RULES AND REGULATIONS
Preamble
By using this website, you acknowledge your acceptance and understanding of these rules. These rules apply to all communications made on this site. Noncompliance with these rules will mean posts are edited or deleted, accounts actioned with warnings, infractions or bans.
Vulgarity and Profanity
Do not post graphic or sexually explicit images or text. Do not use profanity or foul language.
Flaming and Harassment
●Do not insult, belittle, mock, goad, personally attack, threaten, harass, or use derogatory nicknames in reference to other members or groups of members. Address the context of the post, not the poster.
●If you are flamed, do not respond in-kind. Alert the staff to the situation Do not report another member out of spite.
●Do not make another member's experience on this site miserable. This includes, making false accusations or persistently attacking them in the open forums.
● Respect another member's request to cease personal contact.
Forums Registration
During the process of registering an account, a valid email address is required. The user has the ability to hide this email not only from other users, but from the administration as well (all set in user preferences). No email addresses will be shared with any other entity without permission. If a user chooses to hide his/her email from the administration, no contact will be made, unless for disciplinary action.
Acceptable Use
This Acceptable Use Policy is intended to help create an atmosphere in which freedom of speech is balanced by self discipline and a mature attitude to discussion. We encourage people to join these discussions and it would therefore be very surprising if exchanges did not occasionally become a little heated!
Discussion Moderators are available to help you to get the most out of participating in online discussions and to ensure that these rules are observed.
By virtue of your participation in the portal and forums, you are deemed to have agreed to abide by the rules. Although the Moderator cannot take responsibility for monitoring every message that is sent to the web site, we must reserve the right to remove items submitted from anyone who repeatedly ignores these rules.
1. Personal Identification
All messages sent to a discussion will require your username and password, chosen at time of registration. Do not represent yourself as another person.
2. Conduct of Discussion
The Discussion Forum is intended primarily for topics discussed on that forum. Please try to keep to the topic.
Your message should be within the scope of the subject under discussion. If you make a contribution that is inappropriate to the subject under discussion, you may be directed by the Moderator not to raise the matter further or to raise it within a separate discussion group.
No reference should be made to the personality of other participants in a discussion nor should attacks be made on an individual's character unless the person concerned has already chosen to bring his or her personality into the issue under discussion.
One to one arguments, disagreements and disputes of a personal nature must be conducted through private Email and not through public discussion.
You should remember that you are legally responsible for what you write
3. Private Email and Club / Society emails
If a person has sent you a private Email you may not forward it to a public discussion group without the prior consent of the person who sent it. This does not prevent you forwarding private e-mail to the Discussion Administrator should you consider this appropriate. Any contact information you may be granted access to on the site should remain within it and not used for any other external emailing purposes.
4. Advertising
Advertising will only be accepted when operated by or approved through us.
5. Complaints about a Breach of these Rules
Complaints about a breach of these Rules should ONLY be made by private e-mail to the administrator or contact us for these purposes.
