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Terms of Use
DIR By: Jacob Cox
Date: November 30, 2017, 6:57 pm
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Terms of Use
This page describes the Terms of Use for The Low Brass Forum,
along with some guidelines for posting.
The Forum has a few rules by which we all agree to abide. These
simple rules should in no way inhibit your ability to
communicate any idea you wish, but do ensure a safe and positive
environment for everyone here.
Accounts
Requirements
We reserve the right to remove any account for any reason.
Accounts must have:
A valid email address. From time to time, it may be necessary
to contact a member concerning the Forum in general, or their
posts specifically. Accounts with invalid email addresses will
be deleted. Please keep your email address current.
A screen name that is not offensive or derogatory.
If there is a web site link, it must refer to an appropriate web
site. It must not be an "adult" web site, nor can it be in the
business of selling or marketing pharmacological products,
mortgage loans, or any other such common SPAM-like products or
services. Having such a link will result in the immediate
deletion of your account. Internet users have to put up with
quite enough of this kind of material in our mailboxes; we will
not be subjected to it here. All common "misspellings" are also
taken into account (e.g., ci-@-lis, mor[t]gage, etc.)
A screen name that is not the name of a public figure. Unless
that is the member’s actual name!
Each user may sign up for ONE account only. Duplicate accounts
suspected of being from the same actual human being will be
deleted with no warning. The only exception to this rule is
test accounts used by the Staff to investigate problems with the
Forum or to develop new features, and these must be approved by
the Forum Director.
Cookies
The Low Brass Forum Staff reserve the right to refuse membership
or access to the Forum to anyone, at any time, for any reason.
We do, however, have a system in place that should help users be
aware of the perception of their actions and thus be able to
change their behavior.
There is a score called "cookies" that is visible in your
profile. Staff members will occasionally add positive points
("applaud") and negative points ("smite") based on post content,
with negative points generally being given for violation of the
Terms of Use. Users who accumulate a large number of negative
points or a large deficit (shown by a negative total number of
points) will be warned, then suspended, then permanently banned
if the inappropriate behavior is not stopped.
Deletion of old unused accounts
The Forum Staff try to keep the Forum user list reliable. To
that end, accounts that have not been used in a long time (two
or more years) may be deleted.
Anonymity
We understand that some members have valid reasons for hiding
their identities in the Forum. While we may require that
members reveal their identity to the Staff, we do not require
that they reveal their identity to the membership. Accordingly,
we ask that other members do not "unmask" those who wish to
remain anonymous, and that they do not ask those members to
reveal themselves.
Posting Guidelines
The following guidelines are provided to help maintain a
pleasant conversational and educational site for all users.
Write properly
This is a worldwide public forum. Many people may read it,
including those whose native language is not English. In order
to facilitate communication, please:
Think about what you are writing. It is not necessary to enter
a post immediately.
Use paragraphs, correct punctuation and normal words, rather
than 733t or instant messaging abbreviations.
Use the spell-check function in the Forum software.
Be respectful
We expect users to behave respectfully towards each other.
There will be disagreements about many subjects, include some
strong disagreements, but we expect members to be able to
discuss these subjects in a polite and civil manner.
Members who show a pattern of obnoxious and disrespectful
behavior may have their access to the Forum suspended or
terminated.
Don't use profanity
The Forum has an automatic filter that will replace certain
words and phrases considered impolite with asterisks (*). Since
we can't catch every word and it is relatively easy to
circumvent the auto-filter (perhaps by substituting characters,
such as respelling "poop" as "p@@p"), we ask everyone to respect
our wishes to keep the Forum "family friendly."
The Staff will, without notice, remove or edit any posts
containing profanity.
Keep it friendly
Personal attacks are not welcome here. We encourage healthy
debate, but please discuss the issues and refrain from creating
posts regarding a LBF member, or other non-public figure, that
are knowingly false, defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, harassing,
sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy
or otherwise in violation of any law.
Derogatory comments directed towards specific ethnic and
religious groups are not permitted under our Terms of Use and
will be deleted without notice. Posts that promote or perpetuate
negative racial, sexual and cultural stereotypes are frowned
upon and may also be deleted.
The Staff will, without notice, remove or edit any post which is
considered inappropriate within these guidelines.
The music community is a very small world. From time to time,
members may vigorously discuss and criticize well-known
musicians. Please be aware, however, that many of the famous
players discussed here visit the site regularly and, in any
case, posts about a given player have a curious tendency to find
their way back to that player.
A good rule of thumb is: don't post anything about anyone that
you would not say directly to their face. In other words, be
nice!
Remain on topic
The Staff have gone to great lengths to make it easy to find the
conversations in which you are interested, through the
organization of posts into topic-oriented "boards", or sections.
Within a topic, please keep your posts relevant to the specific
questions and comments posted earlier. Topics do tend to develop
and move in unexpected directions, but if they get too far off
the subject, we encourage you to start a new topic in the
appropriate section.
If a topic is posted in an inappropriate section, a staff member
will move it to the most relevant section, where it may receive
more attention. Off-topic posts may also be moved to another
section, or edited for off-topic comments.
Follow copyright law
LBF respects the legal and ethical rights of copyright owners.
Please do not make posts that deal with bootleg recordings,
music, texts or any other items. A staff member will remove such
posts or topics without notice.
We also ask that you refrain from posting any copyrighted
materials in the Forum, including copying and posting other
complete internet resources, such as articles, in your posts.
Instead, please quote the relevant passage from the internet
article and include the address for the entire source. This
satisfies copyright law, Forum viewers can check out the entire
resource, and the copyright owners get increased traffic to
their site - everyone's a winner!
Please also bear in mind that setting up remote links to files
such as images, movies, sound files, and PDF files may be
considered bandwidth theft by the owners of that file. Instead
of setting up a direct link on the Forum, please direct readers
to the page where they can access the file you wish to share. If
you are the copyright owner and/or owner of that server space,
you may remote-link all you want.
Post editing and deleting
Posts may be edited by the poster for a period of up to four
days after posting. Please note that, since the content is
never actually fixed in a medium, the poster therefore holds no
copyright on the material. Neither does The Low Brass Forum
need a license to use/host the content in the post. All posts
are therefore public domain content.
Posts may NOT be deleted, except by LBF Staff. You may, of
course, edit it down to almost nothing, although excepting a
post that was a thermonuclear tirade which was obviously
offensive when you read it later, this is discouraged. Any post
which was that bizarre in the first place would have been either
edited or deleted by a moderator, anyway. Please note that even
if you edit your original post down to almost nothing, this will
not affect the inclusion of the original as quoted material in
subsequent replies by other members of the Forum.
Advertising
Please restrict explicit advertising to the Marketplace section.
If you have an advertisement you wish to post, be it for an
instrument, accessory, store or musical work, we ask that you
post it in the Advertisements section. If you wish to post a
notice of a job opening, a music-related event or concert
announcement, please post it in the Notices section.
We expect people to want to mention good products they have
found. We expect people to want to mention particularly good (or
bad!) experiences they have had with various vendors. We ask
that people tie such commentary to their own experiences and not
to turn their reports into generalized recommendations that must
apply to everybody.
We ask that people avoid turning the bulk of their Forum
participation into a string of effusive praise for a vendor,
manufacturer or product, whether or not they are a vendor. Such
behavior is, in any event, likely to be counterproductive.
We ask that people making replies to questions avoid
recommending unrelated products. If someone has asked about a
mouthpiece, recommend a mouthpiece; if someone has asked about
high range exercises, do not promote your mouthpiece or offer
your services as a teacher.
What is considered advertising?
Some guidelines for what is considered advertising:
Posts for the sole purpose of promoting a product or service you
sell or represent for compensation. (Posts making the community
aware of the existence of products and services, and which are
clearly starting points for discussion and questions about the
product or service, are not considered explicit advertising.)
Posts announcing products that are obviously inducements to buy
from a particular vendor; for example, prominently mentioning
exclusivity rights, or statements intimating that prices from
this vendor are the best, or otherwise indicating that the
product cannot or should not be obtained anywhere else.
The Forum realizes that letting our members know about your
products or services is a valuable benefit to all of us in the
low brass community. We do know that the nature of the Forum
means that people will ask for opinions about products. We
request that, if you do write about your product or service
outside of the Marketplace section, to do so in objective terms
from a player's viewpoint, as opposed to hype. We also want to
encourage you to contact Forum members privately, rather than
conducting business within the Forum proper. Please also respect
Forum members’ right to privacy. If they do not wish you to
contact them privately, please respect this wish.
Be positive
Internet communications are sometimes difficult to decipher, and
a message which may have been written without any malice can
come across as malicious. It is best to assume that the member
has posted with positive intentions. Ask a question aimed at
clarifying the point of the message in question, avoiding
judgments about the person who posted it.
Some examples:
You wrote, "My teacher doesn't know what she's talking about.
I'm supposed to do this exercise that I can't do, and every week
she asks me to do it again." Have you asked your teacher why she
asked you to do the exercise? Or, have you told her that you
are having difficulty doing the exercise, or what part of it is
giving you a problem?
You wrote, "Jupiter trombones are the worst." I'm curious which
ones you may have tried and what you found sub-standard about
them.
In the end, it should be pretty simple to redirect someone's
negativity into a learning experience, if that is what they are
truly looking for in the first place.
Reporting inappropriate posts
While the Forum Staff do their best to eliminate offensive and
abusive messages pertaining to a LBF member or other non-public
figure, it would be impossible to read, immediately, every
message posted in the Forum. If you find a post that falls into
the category of "knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate,
abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually
oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or
otherwise in violation of any law", then please use the "report
post" button, or send an email or private message directly to
the moderator of that section, and they will respond as soon as
possible.
Disclaimers
No warranty on advice
Please be aware that the Forum does not warranty any of the
recommendations or advice provided in this forum.
There are many professionals and experienced amateurs
participating in the Forum. There are also many other people
whose experiences and knowledge may be helpful. Often, their
advice and recommendations are sound. Sometimes, due to problems
such as lack of experience with the particular situation,
difficulty in communicating details or biases on the part of the
responder, the advice may not be appropriate. We ask all members
to evaluate any suggestions provided, be it for products, music,
practice methods, playing techniques or anything else, and use
their own good sense in deciding which advice to follow.
Opinions are those of the writers
The opinions expressed on The Low Brass Forum reflect solely the
opinions of the participants and not of The Low Brass Forum
itself. The Moderators, Administrators and Director of The Low
Brass Forum are Forum members who have volunteered to fulfill
these necessary positions. Forum Staff do not relinquish their
membership when they agree to serve on staff and they may still
participate in threads. Therefore, as with all the opinions
posted on LBF, any opinions expressed by staff members which are
not pursuant to the moderation of the site reflect only their
own views and not that of The Low Brass Forum.
Strong opinions may be expressed
We expect, in all discussions, including those over
controversial subject matter, that people will engage in polite
debate and treat each other respectfully. However, threads that
veer from intelligent discourse with facts and reasoned
discussion into rants and diatribes will be locked or removed.
Posts in the Forum Practice Break area are not confined to the
subjects of music, and thus may contain criticisms (sometimes
harsh) of public figures, political parties, governments and
even religions. We recognize that people may sometimes post
messages or make statements that are misleading, deceptive or
downright wrong. They may do so unintentionally or even
intentionally. Unless these posts violate the rights of a
non-public individual or violate any law, they are permitted. If
you believe you may be offended by biting criticisms of public
figures or groups, you should avoid entering the Practice Break
area.
This is a private forum
The Staff reserve the right to deem any post inappropriate, for
any reason whatsoever. This is a privately-maintained forum,
subject only to its own rules and the decisions of the Staff,
not to concepts derived from the first amendment of the US
Constitution.
We reserve the right to change our policies at any time and
without notice, although we are not likely to do so without some
public warning. Just to be safe, it is a good idea to scan the
Terms of Use occasionally, to see if we have made any changes or
updates that might affect you.
Thank you for your attention, and please enjoy The Low Brass
Forum!
Sincerely,
The Low Brass Forum Staff
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