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These discussion forums offer the opportunity to connect to a “virtual community” of people with similar interests and issues. We hope you enjoy this feature of our website!
Ideally we would love to provide a capability like this to our community without the need for rules…our heart is to have discussions in these forums be as open and free-flowing as possible. Unfortunately in this day and age where everyone is online, there are those who would abuse this communications medium. To keep this forum a safe and Christ-honoring place, we ask that all users of our forums follow these simple guidelines:
- Please do not use any type of profanity or vulgarity in your postings.
- Please do not post or provide links that contain inappropriate audio, video or images.
- Please be respectful of each other. Give people the benefit of the doubt, as misunderstandings can happen very easily in a virtual community where tone of voice cannot be heard.
- Please keep your posts relevant to the topic being discussed.
As long as postings follow these simple guidelines, all members and visitors are welcomed and encouraged to use these forums freely.
The administrators and moderators will make every effort to delete and prevent objectionable content from being posted on the forums; however, it is impossible to review all posts. Therefore, the administrators, moderators and owner of this website will not be held liable. The views and opinions express on these forums belong to each participating author and do not represent the views or beliefs of the website owner.
Thanks for visiting our forums, and we hope you enjoy this feature of our website!
Forum Rules & Terms of Use
- Only one account per person is permitted.
- Keep all posts on-topic.
- All posts must be in English.
- Do not pretend to be/represent somebody else. Your account will be deleted if found to be in breach of this rule.
- There is zero tolerance for predatory behavior, stalking, threats, harassment, invading privacy, or the revealing of other members' personal information. Anyone caught doing these things may be permanently banned from the website and reported to legal authorities.
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- Post your comment/question to the most appropriate place. Any posts deemed to be in the wrong forum will be moved. Do not cross-post the same question to multiple places.
- Make sure you have read the parent article/post completely before posting a reply.
- Use your own words. If you wish to use the words of somebody else, quote them, citing the source. Plagiarism is unethical and is illegal in many countries.
- Choose an appropriate subject line. Do not use all caps and do not add false information just to get attention (e.g. ;read this or you will be arrested;). Do not use a URL as a thread title.
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- May not contain smilies or animated smiley.
- May include two clickable links. URL\'s or mailto: - No duplicate links
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- Must be kept to a maximum of four lines (at 1024 resolution).
- May not contain links to other threads or posts for the purpose of self promotion.
- Any signature or avatar that is offensive or insulting to either us, our members, or our staff, are prohibited.
- We reserve the right to ask you to change and/or remove your signature or avatar at any time, for any reason.
At all times:
- Keep all commentary civil, and be courteous at all times. Constructive criticism is welcome, but insults directed towards other users or the site admins will not be tolerated. Coarse/insulting language will not be tolerated.
- No commercial advertising is permitted.
- Any posts deemed to be self promotion, advertising, or spam can and will be removed. NO SPAM - NO ADVERTISING eg. Posting and making excessive, inappropriate and unnecessary references to your products and websites is self promotion.
- Settle your personal disputes in private please.
- If you feel a post violates any of these rules, or you need to bring it to the attention of a moderator (move threads/close/split), please use the ‘report to modertor’ link to notify the moderators.
Failure to abide by these rules may result in an editing, negative moderation or deletion of your post. We reserve the right to ban abusers from the site. We reserve the right to change these rules at any time.