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TOS
By: spirit Date: July 31, 2010, 6:16 pm
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Our Terms of Service (TOS) is designed to keep our electronic
community safe, informative, and fun for all members. Your
membership on this board is bound by these terms of service.
Violations of our TOS are reviewed and enforced by our Message
Board Staff. Actions include Public and Private warnings,
Moderation Queues, Suspension, and Banning. It is your
responsibility to make sure you are familiar with our Terms of
Service. Changes made to the TOS will be posted in the News and
Announcements forum. The Board Management staff reserves the
right to change the Terms of Service at any time, and for any
reason.
Warnings will be given for anyone that breaks the TOS (below).
If you get 3 warnings, you get a 7 day vacation. The 4th
warning will result in permanent ban from this board. We
reserve the right to ban someone if it is necessary without the
3rd or 4th warnings.
SECTION 1
User Accounts
1. All accounts are free. No member of the Network Staff will
EVER ask you for your credit card or checking information. If
you are asked, please report it at ONCE to a member of the board
staff.
2. No user may register more than one user account. Any
accounts created after the first, without the explicit approval
of the board staff, will be deleted without notice. You may be
given a Warning.
2a. If you register a new account while on a ban, you will be
permanently banned.
3. Account names may not contain profanity, or be obviously
offensive. The board staff will give 24 hours for the user to
give change of account name to a moderator. If request is
ignored, then the Board Staff reserves the right to change any
vulgar or offensive name to whatever name they deem fit without
notice to offending violator. Violation will result in a
Warning.
4. Only authorized staff may use a reserved staff prefix as a
part of their user name. Any user who attempts to use a fake
name will be promptly removed, and the offending user possibly
banned. Violation will result in a Warning or Possible Ban.
5. You MUST maintain a valid email address. If it is discovered
that the address stored in your profile is not valid, your user
account will be suspended until a valid email address has been
entered in association with your account.
6. By creating your user account, you agree to our Terms Of
Service (TOS). Your membership is bound to these terms, and any
and all changes that should occur to the Terms Of Service.
7. There is an age minumum to be a member of this board. You
must be at least 13 years of age.
SECTION 2
Topics, Posts, and Polls
1. There will be no racial, ethnic, gender, or religious based
insults in public posts or PM. There will be no posts meant to
offend or hurt any other member. Debates and civilized
discussions that argue points of view are to be kept free from
insults, threats, violence, and rudeness. There will be no
topics regarding politics or religion. Violation will result in
a Warning.
2. There will be no excessive profanity or obscenity in any
public topic, post, link, or poll. The key word here is
EXCESSIVE. We do not mind the use of profanity here. But there
will be no use of racial slurs, at all. If we receive
complaints about excessive use of profanity, we will ask the
offender to tone it down, once. After that, warnings will be
issued. The use of racial slurs will result in a warning after
the first offense. If this becomes a problem then we will
simply revoke permission to use profanity on this forum.
3. Fighting between members in public topics is strictly
prohibited. Topics that end up in fights will be locked and
given a reason for the lock by the board staff, and the involved
members will receive penalties. Locked posts may be moved after
a 24-hour period. Violation will result in a Warning.
4. Spamming is not permitted; neither are non-constructive
posts. Please keep all your posts as constructive as possible.
Bumping or throwing topics off subject is considered spamming.
Topics that are being spammed will be closed or deleted.
Violation will result in a Warning.
5. Pornography, pirated software, or any other illegal
transactions may NOT be posted or linked in any way or by any
means. Violation will result in a Warning.
6. All posts are property of FB Gamers boards. Our network staff
has the right to request alteration or deletion of any offensive
or inappropriate posts; this includes disgusting or vulgar
topics. Posts may be deleted or edited for any reason or reasons
that a forum moderator or administrator deems necessary. We
cannot be responsible for the content of posts until it is
reported, or noticed by a staff member.
7. Signatures and Avatars may contain images, but if your
signature is considered too large or deemed unacceptable by
staff, you will be requested by a moderator to resize or remove
it. Failing to comply with a moderator's request within 24
hours will result in the removal of offensive signature or
Avatar. Violation will result in a Warning.
7b. Due to links of blogging journals, such as LiveJournal,
MySpace, Yahoo 360, etc. in signatures, avatars, posts, and / or
profiles using foul language and to explicit in sexual nature
and would be deemed rated R or even Rated X, moderators will
edit it out without notification. To obtain these blogging
journal "friends" PM for authorization from the user. This is
to protect you and your children the best we can. NO BLOGGING
LINKS WILL BE ALLOWED!! Violation will result in a Warning.
Neighbor and/or friend requests are to be posted in the
appropriate threads.
8. Do not advertise products or services in posts, avatars,
profiles, or signatures without explicit permission from the
network staff members. A moderator or administrator, without
notification, will edit out advertising. Violation will result
in a Warning.
9. Remember to post in the correct forum. Take the time to look
at other forums and see where your topic should go. If your
topic is placed in the wrong forum, it will be moved by a
moderator, and linked to the new forum. Please PM a moderator
about it being in the wrong place or use the report to mod
button on the bottom of the post.
10. If a topic is locked, please do not start a new one on the
same subject. A staff member will post why the thread was
locked. You may start another upon a staff member's permission.
Ignoring this request may result in a Warning.
11. No member will post any subject matter or links to anything
regarding illegal drugs...period. Nor underage drinking!
Violation will result in a Warning.
12. Please remember this is a PG board and sexual references and
innuendo will NOT be tolerated at any point. Violation will
result in a Warning.
13. Happy Birthday and Appreciation threads will be created by
forum staff.
14. This forum cannot be held responsible for the actions of
others at separate and/or unrelated forums.
15. Depending on the severity of the issue and the degree to
which the TOS is violated, this is our disciplinary action
policy:
First offense---------- Warning
Second Offense-------Warning
Third Offense----------7 day ban
Fourth Offense--------- BANNED
Please just follow the TOS and you will be fine.
16. There is to be absolutely NO BASHING of television shows,
especially those discussed in this forum. In addition, bashing
of other forums will not be tolerated and both offenses will
result in a warning.
SECTION 3
Private Messages, Email
1. The Zone Network Staff cannot be held responsible for the
contents of an E-Mail message sent through this board and cannot
be responsible for the content of a Private Message unless it is
reported. If reporting it, please copy and paste the offending
PM in the report. These reported PM's and emails through this
board will be treated as if they were a public post. We will
deal with these privately.
2. Unsolicited Private Messages are strictly prohibited.
Violation will result in a Warning.
3. Using our E-Mail or PM system to advertise or request
personal information of any kind, without the approval of the
recipient, is strictly prohibited. Violation will result in an
Immediate Ban.
SECTION 4
Board Staff
1. Moderators have the right to impose forum-specific rules for
the areas in which they host. Should a host decide to post
additional rules, please read, understand, and follow them. If
you have any questions about these additional rules, please
direct your questions to the moderator of that forum.
1a. Forum-Specific rules may not negate, override, or violate
the Terms Of service.
2. Users may not argue a moderators decision publicly. Any and
all complaints directed at a moderator must first address the
moderator in question via PM. Violation will result in a
Warning. If you have any questions or problems, please PM a
moderator or administrator.
3. Impersonating a member of the board staff is strictly
prohibited. User created names and posts that hint
impersonation are grounds for banning. The usage of a prefix
that is very similar to a staff prefix in a screen name, or is
very official looking, which is clearly designed to fool members
is also prohibited. Violators will be Banned.
4. The FB Gamer staff reserves the right to edit, remove, or
close any topic, poll, or post for a violation of our rules.
Also, members who break the rules are subject to official
friendly reminders, warnings, post suspension, queue moderation,
and permanent banning.
SECTION 5
Privacy Policy
1. All registered information collected from your account,
including E-Mail address and IP address is strictly confidential
to the board administrative staff, and will not be distributed
or sold.
1b. No member of this board is ever required to divulge
personal information to any other member should they choose not
to. No member of the FB Gamer Network Staff will ever ask you
for any private information. No member of staff is authorized
to share personal information with other members of staff or
other members of the message board with any other member, for
any reason, without explicit consent.
2. Personal information, which is private to the general public
message board, is collected and used by the FB Gamer Network
Staff for internal security reasons only. If you feel that your
private information has become compromised, please contact the
Message Board Administrator at once.
3. There is an age requirement of 10 to be a member of this
message board, but we encourage those members under the age of
18 to give out no personal information to anyone. Should you be
asked, please DO NOT respond; report the request immediately to
a member of the network staff. Parents of those members under
the age of 18 are encouraged to contact a member of the board
staff, or send a PM to: Spirit or djisthebest if they have any
questions, problems, or concerns.
SECTION 6
File Uploads (Gallery & Archive Forums)
1. ONLY Pictures and Sound files may be uploaded to the
appropriate forums. A moderator will move it to the correct
forum. Moderators have the right to remove any uploaded file
that does not comply with the Terms Of Service, either with or
without notifying the member who uploaded it. Any member who
attempts to upload anything else will be given a Warning.
2. The ONLY acceptable picture files that may be uploaded must
end with one of the following extensions: *.GIF, *.JPG, *.JPEG,
and *.PNG
3. The ONLY acceptable sound files that may be uploaded must end
with one of the following extensions: *.WAV
4. No uploaded files may contain any form or pornography,
vulgar/sexual explicit images or sounds, advertisements,
offensive images, or any form of controlled substance or
paraphernalia of a controlled substance, (Obvious and blatant
vulgarity/pornography). Violation will result in a Warning.
5. There is a limit of 250Kb on any uploaded file per post.
6. Do not upload a copyrighted picture OR a link to that picture
without the consent of the owner or site owner. Failure to do
so may result in a Warning.
SECTION 7
Posting links, glitches, hacks and cheats.
1. The posting of Farm Town gift links is allowed. Please
remember to put each gift link in it's appropriate thread.
Incorrectly posted links will be removed to the correct thread
as quickly as possible after they are found or reported to forum
staff.
2. The posting of glitches and "game aids" (i.e. farmville bot)
will be allowed. However, no hack site or cheat site links will
be allowed. Any thread containing hack sites or cheat sites
will be deleted and the OP will receive a warning.
3. If you do not agree with FT re-gifting, the use of bots or
other software aids to FB games or glitches, then this is not
the site for you. Any open debates regarding such posts/threads
will result in a warning and may result in an immediate ban.
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Questions, complaints, and Moderator Action appeals may be filed
with the message board staff. The Board Administrators, Spirit
and She-Wolf will review these; the final decision will be made
by them and will be permanent. Please PM all inquiries to:
Spirit or She-Wolf.
PM Spirit or She-Wolf if you have read the above. Bear in mind
that by registering and keeping an account with us you have
agreed to the TOS
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