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12-04-2009, 04:50 PM
The TriStateFans.com forums is expanding tremendously and we thank all of you for being a part of this growing community. In order to keep the forums running well and to prevent problems, please follow these simple rules for the forums here. If you have any questions or problems, please feel free to contact one of the Staff Members.
General Rules
• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters, and justice will be swift and without mercy.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• This is a SPORTS forum, not a political or religious form. If you want to talk about religion or politics, please feel free to do so on forums that are set up for those topics, not here. We do not allow posts or links to sites that are religious or political in nature. The TriStateFans.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate this rule. We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members. Announcing events that will occur on radio, television or in print IS specifically allowed.
• We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate TriStateFans.com community standards. The TriStateFans.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed. Users may only post pictures that are in the public domain or that they hold the copyright to.
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
• Posts discussing moderator actions are also not allowed.
• Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
• You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right.
Advertising Services and Solicitation
We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and soliciting in signatures is also prohibited. The only exception to this rule is for local sports oriented newspaper, radio, television advertising, and local sports photography advertising. These are allowed.
Links in signatures must follow these guidelines
• Linking to a commercial product/service is fine.
• Promotional text for a commercial product or service is ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
• A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate TriStateFans.com community standards. The TriStateFans.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
• Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.
Avatars
• Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry.
• Use of the TriStateFans.com logo in avatars is not allowed.
Signature Size Limits
All signatures should not exceed the following limits
• You can't have both text and images in your sig
• For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
• Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
• For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
• Animated images in a signature are not allowed
Moderation
Although the administrators and moderators of TriStateFans.com Community Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of TriStateFans.com will be held responsible for the content of any message.
By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.
The owners of TriStateFans.com Community Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.
TriStateFans.com is an equal opportunity forum and is open to all without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, sexual orientation or affectional preference, military status or disability. Moderators of TriStateFans.com will remove any posts that violate this or any rule without prior notification, and the poster may be suspended or banned.
Addendum
We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.
General Rules
• While debating and discussion is fine, we will not tolerate rudeness, insulting posts, personal attacks or purposeless inflammatory posts. Our decision is final in these matters, and justice will be swift and without mercy.
• Please refrain from posting meaningless threads, one word (or short) non-sense posts, or the such.
• This is a SPORTS forum, not a political or religious form. If you want to talk about religion or politics, please feel free to do so on forums that are set up for those topics, not here. We do not allow posts or links to sites that are religious or political in nature. The TriStateFans.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate this rule. We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• Advertising, spamming and trolling is not allowed. This includes using the forum, email, visitor messages, blog comments, picture comments and private message systems to spam other members. Announcing events that will occur on radio, television or in print IS specifically allowed.
• We also do not allow posts or links to sites that are sexual in nature or violate TriStateFans.com community standards. The TriStateFans.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards.We reserve the right to remove offensive posts without notice.
• Discussion of illegal activities such as software and music piracy and other intellectual property violations are not allowed. Users may only post pictures that are in the public domain or that they hold the copyright to.
• Each member is allowed one login account. Registering with multiple accounts is not allowed.
• Posts discussing moderator actions are also not allowed.
• Also while these rules cover most common situations, they cannot anticipate everything. Consequently we reserve the right to take any actions we deem appropriate to ensure these forums are not disrupted or abused in any way.
• You cannot post any affiliate or referral links, or post anything asking for a referral. Such posts will be subject to removal.
• You cannot post advertisements or notices for contests.
• We also reserve the right to ban anyone who willfully violates the forum rules, as access to our forums are a privilege and not a right.
Advertising Services and Solicitation
We do not allow people to post threads or to send private messages or emails to users here that advertise or solicit any products, services, funds or donations. Explicit advertising and soliciting in signatures is also prohibited. The only exception to this rule is for local sports oriented newspaper, radio, television advertising, and local sports photography advertising. These are allowed.
Links in signatures must follow these guidelines
• Linking to a commercial product/service is fine.
• Promotional text for a commercial product or service is ok, provided there are no price(s) of product(s) or service(s) listed.
• A link and promotional text for a site that is not commercial and does not contain product(s) and/or service(s) is allowed, provided the site is not sexual or does not violate TriStateFans.com community standards. The TriStateFans.com team shall be the sole arbitrator of what does and what does not violate community standards. (Examples include sites about drugs and/or sex.)
• Duplicate links to the same URL in a signature are not allowed.
Avatars
• Animated avatars are not allowed. Sorry.
• Use of the TriStateFans.com logo in avatars is not allowed.
Signature Size Limits
All signatures should not exceed the following limits
• You can't have both text and images in your sig
• For text signatures: 4 lines normal size, 8 lines small size and up to 90 chars per line. Font sizes above 2 are not allowed. (Blank lines count as lines.)
• Do not use images with large text to bypass the previous item
• For images in signatures: 1 image up to 300 pixels wide, 125 pixels tall and 20k in size
• Animated images in a signature are not allowed
Moderation
Although the administrators and moderators of TriStateFans.com Community Forum will attempt to keep all objectionable messages off this forum, it is impossible for us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and neither the owners of TriStateFans.com will be held responsible for the content of any message.
By agreeing to these rules, you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.
The owners of TriStateFans.com Community Forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread for any reason.
TriStateFans.com is an equal opportunity forum and is open to all without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, disability, age, sexual orientation or affectional preference, military status or disability. Moderators of TriStateFans.com will remove any posts that violate this or any rule without prior notification, and the poster may be suspended or banned.
Addendum
We reserve the right to update and modify these rules as the needs of the community dictate to ensure the smooth operation of this community.