Forum Rules Please Read BEFORE Posting!
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 10:58 pm
• Forum rules
1. Members are expected to be tolerant of other members and their views, and to be courteous, considerate of others' feelings, and respectful to others. Flaming, rudeness, incivility or personal attacks arising from differences of opinion will not be tolerated, and may lead to a warning or being banned without notice, and if we have to warn you twice, expect to be banned if it happens again because we do not give a third warning.
2. If members see rule violations, please bring them to the attention of a Moderator or Admin to address rather than trying to handle it yourself, and we will decide if the offender should be reprimanded, warned or banned.
3. This board is open to opal and gem lovers of all ages, so post accordingly. Pornography or offensive text, images, or links will not be tolerated, and violators will only be warned once before being banned if it happens a second time.
4. Please respect copyrights of other users, sites, and media, etc. Posting material without obtaining permission may result in a warning and having the post removed. If your request for permission is ignored and goes unanswered, it is best to post a paragraph or two followed by the link to the story.
For important information and learning purposes you may place the following below an article you want to post in its entirety:
Copyright Law of the United States Title 17 § 107 Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
5. This is an English speaking community. Posts written in other languages will be deleted.
6. Please post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". Using all caps is considered to be SHOUTING, so anyone consistently doing so will be warned or banned.
7. Spam will not be tolerated under any circumstance.
8. The moderators have the right to edit, remove, or put any post in the moderation queue at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these rules is at the sole discretion of Admin and the moderators.
9. The same rules also apply to private messaging. Abuse of any sort in private messages could result in the loss messaging capabilities.
10. This is a Christian-owned and operated website, and blasphemy, insults or mocking Christians or our God, be it the Father, the Son our Lord Jesus, or the Holy Spirit will not be tolerated, and will result in offenders being banned without notice. Thanking the Lord and asking for prayers is allowed, but derogatory remarks are not. For discussions regarding Christianity please go to our sister site, http://www.christianforum.ca to post your thoughts so we can keep discussions on this forum focused on opals and gemstones.
11. Vulgarity or profanity, foul language or violent, disturbing, graphic or sexually explicit images or text are prohibited.
12. Promoting or proselytizing religious beliefs or religions, satanism or occultism are prohibited.
13. Links in signatures are permitted to your website, or affiliates you support that are not owned by you. Links to religious, extremist, pornographic, racist or other similar sites are prohibited.
14. Some people are very private, and we respect their privacy, so please use only screen names on the open board unless a poster signs their posts using their real name. Members' real names should be reserved for private communications only.
15. We have a section for selling that members are welcome to use as long as they agree to abide by the Code of Ethics as set forth by the Jewelers Ethics Association, which can be found here:
http://jewelersethicsassociation.com/ethics.html
Violations of the JEA Code of Ethics will result in the revocation of selling privileges.
16. There is one site whose links are forbidden to be posted on the board. The site is a forum many of you are familiar with that most of us refer to by their initials, as GO. We will not name them publicly, so if you are not familiar with them you can message us privately for more information.
The decision to ban links to them was made when we realized that about 1/3 of our current membership of 29 after just over a week since we launched, have either been banned by them, or attacked and insulted to the point where they left in disgust of their own accord; myself included.
So rather than have unsuspecting readers think we would refer people to them, and take a chance on them having a bad experience over there, we have decided that links to GO should be prohibited on this forum.
You may quote them, but no links are allowed because we think too highly of our members to send them into a lion's den where they're more likely to be attacked and insulted than get answers to their questions.
● By using this website, you acknowledge your acceptance and understanding of these rules. These rules apply to all communications made on this site.
● Noncompliance with the rules may result in posts being edited or deleted, and not heeding warnings will result in being banned from the site.
● opalholicsanonymous.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify these rules without notice or warning. It is your responsibility to review these rules from time to time to ensure compliance.
● opalholicsanonymous.com reserves the right to edit, remove, move, or close any thread deemed inappropriate.
● The content of all posted links must comply with opalholicsanonymous.com rules.
● opalholicsanonymous.com, its owners, and staff will not be held responsible for any advice given, or posts made on this site. All advice or posts reflect the views and opinions of the poster, and not necessarily those of the management.
We want to have as few rules as possible to encourage a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. If you have any questions as to whether something is permitted or not, please contact Admin or a moderator for an opinion prior to posting.
Hopefully these few rules will suffice, but if not we will add additional rules, and try to notify you on the board of the updated rules so you'll know to read them again.
Enjoy yourself, and just remember; we all play nice, and bullies aren't allowed on the playground. So go have fun, and welcome to opalholicsanonymous.com!
PinkDiamond
1. Members are expected to be tolerant of other members and their views, and to be courteous, considerate of others' feelings, and respectful to others. Flaming, rudeness, incivility or personal attacks arising from differences of opinion will not be tolerated, and may lead to a warning or being banned without notice, and if we have to warn you twice, expect to be banned if it happens again because we do not give a third warning.
2. If members see rule violations, please bring them to the attention of a Moderator or Admin to address rather than trying to handle it yourself, and we will decide if the offender should be reprimanded, warned or banned.
3. This board is open to opal and gem lovers of all ages, so post accordingly. Pornography or offensive text, images, or links will not be tolerated, and violators will only be warned once before being banned if it happens a second time.
4. Please respect copyrights of other users, sites, and media, etc. Posting material without obtaining permission may result in a warning and having the post removed. If your request for permission is ignored and goes unanswered, it is best to post a paragraph or two followed by the link to the story.
For important information and learning purposes you may place the following below an article you want to post in its entirety:
Copyright Law of the United States Title 17 § 107 Limitations on exclusive rights: Fair use
Notwithstanding the provisions of sections 106 and 106A, the fair use of a copyrighted work, including such use by reproduction in copies or phonorecords or by any other means specified by that section, for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching (including multiple copies for classroom use), scholarship, or research, is not an infringement of copyright.
5. This is an English speaking community. Posts written in other languages will be deleted.
6. Please post in a way which is consistent with "normal writing". Using all caps is considered to be SHOUTING, so anyone consistently doing so will be warned or banned.
7. Spam will not be tolerated under any circumstance.
8. The moderators have the right to edit, remove, or put any post in the moderation queue at any time. The determination of what is construed as indecent, vulgar, spam, etc. as noted in these rules is at the sole discretion of Admin and the moderators.
9. The same rules also apply to private messaging. Abuse of any sort in private messages could result in the loss messaging capabilities.
10. This is a Christian-owned and operated website, and blasphemy, insults or mocking Christians or our God, be it the Father, the Son our Lord Jesus, or the Holy Spirit will not be tolerated, and will result in offenders being banned without notice. Thanking the Lord and asking for prayers is allowed, but derogatory remarks are not. For discussions regarding Christianity please go to our sister site, http://www.christianforum.ca to post your thoughts so we can keep discussions on this forum focused on opals and gemstones.
11. Vulgarity or profanity, foul language or violent, disturbing, graphic or sexually explicit images or text are prohibited.
12. Promoting or proselytizing religious beliefs or religions, satanism or occultism are prohibited.
13. Links in signatures are permitted to your website, or affiliates you support that are not owned by you. Links to religious, extremist, pornographic, racist or other similar sites are prohibited.
14. Some people are very private, and we respect their privacy, so please use only screen names on the open board unless a poster signs their posts using their real name. Members' real names should be reserved for private communications only.
15. We have a section for selling that members are welcome to use as long as they agree to abide by the Code of Ethics as set forth by the Jewelers Ethics Association, which can be found here:
http://jewelersethicsassociation.com/ethics.html
Violations of the JEA Code of Ethics will result in the revocation of selling privileges.
16. There is one site whose links are forbidden to be posted on the board. The site is a forum many of you are familiar with that most of us refer to by their initials, as GO. We will not name them publicly, so if you are not familiar with them you can message us privately for more information.
The decision to ban links to them was made when we realized that about 1/3 of our current membership of 29 after just over a week since we launched, have either been banned by them, or attacked and insulted to the point where they left in disgust of their own accord; myself included.
So rather than have unsuspecting readers think we would refer people to them, and take a chance on them having a bad experience over there, we have decided that links to GO should be prohibited on this forum.
You may quote them, but no links are allowed because we think too highly of our members to send them into a lion's den where they're more likely to be attacked and insulted than get answers to their questions.
● By using this website, you acknowledge your acceptance and understanding of these rules. These rules apply to all communications made on this site.
● Noncompliance with the rules may result in posts being edited or deleted, and not heeding warnings will result in being banned from the site.
● opalholicsanonymous.com reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify these rules without notice or warning. It is your responsibility to review these rules from time to time to ensure compliance.
● opalholicsanonymous.com reserves the right to edit, remove, move, or close any thread deemed inappropriate.
● The content of all posted links must comply with opalholicsanonymous.com rules.
● opalholicsanonymous.com, its owners, and staff will not be held responsible for any advice given, or posts made on this site. All advice or posts reflect the views and opinions of the poster, and not necessarily those of the management.
We want to have as few rules as possible to encourage a relaxed and friendly atmosphere. If you have any questions as to whether something is permitted or not, please contact Admin or a moderator for an opinion prior to posting.
Hopefully these few rules will suffice, but if not we will add additional rules, and try to notify you on the board of the updated rules so you'll know to read them again.
Enjoy yourself, and just remember; we all play nice, and bullies aren't allowed on the playground. So go have fun, and welcome to opalholicsanonymous.com!
PinkDiamond