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Forum membership is diverse, covering people from various countries,
backgrounds and ages. Considering this diversity and to make the Forum enjoyable
for the majority of our membership, we have adopted the following simple posting
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Vulgar language, images and other offensive material including,
but not limited to, race, nudity or pornography is not tolerated here. The Forum
staff shall be the sole judges of what does and what does not violate the boards
standards.
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While debating and discussion is fine, respect your fellow enthusiasts.
Being of a diverse background, members are likely to express different opinions,
and while opinions may differ from yours, they are just that, opinions; and everyone
is entitled to express theirs freely. We will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts,
or personal attacks. Do not flame, bother, bug, disrespect, hound or taunt ANYONE
on the forums or through private messaging or chat room. If we feel a thread is
getting out of hand we will close or delete it. You can/will lose your posting privileges
if you continue this type of behavior.
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"Trolls or Trolling", "Flames" and/or "Board Wars" are not tolerated
here or elsewhere. Posts that taunt or are otherwise inflammatory against other
sites will be removed. Also, anyone found to be making inflammatory posts and remarks
on other forums (starting Flame/Board Wars) can and will loose their posting privileges
here. This rule also applies to those that, for whatever reason, feel a need to
post negative remarks about this site on other forums. If you do, don't expect to
be welcome here.
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Double posting is not allowed and can result in the deletion of
one or both posts. Double posting is defined as posting the same information in
two or more separate forums. We understand that some topics might fit into more
than one forum. Please try to pick the best one. In addition, please do not post
in the same thread back to back (another version of double posting), if you have
something more to add, edit your post, don't post twice in a row in a thread.
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Selling or solicitation of ANYTHING in the general forum, by Private
Message or in Chat is considered Spam and is not allowed. Anyone found posting excessive
links to their websites, or suspected of "sneaky" advertising will be warned and
will possibly lose their posting privileges. If you are a business and have a product
or service that would be of interest to our members, please e-mail admin@mindysoutdooradventures.com
page to learn how you can join our team and help support our community.
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Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short),
"smiley" only, non-sense posts and such. Multiple or repeated posting in order to
increase your post count ("post whoring") is frowned upon. If you do engage in this
type of activity, we can prevent your post count from increasing from that point
forward or possibly ban your account.
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No promotions of other related sites. There is no problem with
occasionally using the name of other sites or even posting a link to a pertinent
thread from another site, but repeatedly referring to other related sites is considered
"SPAM" and is not allowed. Please have the decency of NOT putting links to them
in your signature, profile or have a post, PM or Chat telling our members to come
over to another related site. Such activity is ground for removal from signature,
and repeated offenses are grounds for being banned.
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You are not allowed to post links that lead to an affiliate program
or that in any way earn you something. We consider you earning something if you
have an affiliate ID, website, or if you earn money from banner impressions or click-thru's.
If you feel that you have a service or product that the members of the Forum can
benefit from notify the Administrator.
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Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple
accounts is not allowed and can quite possibly result in both accounts being removed
without notice.
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Illegal transactions/sites, selling of personal information (i.e.
credit cards, e-mail addresses), pornography, etc are not allowed in the forum and
will result in the deletion of the post and the revocation of your posting privileges.
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Don't post "Hey Joe1256"as a thread, if you need to speak to
someone specifically, PM or email them.
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While these rules cover most common situations, we cannot anticipate
everything. Therefore, we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate
to ensure our site is not disrupted or abused in any way.
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Moderators and Administrators have final word in anything and everything.
If you have a problem or a complaint direct it to them, not to the general forum.
They will then take the appropriate actions. This applies to issues with the forum
in general, as well as issues with other members.
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We ask that members keep in mind membership is a privilege, NOT
a right, and as a private forum, the administration and moderators have total say
as to which members are, and are not allowed. The same rule applies for single posts
and threads, and anything deemed to be inappropriate by any member of the staff
will be removed. Members who continue to ignore this rule will be removed with no
possibility of return.
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The above policies may be amended over time without notice.