RULES OF MEMBERSHIP - Failure to follow these rules will result in your membership and ability to post being terminated.
Copyrights: Please do not post copyrighted materials that you do not have authorization by the copyright holder to post. You may post small excerpts with a link back to the original material.
Illegal Activity is not allowed on this forum: This includes libel and/or slander that could result in legal action being taken against this website. You agree that you are solely responsible for your own postings and understand that posting on this forum does not imply that is necessarily in agreement with, or endorsing you.
Advocating illegal activity: Is not allowed on this site.
Spamming: Unsolicited advertising is not allowed on this site.
Conduct: You agree to treat other members with respect as to their opinions and research. You may disagree with their work, viewpoints and research - and you may state the reasons for your disagreement. However, no ad hominen attacks on another member will be tolerated.
Posting ID: You are the only one who is authorized to post under your user ID and password. You may not "loan" your id and password to anyone.
Banned Members: If another member has been banned from this forum and requests that you post for them under your user name, this is not allowed.
Personal Vendetta: You may not use this forum to carry out personal vendettas. Example: joining this forum to complain about being banned from another site. If you have been banned from another forum, that matter is between you and the other venue. It is not appropriate to post here for the sole purpose of attacking another site and/or forum to exact revenge for being banned This also includes just joining this site to attack another forum or site owner whether you were banned or not. Also this is NOT a site to be used to bash and harrass other sites. It is not acceptable here..
Posting Relevence: Please make sure that your posts are relevant to the content here. If not they will be deleted.
THREATS: THREATS AGAINST ANYONE OR PERCEIVED THREATS WILL NOT BE TOLERATED.
NO Proselytizing.
NO Poster has the right to tell another post what they should or should NOT be posting this is up to the moderators -if you see something especially obvoxious, please notify contact@surfingtheapocalypse.net and let us know..
COMMON COURTESY AND RESPECT ARE THE RULE.
NO Hotlinking of graphics: Hotlinking of graphics is not allowed. Hot linking is posting a graphic file here that is still housed on someone else's (not yours) server. This is usually accomplished by looking at the image properties and copying the location into a html img tag. This is stealing bandwidth! Bandwidth costs money, and this is considered theft.
This is not a chat room, so please limit posts of only one or two word replies. This is an area to post articles, research, editorials and views and to comment intelligently on those posts.
Look at your membership here as an invitation. An invitation to come into a friend's living room and converse with all your friend's friends. Common courtesy is the number one rule. Spirited debate is encouraged but no flame wars will be tolerated. Intentional and constant disruptions that only lead away from the subject being discussed will be grounds for termination.
These rules have been established based on years of experience in various interactive types of environments. There are those who do not want the free discussion of ideas and will use various ruses to disrupt. These rules are an attempt to protect the environment of discussion and growth.
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