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Parts of these guidelines are reproduced with the kind permission of the editor of the excellent Urban 75 web site. Cheers Ed
PetsIreland Posting FAQ and Rules
Please note: There are civil and criminal laws against certain forms of speech like libel, defamation of character, harassment and threats. Please contact us if you see any such content. It is the prerogative of any poster who feels any laws have been violated to pursue legal action. Posters are responsible for what they post, and should realise there may be serious consequences for illegal behaviour.
Suicide threats/threats of violence: The Admin at PetsIreland will ALWAYS contact a poster's ISP if we think there's the remotest chance that they may come to harm/harm others.
It is a condition of your registration that you read the following before posting on PetsIreland bulletin boards. See the Help Pages for registration and logging in/out problems.
1. Please read the boards for a while before posting: that way you won't repeat questions/threads that have already been asked. Use the 'search' function to see if your topic has already been discussed.
2. The use of the hidden log in is a privilege and not a right the availability of the hidden log in is at the sole discretion of the administrator.
3. Your user id and password are individual and may not be used by anyone else. Impersonation by another person using that password and name is an immediate ban. Members are required to enter and maintain accurate information in required fields (name, age, location, e-mail address) of their profiles at all times. Members who apply using false information or afterwards alter their profiles to remove or replace required fields with invalid entries are subject to loss of profile editing and/or posting privileges. Note that all profile information is viewable by other registered members. If you are uncomfortable with sharing the information required for registration (i.e., name, location, age, e-mail address), you should not register. Members are limited to one account per person. Persons caught registering for, using, or posting from multiple accounts will be permanently banned.
4. No blatant advertising of any kind unless you are a rescue organisation looking for help in re homing an animal or have had permission to advertise. This is aimed at commercial organisations rather than individuals and organisations that fund raise for rescues animal welfare groups. We are not interested in hearing about your company/web site/product/new song/gig/glowing rave underpants. This is a non-profit, community discussion forum, not a free advertising resource and offenders will be given a warning and face restrictions. Persistent spammers will be banned and reported to their ISPs - or worse.
5. Starting new threads. PLEASE give new threads concise and meaningful titles and post them into the appropriate forum. Vague titles (e.g., 'look at this!') just waste time and waste bandwidth. Please take the trouble to spell check your posts - a free spell checker is available for IE/PC users at http://www.iespell.com/
6. Replying to posts. Do not post up huge reams of cut and paste text, but make things easier for others by summarising the article and including a link to the unabridged version. Users who make a stream of posts with no meaningful content and/or continually post up off topic material in inappropriate threads/forums will be warned and eventually banned if ways are not mended.
Please note: because of server space and performance issues, old posts and entire threads may be deleted without warning - although where possible warnings will be given of any impending culls or purges. Cross posting topics/posts is not permissible without the prior permission of the original poster.
5. Starting new polls. If you wish to create a poll, carefully consider all the possible/relevant options BEFORE posting and ensure that there isn't already a poll on the same topic.
8. Trolling/direct linking. Do not directly link to 'hostile' web sites. Anyone found posting up malicious links and/or trying to stir up 'board wars' will be banned. Persistently disruptive posters will be banned. Repeated efforts to derail a debate could result in forum access termination. Deciding who is a troll or what constitutes troll like behaviour is the prerogative of the staff team.
9. Racism/personal abuse/defamatory postings/gratuitous swearing etc is not allowed. We welcome lively and robust debate and have no problem with swearing (where appropriate) but posters using these forums to re-enact infantile playground battles will be clipped around the ear by the milk monitor. Please respect people's privacy and refrain from posting up personal details without their permission. Do not mess about with user names or reveal peoples real names (unless they already appear in their user name, or they have themselves used that name on PetsIreland of course). Threads that descend into personal insult-a-thons will be edited and could end up being binned and the offending member placed on premod or banned.
10. Remember: the staff team run this site in their own time and for no profit or pay, so unprovoked or sustained digs or attacks may result in your posts being placed on moderated status or a ban - show some respect for their hard work! If you are unhappy with the moderation of a post or thread please contact the staff member via pm. Needling, baiting or attempting to point score with a staff member publicly or privately is not acceptable and will result in a warning, continuing after a warning could result in a temporary or permanent ban.
11. Posting pictures - Gore/shock-fest/explicit pics and porn are unacceptable. The maximum size for images is 640 x 480. You can check an image's size by right clicking on the image and selecting 'properties'. If you wish to refer to a larger image, write a short description and link to the image, including a reference to the full image size if possible. Any images above 640 pixels wide WILL be deleted or, if the staff has time, changed to a link. Pictures below this size will be removed at the moderator’s discretion if it is felt the user is going overboard with pictures, this is to ensure users on dial up do not have their use of the board spoiled by slow loading pages. Please respect copyright.
12. The Site does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any Content. You acknowledge that the Content cannot replace or substitute for the services of trained professionals in any field, including but not limited to, financial, medical, or legal matters.
13. 'Report this post' option. This is your way of helping the staff turf out troublesome posters/trollsters and advertisers. Please do not use it for anything other than posts that clearly break the rules listed here. If a post or thread disappears, DO NOT start a thread asking why - PM a staff member or post up a polite request for information in the feedback forum (and nowhere else) instead. This does not mean that the decision is up for discussion.
14. Nutters 'Sheeple'-accusing, bigoted gun nuts, ranting xenophobes, God-squad, disruptive 'comical' alter-egos, conspiraloons, fruitloops and small minded bigots are not welcome.
15. Private Messaging is provided to the members of PetsIreland as a service intended to enhance the Community experience. The purpose of private messaging is to allow for discreet conversations to take place between members. This privilege is not to be abused. Solicitation, spamming, or harassment of any kind is strictly forbidden. Any member receiving an inappropriate private message should forward that message to an Admin right away. Although private messages are normally only accessible by those who send and receive them, they are part of the database and as such, property of PetsIreland the administrator, if so inclined could locate the Private Messages in the database and read them. They are private, but not necessarily secret.
16. Legal stuff: Please respect the copyrighted work of others. Note that any material posted on these boards may be archived. Fair use policy is applied at this site.
17. The Management may, at its sole discretion, suspend or terminate the registration of any user who violates any of these terms of use, or for any behaviour that the Management, believes is inappropriate, regardless of whether or not a technical breach of the rules has or has not taken place.
18. If you decide to publicly proclaim that you are leaving this board forever, be sure you really mean it. You won't be welcomed back.
19. Membership of this site is at the sole discretion of the management. The forums and the chat rooms are provided for active members who wish to participate in an interactive online community. Non active members are liable to have their membership suspended and or removed without notice.
20. The interpretation of the rules is at the sole discretion of the management. They are not open for debate or discussion, if you do not like them you are free to leave. We understand there are thousands of other forums on the internet where you can moan bitch scream and cause trouble about at the owner’s expense. This isn’t one of them!
21. Premod/Banning/Temp bans If a user is placed on premod or banned they have two choices:
1. Apologise profusely to the staff in the hope of being reinstated.
2. Bugger off forever
Temporary bans can be implemented if a poster goes over the top - these usually last from 24hrs to a week. Banned posters trying to sneak back in will be re-banned immediately and permanently. Persistent attempts will result in a mail to their ISP.
If a poster is banned, DO NOT start a thread demanding an instant, in-depth explanation: politely PM a staff member instead (although we're under no obligation whatsoever to dedicate time to answering individual requests).
Temp and Weekend bans. Posters who are "temp banned" on a Friday will find their ban extended for the whole duration of the weekend (i.e. if you get banned on a Friday or a Saturday afternoon, you won't be allowed back on until Monday morning). An apology to the involved member of staff after a temp ban will go a long way to showing you are willing to abide by the rules in future.
Posters temp banned twice in a two week period will immediately be banned for seven days (i.e. the second temp ban in a two week period will automatically be extended to 7 days).
NOTE: Ignorance to our policies is not an acceptable excuse for violations. We want to provide a friendly community for everyone and protect the identity and privacy of all forums users.
Members who will enjoy posting here will have a sense of humour, be willing to take responsibility for what they choose to post & be able to deal with their own disputes privately or with limited intervention from the staff. Members should also be aware that humour is subjective and that you may sometimes not be amused by things your fellow members find funny, in which case we suggest you either report the post for the staff to consider or simply opt not to read the thread. The ability to "ignore" members whose posts irritate or annoy you has been provided, if you opt not to use it, that is your choice and you must accept the consequences. Members who continue to participate in threads they find uncomfortable are choosing to do so voluntarily and thus must take responsibility for their choices.
USEFUL LINKS
« Free spell checker
http://www.iespell.com/
« Internet Acronyms
http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/
« Thesaurus/dict
http://wordweb.info/
Parts of these guidelines are reproduced with the kind permission of the editor of the excellent Urban 75 web site. Cheers Ed
PetsIreland Posting FAQ and Rules
Please note: There are civil and criminal laws against certain forms of speech like libel, defamation of character, harassment and threats. Please contact us if you see any such content. It is the prerogative of any poster who feels any laws have been violated to pursue legal action. Posters are responsible for what they post, and should realise there may be serious consequences for illegal behaviour.
Suicide threats/threats of violence: The Admin at PetsIreland will ALWAYS contact a poster's ISP if we think there's the remotest chance that they may come to harm/harm others.
It is a condition of your registration that you read the following before posting on PetsIreland bulletin boards. See the Help Pages for registration and logging in/out problems.
1. Please read the boards for a while before posting: that way you won't repeat questions/threads that have already been asked. Use the 'search' function to see if your topic has already been discussed.
2. The use of the hidden log in is a privilege and not a right the availability of the hidden log in is at the sole discretion of the administrator.
3. Your user id and password are individual and may not be used by anyone else. Impersonation by another person using that password and name is an immediate ban. Members are required to enter and maintain accurate information in required fields (name, age, location, e-mail address) of their profiles at all times. Members who apply using false information or afterwards alter their profiles to remove or replace required fields with invalid entries are subject to loss of profile editing and/or posting privileges. Note that all profile information is viewable by other registered members. If you are uncomfortable with sharing the information required for registration (i.e., name, location, age, e-mail address), you should not register. Members are limited to one account per person. Persons caught registering for, using, or posting from multiple accounts will be permanently banned.
4. No blatant advertising of any kind unless you are a rescue organisation looking for help in re homing an animal or have had permission to advertise. This is aimed at commercial organisations rather than individuals and organisations that fund raise for rescues animal welfare groups. We are not interested in hearing about your company/web site/product/new song/gig/glowing rave underpants. This is a non-profit, community discussion forum, not a free advertising resource and offenders will be given a warning and face restrictions. Persistent spammers will be banned and reported to their ISPs - or worse.
5. Starting new threads. PLEASE give new threads concise and meaningful titles and post them into the appropriate forum. Vague titles (e.g., 'look at this!') just waste time and waste bandwidth. Please take the trouble to spell check your posts - a free spell checker is available for IE/PC users at http://www.iespell.com/
6. Replying to posts. Do not post up huge reams of cut and paste text, but make things easier for others by summarising the article and including a link to the unabridged version. Users who make a stream of posts with no meaningful content and/or continually post up off topic material in inappropriate threads/forums will be warned and eventually banned if ways are not mended.
Please note: because of server space and performance issues, old posts and entire threads may be deleted without warning - although where possible warnings will be given of any impending culls or purges. Cross posting topics/posts is not permissible without the prior permission of the original poster.
5. Starting new polls. If you wish to create a poll, carefully consider all the possible/relevant options BEFORE posting and ensure that there isn't already a poll on the same topic.
8. Trolling/direct linking. Do not directly link to 'hostile' web sites. Anyone found posting up malicious links and/or trying to stir up 'board wars' will be banned. Persistently disruptive posters will be banned. Repeated efforts to derail a debate could result in forum access termination. Deciding who is a troll or what constitutes troll like behaviour is the prerogative of the staff team.
9. Racism/personal abuse/defamatory postings/gratuitous swearing etc is not allowed. We welcome lively and robust debate and have no problem with swearing (where appropriate) but posters using these forums to re-enact infantile playground battles will be clipped around the ear by the milk monitor. Please respect people's privacy and refrain from posting up personal details without their permission. Do not mess about with user names or reveal peoples real names (unless they already appear in their user name, or they have themselves used that name on PetsIreland of course). Threads that descend into personal insult-a-thons will be edited and could end up being binned and the offending member placed on premod or banned.
10. Remember: the staff team run this site in their own time and for no profit or pay, so unprovoked or sustained digs or attacks may result in your posts being placed on moderated status or a ban - show some respect for their hard work! If you are unhappy with the moderation of a post or thread please contact the staff member via pm. Needling, baiting or attempting to point score with a staff member publicly or privately is not acceptable and will result in a warning, continuing after a warning could result in a temporary or permanent ban.
11. Posting pictures - Gore/shock-fest/explicit pics and porn are unacceptable. The maximum size for images is 640 x 480. You can check an image's size by right clicking on the image and selecting 'properties'. If you wish to refer to a larger image, write a short description and link to the image, including a reference to the full image size if possible. Any images above 640 pixels wide WILL be deleted or, if the staff has time, changed to a link. Pictures below this size will be removed at the moderator’s discretion if it is felt the user is going overboard with pictures, this is to ensure users on dial up do not have their use of the board spoiled by slow loading pages. Please respect copyright.
12. The Site does not guarantee the accuracy, integrity or quality of any Content. You acknowledge that the Content cannot replace or substitute for the services of trained professionals in any field, including but not limited to, financial, medical, or legal matters.
13. 'Report this post' option. This is your way of helping the staff turf out troublesome posters/trollsters and advertisers. Please do not use it for anything other than posts that clearly break the rules listed here. If a post or thread disappears, DO NOT start a thread asking why - PM a staff member or post up a polite request for information in the feedback forum (and nowhere else) instead. This does not mean that the decision is up for discussion.
14. Nutters 'Sheeple'-accusing, bigoted gun nuts, ranting xenophobes, God-squad, disruptive 'comical' alter-egos, conspiraloons, fruitloops and small minded bigots are not welcome.
15. Private Messaging is provided to the members of PetsIreland as a service intended to enhance the Community experience. The purpose of private messaging is to allow for discreet conversations to take place between members. This privilege is not to be abused. Solicitation, spamming, or harassment of any kind is strictly forbidden. Any member receiving an inappropriate private message should forward that message to an Admin right away. Although private messages are normally only accessible by those who send and receive them, they are part of the database and as such, property of PetsIreland the administrator, if so inclined could locate the Private Messages in the database and read them. They are private, but not necessarily secret.
16. Legal stuff: Please respect the copyrighted work of others. Note that any material posted on these boards may be archived. Fair use policy is applied at this site.
17. The Management may, at its sole discretion, suspend or terminate the registration of any user who violates any of these terms of use, or for any behaviour that the Management, believes is inappropriate, regardless of whether or not a technical breach of the rules has or has not taken place.
18. If you decide to publicly proclaim that you are leaving this board forever, be sure you really mean it. You won't be welcomed back.
19. Membership of this site is at the sole discretion of the management. The forums and the chat rooms are provided for active members who wish to participate in an interactive online community. Non active members are liable to have their membership suspended and or removed without notice.
20. The interpretation of the rules is at the sole discretion of the management. They are not open for debate or discussion, if you do not like them you are free to leave. We understand there are thousands of other forums on the internet where you can moan bitch scream and cause trouble about at the owner’s expense. This isn’t one of them!
21. Premod/Banning/Temp bans If a user is placed on premod or banned they have two choices:
1. Apologise profusely to the staff in the hope of being reinstated.
2. Bugger off forever
Temporary bans can be implemented if a poster goes over the top - these usually last from 24hrs to a week. Banned posters trying to sneak back in will be re-banned immediately and permanently. Persistent attempts will result in a mail to their ISP.
If a poster is banned, DO NOT start a thread demanding an instant, in-depth explanation: politely PM a staff member instead (although we're under no obligation whatsoever to dedicate time to answering individual requests).
Temp and Weekend bans. Posters who are "temp banned" on a Friday will find their ban extended for the whole duration of the weekend (i.e. if you get banned on a Friday or a Saturday afternoon, you won't be allowed back on until Monday morning). An apology to the involved member of staff after a temp ban will go a long way to showing you are willing to abide by the rules in future.
Posters temp banned twice in a two week period will immediately be banned for seven days (i.e. the second temp ban in a two week period will automatically be extended to 7 days).
NOTE: Ignorance to our policies is not an acceptable excuse for violations. We want to provide a friendly community for everyone and protect the identity and privacy of all forums users.
Members who will enjoy posting here will have a sense of humour, be willing to take responsibility for what they choose to post & be able to deal with their own disputes privately or with limited intervention from the staff. Members should also be aware that humour is subjective and that you may sometimes not be amused by things your fellow members find funny, in which case we suggest you either report the post for the staff to consider or simply opt not to read the thread. The ability to "ignore" members whose posts irritate or annoy you has been provided, if you opt not to use it, that is your choice and you must accept the consequences. Members who continue to participate in threads they find uncomfortable are choosing to do so voluntarily and thus must take responsibility for their choices.
USEFUL LINKS
« Free spell checker
http://www.iespell.com/
« Internet Acronyms
http://www.gaarde.org/acronyms/
« Thesaurus/dict
http://wordweb.info/
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