bandwidth of other users and sites. The use of inline ([IMG][/IMG]) image tags pointing to data stored on third party systems for which the user has not received permission to link to may be removed. # Members should post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". That is users should not post excessive numbers of emoticons, large, small or colored text, etc. Similarly users should not SHOUT or use excessive punctuation (e.g. ! and ?) in topic titles or posts. Users consistently abusing this will be warned. # Members should use an appropriate, descriptive title when posting a new topic. Examples of bad titles include; "Help me!", "I'm stuck!", "I've got an error!", etc. Examples of good titles include; "Getting an TABLE FULL error upon login", "Cannot restore a backup", etc. # Spam is not tolerated here under any circumstance. This includes offering hosting services (charged and free), installation services, etc. Users posting spam will be warned and their post removed. See specific item on spam and 3rd party linking for more information. # The moderating, support and other teams reserve the right to edit or remove any post at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these points is up to Team Members and not users. # The above forum rules where applicable also apply to private messaging. Abuse of the private messaging system may lead to warnings (as above) and/or the revocation of private messaging. # Signatures Signatures may contain up to five lines (one line being that displayed on a browser opened to 800px width) of text (of small or normal size) and/or one image, valid combinations include; a single image of no more than 60px high, 468px wide and 6KB in size. Signatures containing an image this large may also include one line of small size text. Signatures containing an image of 30px high may include up to three lines of small size text or two lines of normal size text. Images of 15px height or less may allow up to three lines of normal size text or four lines of small size text. Animated images are not allowed. # Text sizes should be between 9 and 12 (small and normal). Text in signatures is subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, warez, emoticons, and so forth. # Links in signatures are permitted to a maximum of four unique pages or sites. Linked sites may be commercial in nature. You may not link to warez, porn or political, racist or other similar hate sites. Links are included in signature size limits. # Users abusing these rules will be warned/removed. # Avatars Users are permitted to utilize a gallery avatar. # Avatars are subject to the same conditions as posts with respect decency, and so forth. # Users abusing these rules will be warned and/or may lose their avatar privileges # Show Off JBAFishing no longer provides a general fora or other solution for users to promote their sites. Consistent with Rules 1j, 5b and 5d users may not promote their sites through their own posts. Such posting constitutes spam and may lead to a warning. Users or other persons wishing to advertise at www.jbafishing.org should contact the owner of this site for arrangements. The exception is our sponsors which are able to post information about their products. Policing JBAFishing operates a three strike policy. Users will be warned a maximum of two times for any and all offences. If the need arises a permanent ban will be put in place forever. # Arguing with team members after having received a warning will lead to an immediate additional warning. Should this exceed three strikes a ban will be put in place as above. # Users who feel they have been unfairly warned are welcome to contact the relevant team leader, e.g. if warned by a moderator you should contact the Moderator team leader. If they feel you were treated badly they remove a warning. If you feel their decision is also unfair you may contact a Group member, primarily Mark Lozynsky. Their decisions are final. Contacting group members over warning matters should be done so as a very last resort ... group members do not want to be bothered unless vital. # Any attempt to circumvent a temporary ban will lead to that ban being made permanent. Circumvention includes re-registering under a non-banned username, changing IP addresses to evade an IP ban, registering a new email account of evade an email ban. Circumvention includes posting as an anonymous user. # An exception to the three strike rule applies when users contact team members personally (via any method) and post insulting, indecent or vulgar material. Such users may be subject to an immediate permanent ban. # Permanent bans are a last resort and thought is given before implementing them. While JBAFishing may consider lifting permanent bans from time to time this is a rare occurrence. # |
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