We are updating the rules page. At some point later this evening or tomorrow, when you come to GliderCENTRAL you will have to agree to the rules again.

We have not added any new rules. We cleaned up the page making it easier to read, and we also added links to our policy's on certain topics such as rescue, drama, classifieds, etc. so they were easily found and on the rules page.

The only change to a rule was the wording on rule 1 which use to read

1. Do not share your registration, each individual person must have his/her own login information.

It now reads

1. Do not share your registration, Each member may have only ONE account.

Here is what the new rules page will look like, again no new rules were added, it was purely cosmetic and switching the wording to rule 1 discussed above.

Last updated 8/30/10

RULE 1 has been changed to specify each member can only have one account. The only other changes made were cosmetics and adding links to certain policy's so they can be found easier

GliderCENTRAL's Rules, Policies, and Disclaimers

GliderCENTRAL is a private message board and website. Its upkeep is provided by its owners. The owners reserve the right to refuse and/or terminate membership at any time without reason. Thank you for helping us keep this board a friendly, helpful, G rated board for the entire family. These rules apply to our PM system as well. Complaints of abuse through the PM system will be handled in the same matter as we do for the board. Please be sure to read this post for further policy. Please address questions, concerns or suggestions to any moderator or board administrator.

For further clarification on certain Policy's please use the links bellow.

• Drama Posts
• Rescues
• Mill Breeder/Brokers
• Classifieds
• Pm's and Posts

Our main goal at GliderCENTRAL is for the Good of the Glider, and to help the owners help and care for their glider. These rules are not in place to censor anyone. They are here to protect our members.

1. Do not share your registration, each member may have only ONE account. If you do not remember your login name or password, please contact us. All members must keep a current, working email address at all times.

2. Do not post names, phone numbers, addresses, personal email or correspondence without the other parties permission. Due to copyright laws, do not cut and paste articles from another site. Please use a link instead. Comments of glider related businesses and web sites will be allowed by name as long as the discussion is kept on topic and within reason. Personal bashing will not be tolerated.

3. Please keep the posts closely related to the topic. If the topic sparks another thought for discussion, please open a new thread. Post messages in the most appropriate forum. Please refrain from posting the same message in more than one forum. Only one of those messages will remain posted. Do not be offended if moderators move your thread to a forum that fits your topic. In a large forum like ours, this kind of housekeeping is necessary. It is not personal. Please do not use excessive CAPS or bold lettering. It makes your message very hard to read and implies you are shouting.

4. GliderCENTRAL is a family oriented "G" rated board. Be polite, courteous and respectful to other board members at all times. This means illegal substances, illegal activities, flaming, sexually explicit subjects, cursing, spamming, harassing, policing, diet bashing, and abusive or negative personal posts are not allowed. Posts and sometimes entire topics that contain such content will be removed, and the poster(s) may be warned, suspended or banned at the discretion of the board administrators. Abuse, flaming or inappropriate comments directed toward GliderCENTRAL, its Moderators and Administrators, or failure to comply with the direction of a Moderator or Administrator, the poster(s) may be warned, suspended or banned at the discretion of the board administrators. Please keep any personal matters off the board. Take it to email or pm. Please keep in mind that board rules do apply when using the PM feature. Since we are a G rated board, the decision has been made not to allow any web blog links like below due to non G rated material on them.

no news links or web blogs	Myspace
facethejury.com	hotornot.com
Okupid.com	Xanga
You Tube	paltalk

**** We cannot possibly cover every website individually so any website which leads to non G-rated material will be removed ****

Rule 4 violations:

• First offense = Will be a warning or suspension depending on severity
• Further offense's = actions will be determined by admin.
• Third offense = Will be decided by GliderCENTRAL admin.

5. Fund raisers including but not limited to auctions, raffles, sales of services or goods intended for non-profit use must be approved by the board Administration before posting on GliderCENTRAL. Solicitation for free or price-reduced gliders, donations, or goods is not permitted without prior approval of an administrator.

6. Do not suggest medication dosages. It is very important for everyone to understand that gliders must be taken to a Vet for proper treatment of many injuries and illnesses. GliderCENTRAL will not be responsible for any treatments given to your gliders because of the advice of any member or staff. Our strong advice is that you take your glider to a Vet for medical advice and treatments.

7. Avatars, Images, and Smilies. All images must comply with Rule 4.

• Avatars: must be in good taste and not violent or sexual in nature.
• Signatures: The signature limit is set to 300 characters max. Only board icons are allowed in your signature. Please limit your gremlins/smilies to 6 in your signature.
• Pictures: Are allowed, sparingly, when it adds to the post's understanding. For showing off gliders, please use the GliderGALLERY. All pictures may not be greater than 250x250 pixels.
• Gremlins/Smilies: Only board smilies are allowed.

8. Classifieds

*********By advertising on GliderCENTRAL either through a post or the pm system, the owners and admin reserves the right to add your name to the Buyers Beware List and or the Colony Alert depending on offense.*********

• Advertising is not allowed on the forums except in the Classified section of the board and must be glider related. Ads will stay for 30 days. Ads can be posted by the seller or buyer only. No third party ads. No xBay (links to outside auction and classified sites) allowed except in the links section, no promoting the sale of your items on xbay sites. No posting for the rehoming of rescues in ClassifiedCENTRAL. Please read here about posting in RescueCENTRAL. You may have one ad in each subforum. You may only bump your ad once within a 7 day period. If you are removed from classified privileges, this also includes the links database, profile, signature, etc. If you double post, your newest ad will be deleted without notice. Ads will remain active for 30 days. Please read here for more clarification.
• Any person who posts to an ad in the classified section whose only intent is to cause trouble and has no intention of purchasing the glider(s) or item for sale, will be handed a suspension from GliderCENTRAL.
• If your account is suspended and is found to be using the pm system to advertise the sale or purchase of that account will loose PM privileges permanently and serve a suspension from the board for a period of time to be determined at the time of the offense.

Illegal States/Areas

• Any account found to be residing in an illegal state and or illegal areas, will have privileges removed from the glider ads section of the classifieds, not the glider things section.
• If such account is found to be using the PM system to advertise the sale or purchase of a glider, that account will loose PM privileges permanently and serve a suspension from the board for a period of time to be determined at the time of the offense.

Suspensions from ClassifiedCENTRAL

• First offense = 14 day ban from GliderCENTRAL
• Second offense = 30 day ban from GliderCENTRAL
• Third offense will be decided by GliderCENTRAL admin.

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I wanted to get feedback from the members and those who are fans of GliderCENTRAL's fan page. I don't want to flood the fans with lots of posts, but was wondering if everyone would like to see more posts on the fan page, such as when the poll is created for the Photo of the week, or when the contest is opened starting a new week new post in the er forum, stuff like that.

Please feel free to offer suggestions and your opinions. All will be looked at and considered

We have just created a new poll containing 25 different diets people feed their Sugar Gliders. It has been about 2 years since we did the last poll so get your votes in and lets see if things have changed over the last 2 years.

You can find the poll here

http://www.glidercentral.net/ubbthreads/...year#Post996561

A month and a half ago we posted asking members to no longer post links to online websites for resizing photos due to malware on those sites.

The developer of our software has started a new site specifically for this called cranno. There are many tools you can use at this site and it's all for free. Rick's services are great and this would be the only site I would suggest for this as I know if any problems arise, he would have it fixed in no time.

They have suggested file sizes for images and you can also manually specify the image size you would like. I will be adding the link http://cranno.com on the profile page so users can click there to resize their photo for an avatar with the proper dimensions.

This site offers

• Upload an image(single) or zip archive(Bulk)
• Text Watermarking
• Image Format Options

They do not keep your photos like most sites, they are deleted when your browser session is complete.

With the latest update, integrations with facebook have started. A future upgrade will bring in a lot more integration with facebook and the way users can interact with their facebook account and GliderCENTRAL account.

We are testing some things out now, such as news posts like this being posted straight to the GliderCENTRAL fan page. I know some jobs may block the buttons and such and we will look for a way so that it doesn't display an error saying cannot connect.

With all the different things going on in the community recently, we feel we should let our members know where we stand, what we will tolerate, and what we will not.

GliderCENTRAL is here to help gliders in any way we can. We are here for members when they need help and we continue to try and improve on this every day. Recent events have taken place that caused chaos not only here on GliderCENTRAL but throughout the entire glider community.

We consider mill breeders/brokers to be equally to blame, one is no better than the other. However, we will not allow bashing of mill brokers or mill breeders.

We do applaud the steps that some have taken in bridging the gap between the community and mill breeders/brokers. As we have stated, as long as changes are made to improve the care and information given for gliders from mill breeders/brokers, we will allow and even encourage productive discussions on this subject here on GliderCENTRAL.

What we will not tolerate is those same people harassing or forcing their opinions on others by using what they call facts simply because they were told by a mill breeder/broker. Nor will the Owners of GliderCENTRAL work with a middle person or spokesperson for any mill broker/breeder.

We are hopeful that efforts being made will help bridge the gap to improve the care for gliders that come from mill breeders/brokers. It does not matter who does what, as long as it gets done!! It is unrealistic to think that only one or two people will be responsible for accomplishing this goal and we will not allow this topic or any to become a vehicle for anyone to raise themselves above anyone else in this community. It will take the cooperation first and foremost of the mill breeders/brokers as well as the acceptance of those changes by the glider community.

We strongly feel the millbreeders/brokers are in large part responsible for the majority of the overpopulation and poor breeding practices just to mention a couple of areas.

GliderCENTRAL feels the best way to get results is for laws to be made and/or changed. This will set the standards and conditions under which gliders are bred and kept. These changes will be the most effective way to not only have standards enforced for the average breeder but also the mill breeders/brokers. If the mill breeders/brokers make changes before laws are set in place, wonderful, but the laws and/or standards do need to be set.

We will not allow harassing or bullying, forcing ideologies on the members here under the guise of effecting change in the glider community. This will be grounds to find yourself locked out of your GliderCENTRAL account for a time to be determined by the Owners/Admin of GliderCENTRAL. The sooner everyone realizes that the issues at hand are bigger than any one person, group, or organization the quicker improvements can happen.

If you notice any of this happening on GliderCENTRAL, please help us and use the notify moderator button to bring it to our attention. We try to read every post, but we do miss some and appreciate the help. Please use the notify moderator button instead of bickering within the threads. We would hate for any account to be suspended. There are proper ways of doing things and we are hoping this will be a first step in the right direction.