(1) Please respect the beliefs of others. Using terms which are disrespectful of others is a violation of forum policy. (2) Messages that call for illegal action, that might result in harm to others, or that advocate violence or death are not allowed on this forum.
(3) No obscenity, profanity, explicit sexual references, lewdness, or abusive language.
(4) You may take issue with a person's ideas, but you may not attack or insult the person as a person. For instance, you may identify an idea as a lie, but not a person as a liar.
(5) A message or file may be submitted once to one section only. This saves our available bandwidth space. Also, please keep your quotations from previous messages as brief as possible.
(6) Messages and library files from other forums, private E-mail and other private information will be considered copyrighted or privileged for this forum's purposes. Previously published material may not be posted without the specific permission of the copyright owner unless it is properly attributed and set off by quotation marks, within reasonable length, and does not constitute the majority of a message or file.
(7) No advertisements will be permitted except in sponsored sections and by the sponsors themselves or their delegates.
(8) No disruptions in messaging or conference - this includes disruption of forum discussion or conferences, harassment of other users, disregard for forum policy or disrespect for the site moderator performing assigned tasks. Offensive nicknames are also considered disruptive. Arguments about forum policy and/or site moderator decisions are also disruptive to the flow of discussions.
(9) Messages that advocate hatred and racism are not allowed in the forum.
(10) Participation in the forum is at the sole discretion of the site moderator. Also, at the discretion of the site moderator, a message may be moved, a thread renamed, or a message deleted. If possible, the sender will be informed and/or warned.
(11) Each message writer is responsible for what he or she writes; neither the forum nor the site moderator assumes responsibility, legal or otherwise, for what is written here by others. All members agree to this stipulation.
If any of these rules are violated, that will lead to a minimum of the posted message being removed, and a maximum of banning the member from the forum. If I have not covered a particular situation with this set of rules, I ask that members please