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Topic Started: Sun 12 Sep 2010, 18:51:01 (322 Views)
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This forum is devoted exclusively to astrology, bringing together beginners and advanced, amateurs or professional astrologers. It does not deal with astrology reports, daily horoscopes, psychic or tarot readings, dream interpretation or other occult subjects. It's for astrological analyses ONLY.

Registration to AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon owned forums is free! By using our forums (this includes but is not limited to signing up as a member or even browsing our forums without signing up) you agree to all the following rules. Where there might be overlap between the rules or misunderstandings, the widest definitions will apply in order to maintain respect and civility on the forum. In other words, AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon Moderators and Admins are entirely free to moderate/delete any post in any way at their own will without explanations. If participants cannot abide by this, they should seek another forum for posting their views. The rules below are for guidance and are usual in Internet Communities.

I try to give everyone at least 1 warning before taking corrective action but sometimes an immediate response is required. Failure to abide by these simple rules could result in deletions of posts, images, links and/or immediate banning without warning or notice. The keyword here for not violating the rules is simply RESPECT.

Essentially, it's my site, my rules, and:

1. Do not break any US laws
2. Do not insult another member
3. Keep on Topic (astrology and nothing else)
4. No trolling, spamming or any other disruptive behavior
5. Be kind to each other

If you require any more information or have any questions about our privacy policy, or any problems with the registration process. please feel free to contact me.

Many thanks.

Anna-Cristal de Lyon at AstroXa
AstroXa's Blog

Below are all the common rules for such types of Internet forums, for those people who might need more details:

Registration

Registering multiple accounts is not permitted. Any such accounts will be banned by moderators.

Ethical rules to observe

Your participation on this forum is allowed and welcomed as long as you warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-oriented, harmful to young people, hateful, racist, offensive, threatening, defamatory, damaging, or otherwise violative of any laws. Please know that the IP address of your computer at the time of posting is stored and that will be passed to the legal authorities, if demanded. You are solely responsable for what you post, the forum administrator and moderators decline any responsibility related to content of the posts sent to the forum, as well as to the consequences of using the information on the forum.

The administrator and the moderators reserve the right to change or modify these rules at any time without prior notice.

Those who come here should be respectful to others. Please do not offend with pornography or profanity. Should you do so your post will be deleted and you may be banned.

Please do not engage in matters that result in racial, ethnic, sexual or religious impropriety. If you do so, your post will be deleted and you may be banned.

Please do not insult others, this is a site for discussion. If you insult others, your post will be deleted.

Flaming, spamming, or trolling is basis for immediate banning from the forum. Please do not post angry messages (flaming), post the same message over and over across the forum (spamming), and do not post messages for the sole purpose of angering other people in the forum (trolling).

The forum administration also prohibits any threads and/or posts related to personal and other peoples sexual issues and/or behavior, that cross the line of common sense. ONLY astrological discussions are permitted on sex-related topics. Underaged members are advised to ask parental permission to discuss sexual matters in this Forum but this site cannot be held responsible if permission is not obtained.

Astrological data are highly sensitive. We therefore ask you to take the protection of personal data of third persons very seriously. If you wish to post the chart of a person known to you, you must have their permission to do so or anonymize the name and all birth / personal data. If this is not the case, please refrain from posting this chart.

Please know that you should take your own risks if you decide to trust someone else with their astrological services, as this forum does not undertake any responsibility for any astrological services, especially those offered against a fee, via this forum in any form: through public forums or chat, private messages or emails.

Also remember that this is a public forum, indexed by search engines (Google, for instance), so basically everything you post here is not only viewable by any other person, but it also can be retrieved by a simple internet search.

The forum is moderated by the admins and moderators.

Although the administrator and moderators of this forum will make all reasonable efforts 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 administrator or moderators of Astrologers' Community will be held responsible for the content of any message.

The administrator and moderators of this forum reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread or post which fails to abide the forum rules in their opinion. Moderators' means to get users to comply with these common sense rules include friendly communication, warnings, and eventually banning in case of repeated or extreme unwanted behavior. Banning from the forum is only done for some violation of the forum rules. The moderators' decisions are final. You just have to trust the moderators that they're doing the best job they can.

Forum Moderators may, at their discretion and judgment, delete any messages without notice. We also reserve the right to disable accounts and/or ban members without warning that violate any of the following rules and regulations: 1. Explicit references to alleged illegal or unlawful acts. 2. Foul Language and/or graphic sexual descriptions. 3. Racial or ethnic slurs. 4. Direct personal attacks, flames, fights, name-calling, general nuisance, etc. 5. Messages of a disrespectful nature or meant to harm. 6. Lack of Civility, common sense and decency. 7.Any posts or messages causing any legal liability for the forum. No copyright infringements or plagiarism. 8. Use of the forums for personal or business advertisement-types - No solicitations. No other postings/ads allowed for new or existing message forums, advertisement websites, or such. 9. Your email address must be valid and able to receive communications from this site (make sure to change spam filters to accept emails for this site) 10. Creating multiple accounts or memberships without the prior permissions of the web-administrator project manager. 11. Failure or refusal to abide by the guidelines or rules.

Breaking rules result in punishments. There are several types of punishments:
Warning - This is where a public announcement is made that mentions your name and that you have broken a rule. I will determine whether you knew what you were doing was wrong or whether a warning is necessary to explain it to you. If I do not give a warning, I will skip ahead to the next step in the penalty list.
Muting - This is where you are not able to talk on the forum. You may still view it.
Temporary Ban - This is where you are not able to view the forum for a certain period of time.
Permanent Ban - You can never again view the forum.
The following rules list the most serious violations:
No Hacking - This should go without saying, but you are not permitted to hack the forum. Guessing someone else's password and succeeding counts as hacking. Members who hack will instantly be permanently banned without any warnings.
No Discrimination, - You may not insult members based on their religion, race, sex, political beliefs, or whether they are gay or straight. This is worse than flaming, because it also hurts other members of the forum who fall into the category you insult. This is a place where everyone is equal, and discrimination will NOT be tolerated!
No Bullying - Do not pick on other members. The worst kind of bullying is where new members are picked on. This hurts the member as well as the forum.
No Flaming - Flaming harms the nice atmosphere of the forum. It also causes threads to go off topic, and most importantly, it hurts the person being flamed. The victim may defend themselves against any accusations made to them, but may not make any additional accusations to the flamer (which also counts as flaming).
No Profanity or Obscene Content - Such content does not belong here. A censor system is in place as a backup. If you see words in your post being replaced with ****, you have done something wrong. Please edit your post and tone it down. Cheating the censor system is against the rules.
If you break one of these rules, the following penalties will apply, at the entire discretion of the forum admin:
Warning - Depending on how serious a violation is, you may be issued a warning first
Muting - Muting for 10 days
Temporary ban - People who cause more problems after being muted for 10 days will be banned for a month, and for 2 months for the next offense.
Permanent ban - At this point, it is obvious that will never learn your lesson, thus, a permanent ban is necessary to be rid of the problems you cause.
The following rules are also important:
No Advertising - You are not allowed to use the member list to obtain Instant Messenging screen names to harass people to purchase products or services from you.
No Illegal Activity - You are not allowed to break the law. This can get the forum into legal trouble. Posting links to rooms is illegal, so this counts as a violation of this rule.
No Double Posting or Spamming - You may not post more than once in a row in the same thread. Posting lots of times in a row reduces the quality of the forum, is a waste of the forum's memory, and provides the culprit with ill earned post count points. Double posts will be merged into regular posts, and you will lose 10 postcount for each of the posts excluding the first one. Your post count can be changed to a negative number if necessary. The only exception to this rule is if your edit timer (24 hours) for the post has run out, in which case you may double post if you have something important to add. Spamming is also not allowed, and is defined as a post that has no meaning.
No Topic Bumping - If a topic you created has no replies, you may not post again in it (although you may edit the post if the timer has not run out). If you made the thread because you need help with something, you may post again as long as you include additional information about your problem (the fact that you really really want it fixed does not count as additional information). You must post this in the same thread, and you are not allowed to create more than one thread per topic.
No Posting Personal Info - You may not post your last name, or your street address on the forum. This is because this information then becomes accessible to anyone.
No Threatening to Leave the Forum - Due to past experiences on the forum, I have had to add this rule. You may not make posts threatening to leave the forum. This causes flaming to occur. Because of what a problem this is, I cannot issue a warning for violations. Anyone responding poorly to these threads will also be muted.
Warning - Depending on how serious a violation is, you may be issued a warning first
Muting - Muting for 3 days
Muting - Muting for 10 days.
Temporary ban - People who cause more problems after being muted for 10 days will be banned for a month, and for 2 months for the next offense.
Permanent ban - At this point, it is obvious that will never learn your lesson, thus, a permanent ban is necessary to be rid of the problems you cause.
The following are a set of amendments to clarify the rules for those people who wish to nitpick:

Amendment 1 - There are no excuses for breaking the rules. It doesn't matter if you were angry at the time and weren't thinking straight. It doesn't matter if you were only kidding around. If you break a rule, it does the same damage, regardless of your reasons for breaking it, and you will be punished all the same.

Amendment 2 - Staff abuse will not be tolerated. As a staff member, your job is to help the people, not harm them. You may only use your powers for the purposes that they have been given to you for. There is no limit on how much you may be punished for this severe offense as this must be stopped at all costs to protect the people. This means that if you abuse your powers, there is a good chance you will be permanently banned.

Amendment 3 - Harassing the administration about punishments is not allowed. The admins are only trying to do their job, and many times they have to make difficult decisions. You may post your opinion in the thread that announces the punishment, so long as you do not flame anyone. If this thread gets out of hand, it will be closed, and you may not complain elsewhere on the forum, or by other means including, but not limited to: private messages, instant messaging programs, email, telephone calls, and house visits. You also may not make threats against administrators (or other members for that matter...). Punishments for harrassment range from a 5 day mute for minor harassments to a permanent ban if serious threats are involved.

Amendment 4 - If you break more than one rule, the punishments will stack up to a permanent ban if necessary.

Threads and posts

New threads should be started in the appropriate forum, in order to keep the forum organized. Non-astrological threads don't belong in this forum. Threads started in the wrong forum will be moved by moderators to the appropriate forum.

Off-topic and personal messages are permitted as long as they are limited and do not turn the attention from the astrological topic discussed.

Personal attacks are not permitted, nor is defending one’s position or fighting back; such situations have only lead in the past to flame wars, stirring turbulent emotions within the community; any personal issues are to be solved by private communication. Whenever such attacks appear in public, the moderators must be notified at once by any user in order to take measures.

To create a new thread, go to the relevant forum and click on the ‘new thread’ button. Upload your chart to make it easier for others to answer your chart questions.

As a newcomer to the forum, please post as soon as possible to the ‘Introduce yourself’ section. Describe what sparked your interest in astrology or your background of knowledge, or write anything you like about yourself.

Take enough time getting to know the existing threads in the forum and sub-forums to be able to best determine where to post your new thread(s). Before asking a question use the search tool in the forum menu to locate any previous threads that might have already answered your question.

Giving your own astrological ideas in your astrological posts shows a willingness to learn and helps create an exchange of ideas where the experienced and less experienced can learn from each other. Members on this Forum are at different levels of study. Please keep that in mind when given or giving advice: we can not and do not guarantee the accuracy of any advice given in the Astrologers' Community.

Private messages

The private messages are by definition private. Nobody (nor even the forum admin) has the possibility to read them, so everybody can write everything.

Verbal aggression or sexual advancements made via PM by other members are not permitted, therefore do not hesitate to notify the moderators, so that corrective actions might be taken.
We also expect from the forum users in respect to any messages they receive privately from other forum members or moderators. Publishing a private message is considered a violation of forum rules, unless the sender agrees to it.

Customizing Your Forum Experience

To personalize your preferences (e.g., create your own personal avatar and signature etc.) in the forum go to User CP. All the settings are made in the "Control Panel" area on the left of the page.

Reporting bad posts to the Moderator Team

Users are kindly asked to participate to the moderating effort by reporting what they consider as bad posts. To do this, please click the 'Report Bad Post' link found at the top right of the offending post (). This link is an all-purpose method of getting the Moderators' attention - once you click it, it opens a form where you can submit details of what you think is wrong with the post. It doesn't have to be a long description, it can be a few words. When you submit this form, it automatically emails all the Moderators with the URL of the thread (you don't have to copy and paste the URL into the form), and your additional comments. Your identity will not be revealed to anyone else at any time - only the Mods will know who is reporting a post. The reports are kept confidential, the poster will not know you reported their post.

Reporting is not just for severely bad posts, it's for any breaches of the rules or forum philosophy which you think we might need to be aware of and act on, small or large. We may or may not act on them depending on the severity and the courses of action open to us, but as the forums grow you guys really need to use this method to let us know of breaches as we cannot physically read every new post to detect violations or annoyances ourselves. Remember that the moderators here are unpaid volunteers who give up their time to help maintain forum quality.

You may also contact moderators by private messages, for any forum-related subject.

Underaged members

If you are aged under 13, please leave this board immediately.

If you are aged between 13 and 18, please obtain permission from your parents or at least let them know that you are visiting this site, since certain discussion forums may have mature content that you or your parents find inappropriate. While we try to keep the subject matter on astrology, we cannot always guarantee that other subjects will not be discussed.

The moderators are also very concerned with your well-being and safety, so if you feel that you are receiving unwanted or uncomfortable attention from other forum members via PM or on the threads, or if you are uncomfortable with some of the material being discussed, please do not hesitate to contact any of us via PM immediately. We are here to help you in your astrology studies and to support you in whatever way we can.

Copyright

This forum shall not be a place facilitating copyright infringement, since that obviously goes against our main objective, which is to promote astrology. Indeed, we cannot promote astrology, if we undermine the mechanism intended to ensure that authors publishing on astrology benefit from their hard work, which puts at risk the publications of new books on astrology. Such undermining of the rights of these authors will not be tolerated on the forum, and members are asked to assist the moderators in this by reporting any posts that break this rule.

In order to respect copyright laws, members must not paste in their posts texts copied from other websites or other publications that are over 100 words long each. A maximum of 3 such quotes is accepted per post. Each quote will be placed between quotation marks or between the tags
Quote:
 
copyrighted text
. The source should be properly mentioned: book or magazine author and title, name of magazine, ideally also additional publication data. If the text is publicly available online, a link to the source should be given.

Plagiarism, defined as copying one's work and passing it off as one's own, is not accepted. Material in the public domain (that either was never copyrighted, either the copyright has expired) has to be appropriately cited also.

Privacy Policy

The privacy of our visitors is of extreme importance. Like most standard Web site servers, this site uses log files. This includes internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, platform type, date/time stamp, and number of clicks to analyze trends, administer the site, track user’s movement in the aggregate, and gather broad demographic information for aggregate use. IP addresses, etc. are not linked to personally identifiable information.

This site does not collect any personal information for statistical or any other purposes. The email addresses of forum members have not, are not and will not be disclosed to any other third party.

Professional astrologers

Professional astrologers may provide a description of the off-forum services they provide and the off-forum fees they charge on the Professional Astrologers Services forum. They also may answer any questions people have about those services or fees on that forum.

Outside the Professional Astrologers Services forum, professional astrologers may post a link to their own website in their signature line so that prospective clients can locate them. Astrological consultations for a fee are not permitted on this forum or through any of the forum tools (e.g., PMs, chatting, etc.). Forum members are fully responsible for any interactions they have with professional astrologers and this forum provides no guarantees or promises of any kind for any astrological services provided.

Promotion of non-professional astrological services (phone psychics, etc.) or non-astrological products (by signature links or otherwise) is not permitted.

Private messages


The owner, administrators, and moderators of AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon Forum will not be held liable for any objectionable messages posted on this forum, members are responsible for the liabilities of their own posts. AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon retains all rights and privileges to said posts. The owners of the AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon reserve the right to remove, edit, move or close any thread or message for any reason but are not compelled to do so unless they deem it to be necessary. It is impossible or us to review all messages. All messages express the views of the author, and NOT AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon and AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon will not be held responsible for the content of any message, regardless of what the message says or implies or any posts replying to said message. Members may not delete their own posts, and may only modify posts that are no older than 30 days.

You warrant that by registering for our forums, or simply just browsing our forums, you will indemnify AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon from any and all legal liability both civil, criminal, or otherwise. Any legal proceedings brought against AstroXa and Anna-Cristal de Lyon must be originated in the United States or France. You warrant that you will not post any messages that are obscene, vulgar, sexually-orientated, hateful, threatening, or otherwise violative of any laws.

This is a perpetual agreement which is subject to modification at any time by the Admin and Moderators. It is the responsibility of all members and participants of this forum to periodically review this agreement as their usage of said forums implies acknowledgement and acceptance of this agreement.
Edited by AstroXa, Sun 12 Sep 2010, 18:52:11.
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