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By becoming a member of All Things Feathered, you are signing a contract to follow the rules of a private messageboard. We own it so therefore we control it. If you don't like the rules and don't want to abide by them - then leave.
The rules are to be added upon at any time deamed necessary to amended them. The template of the rules is based upon the server owner's policies. If the rules are violated, All Things Feathered will be taken down, so don't do it.
We are all adults here, so therefore, there is no reason for anything above PG-13 related comments and content. We are not children, and there may perhaps be children among us a times - so avoid saying/posting anything that could be objectionable to little sponges. Our moderating team has the abilities to censor anything they feel to be a violation in these regulations. Users have the ability to report users and posts to the moderators to any content they feel inappropriate (the moderators will then discuss how each case should be treated).
Cut the crap, here are the rules:
Prohibited Content:
You may not post, upload, link to, or email any Content that contains, promotes, gives instruction about, or provides prohibited Content. Prohibited Content includes any Content that breaks any local, state, county, national or international law. Prohibited Content also includes: (a) Content that infringes upon any rights [ex. MP3s and ROMs] (including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks); (b) Abusive, threatening, defamatory, racist, or obscene; c) Viruses or any other harmful computer software; (d) False Information or libel; (e) Spam, chain letters, or Pyramid schemes; (f) Gambling or Illicit drugs; (g) Terrorism; (h) Hacking or cheating for internet/online games; (i) Warez, Roms, CD-Keys, Cracks, Passwords, or Serial Numbers; (j) Pornography, nudity, or sexual material of any kind; (k) Excessive profanity; (l) Invasive of privacy or impersonation of any person/entity; and (m) Hacking materials or information.
Rights to Posted Content:
Any content uploaded or posted to All Things Feathered will be stored by GoDaddy.com (server owner).
Our rules:
MODERATORS' CODE OF CONDUCT
1. Moderators will generally not censor content, but we reserve the right to censor style. In other words, we care less about what you say than how you say it. You may criticize, complain, disagree, etc. - but keep it civil and respectful.
2. Moderators reserve the right to warn, temporarily restrict, or permanently ban members at their descretion for violating these rules.
3. Moderators reserve the right to close, move, hide, delete, and/or edit posts at their descretion for violating any of these rules.
4. Moderators will provide notifications and/or warnings to first-time offenders of these rules (we all make mistakes and need an opportunity to correct them). However, moderators reserve the right to take stronger action without warning for repeat offenders.
5. This board is a public service provided for the benefit of bird enthusiasts everywhere. In this spirit, we will restrict any commercial announcements to the Classifieds area and not otherwise see the board used for blatant commercial posts.
6. Administrators and Moderators are members with extra buttons and a duty to enforce the rules. They are to be treated as members until stated otherwise.
MEMBERS' CODE OF CONDUCT
1. Do not post in multiple areas or post in the most trafficed areas just to get your post viewed more. Place each post once in the most appropriate area.
2. No group purchases shall be organized in public. Please use private email and PM if you want to arrange bulk/discount purchases of items.
3. If you are a product or service vendor, your expert advice about your product or service is most welcome here when it is solicited by other members. Otherwise, please restrict anything that resembles an advertisement or sales pitch to the Classified Ads section of this forum.
4. Each person is allowed one account. Do not attempt to register for multiple accounts for posting under multiple aliases. Multiple active accounts may result in one or all of them being removed. If you need help using your account, please contact a moderator. If you have multiple household members that each want their own account, this is allowed as long as you notify the moderators about each account after registering them. If you post in a thread stating that you're leaving the forums, you will be banned, as you will obviously not be requiring your account anymore. This is to stop all you pathetic drama queens out there.
5. No public fighting. If you have a complaint with another member or even a moderator, report it to the moderators or contact that member privately to voice your concerns. We want this board to be a friendly place where all feel welcome. Public bickering between members creates a negative atmosphere here and repeat offenses can result in your account being restricted or banned.
6. No personal attacks (physical ability, etc), threats, racial/ethnic slurs, gender/sexual orientation attacks, or similarly hateful postings, emails, or PMs are allowed at all. You will be banned for violating this, no questions.
7. No vulgar or sexual pictures (including avatars) or language are allowed. This includes links to external material. We are adults here, so PG-13ish language is tolerated, but we must also be respectful of others. Intentionally misspelling words to subvert filters may result in immediate limitations to your access.
8. Be respectful of other's questions and comments! It is OK to disagree with someone, but do so politely. Avoid criticisms that belittle another member's questions or comments. Keep the All Things Feathered atmosphere friendly and encouraging of everyone's participation.
9. No spamming, chainletters, or referral requests. Don't ask us to click on links or otherwise be referred so that you can earn points towards an ipod (or anything else).
10. All Things Feathered allows you to attach a customized signature to each of your posts. Naturally, this signature must conform to all the rules above. Additionally though, it must contain no more than a few images and limited lines of text. The total signature must be no larger than 400x200 and have a combined weight of less than 300KB. This is to stop the "ugly sig" syndrome that crawls into so many forums. Sigs that we consider to be ugly, stupid, or in poor taste will be edited. Restoring them to their pre-edit state will result in a ban.
11. Keep all your hot-linked images below 500 pixels wide and 300KB in size. As much as you may think it's hilarious to post an image which causes everyone to spend fifteen minutes scrolling past it, we really do not care for it. Also, the forums are designed to be usable for people on a 56k modem, so posting a few megabytes of images in the middle of a thread is extremely poor form. But, if you must for important reasons, the preferred method is posting a clickable link or indicating in the thread title "*image heavy*".
12. Speaking of images, image-leeching is not permitted. This means, if you're going to use img tag to link to an image, make sure that either you pay the site's bandwidth bills, you have permission from the person who does pay the bills, or you have clearance from the All Things Feathered administration.
13. No posting of personal "real world" information of others. No email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, etc. of anyone other than yourself. If you post your personal information, understand that to do so you must be over 18 and doing it at your own risk. ATF will not be held responsible for what arises if you post your personal information on the internet.
14. Posting of harmful information not allowed. Harmful information is deemed information that is personal in nature (personal email, IM, PM, etc) that may cause the person who received or wrote the email/IM/PM ill will or harm. But does not include emails from manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, rescue or breeder affiliates or other public figures.
15. Malicious Gossip and Speech: Anyone engaging in malicious talk (as defined as gossip, speech or text with the intention to defame someone's character or name calling) about another member of this board is breaking the rules. Such behavior is contrary to the spirit of a community and will not be tolerated. People engaging in such behavior will be warned, then have their accounts suspended, and if they continue, be banned from the community.
16. CHAT: ALL the board rules including PG13 contents apply to the Main chatroom; however if you wish to chat in Private - please use the add function and open a new chatroom, then pick your participants. Please be advised that we do have logs of all chatrooms, but not Private One-on-One chat. Even though we will not sensor the rating of your Private Chat room discussion - we will enforce civility and other applicable rules. Just because you don't see a mod there - doesn't mean a mod cannot see you. ALL 18+ topics MUST be discussed in a Private chatroom.
17. People who repeatedly endanger the lives of their animals will not be welcome on this board. When a member refuses to take action that would help their animals they not only make other member's sick with worry for the animals in their care, but they undermine the educational mission of this board- one where we hope everyone can learn and grow and improve.
18. ATF is not a wildlife rehabilitation forum and does not have the expertise to advise on the following subject. Also, ATF is against any non-professional member brining wildlife in their house or under their care - there are reasons why there are professional wildlife rehabilitators. You are welcome to come and ask questions on the proper action or ask for help to be connected to the proper agency. BUT we ask that you do not post any pictures, stories or video of "How cute your wild Bigfoot is in your kitchen". It sends the wrong message in our opinion. We support Wild staying Wild.
The rules are to be added upon at any time deamed necessary to amended them. The template of the rules is based upon the server owner's policies. If the rules are violated, All Things Feathered will be taken down, so don't do it.
We are all adults here, so therefore, there is no reason for anything above PG-13 related comments and content. We are not children, and there may perhaps be children among us a times - so avoid saying/posting anything that could be objectionable to little sponges. Our moderating team has the abilities to censor anything they feel to be a violation in these regulations. Users have the ability to report users and posts to the moderators to any content they feel inappropriate (the moderators will then discuss how each case should be treated).
Cut the crap, here are the rules:
Prohibited Content:
You may not post, upload, link to, or email any Content that contains, promotes, gives instruction about, or provides prohibited Content. Prohibited Content includes any Content that breaks any local, state, county, national or international law. Prohibited Content also includes: (a) Content that infringes upon any rights [ex. MP3s and ROMs] (including, but not limited to, copyrights and trademarks); (b) Abusive, threatening, defamatory, racist, or obscene; c) Viruses or any other harmful computer software; (d) False Information or libel; (e) Spam, chain letters, or Pyramid schemes; (f) Gambling or Illicit drugs; (g) Terrorism; (h) Hacking or cheating for internet/online games; (i) Warez, Roms, CD-Keys, Cracks, Passwords, or Serial Numbers; (j) Pornography, nudity, or sexual material of any kind; (k) Excessive profanity; (l) Invasive of privacy or impersonation of any person/entity; and (m) Hacking materials or information.
Rights to Posted Content:
Any content uploaded or posted to All Things Feathered will be stored by GoDaddy.com (server owner).
Our rules:
MODERATORS' CODE OF CONDUCT
1. Moderators will generally not censor content, but we reserve the right to censor style. In other words, we care less about what you say than how you say it. You may criticize, complain, disagree, etc. - but keep it civil and respectful.
2. Moderators reserve the right to warn, temporarily restrict, or permanently ban members at their descretion for violating these rules.
3. Moderators reserve the right to close, move, hide, delete, and/or edit posts at their descretion for violating any of these rules.
4. Moderators will provide notifications and/or warnings to first-time offenders of these rules (we all make mistakes and need an opportunity to correct them). However, moderators reserve the right to take stronger action without warning for repeat offenders.
5. This board is a public service provided for the benefit of bird enthusiasts everywhere. In this spirit, we will restrict any commercial announcements to the Classifieds area and not otherwise see the board used for blatant commercial posts.
6. Administrators and Moderators are members with extra buttons and a duty to enforce the rules. They are to be treated as members until stated otherwise.
MEMBERS' CODE OF CONDUCT
1. Do not post in multiple areas or post in the most trafficed areas just to get your post viewed more. Place each post once in the most appropriate area.
2. No group purchases shall be organized in public. Please use private email and PM if you want to arrange bulk/discount purchases of items.
3. If you are a product or service vendor, your expert advice about your product or service is most welcome here when it is solicited by other members. Otherwise, please restrict anything that resembles an advertisement or sales pitch to the Classified Ads section of this forum.
4. Each person is allowed one account. Do not attempt to register for multiple accounts for posting under multiple aliases. Multiple active accounts may result in one or all of them being removed. If you need help using your account, please contact a moderator. If you have multiple household members that each want their own account, this is allowed as long as you notify the moderators about each account after registering them. If you post in a thread stating that you're leaving the forums, you will be banned, as you will obviously not be requiring your account anymore. This is to stop all you pathetic drama queens out there.
5. No public fighting. If you have a complaint with another member or even a moderator, report it to the moderators or contact that member privately to voice your concerns. We want this board to be a friendly place where all feel welcome. Public bickering between members creates a negative atmosphere here and repeat offenses can result in your account being restricted or banned.
6. No personal attacks (physical ability, etc), threats, racial/ethnic slurs, gender/sexual orientation attacks, or similarly hateful postings, emails, or PMs are allowed at all. You will be banned for violating this, no questions.
7. No vulgar or sexual pictures (including avatars) or language are allowed. This includes links to external material. We are adults here, so PG-13ish language is tolerated, but we must also be respectful of others. Intentionally misspelling words to subvert filters may result in immediate limitations to your access.
8. Be respectful of other's questions and comments! It is OK to disagree with someone, but do so politely. Avoid criticisms that belittle another member's questions or comments. Keep the All Things Feathered atmosphere friendly and encouraging of everyone's participation.
9. No spamming, chainletters, or referral requests. Don't ask us to click on links or otherwise be referred so that you can earn points towards an ipod (or anything else).
10. All Things Feathered allows you to attach a customized signature to each of your posts. Naturally, this signature must conform to all the rules above. Additionally though, it must contain no more than a few images and limited lines of text. The total signature must be no larger than 400x200 and have a combined weight of less than 300KB. This is to stop the "ugly sig" syndrome that crawls into so many forums. Sigs that we consider to be ugly, stupid, or in poor taste will be edited. Restoring them to their pre-edit state will result in a ban.
11. Keep all your hot-linked images below 500 pixels wide and 300KB in size. As much as you may think it's hilarious to post an image which causes everyone to spend fifteen minutes scrolling past it, we really do not care for it. Also, the forums are designed to be usable for people on a 56k modem, so posting a few megabytes of images in the middle of a thread is extremely poor form. But, if you must for important reasons, the preferred method is posting a clickable link or indicating in the thread title "*image heavy*".
12. Speaking of images, image-leeching is not permitted. This means, if you're going to use img tag to link to an image, make sure that either you pay the site's bandwidth bills, you have permission from the person who does pay the bills, or you have clearance from the All Things Feathered administration.
13. No posting of personal "real world" information of others. No email addresses, phone numbers, addresses, etc. of anyone other than yourself. If you post your personal information, understand that to do so you must be over 18 and doing it at your own risk. ATF will not be held responsible for what arises if you post your personal information on the internet.
14. Posting of harmful information not allowed. Harmful information is deemed information that is personal in nature (personal email, IM, PM, etc) that may cause the person who received or wrote the email/IM/PM ill will or harm. But does not include emails from manufacturers, suppliers, retailers, rescue or breeder affiliates or other public figures.
15. Malicious Gossip and Speech: Anyone engaging in malicious talk (as defined as gossip, speech or text with the intention to defame someone's character or name calling) about another member of this board is breaking the rules. Such behavior is contrary to the spirit of a community and will not be tolerated. People engaging in such behavior will be warned, then have their accounts suspended, and if they continue, be banned from the community.
16. CHAT: ALL the board rules including PG13 contents apply to the Main chatroom; however if you wish to chat in Private - please use the add function and open a new chatroom, then pick your participants. Please be advised that we do have logs of all chatrooms, but not Private One-on-One chat. Even though we will not sensor the rating of your Private Chat room discussion - we will enforce civility and other applicable rules. Just because you don't see a mod there - doesn't mean a mod cannot see you. ALL 18+ topics MUST be discussed in a Private chatroom.
17. People who repeatedly endanger the lives of their animals will not be welcome on this board. When a member refuses to take action that would help their animals they not only make other member's sick with worry for the animals in their care, but they undermine the educational mission of this board- one where we hope everyone can learn and grow and improve.
18. ATF is not a wildlife rehabilitation forum and does not have the expertise to advise on the following subject. Also, ATF is against any non-professional member brining wildlife in their house or under their care - there are reasons why there are professional wildlife rehabilitators. You are welcome to come and ask questions on the proper action or ask for help to be connected to the proper agency. BUT we ask that you do not post any pictures, stories or video of "How cute your wild Bigfoot is in your kitchen". It sends the wrong message in our opinion. We support Wild staying Wild.