Post by Ritzie/Admin on Jan 23, 2004 15:02:45 GMT -8
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the Gerbil Forum. This is an international independent gerbil forum, with members from all over the world! Everyone is free to join and discuss or debate any gerbil related topics.
The purpose of these rules is to keep the forum functioning well as a community. The rules apply to all posters, whether they are registered members or posting as guests.
This gerbil forum is hosted by Proboards.com, and has agreed to its terms of service: www.proboards.com/tos
Forum Rules:
Users posts must comply in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws of the State of California and the US Federal Government (where our forum host Proboards.com can be found).
Users may not post messages that contain content promoting the use of illegal drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, nudity, or any other form of adult content, profanity, hate, "spam," fraud, racism, mlm (multi-level marketing), pyramid schemes, or promote any illegal activity.
Users posted messages must be in English.
Birthday is a required field in the profile. As ProBoards does not allow members under the age of 13, an age check will be in place which will remove accounts of users under this age.
Lying about your age is not allowed! Lying about your age in order to join the forum will result in a ban of at least one month or until you turn 13, whichever is longer.
Debate is allowed on the forum. Flaming and hurtful personal comments on the forum are not, and neither are comments or threats made outside the forum (via email, instant message, etc). Violating this rule will result in a ban or deletion of the offending member's account.
Please post sensibly. There is no need for 10 posts in a row containing just smilies - please use the 'edit' function if you wish to add to a post after it has been posted. Users who repeatedly post nonsense or spam posts will be warned by the staff and the staff can impose a ban of at least one week for not listening.
Please stay on topic! Do not change a topic in threads. Please do not start talking about unrelated things. When you need to talk about another topic, you can start a new thread or send a private message!
Hot-linking photos from other websites is not allowed! Hot-linking can present a serious drain of bandwidth for some websites. Only photos from the Mongolian Gerbil Website may be used, or from other websites that give permission. Otherwise please post links.
Cite your source when you use information that is not yours. It is important to acknowledge references to other people's work and quotes from websites/forums, not just because it is good manners and practice, but also because it is often useful for people to know the source and credentials of any piece of information. This applies to images as well as written information! (Added for clarification Mar. 23, 2010)
Posts that do not comply with these rules will be edited or deleted. Members or guests that will not follow these rules, especially after warnings, will be temporarily or permanently banned.
Let's work together to make this forum a great community!
Thank you in advance!
The Staff
Welcome to the Gerbil Forum. This is an international independent gerbil forum, with members from all over the world! Everyone is free to join and discuss or debate any gerbil related topics.
The purpose of these rules is to keep the forum functioning well as a community. The rules apply to all posters, whether they are registered members or posting as guests.
This gerbil forum is hosted by Proboards.com, and has agreed to its terms of service: www.proboards.com/tos
Forum Rules:
Users posts must comply in a manner consistent with any and all applicable laws of the State of California and the US Federal Government (where our forum host Proboards.com can be found). Users may not post messages that contain content promoting the use of illegal drugs, alcohol, sex, pornography, nudity, or any other form of adult content, profanity, hate, "spam," fraud, racism, mlm (multi-level marketing), pyramid schemes, or promote any illegal activity. Users posted messages must be in English. Birthday is a required field in the profile. As ProBoards does not allow members under the age of 13, an age check will be in place which will remove accounts of users under this age. Lying about your age is not allowed! Lying about your age in order to join the forum will result in a ban of at least one month or until you turn 13, whichever is longer. Debate is allowed on the forum. Flaming and hurtful personal comments on the forum are not, and neither are comments or threats made outside the forum (via email, instant message, etc). Violating this rule will result in a ban or deletion of the offending member's account. Please post sensibly. There is no need for 10 posts in a row containing just smilies - please use the 'edit' function if you wish to add to a post after it has been posted. Users who repeatedly post nonsense or spam posts will be warned by the staff and the staff can impose a ban of at least one week for not listening. Please stay on topic! Do not change a topic in threads. Please do not start talking about unrelated things. When you need to talk about another topic, you can start a new thread or send a private message! Hot-linking photos from other websites is not allowed! Hot-linking can present a serious drain of bandwidth for some websites. Only photos from the Mongolian Gerbil Website may be used, or from other websites that give permission. Otherwise please post links. Cite your source when you use information that is not yours. It is important to acknowledge references to other people's work and quotes from websites/forums, not just because it is good manners and practice, but also because it is often useful for people to know the source and credentials of any piece of information. This applies to images as well as written information! (Added for clarification Mar. 23, 2010)Posts that do not comply with these rules will be edited or deleted. Members or guests that will not follow these rules, especially after warnings, will be temporarily or permanently banned.
Let's work together to make this forum a great community!
Thank you in advance!
The Staff
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