Forum Rules - GliderCENTRAL

Last updated 2/6/13

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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, PG 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 manner as we do for the board. Please address questions, concerns or suggestions to any moderator or board administrator.

For further clarification on certain Policies please use the links bellow.

Our main goal at GliderCENTRAL is the Good of the Glider, and to help owners help and care for their gliders. These rules are not intended 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 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 board moving towards a "PG" rather than a "G" rating. Be polite, courteous and respectful to other board members at all times. This means illegal substances, illegal activities, flaming, sexually explicit subjects, 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.

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. Fundraisers including but not limited to auctions, sales of services or goods intended for non-profit use must be approved by the Board Administration before being posted on GliderCENTRAL. Solicitation for free or price-reduced gliders, donations, or goods is not permitted without prior approval of Administration.

Raffles are considered a form of gambling. As gambling laws vary State to State, we will not approve the posting of any raffle or raffle type fundraisers.

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, Videos, Links, and Smilies. All Avatars, Images, Videos, Links, and Smilies 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.
Sugar glider related links only, Website or Company name as a link ONLY. NO product types/specialty mentions in signature. NO Facebook or Photobucket links are allowed in signatures (they can be placed in profiles).

Images: Are allowed, sparingly, when it adds to the post's understanding.
Gremlins/Smilies: Only board smilies are allowed.
Videos: Videos can now be posted here even if they are not glider related. Non glider related videos must be posted in Community Hall and all videos must be embedded, not posted as links. All videos must be in good taste and not violent or sexual in nature. We will not allow any millbreeder or brokers videos to be linked or embedded.
Links: to news sites as well as other sites such as blogs are permitted as long as the page being linked to complies with Rule 4. Links to personals (dating sites) and other sites that do not comply with Rule 4 will not be allowed.

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

8. Classifieds

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

Ads will stay for 30 days.

Advertising is not allowed on the forums except in the ClassifiedCENTRAL and must be glider related.
You may have one ad in each subforum. You may only bump(or respond to) your ad once within a 7 day period.
Ads can be posted by the seller or buyer only. No third party ads. Please keep chit chat to a minimum.
No posting for the rehoming of rescues in ClassifiedCENTRAL.
Please read here about posting in RescueCENTRAL.
Links to auction sites such as Critterbin and ebay may be posted in the Auction forum only! Please do not post any "look what I found posts" for your or anyone elses auction. Please read here for further clarification.
Due to past issues, we will not allow trade/barter posts.
Please read here for further classified clarification.

To view GliderCENTRAL's Privacy statement, please click here.

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