Post by Sophia on May 13, 2007 11:13:20 GMT -7
Welcome to the African Grey Parrot Info website and forum. Please take a few moments to familiarize yourself with the following rules and guidelines. They are posted to make everyone's stay here more enjoyable:
1. Settling disputes
Forum admin and (global) moderators are here to assist the forum. Should a situation arise between individuals that cannot be resolved by private messaging or email, moderators and admin can be PM'd or emailed in an attempt to resolve the problem. Please refrain from settling scores publicly. Public postings of such issues will be removed from the forums.
Please report posts in a PM to the moderators if you feel the forum rules aren’t followed, the moderators want to be notified of your concerns.
In addition, in the event of a problem or a question arising concerning a moderation action, any and all inquiries must take place by PM or email. Posting of moderation disputes on the forum will be grounds for the administrator to warn, suspend, and then permanently close an account.
2. Duplicate Topics
Before opening a new thread, please check if a recent thread on the same topic already exists.
Merging topics is not possible in this forum version yet, but will be effective as soon as it becomes available.
3. Profanity
This is a family friendly forum. Profanity is not allowed, neither is intentionally misspelling profane words, masking them in abbreviations, masking them with BBCode, or masking them with stars and other characters (i.e. $*&%@#!). This may be grounds for immediate and permanent banning.
4. Spam
Spam, which is defined as posts which do not fit the topic in question, is not allowed on this forum. Moderators and admin, at their sole discretion will warn, suspend, and then permanently close an account which continues to post 'spam' on the message forums. This extends to posts, signatures and accounts with the sole purpose to spam the forums via advertising.
Do not use the forum functions in a way that might overload the forum software, like excessive nesting or very wide images.
5. Trolling and Flaming
Trolling and flaming (including ‘yelling’), which we define as posts or threads which knowingly lead to overly strong negative and emotional responses are not allowed on this forum. Moderators and administrators, at their sole discretion will warn, suspend, and then permanently close an account which continues to 'troll' or ‘flame’ on the message forums.
6. Harassment
This forum has a zero tolerance policy for harassment of our forum members. You may not harass another forum user or users in any language. Making a threat against another user or users in the forums is also expressly prohibited. You may not use any sexually explicit, suggestive, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language. This includes, but is not limited to, any speech, actions or links dealing with cultural, political, or religious beliefs. This also applies to any speech, actions or links dealing with sexual orientation. This applies to any language. Failure to abide by this rule is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure.
If you are being harassed on the forums, please PM an administrator and send them a screenshot of the private message you received.
7. Copyrights
Copyrights should be respected. Do not mention or post hacked or stolen software/pictures, or discuss them on the boards. It is not allowed to copy and paste text from other websites without explicit permission from the author and without mentioning the source, as this is a breach of copyright. Should this concern African Grey Parrot Info, send a private message to the administrator or moderators concerning any helpful information you have about a hack or copyright fringe.
8. Multiple accounts
Multiple accounts created for griefing, trolling, circumventing bans or any other malicious behaviour are not allowed and posting with multiple accounts in this way will result in banning.
9. Signatures and Avatars
Signatures and avatars must adhere to the guidelines laid out below*. Failure to abide by these guidelines will result in your signature or avatar being removed.
* Signature and avatar guidelines
Note added by Jane - Sometimes members apologise for asking a lot of questions, please ask as many questions as you want to. The purpose of the forum is to help others, sharing information and advice so ask away!
1. Settling disputes
Forum admin and (global) moderators are here to assist the forum. Should a situation arise between individuals that cannot be resolved by private messaging or email, moderators and admin can be PM'd or emailed in an attempt to resolve the problem. Please refrain from settling scores publicly. Public postings of such issues will be removed from the forums.
Please report posts in a PM to the moderators if you feel the forum rules aren’t followed, the moderators want to be notified of your concerns.
In addition, in the event of a problem or a question arising concerning a moderation action, any and all inquiries must take place by PM or email. Posting of moderation disputes on the forum will be grounds for the administrator to warn, suspend, and then permanently close an account.
2. Duplicate Topics
Before opening a new thread, please check if a recent thread on the same topic already exists.
Merging topics is not possible in this forum version yet, but will be effective as soon as it becomes available.
3. Profanity
This is a family friendly forum. Profanity is not allowed, neither is intentionally misspelling profane words, masking them in abbreviations, masking them with BBCode, or masking them with stars and other characters (i.e. $*&%@#!). This may be grounds for immediate and permanent banning.
4. Spam
Spam, which is defined as posts which do not fit the topic in question, is not allowed on this forum. Moderators and admin, at their sole discretion will warn, suspend, and then permanently close an account which continues to post 'spam' on the message forums. This extends to posts, signatures and accounts with the sole purpose to spam the forums via advertising.
Do not use the forum functions in a way that might overload the forum software, like excessive nesting or very wide images.
5. Trolling and Flaming
Trolling and flaming (including ‘yelling’), which we define as posts or threads which knowingly lead to overly strong negative and emotional responses are not allowed on this forum. Moderators and administrators, at their sole discretion will warn, suspend, and then permanently close an account which continues to 'troll' or ‘flame’ on the message forums.
6. Harassment
This forum has a zero tolerance policy for harassment of our forum members. You may not harass another forum user or users in any language. Making a threat against another user or users in the forums is also expressly prohibited. You may not use any sexually explicit, suggestive, harmful, threatening, abusive, defamatory, obscene, hateful, racially or ethnically offensive language. This includes, but is not limited to, any speech, actions or links dealing with cultural, political, or religious beliefs. This also applies to any speech, actions or links dealing with sexual orientation. This applies to any language. Failure to abide by this rule is grounds for immediate and permanent account closure.
If you are being harassed on the forums, please PM an administrator and send them a screenshot of the private message you received.
7. Copyrights
Copyrights should be respected. Do not mention or post hacked or stolen software/pictures, or discuss them on the boards. It is not allowed to copy and paste text from other websites without explicit permission from the author and without mentioning the source, as this is a breach of copyright. Should this concern African Grey Parrot Info, send a private message to the administrator or moderators concerning any helpful information you have about a hack or copyright fringe.
8. Multiple accounts
Multiple accounts created for griefing, trolling, circumventing bans or any other malicious behaviour are not allowed and posting with multiple accounts in this way will result in banning.
9. Signatures and Avatars
Signatures and avatars must adhere to the guidelines laid out below*. Failure to abide by these guidelines will result in your signature or avatar being removed.
* Signature and avatar guidelines
- All other forum rules apply to signature, banner [and avatar] content.
- You are allowed one image in your signature which is not to exceed a width of 500 pixels and a height of 100 (500x100).
- You are allowed one line of text at the regular size (this size) aside from an image within your signature. This does not mean another image.
- If you choose not to use an image, you may fill up the equivalent space with lines of text, however very large text is discouraged and you may be asked to change it.
- Code Tags should not be used in your signature area, as well as excessively flashing or moving images.
Note added by Jane - Sometimes members apologise for asking a lot of questions, please ask as many questions as you want to. The purpose of the forum is to help others, sharing information and advice so ask away!
